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The iconic Sydney Opera House taken on my first trip to Australia in 2008. Currently planning to head back to that part of the world with a trip to New Zealand next month!
Grupo de teatro de Funcionarios de la UCSC.
Dirección: Leonardo Iturra.
Jueves 18 de diciembre, 2014.
Centro de Extensión UCSC.
The Vienna State Opera (Wiener Staatsoper) is an opera house – and opera company – with a history dating back to the mid-19th century. It is located in the centre of Vienna, Austria. It was originally called the Vienna Court Opera (Wiener Hofoper); in 1920, it was renamed the Vienna State Opera. The members of the Vienna Philharmonic are recruited from its orchestra.
The building was the first major building on the Vienna Ringstraße commissioned by the controversial Viennese "city expansion fund". Work commenced on the building in 1861 and was completed in 1869, following plans drawn up by architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll, who lived together in the 6. Bezirk. It was built in the Neo-Renaissance style.
The Ministry of the Interior had commissioned a number of reports into the availability of certain building materials, with the result that stones long not seen in Vienna were used, such as Wöllersdorfer Stein, for plinths and free-standing, simply-divided buttresses, the famously hard stone from Kaisersteinbruch, whose colour was more appropriate than that of Kelheimerstein, for more lushly decorated parts. The somewhat coarser-grained Kelheimerstein (also known as Solnhof Plattenstein) was intended as the main stone to be used in the building of the opera house, but the necessary quantity was not deliverable. Breitenbrunner stone was suggested as a substitute for the Kelheimer stone, and stone from Jois was used as a cheaper alternative to the Kaiserstein. The staircases were constructed from polished Kaiserstein, while most of the rest of the interior was decorated with varieties of marble.
The decision was made to use dimension stone for the exterior of the building. Due to the monumental demand for stone, stone from Sóskút, widely used in Budapest, was also used. Three Viennese masonry companies were employed to supply enough masonry labour: Eduard Hauser (still in existence today), Anton Wasserburger and Moritz Pranter. The foundation stone was laid on May 20, 1863.
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Source: livinghistories.newcastle.edu.au/nodes/view/8562
This photograph is from an album created by Lt Thomas Gerald George Fahey who served in the Australian Light Horse in the Middle East during World War 1. Our thanks to Mr Tom Robinson for allowing us to scan and upload this photograph.
If you wish to use it for anything other than private study or research, please contact us.
Karte der Nächtigungen Österreichs im Browser Opera Mobile und in der Opera-Desktopversion (im Hintergrund).
Paper airplanes thrown by Ping, Pang, and Pong.
The Portland Opera occasionally invites cartoonists to come sketch their impressions of a new show.
This round was Puccini's Turandot.
The set was VERY purple!
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Rear entrance away from muddy wheels, and fully enclosed passenger area
Northwest Carriage Museum in Raymond, Washington. Started by the Dennis family, who operate a chain of hardware stores on the Olympic peninsula.
Yerevan (Armenia, 2013)
The ground-breaking of the Opera-Theatre took place on 28 November 1930 during the celebrations of the 10th anniversary of Soviet Armenia. The building was designed by the Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian in a neoclasical style, influenced by Soviet brutalist architecture. It was officially opened in 1933.
The Sydney Opera House is an expressionist modern design, with a series of large precast concrete 'shells', each taken from a hemisphere of the same radius, forming the roofs of the structure. The Opera House covers 1.8 hectares (4.5 acres) of land. It is 183 metres (605 feet) long and about 120 metres (388 feet) wide at its widest point. It is supported on 580 concrete piers sunk up to 25 metres below sea level. Its power supply is equivalent for a town of 25,000 people. The power is distributed by 645 kilometres of electrical cable.
The roofs of the House are covered with 1.056 million glossy white and matte cream Swedish-made tiles, though from a distance the tiles look only white. Despite their self-cleaning nature, they are still subject to periodic maintenance and replacement.
The Concert Hall and Opera Theatre are each contained in the two largest groups of shells, and the other theatres are located on the sides of the shell groupings. The form of the shells is chosen to reflect the internal height requirements, rising from the low entrance spaces, over the seating areas and up to the high stage towers. A much smaller group of shells set to one side of the Monumental steps and houses the Bennelong Restaurant.
Although the roof structures of the Sydney Opera House are commonly referred to as shells (as they are in this article), they are in fact not shells in a strictly structural sense, but are instead precast concrete panels supported by precast concrete ribs. The building's interior is composed of pink granite quarried in Tarana and wood and brush box plywood supplied from northern New South Wales.
Close up of an actor dressed as a traditional Beijing Opera Army General posing in front of an industrial rusting steel wall with flags and a sword.
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Phantom of the Opera country. Totally OTT (but they should never have let Chagall near the ceiling).
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Chinese Opera is a form of drama and musical theatre and has its roots going back as far as the third century. In Bangkok, Chinese opera is played at San Jao Sien Khong at Talaad Noi and other places during Chinese celebrations.
Other women are offered up to the Prince in Turandot's stead.
The Portland Opera occasionally invites cartoonists to come sketch their impressions of a new show.
This round was Puccini's Turandot.
The set was VERY purple!
An actress dressed as a traditional Beijing Opera Princess and an actor dressed as a Army General strike martial art poses in an outdoor pavilion.
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