Carmen – outdoors on the roof of Oslo Opera House

Posted on 2009-04-19 by Jon Leirdal

7000 people wanted to see the show

Yesterday evening my girlfriend and I went to check out a stunt they tried out on top of the new Oslo Opera building. The Opera Carmen was sold out after just a few days, so they rigged up a big screen outside on the Opera roof and had a free Live show of the same concert as it was performed indoors. It turned out to be an enormous event with over 7000 people coming for a look. This was April in Norway… cold is a key word. Not everybody stuck it out for the full opera, but it was a better experience than I expected.

The first part had the most viewers. After a while the sun came and we had a magnificent view of the sunset as it set behind one of the big buildings next to the Opera, Havnelageret. (The big pink building in one of the pictures below). Some of the people nearest the traffic had some noise during the concert, but except for that the sound was pretty good.

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Posted from Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

Subway stations

Posted on 2008-09-19 by Jon Leirdal

There are a lot of beautiful subway stations all over the world. For a quick example I recommend you to do a quick Google image search on the subway in Moscow. In Oslo they have also used some resources on beautification. Last night my girlfriend and I happened to walk in one of the tunnels down to the railway and subway station at "Nationaltheatret" station in Oslo, and we were alone down there. I did not bring my tripod or my SLR camera, but my G9 was put to the test.

Doozers

Posted on 2008-07-27 by Jon Leirdal

Some years ago there was a TV-series called “Fraggles Rock” from the creator of the Muppets.

The series was translated to Norwegian and one of the “races” or “creatures” of the series was called “Doozers” or “Doserne” in Norwegian.

I recently noticed the following sign on a building in Oslo. I guess the people of that company saw the series when they were young.

PS: If you didn’t get the joke: The doozers always built things.

Lines

Posted on 2008-07-17 by Jon Leirdal

In Oslo, outside the National theatre railway station.

Oslo has got a New Opera building

Posted on 2008-07-14 by Jon Leirdal

There has been a a lot of blogging and pictures from the new Opera in Oslo on several blogs and sites all over the world. Here comes another one. I am not sure if this is better than other pictures, but I felt it was kind of interesting.

Another interesting thing I experienced when visiting the new Opera building is that the infrastructure leading up to the Opera is not completely finished yet. Among else the elevator down from the walkway crossing the motor-way was not working, making it kind of difficult for disabled people to access the building. In addition to this there was no easy way to access the area by bike.