Opera House Essay

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An opera house is the place for performing arts such like opera, stage show, symphony, choral concert, singer concert and a place for the artist to perform or display their arts as a world tour around the world. There are hundreds of opera houses around the world include the Malaysia’s opera house as known as Palace of Culture, also known as Istana Budaya that located next to the National Art Gallery on Jalan Tun Razak in the heart of Kuala Lumpur. The first and the greatest public opera house was Teatro San Cassiano , it was build in 1673 in Venice, Italy. Its appearance has been popular through the centuries and become a follow to all around the world and opera house started to be build along the western country and spread around the world.
During 17th century, ballet and opera were born of royal entertainments in Italy and France. For that time, they used opera house for some spectacular productions celebrating marriages or political visited by kings or nobles to show off their wealth and power. Besides, they also used opera house for their entertainments. These entertainments mixed with musical, dance, and magnificent processions with technical effect and luxurious costumes. The opera stories wave taken from classical mythology and the mythology of God or Hero. During the 19th century the rise of bourgeois
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The Sydney opera house architecture building was look like a sails of boat .The Sydney opera house is out in the ocean and it look like peninsula. The Sydney opera house has been recognition in the World Heritage list in 28 June 2007. Sydney opera house also known as a great architecture building work of the 20th century. It contains a lot of creativity, both in the architecture form and the building structure, a great urban sculpture carefully set in a remarkable and magnificent waterscape and a famous architecture building around the

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