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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.
The Opera House of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. This is the location for the annual Kennedy Center Honors (broadcast on CBS around Christmas), home to the Washington National Opera, and hosts an array of dance, theater, and musical events throughout the year.
This is a sort of composite suggested by some of the shadows in the original. I haven't decided what I think of it.
The Haskell Free Library and Opera House straddles the Canada-United States border. Since its construction in 1901, it has become a symbol of the harmony between the two countries. The Haskell was a gift to the community given in memory of Carlos F. Haskell by his wife Martha and son Horace Haskell. It was designed by Boston architects James Ball, a Rock Island (Canada) native and his partner Gilbert Smith. The position of the border is depicted by a black line painted on the floor. It starts at the south-west tower and is visible through the center of the building. The library stacks, the Opera House stage and some seats are in Quebec (Canada). The rest of the seats and the main entrances are in Vermont (USA).
The structure rests on a granite block foundation. The cut granite blocks on the first story and the yellow brick on the second , bear the load of the building. The Opera House's hand-painted scenery, roll-up curtain and balcony level frescoes are the work of vermont born, Boston artist Erwin LaMoss. The Haskell has been classified as a historic site the the Quebec, Canadian and United States governments.
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Edificio de la Ópera en "La Ciudad de Las Artes y Las Ciencias" de Valencia. Toma nocturna, a pulso (con la cámara sobre la cabeza), desde bajo del puente de Monteolivete.
[Olympus OMD-EM5 + Panasonic Lumix G 7-14 mm f4 Vario ASPH]
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Hungary. 2015
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MSC Opera in the Byfjord right outside of Bergen.
Since the MSC Orchestra, MSC Poesia..... are called Panamax ships, I would the like to call the Opera, Lirica for Sotramax ships :D
The largest ships to pass the Sotra bridge
Performance of Offenbach's 'La belle Helene' by the orchestra, choir and ballet of the Kraków Opera. Kraków, Poland
Oslo Opera House is undoubtedly one of the most striking examples of modern architecture that I have seen. It looks almost like a spaceship from Starwars!
Andrea Chénier - Umberto Giordano - Opera North - 19 January 2016
Andrea Chénier - Rafael Rojas
Carlo Gérard - Robert Hayward
Maddalena de Coigny - Annemarie Kremer
Contessa di Coigny/Madelon - Fiona Kimm
Roucher - Phillip Rhodes
Mathieu - Jeremy Peaker
L’Abate/an “Incroyable” - Daniel Norman
Dumas - Garrick Forbes
Pietro Fléville/Fouquier-Tinville - Dean Robinson
Gérard’s father - Robert Pickavance
Madelon’s grandson - George Rice
Dancers - Tim Claydon, Lucy Starkey, Fran Widdowson
Conductor - Oliver von Dohnany
Director - Annabel Arden
Set & Costume Designer - Joanna Parker
Lighting Designer - Peter Mumford
Video Designer - Dick Straker
Andrea Chénier - Umberto Giordano - Opera North - 19 January 2016
Andrea Chénier - Rafael Rojas
Carlo Gérard - Robert Hayward
Maddalena de Coigny - Annemarie Kremer
Contessa di Coigny/Madelon - Fiona Kimm
Roucher - Phillip Rhodes
Mathieu - Jeremy Peaker
L’Abate/an “Incroyable” - Daniel Norman
Dumas - Garrick Forbes
Pietro Fléville/Fouquier-Tinville - Dean Robinson
Gérard’s father - Robert Pickavance
Madelon’s grandson - George Rice
Dancers - Tim Claydon, Lucy Starkey, Fran Widdowson
Conductor - Oliver von Dohnany
Director - Annabel Arden
Set & Costume Designer - Joanna Parker
Lighting Designer - Peter Mumford
Video Designer - Dick Straker
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Opera Claquers
[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
Notes:
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Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).
Format: Glass negatives.
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Call Number: LC-B2- 3687-11
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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