Oslo Opera House
The New Opera House in Oslo since April 2008, the home of the Norwegian Opera.
History
About to build a new opera house in Oslo decades had been discussed before 1998, the first plans for a building made of concrete, marble, glass and wood were already published. After two alternative sites at the former West train station and the old Folketeater building had been discarded, the Norwegian Storting decided on 15 June 1999 that the new opera similar to the Sydney Opera House is directly caused by the harbor. It is planned that they gradually south-east of the Oslo Central Station become the center of the new district Bjørvika.
The first sod on the site of the former Nylands Mekaniske verksted took place on 17 February 2003, the foundation stone was laid in the fall of 2004. Completion of the building was originally planned for September 2008, but due to the rapid construction, the opening could be brought forward by five months. It incurred costs in the amount of 4.13 billion Norwegian kroner, equivalent to about 520 million euros after damaligem conversion rate.
Architecture
The new opera house is considered the largest Norwegian cultural project of the postwar period. The building was modeled on a drifting iceberg by the Norwegian architectural firm Snøhetta ( " snow cap " ) designed, which had already designed the new library of Alexandria in Egypt. The Opera House is 110 meters wide, 207 meters long and has an area of 49.00 square meters with more than 1100 interiors. Of the three play areas the main stage with 1358 seats for the audience the greatest.
The Great Hall is similar to the Semper Opera in Dresden in shape, size and structure. This was an edition of the builders. Deep dark oiled oak dominates the interior of the hall. Is Norway's largest chandelier, the Snøhetta created in cooperation with the Hadeland in him. It has a diameter of seven meters and weighs 8.5 tons; 8500 LEDs provide the light.
The facade of the building is 90 percent of white Italian Carrara marble and ten percent of Norwegian granite quarried in Rennebu. The basic architectural lines harvested by the experts unanimously praise. Controversial, however, is the massive use of marble type used, for only 57 million crowns (about 6.4 million euros ) had been spent. Before the opening, a larger proportion of the 36,000 marble panels had turned slightly yellow.
2009, the architectural firm was awarded for the design of the Opera House with the Mies van der Rohe Award for European Architecture.
Sculpture in the harbor basin
Since May 2010 is located in the harbor basin about 60 m in front of the Opera House, the white sculpture Hun ligger / She read it. The sculpture of the Berlin- Italian artist Monica Bonvicini is the piled-up masses of ice on the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich The Wreck modeled, has the dimensions 17 × 16 × 12 m and was made of steel and glass.
Opening
Was opened the new opera house on April 12, 2008. The ceremony was broadcast live on television and celebrated throughout the country as a major cultural event. For the inauguration in front of almost 1,400 guests and German Chancellor Angela Merkel had traveled from Germany. She watched the action, together with King Harald V, Queen Sonja, representatives of the royal houses in Denmark and Sweden as well as the Prime Minister of Iceland and Finland, as the guest of honor. At the opening gala 20 soloists and 60 dancers were involved; were presented, among others, excerpts from Richard Wagner's opera The Flying Dutchman. Since the complex stage machinery would not let install time, had originally ordered for the opening night opera be moved in 80 Days around the World the Norwegian composer Gisle Kverndokk by more than a year.