That led to the collapse of an Amazon rubber boom that had financed the building of an opera house in Manaus and allowed a few Brazilian tycoons to send their laundry to be cleaned in Europe, but had also enslaved thousands of rubber tappers.
However, when court architect Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves in 1837 proposed the building of an opera house in Hanover, the King initially refused, calling the proposal "this utterly absurd idea of building a court theatre in the middle of this green field".
There were huge increases everywhere: in the founding of orchestras and choirs, in the manufacture of pianos, in music printing and in the building of conservatories and opera houses.
PARIS — When Charles Garnier, at the age of 36, turned out to be the surprise winner of an occasionally funny, partly corrupt and ridiculously complicated competition for the building of a new opera, he morphed overnight into the starchitect of the Second Empire.
Britten had acquired a site opposite Aldeburgh parish church, with the idea of building an opera house, and Jim had discussed the design of such a building with him.
Has had fun importing Diaghileff, Copeau, Gemier, Stanislavsky; out of building an opera; equipping art museums.
In Fitzcarraldo, their most extreme collaboration, Kinski plays an Irish adventurer in early 20th-century Peru who dreams of building an opera house in a remote Amazon port and bringing Enrico Caruso there.
Condition "OPERA": 10 excerpts of Opera singing.
After "Kullervo" Sibelius planned a "Kalevala" opera, "Building of the Boat," with Vainamoinen as the main character.
"I'm looking at this kind of alleyway near the Gowanus that has fire escapes and bridges connecting two buildings, and thinking, what kind of opera could we do out there?" she said.
