Looking up from the auditorium in the Budapest Opera House.

Circular Quay

(back to the motherland trip for "research", ie. hanging out w/the fam on the beach - 26.07.05 - 26.08.05)

Performance with Pamela Hay, Paul Featherstone and Steven Neugarten at Maestro Arts Gallery, Putney 18.11.13. Photo by Alan Roderick LRPS, LSWPP

Chinese opera is one of the oldest dramatic art forms in the world. These traveling troupes are preserving an essential cornerstone of culture and heritage dating to the seventh-century Tang Dynasty (618 to 907). The performance mixes martial arts elements, singing, and dancing, accompanied by music played on traditional Chinese instruments.

Performances are free — shrines around the country pay the troupes. The best chance to catch a show is around major holidays and festivals like Chinese New Year and the vegetarian festival. © Dennis Thern

Our favorite bookstore occupies this old opera house in Denton Texas.

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Photo by Erik Hageness

Interior of the Opera Garnier in Paris

Serse opera, a co-production with Baldwin Wallace Opera and Cleveland Opera Theater with guest director and conductor Timothy Nelson, hailed by Opera News as "The future of opera." Channeling the style of Rumi and building on the concept of a Persian folk-love story as narrated by a poet, Nelson will create and lead this world-premiere adaptation of Handel's "Serse."

This exciting production will feature a cast from the Baldwin Wallace Opera program, a chamber orchestra, costume design by Esther Haberlen and scenographic design by Matthew D. McCarren. Sung in Italian with English narration, "Serse" will have an approximate 90-minute duration.

This is the first Baldwin Wallace Opera production to be produced under the leadership of Scott Skiba, the recently appointed director of opera studies, and Jason Aquila, the recently appointed opera music director.

The opera in three acts tells the story of Serses, the King of Persia, who is engaged to Amastre, but he really loves Romilda. Unfortunately, his brother, Arsamenes, and Romilda are already in love. To confuse matters further, Romilda's sister, Atalanta, is secretly in love with Arsamenes. Add a bumbling servant, and it looks like all the lovers are doomed to be separated. However, love prevails and all rejoice as they return to happiness.

My Opera master Norby Tsering, during Lhamo show at TCV, 2000

Budapest Opera House

Opera House at Night

At Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 8th and 9th June 2010

Image by Helen Bartlett

Photo by Erik Hageness

RSAMD; Opera

At Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 8th and 9th June 2010

Image by Helen Bartlett

Opera Workshop. Directed by Hillary Hight Daw. Performance on May 4, 7pm, Knuth Hall, Free.

Photo by Mary Ford.

recipe @ www.pitzpootzim.com/2018/03/27/opera-cake/

Opera House & Ferry - photo taken by mrtraveller.

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Photo Credit: Connor Beaton

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Requisite window view pix

Edificio Opera; Calle San Prudencio Vitoria-Gasteiz. Foto hecha en el taller de estenopeica organizado por rdr e inpartido por Piko Zulueta este otoño.

Verona, de stad van de opera's.

Het seizoen van de opera's was voorbij, we hebben het nu wel hoog op onze verlanglijst staan, misschien volgend jaar ?

Everyone takes photos of the still-newish Oslo Opera House. These are mine.

Opera Garnier, Paris, France

Opera at Western. The Secret Gardener. Paul Davenport Theatre-Talbot College-Western University. November 20th, 2019. Photo: Claus Andersen

At Lilian Baylis Studio, Sadler's Wells Theatre, 8th and 9th June 2010

Image by Helen Bartlett

the ultimte tourist picture, but I had to do it... not realy satisfied...

Opera in Minsk, November 15, 2008.

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Taken in Beijing