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Saw one of my favorite bands here at the Stoughton Opera house. The New Standards play really cool versions of familiar songs but not your usual, expected covers. What a great venue for any performance. Our seats were in that lower left box.
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Källa: Stifts- och landsbiblioteket i Skara: Skara Läroverks musikaliedeposition, Sk 466, s. 36
Gertrude Mary Winkelmann (1885-1918). Born Bairnsdale, Vic, died Berlin, Germany. Achieved widespread acclaim and popularity in Melbourne and Gippsland area in the first decade of the 20th century as a fine opera singer. Gertrude was my great-aunt.
Opera on Tap: soprano Anne Ricci.
Photo by Jon Wasserman, (c)2009 Matthew Gray/American Opera Projects.
Metropolitan Opera during the performance of Tosca.
The Metropolitan Opera House is located on the east side of Amsterdam Avenue between West 62nd Street and West 65th Street. Its grand facade faces Columbus Avenue and serves as anchor to Lincoln Center and dramatic backdrop to Josie Robertson Plaza. The facade is composed of five barrel-vaulted arches reaching 96 feet in height. The arches rest on six rectilinear concrete columns clad in Roman travertine. Each arch is formed of 35-foot wide pre-cast concrete shells.
The north, south and west elevations are faced with a series of pre-cast concrete fins set vertically, which lend a more textured appearance than the front. A promenade balcony paved in terrazzo sits one level above the plaza. Behind the balcony a second row of travertine-covered columns divide a bronze mullioned glass curtain wall.
Sydney Opera House is one of the most inspiring buildings I have seen. There are so many details that reveal themselves as you move around the building, with intersecting sharp and smooth shapes.
Berlin State Opera (in German: Staatsoper Unter den Linden) is a prominent German opera company. Its permanent home is the Opera House on the Unter den Linden boulevard in Berlin.
Opera on Tap: soprano Anne Ricci.
Photo by Jon Wasserman, (c)2009 Matthew Gray/American Opera Projects.
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Chinese opera is a popular form of drama in China. In general, it dates back to the Tang Dynasty with Emperor Xuanzong (712-755), who founded the "Pear Garden" (梨園), the first known opera troupe in China. The troupe mostly performed for the emperors' personal pleasure. To this day operatic professionals are still referred to as "Disciples of the Pear Garden" (梨園弟子). In the Yuan dynasty (1279-1368), forms like the Zaju (雜劇, variety plays), which acts based on rhyming schemes plus the innovation of having specialized roles like "Dan" (旦, female), "Sheng" (生, male), "Hua" (花, painted-face) and "Chou" (丑, clown) were introduced into the opera. The dominant form of the Ming and early Qing dynasties was Kunqu, which came from the Wu cultural area, and evolved a longer form of play called chuanqi. Chinese operas continue to exist in 368 different forms now, the best known of which is Beijing opera, which assumed its present form in the mid-19th century and was extremely popular in the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911).
In Beijing opera, traditional Chinese string and percussion instruments provide a strong rhythmic accompaniment to the acting. The acting is based on allusion: gestures, footwork, and other body movements express such actions as riding a horse, rowing a boat, or opening a door. Spoken dialogue is divided into recitative and Beijing colloquial speech, the former employed by serious characters and the latter by young females and clowns. Character roles are strictly defined. Elaborate make-up designs portray which character is acting. The traditional repertoire of Beijing opera includes more than 1,000 works, mostly taken from historical novels about political and military struggles.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_opera ]