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A submission to Sliders Sunday, where over-processing is encouraged. Sydney Opera House on a sunny morning.
The Copenhagen Opera House is a donation from the A.P. Møller and Chastine McKinney Møller Foundation to the Danish people. It totals 41,000 square metres. Five of the fourteen storeys are subterranean. The main stage of the opera seats an audience of 1400.
The Opera House is clad with southern German Jura Gelb limestone, and the foyer features Sicilian Perlatino marble. The wall of the auditorium facing the foyer is clad with maple wood, and the ceiling in the main auditorium is adorned with 105,000 sheets of 24 carat gold leaf, equivalent to 1.5 kilos of gold.
The Copenhagen Opera House is designed by Danish architect Henning Larsen, and a number of Danish artists have contributed to the decor, among them Per Kirkeby who has created four bronze reliefs, and Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson who has contributed the three light sculptures for the foyer.
While I was in Covent Garden this morning, there was an operatic performance going on in the square, both inside and outside one of the shops- I'm not certain what opera they were performing,as I'm no expert, but I think it may have been Carmen, which would make these Carmen and Escamillo.
Whatever it was, I thouroughly enjoyed it, despite not understanding a word they were singing - you didn't need to know the words, as the acting was superb, and told the story by itself...
Armenian National Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet Opera is an opera theatre in Yerevan, which was officially opened on 20 January 1933, with Alexander Spendiaryan's Almast opera performance. The opera building was designed by the Armenian architect Alexander Tamanian. It consists of two concert halls: the Aram Khatchaturian concert hall with 1,400 seats and the Alexander Spendiaryan Opera and Ballet National Theatre with 1,200 seats.Since it was opened, the Armenian National Opera & Ballet Theatre has performed more than 200 different operas and ballets by Armenian, Russian and Western European composers. . In 1956, the theatre received the status of National Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre.
The theatre has also hosted concerts performed by Charles Aznavour, Ian Anderson, John McLaughlin, Akvarium and many others. (Wikipedia)
Photo details: Exposure 1.6 sec at f/4.5 (ISO 200), Camera E-M10 with a OLYMPUS M.12mm F2.0 lens at 12mm.
(Photo by: Jerold Paterson, copyright ©2022 Image license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 (CC BY-NC-4.0))
The Peking Opera
This opera is like nothing else in the world. This was my second visit to an authentic performance, but the first one in this grand palace of opera. I understand that it had been closed for a long time. I felt honored to be invited to attend the opening night performance of the Peking Opera.
The opera is mesmerizing and confusing event. I had a wonderful assistant with me, and she was able to translate the essence of the story to me. The plot was a classical tragedy told in dance and other-worldly sounding voices. Also I was very fortunate to have carte-blanche and was allowed to take photos anywhere. I used this as much as possible, trying not to make myself an annoyance.
Read more here at the Stuck in Customs blog.
Part of a sculptural installation depicting dancers' bodies on the glass facade of the Oslo Opera House in Oslo, Norway.