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Exactly what the title says. These are the main steps leading up to the entrance of the Sydney Opera House. They're made of crushed pink granite. Although the stones are placed irregularly with gaps between them, the surface is polished very flat and smooth, and feels awesome if you rub your hand over it. And Joern Utzon took a lesson from the ancient Romans and made the steps the perfect height and width so you can walk up or down effortlessly without changing a natural stride pattern.
From Wikipedia: The Hanoi Opera House (Vietnamese: Nhà hát lớn Hà Nội) is an opera house in central Hanoi, Vietnam. It was erected by the French colonial administration between 1901 and 1911. It was modeled on the Palais Garnier, the older of Paris's two opera houses, and is considered to be one of the architectural landmarks of Hanoi.
The Hanoi Opera House provides the name for the nearby Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel which opened in 1999 and which, for historical reasons associated with the Vietnam war, was not named the Hanoi Hilton[citation needed].
The Saigon Opera House is a smaller structure built around the same time.
Travelling to a Regional performance with the Australian Opera & Ballet orchestra, founded in 1967. Regional Children’s Chorus program gives 20 children aged between 9 and 14 years in each community visited in the regional tour the chance to perform as the Chorus in Madame Butterfly.
Grupo de teatro de Funcionarios de la UCSC.
Dirección: Leonardo Iturra.
Jueves 18 de diciembre, 2014.
Centro de Extensión UCSC.
The iconic silhouette of Sydney Opera House has long been a challenge to recreate at any scale in bricks. My own reconstruction - at my signature 1:650 scale - was originally part of a commissioned skyline of Sydney Harbour developed for the CR Smith Museum in Dallas, in 2025. I spent the better part of a year refining that design to create my own, definitive addition of the landmark to add to my Brick Odyssey collection.
Several of the major challenges in designing this piece were:
• Strictly adhering to the dimensions and curving profiles of each iconic "shell" or "sail" featured in the Opera House, Concert Hall and Restaurant. The angles therein use numerous curved slopes and wedges which I had never previously used in a reconstruction up to this point.
• Clearly differentiating between the water of Sydney Harbour, the peninsula of Bennelong Point and the raised plinths on which the buildings are perched; all in an effort to capture these four tiers of the overall site.
• Furthermore, the added challenge of capturing key patterns throughout: including the chevron-pattern glazed tiles covering the shells and the scallop-pattern paving stones along the approach to the peninsula. The former were captured using various triangular and chamfered tiles; while the latter feature a novel technique in which 1x1 quarter circle tiles are reflected along rows, with the endcap tiles being necessarily cut in half to form clean edges.
And last, but not least, keep an eye out for Benny the Seal!
Sydney Opera House is one of several new works I recently had the chance to photograph, with the help and careful eye of James A. Vitullo Photography. 📷
For more on the development and engineering behind my reconstruction of the Sydney Opera House, check out the Design Insights post, exclusively on Patreon, at the link below ⤵️
www.patreon.com/posts/sydney-opera-148312623?utm_medium=c...
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La Ópera de Budapest, diseñada por el arquitecto húngaro Miklós Ybl, es uno de los edificios neo renacentistas más importantes de Hungría.
La construcción del edificio se llevó a cabo entre 1875 y 1884 y fue financiada por Francisco José I, emperador de Austria y rey de Bohemia, con la condición de que ésta no fuera más grande que la Ópera de Viena.Su capacidad es de 1.261 asientos.
Y, si alguien se ha leído hasta aquí, decir que hay una buena moza pasando frente a ella en la foto.
Curiosidad: Los cantantes de la ópera en Budapest retaron a Mahler a un duelo, ofendidos por sus críticas. Mahler declinó…
Opera House in downtown Denver...
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Interviewer: One last question. Other than "Days of Our Lives" what other soap operas do you watch?
Joey: Oh I don't watch soap operas. I mean excuse me, I have a life you know.
Interviewer: Thank you. I'm sure the readers of Soap Opera Digest will be very interested to hear that...
--"Friends" (NBC)
Opéra de Reykjavik, Islande.
Photo non retouchée.
Icelandic Opera, Reykjavik;
Without photoshop retouch.
MS MSC Opera is a cruise ship built in 2004 and currently operated by MSC Cruises. She served as the flagship of the company until MSC Musica entered service in 2006. She can accommodate 2,055 passengers in 856 cabins, and host a crew complement of approximately 740. She's seen here lying off St Peter Port Guernsey, the St Peter Port Pilot boat is directly in front of her, and Brehon Tower can be seen in the background.
Portone dell'Archiginnasio (Piazza Galvani), lato destro
L'Archiginnasio fu gravemente danneggiato dal bombardamento del 29 gennaio 1944. La frase ironica si riferisce ovviamente alla distruzione causata dagli anglo-americani.
The exciting new opera house is located right on the waters of the Oslofjord; it was constructed between 2003 and 2007 and formally opened in 2008. It was designed by the Oslo architecture firm Snøhetta AS.
It has quickly become Oslo's most iconic building. The most intriguing aspect of its design is its roof construction. If reaches from the top of the building all the way to the waters of the Oslofjord. People can walk on the entire roof, and on a sunny day many locals lie on the sloped roof and work on a sun tan.
Grupo de teatro de Funcionarios de la UCSC.
Dirección: Leonardo Iturra.
Jueves 18 de diciembre, 2014.
Centro de Extensión UCSC.
Chocolat Guerin-Boutron "Composers & Opera's" (series of 78 c1905)
#25 Gaetano Donizetti (1797-1848) Italian composer from Bergamo, Lombardy ~ "Lucia de Lammermoor"
This is the only surviving shot from 22 July 2013, due to memory card "issues."
It is the parking entrance to the Estonian National Opera. What a hoot!
Grupo de teatro de Funcionarios de la UCSC.
Dirección: Leonardo Iturra.
Jueves 18 de diciembre, 2014.
Centro de Extensión UCSC.
© Copyright James Smyth
Taken using a welding glass over the lens as a DIY filter
The Sydney Opera House is a multi-venue performing arts centre in the Australian city of Sydney. It was conceived and largely built by Danish architect Jørn Utzon, finally opening in 1973 after a long gestation starting with his competition-winning design in 1957. Utzon received the Pritzker Prize, architecture's highest honour, in 2003.
The Pritzker Prize citation stated:
“ There is no doubt that the Sydney Opera House is his masterpiece. It is one of the great iconic buildings of the 20th century, an image of great beauty that has become known throughout the world – a symbol for not only a city, but a whole country and continent. ”
The Sydney Opera House was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site on 28 June 2007. It is one of the 20th century's most distinctive buildings and one of the most famous performing arts centres in the world.
The Sydney Opera House is situated on Bennelong Point in Sydney Harbour, close to the Sydney Harbour Bridge. It sits at the northeastern tip of the Sydney central business district (the CBD), surrounded on three sides by the harbour (Sydney Cove and Farm Cove) and neighboured by the Royal Botanic Gardens.
Contrary to its name, the building houses multiple performance venues. As one of the busiest performing arts centres in the world, hosting over 1,500 performances each year attended by some 1.2 million people, the Sydney Opera House provides a venue for many performing arts companies including the four key resident companies Opera Australia, The Australian Ballet, the Sydney Theatre Company and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra, and presents a wide range of productions on its own account. It is also one of the most popular visitor attractions in Australia, with more than seven million people visiting the site each year, 300,000 of whom take a guided tour.
The Sydney Opera House is administered by the Sydney Opera House Trust, under the New South Wales Ministry of the Arts.