The Second Empire stylings inspired by Antiquity make an impression with their outsize dimensions and facade embellished with bas-reliefs and dominated by gold-leaf sculptures.
The Palais Garnier, which opened in 1875, can seat up to 1,900. The government, through its Ministry of Culture, manages two of the most prestigious stages in Paris: the Palais Garnier and the Bastille Opera. Michael Forsyth is an architect and historian and wrote the award-winning and widely-translated book, “Buildings for Music: the Architect, the Musician and the Listener from the seventeenth century to the present day”.Are you passionate about dance, lyrical music and classical music? Then you must be familiar with the Opéra National de Paris, which puts on a rich program of cultural events in the capital city and online. He has held major exhibitions in Paris, New York, London and Vienna and has a permanent exhibition of his work in the Hagia Sophia, Istanbul. His artistry draws a deeply meditative energy and involves the observer in the intellectual content of his subjects. This chapter puts into context the oeuvre of Ahmet Ertuğ, one of the world’s leading protagonists of pictorial art in our time, and through which readers will appreciate the art of photography displayed in this book on a different level.Īhmet Ertuğ trained as an architect in London before turning to photography. The final section of the book contains an erudite essay, ‘Grand Opera Through the Grand Lens’, by Professor Rolf Sachsse, distinguished photographer, photographic historian, curator, and critic who currently holds the chair in Design History and Design Theory at the Saar University of Fine Arts (Hochschule der Bildenden Künste Saar), Saarbrücken.
Forsyth begins with an introduction that traces the rise of opera, the evolution of opera house architecture, and the musical and social demands of different nations and periods, with the remarkable effects these had on opera house acoustics. To accompany Ertuğ’s remarkable photography, in a separate text volume Michael Forsyth describes the architecture of each opera house and its social and musical history, including stories of human passion and intrigue that they can tell. The grand nineteenth-century opera houses portrayed include the Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier), the rebuilt Teatro La Fenice, Venice, and Prague State Opera.įinally, the book portrays recent architectural masterpieces by some of the world’s leading architects including opera houses at Valencia, Lyon and Oslo. The book commences with Classical, Baroque and Rococo theatres – miraculous early survivors – from Palladio’s exquisite Teatro Olimpico, Vicenza, the forerunner of later theatres, to the charming court theatres at Drottningholm in Stockholm, and the beautiful Margrave’s Opera House, Bayreuth and San Carlo in Naples. Palaces of Music Opera Houses of Europe Text by Michael Forsyth and Rolf Sachsse
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