In 2009 Brian Eno's "Lighting the Sails", attracted more than 200 000 people to the festival. This year Vivid LIVE curator Laurie Anderson put her own mark.
Showing posts with label Opera House. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Opera House. Show all posts
Tuesday, 1 June 2010
Lighting the Sails
In 2009 Brian Eno's "Lighting the Sails", attracted more than 200 000 people to the festival. This year Vivid LIVE curator Laurie Anderson put her own mark.
Wednesday, 28 October 2009
Opera House - Open Day *4
Broadwalk Studio
The Studio is a contemporary performing arts venue at Sydney Opera House, situated between the Playhouse and Drama Theatre, beneath the Concert Hall.
This intimate, flexible venue, the smallest in the complex, is designed primarily for new music and contemporary performance. It is also suitable for cabaret, small theatrical productions and spoken word presentations. The maximum seating capacity ranges from 220 to 350, depending on venue configuration.
The floor area is approximately 15m x 15m, within which flexible tiered seating banks and cabaret-style seating may be arranged in various configurations.
The Sydney Aerial Theatre rehearsal during Open Day in Opera House last Sunday
Tuesday, 27 October 2009
Opera House - Open Day *3
Concert Hall
The largest hall is the Concert Hall which seats 2690. It is used for a wide variety of performances includin symphony concerts, chamber music, opera, dance, choral concerts, pop, jazz and folk concerts, variety shows and conventions.
The acoustics of the Concert hall are higly regarded. The ceiling which rises up to 25 m above the platform, and upper walls are panelled with white birch playwood and the lower walls, floors,stairs boxes and stage platform are paneled with a hard brown wood, brush box.
Above the platform are suspended 18 ajustable acrlic acoustic rings, which assist musicians by reflecting some of the sound of the instruments stright back to the platform.
The largest hall is the Concert Hall which seats 2690. It is used for a wide variety of performances includin symphony concerts, chamber music, opera, dance, choral concerts, pop, jazz and folk concerts, variety shows and conventions.
The acoustics of the Concert hall are higly regarded. The ceiling which rises up to 25 m above the platform, and upper walls are panelled with white birch playwood and the lower walls, floors,stairs boxes and stage platform are paneled with a hard brown wood, brush box.
Above the platform are suspended 18 ajustable acrlic acoustic rings, which assist musicians by reflecting some of the sound of the instruments stright back to the platform.
Opera House - Open Day *2
Opera Theatre
The Opera Theatre, seating 1 547, is mainly used for performances of opera, ballet and dance.The auditiruim is panelled in wood for acoustic reason, but the ceiling and walls a painted black to allow the audience to focus its attention upon the stage. The procenium opening is 12 m wide and 7 m high. build into the stage floor is a revolve 14 m in diameter and four platform lifts 10.5x3.5 m which raise and lower the scenery between the set storage area at groung level and the stage 10 m above. the orchestra pit can accommodate up to 75 musicians.
The Opera Theatre, seating 1 547, is mainly used for performances of opera, ballet and dance.The auditiruim is panelled in wood for acoustic reason, but the ceiling and walls a painted black to allow the audience to focus its attention upon the stage. The procenium opening is 12 m wide and 7 m high. build into the stage floor is a revolve 14 m in diameter and four platform lifts 10.5x3.5 m which raise and lower the scenery between the set storage area at groung level and the stage 10 m above. the orchestra pit can accommodate up to 75 musicians.
Monday, 26 October 2009
Opera House - Open Day
It was a crowded house yesterday at Bennelong Point - and a different kind of crowd - when the Opera House staged its biggest open day.
As a dinosaur stalked the forecourt, the queue for tours snaked back to Macquarie Street. With backstage areas open for public tours for the first time, more than 50,000 people swarmed the building - 20,000 in the first hour. Many had never been inside before.
The Opera House chief executive, Richard Evans, said he hoped people who would not ordinarily visit the venue would take away ''a little part of the secret of the Opera House''.
''There's a lot of people who think it's all about opera, ballet and symphony,'' he said. ''Hopefully people will think about the Opera House differently.''
David Astalosh, 19, took the opportunity to venture onto the Concert Hall stage. ''You can see all the photos and postcards … but until you experience the magic inside you really don't appreciate the grandeur,'' he said.
Kim Arlington
Friday, 31 July 2009
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
Vivid Sydney - the city in a different light
26 May - 14 June. Luminous - a festival of music, light and new ideas. In a major artwork by Brian Eno, Luminous launches with the lighting of the Sydney Opera House sails, transforming Utzon's mastrpiece into an artist's canvas.
Monday, 18 May 2009
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Friday, 13 February 2009
Saturday, 10 January 2009
Monday, 5 January 2009
Wednesday, 31 December 2008
Sydney NYE
Sydney czeka na nadejcie Nowego Roku. Tysiące mieszkancow i turysci zgromadzili sie nad zatoką Port Jackson po obu stronach Harbour Bridge aby zobaczyc pokaz sztucznych ogni. O 21.00 odbyl sie rodzinny pokaz. Nie wszyscy dotrwają do pólnocy...
Monday, 1 December 2008
Opera House architect is gone.
The Danish architect who designed the Sydney Opera House, Joern Utzon, has died in Copenhagen last night.
Photos of The Opera House taken day after Utzon's dead.
Monday, 13 October 2008
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