Palaces of music
Subtitle: opera houses of Europe
By: text by Michael Forsyth ; photography by Ahmet Ertuğ
Contributors: Ertuğ, Ahmet
Publisher: Ertuğ & Kocabiyit
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Italy
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Theaters; Pictorial works; Theater architecture; Music and architecture; Opera
Other titles: Opera houses of Europe
Description: This large format book portrays 26 great European opera houses with images by the renowned photographer, Ahmet Ertug. The book includes 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. The grand nineteenth-century opera houses portrayed include the Paris Opera House (Palais Garnier), the rebuilt Teatro La Fenice, Venice, and Prague State Opera. Finally, the book portrays recent architectural masterpieces by some of the world's leading architects including opera houses at Valencia, Lyon and Oslo. Mr. Forsyth describes the architecture of each opera house and its social and musical history.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 254).