When the crowds have left the opera, their grandeur is revealed. Here are stunning opera houses — both historic and contemporary — from around the world.
Zaha Hadid's Guangzhou Opera House has just opened in China in spectacular, asymmetrical style. Here's what it looks like inside and out
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Solid hardwood flooring from Junckers is the ideal choice for the Paul Hamlyn Hall at London’s Royal Opera House
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Photographer David Leventi captures the world’s most prestigious opera venues in an elegant new book
The Margravial Opera House, one of the masterpieces of Baroque theater architecture, built between 1745 and 1750 Commissioned by Margravine Wilhelmine, wife of Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg Bayreuth, it was designed by the famous theater architect Giuseppe Galli Bibiena.
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The Palais Garnier is a 1,979-seat opera house, which was built from 1861 to 1875 for the Paris Opera. The Palais Garnier has been called “probably the most famous opera house in the world, a…
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The Markgräfliches Opernhaus - the Margravial Opera House - is a Baroque opera house in the town of Bayreuth, Germany. It is one of Europe's few surviving theaters of the period and has been extensively restored; in 2012, it was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. Built between 1744 and 1748 according to the plans of French architect Joseph Saint-Pierre, court architect of the Hohenzollern margrave Friedrich III of Brandenburg-Bayreuth and his wife Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia. The lavish wooden interior was designed by the Bolognese Giuseppe Galli Bibiena and his son Carlo in an Italian Late Baroque style. The box theater is completely preserved in its original condition, except for the curtain which was taken by Napoleon's troops during their ill-fated march toward Russia in 1812. The theater was inaugurated on the occasion of the marriage of the margravial couple's daughter Elisabeth Friederike Sophie with Duke Carl Eugen of Württemberg in 1748. Princess Wilhelmine, the older sister of the Prussian king Frederick the Great, had established the margravial theater company in 1737. In the new opera house she participated as a composer of opera works and Singspiele, as well as an actor and director. After her death in 1758, performances ceased and the building went into disuse. But more than one hundred years later, the theater's particularly deep stage attracted the notice of composer Richard Wagner who, in 1872, chose Bayreuth as a festival center and had his own Festspielhaus built there. The theater was closed from the fall of 2012 until the spring of 2018 while it underwent an extensive refurbishment. The theater's exterior is quite restrained compared to the rather outrageous interior.
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Anton Gutman dreamed of being a singer. And while he never made it to worldwide opera houses, his grandson, a photographer, did.
29-8-2010 - The main foyer area.
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China's MAD architects and founder Ma Yansong design a sinious opera house in Harbin, pushing the city to the top of the country's cultural league-table
The 83 shortlisted projects for the RIBA London Awards were recently announced, one of these 83 projects was The Royal Opera House. IQ worked alongside Stanton Williams to provide the full glazing package for this vast renovation project.
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Artisans of Leisure arranges private tours of the renowned Paris Opera House, the Palais Garnier, for travelers on our private France tours.
From classic masterpieces to contemporary tours de force
When the crowds have left the opera, their grandeur is revealed. Here are stunning opera houses — both historic and contemporary — from around the world.
A curvilinear concert hall clad in white aluminum panels, the newly opened Harbin Opera House looks more otherworldly than organic
Completed in 1973 in Sydney, Australia. There are few buildings as famous as the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia. Arguably considered the eighth wonder of the world, the opera house...
When the crowds have left the opera, their grandeur is revealed. Here are stunning opera houses — both historic and contemporary — from around the world.
During the weekend of Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th Aug 2012 I popped over to Paris with Welshot Imaging to do their “All Night Shoot in Paris” workshop with Will Cheung. During the Sunday we happened to stumble across the Paris Opera House which was just stunning and a HDR photographers dream. For more information about the Le Palais Garnier (Paris opera house) see the links: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palais_Garnier www.operadeparis.fr/en/ For more information about Welshot Imaging see the link: www.welshotimaging.co.uk
Guangzhou Opera House.China. @GZOperaHouse Designed by Ms Zaha Hadid.Your private opera club http://t.co/RZilOXxQcV
