Rooms in Opera House

• A Cheery Hallway - One of the "sails" of the opera house arch above you where a glass wall faces the west, allowing sunlight to filter into the room. During a good sunny day, the room does not need artificial lighting which is used almost exclusively at night.
• A Cheery Hallway - One of the "sails" of the opera house arch above you where a glass wall faces the west, allowing sunlight to filter into the room. During a good sunny day, the room does not need artificial lighting which are used almost exclusively at night.
• A Cheery Hallway - One of the "sails" of the opera house arch above you where a glass wall faces the west, allowing sunlight to filter into the room. During a good sunny day, the room does not need artificial lighting which are used almost exclusively at night.
• A Cheery Hallway - One of the "sails" of the opera house arch above you where a glass wall faces the west, allowing sunlight to filter into the room. During a good sunny day, the room does not need artificial lighting which are used almost exclusively at night.
• A Glass Waterfall - One of the true marvels of art, this glass waterfall cascades from the high ceiling until it meets a small artificial waterfall. From a distance, one would think that this is a real waterfall because of how the light bounces off its surface and the small waterfall makes the sound of falling water. The acoustics of the room amplify and distribute the sound to the surrouding halls and rooms. The waterfall then gathers in a small fountain from where the water is recycled.
• Administration Hall - The "sails" of the opera house arch above while the glass panelings allow sunlight to enter. Although the adminstrative offices are housed here, it is also used by drama performers using the drama theater situated below. Around you are doors leading to various administrative offices as well as the drama theater tower.
• Administration Hall - The "sails" of the opera house arch above while the glass panelings allow sunlight to enter. Although the adminstrative offices are housed here, it is also used by drama performers using the drama theater situated below. Around you are doors leading to various administrative offices as well as the drama theater tower.
• Administration Hall - The "sails" of the opera house arch above while the glass panelings allow sunlight to enter. Although the adminstrative offices are housed here, it is also used by drama performers using the drama theater situated below. Around you are doors leading to various administrative offices as well as the drama theater tower.
• Administration Hallway - The walls in this hallway are full of plaques and awards received from various global and local organizations. You can see the great admiration for the opera house as heaps upon heaps of awards have been given to it. Thanking the opera house for providing a suitable place to propagate and show the arts to the masses. Some of the plaques and awards are from patrons and performers of almost exclusive locales as well as from patrons of the arts, individuals contributing huge sums of money for the arts.
• Administrator's Office - As befitting the administrator's position, this room is absolutely huge. However, the present administrator's tastes are simple. This room is furnished with a simple table and two comfortable chairs for visitors. On the walls are two simple paintings, one of a horse running along the beach and the other is of naked nymph bathing beneath a waterfall. A bouquet of flowers on the table has a note, the cover saying good-luck.
• Box Office - Tickets for the various performances can be bought here. Otherwise, one can obtain a listing for the year's performances, excluding private functions. The box office is enclosed behind a glass partition. Careful examination reveals that the glass is manufactured by Lampchop and Lampchop, Ltd., a company reknown worldwide for bulletproof glass.
• Carpeted Hallway - This side of the building is closed to most visitors. The only ones allowed are the performers who have to run backstage, practice, or change costume. Although it could be a number of things. All in all this is a small hallway compared to most of the hallways in the building but still large enough to allow four people to walk abreast.
• Carpeted Hallway - Up ahead, you can hear the hustle and the bustle of activities as personnel scurry about preparing for tonight's performance. Coinciding with an ongoing daytime performance, the place is just a mob scene as people in various outlandish outfits rush past each other. Despite the number of people coming and going, everything moves with a military precision. You marvel at their efficiency.
• Central Services Passage - This passageway was designed to keep traffic between the patrons and everyone else separate. It has achieved this function very well, allowing the opera house to operate non stop if necessary. Through these passages, props and sets can be moved in and out with ease through backstage passages without hindering the patron. It's also a great escape route for those famous musicians that have multiple concerts on the same day and thus must depart as soon as their concert is over to ensure prompt arrival at the next venue.
• Central Services Passage - This passageway was designed to keep traffic between the patrons and everyone else separate. It has achieved this function very well, allowing the opera house to operate non stop if necessary. Through these passages, props and sets can be moved in and out with ease through backstage passages without hindering the patron. It's also a great escape route for those famous musicians that have multiple concerts on the same day and thus must depart as soon as their concert is over to ensure prompt arrival at the next venue.
• Central Services Passage - This passageway was designed to keep traffic between the patrons and everyone else separate. It has achieved this function very well, allowing the opera house to operate non stop if necessary. Through these passages, props and sets can be moved in and out with ease through backstage passages without hindering the patron. It's also a great escape route for those famous musicians that have multiple concerts on the same day and thus must depart as soon as their concert is over to ensure prompt arrival at the next venue.
• Concourse - You enter a leer jet. Standing on the concourse, you see ahead the great opera house which you have heard so much about. From materials you have read and many photos you have seen, you know that the side view looks like a schooner sailing gracefully across the sea. However, a bird's eye-view would reveal not one, but two sailing ships traveling side by side. Now that you yourself is here, all you can do is stand in speechless awe.
• Conductor Suite - Sparsely furnished yet providing all the amenities of comfort, this room suits the needs of almost everyone that needs to use it. A small table provides room to work on while a chair provides a seat. A Lazee-boy is in the corner for those quick naps just before a concert while an open closet can be used to hang a suit or several suits. In the middle of the room is an empty music stand.
• Conference Room - Sunlight filters into the room making it very bright. In the center is a round conference table surrounded by chairs. On the west wall is a projection screen used for teleconferencing around the globe. Drinks have been prepared and placed on the table indicating that a conference is about to start.
• Costume Storage - Except for where there are doors, the whole room is nothing but a huge walk-in closet full of hanging clothes and costumes. Hangers cover all the racks and even hangers on wheels are overstuffed, occupying even the center of the room. Each outfit is enclosed in a bag with a bar code that helps to identify the contents as well as assign a proper storage location for the outfit.
• Costumes Dressing - This room has been recently been utilized by the looks and smell of it. Costumes are stacked neatly albeit haphazardly on top of each other. As you look on, a stack of costumes come tumbling down. The aroma of sweat is less than desireable. Maybe someone should open a window before the odor contaminates the rest of the building.
• Costumes Dressing - This room has been prepared for the next performance. Racks of costumes have been arranged in distinct groups so that scene changes can be done expediently. It is doubtful if the leading characters have much room to change assuming that this will be a public performance.
• Drama Stage Costume Room - Performers rush in and out of here between scene changes as they get ready for the next scence. There are numerous costumes hanging on racks, chairs, and some lying on the floor, of course neatly piled since the costumes are very expensive. You jump out of the way as a leading lady rushes in, dumps the dress she's wearing on your hands, get on something else and vanish before you can even mutter an objection.
• Drama Theater Backstage - Cases for music instruments are stacked in one section of the room while a stack of sheet music are in another spot. Various scenery changes and props are stacked against the walls or just lying about. Aside from that, there is nothing here. On one wall, blocked by props, is a door leading to the drama theater tower. However, you would not be able to go through there with all these mess lying around.
• Drama Theater Foyer - This part of the the opera house is still under reconstruction. Although this room does look like it's ready to be used. The only things lacking are the lighting apparatus, whose locations are visibly marked by jutting wiring and holes on the floor, walls and ceiling.
• Drama Theater Seating - There is not much to look at. The place is devoid of seats and the flooring has just been replaced with fresh plywood. Good thing too or else you would have certainly fallen through if the old plywood had been here. The terracing arrangement is already visible but there is still a lot of work that needs to be done. There are many electrical wirings sticking out where lights will be installed in the future. One section of the room has been reserved to store lighting equipment and floor tiles. The ceiling tiles, from this angle, has been half completed.
• Drama Theater Stage - The stage area is still under heavy reconstruction. As you recall from the news, heavy flooding during a tidal wave inundulated the orchestra pit causing the stage area above and seating supports to rot out. Deemed too risky for use under the present condition, work crews have been working around the clock to repair the damage. Even at this rate, it would take another two months before the hall is in respectable shape.
• End of Service Passage - You have finally reached the end of the service passage. This passage allowed work crews and cast members to travers throughout the opera house without bumping into the guests who use the main lobby above. It made operations much easier to be conducted and also worry free. No need to worry about a prop hitting a patron or a hurrying musician bumping into a customer. These dual passage, the central services and main lobby, are what has allowed the opera house to operate almost twenty four hours a day.
• Entrance - A large enclosed alcove, the entrance protects visitors from the sun and rain. The cover extends to both the vehicular and pedestrian concourse, thus allowing limousines to deliver their precious cargo and not get them wet. Here, one can stand in line to purchase tickets or stand, watch, wait, and photograph any celebrity attending any special performances or evens. Right now it's not very bust, just the usual traffic of tourist and their tour guides coming and going.
• Espresso Bar - You can almost taste the various blends of coffee as you enter the room. Although more than 45 different blends are served, only a few are prepared each day. The espresso bar offers a great sit-down, full service coffee bar, with knock-your-socks-off service and serving the best gourmet coffee this side of the universe. Their coffee comes from every corner of the world, and we feel that it is second to none. In the center of the room is a descending marble staircase with brass railings. However, a chain has been placed across the stairs with a sign that says CLOSED FOR THE DURATION.
• Exhibit Hall - As the passageway culminates to the drama theater, the performing artist or groups most prominent works are displayed here. A glass cabinet allows the performers to place things like t-shirts and CDs for their patrons to look at. At times, a table would be brough out and manned by someone to take orders or sell the products on the spot. With the drama theater undergoing repairs, the glass cases are empty and this room is mostly abandoned.
• Female Change Room - Unlike the male change room, this one is neat and orderly. Things are where they should be and not scattered across the floor. It smells nicer also. The walls are pink and everything else is in different hues of pink. Even if a guy was invited here to change when no ladies are changing, it would be almost certain that he would depart in a hurry.
• Hall of Portraits - Not overly large but no very small, this room serves as part of the concourse leading to the drama theater. The walls are full of portraits taken from many past great legends that have either performed or worked here. In the middle of the room is a spiraling marble staircase with brass railings.
• Instrument Room - You enter an elevator. All kinds of old instruments are stored here. Many are badly damaged and the rest are just parts. You see piano wirings hanging from the walls, pieces from brass instruments lying around, and instrument cases everywhere. You can't even see the walls because all all the instrument cases. To the north, you can see light filtering in from next room.
• Main Foyer - Huge glass panelings make this room look bigger than its actual size, while cedar trimmings give it a taste of elegance. The white marble floor complements the glass panelings and crystal chandeliers completes the beauty of the place. The foyer continues to the west from where you can smell delicious food that makes your nose tingle with joy.
• Male Change Room - There are many scenes where actors and acresses can change in the same room. However, there are instances when they have to change in different room. This occurs when everything has to be changed and changing in the same room could offend someone. Also it might make both the person changing the person not changing to feel uncomfortable. Rather than risk that and the production quality, it's best to have separate change rooms whenever it is necessary.
• Musicians Lounge - This is a small room for the musicians to gather and chat. This is also where the list is posted for practice times. Open spaces on the practice schedule means anyone can enter and practice if they desire. There is a an empty coat rack on the wall and an umbrella rack by the door. A very beautiful Persian rug covers most of the floor except where the floor meets the wall. There you can see hardwood floor.
• North Foyer - Huge glass panelings make this room look much bigger than its actual size, while cedar trimmings give it a taste of elegance and making the air aromatic. The white marble floor makes the entire place look neat and orderly as well as making the floors easy to clean. A spiraling staircase with brass railings descends here. To the north, you hear harmonious music en cresecendo.
• North Gallery - Well lit glass cases are along the floor of this hall. In them are the personal effects of famous Australian artists. Items that once were only in the possession of wealthy philanthropists have been bought by the a local organization and donated to the opera house to be shared with everyone. Being in a hurry, you don't glance at the name but recognize a few objects such as a metronome and a trumpet. Along the walls, a few originals of sheet music are on display. The very same ones that some famous dead artist had actually written on.
• Open Air Courtyard - Diners can eat here or in the restaurnt, however most prefer it here when the weather is permitting. It's breezy and one can watch and hear the surf pounding against the artificial barrier of rocks. A barrier that helped to protect this place from a recent series of bad storms. If the sun gets too hot, a canopy can be rolled out and over the courtyard area. Today is very nice and breezy and thus there is no need for it. The smell of salty air makes you want to go and take a walk on the broadwalk.
• Practice Room - Bells - Several tables have been neatly laid out to form a U around the room. In the middle is a small wooden podium with a music stand on it. The tables are covered with white linnen. On the linnen are thin pillows on which the bells are resting. You gasp as you see a bell so hug you could probably use it as a bathtub if you tipped it upside down. As you look closer, it has a sign indicating it's for display only. It's a carillon bell.
• Practice Room - Grand Piano - The walls, floor, and ceiling have been heavily padded with sound-proofing materials. In the middle of the room are two baby grands sitting side by side. The lid on one baby grand has been raised all the way up while the lid on the other is partially raised. You hear melodious music pouring out as someone who is obviously a master at his art is tickling the ivories.
• Practice Room - Piano - The walls, floor, and ceiling have been heavily padded with sound-proofing materials. In the middle of the room are two upright pianos sitting side by side. Two musical stands are also in the room, one next to each piano, in case someone has to do voice accompaniment or another instrument is brought into play.
• Practice Room - Strings - You can smell oil as you enter this room. Obviously someone playing a brass horn of some sort had been here recently. If not for the oil, you would not think anyone playing a horn instrument would have been here. As you look around, you see a huge harp on one side of the room. The tip of it almost touching the ceiling, on that part of the room anyway which is much lower than the ceiling in the rest of the room. From the looks of it, there must be a staircase on the other side. Perhaps one of the many passages that only the staff can use. Of course the staff includes visiting musicians and performers, aside from the full time staff of the building.
• Practice Room - Woodwinds - Any room can be a practice room, but for the sake of giving everyone a chance to be able to practice together, rooms have been given informal designations. This one is for the woodwinds. Like the other room, this too has been heavily sound-proofed. It's just as well because when they start thrilling, it could feel like heaven or hell, depending on the skill of the player. A row of seats form a half oval shape, each one with a music stand in front of it. More folding chairs are stacked against the left wall should they be needed.
• Recital Hall - Many prospective applicants to the symphony and various local musical groups try out in this room. A raised stage and podium allows conductors and directors to gauge applicants from a lower seating area that simulates a small theater. To be able to try out here is an only reserved only for the highest of highly qualified candidates.
• Red Cloakroom - This is a cloakroom like any other. Here, patrons may leave their hats and coats during performances. Right now there are only five coats visible hanging from hangers. By the looks of things, there must be a recital going on. A sheaf of sheet music is about to fall out of one of the coats.
• Rehearsal Room - This room is empty but is held in readiness. A small stage equipped with stands is along the far wall but occupies most of the room. Seats along the front allows the director to sit back and direct the sessions. A small cart near the seats provide refreshments.
• Rehearsal Room - The two leading characters are here practicing a kissing scene. But by the looks of it, it may not be practice at all. Clothes are scattered everywhere as well bits and pieces of the script. Perhaps it would be a good idea to depart before your presence is discovered. You hear the sounds of amorous love making in progress as you decide whether to leave or stay.
• Restaurant by the Bay - Through glass walls you can see a grassy area outside. Beyond that is the beautiful bay on which many ships are visible. Although you can't hear the waves, you can see them crashing on the rocks just beneath the pier and also on a man-made barrier. In here, you can smell the distinct flavor of food made only in Australia... or so you think. You can eat your food here or at the courtyard.
• Scenery Change Storage - There are many things stored in this room, some of which you have no idea what they are used for. By the way things smell, you are not sure if even the people who currently work here have any idea what half of these stuff is used for either. Part of the history of this building, you are certain that these things would sell very well if ever auctioned. Although the auction should be performed soon since many of the things are beginning to decay. In the hands of collectors, they would be preserved. In here, they could rot until there is nothing left but dust.
• Secretary's Office - The walls are lined by beautiful mohogany panelings interspaced between beveled mirrors that reach from the ceiling to the floor. Along one wall are bookshelves made of oak darkly varnished built directly into the wall. Nearby is desk for the secretary's use equiped with a computer and a telephone. Nearby is a television and VCR used for reviewing presentation material or possible future acts for the opera house.
• Service Hallway - Surprise guest speakers can hide here if necessary, but this area connects the kitchen to the main dining room in a round about way. Wooden floors and simple paneling still give the hallway a taste of simple elegance. At other times, this place serves as a waiting room in the event that the restaurant is full which happens when several busloads of tourists arrive.
• Set Storage - As a consquence of overstoring things, this room once part of a hallway has been converted to a storage of sets. In fact you can clearly identify part of a set that was in a play you saw here last year. Although you can't remember the play, you can clearly remember the gazebo on wheels as one of the scenes where the little girl's dog was shot trying to defend its little master.
• South Gallery - Unlike the other galler, this one also has glass cases showing what can be bought at the gift shop. Those don't interest you much because they are not only pricey, they are practically useless. But what's on the walls are intersting because they are items from the past, a time when you could only dream you were alive, the time of the great masters. But even today there are great masters, you never know when you'll meet the next one. Most are very humble and very nice.
• Staff Room - Donner sends shockwaves towards Tayn. Donner sends shockwaves towards Blaze. Donner sends shockwaves towards Tayn. Donner MAULS you with his MAULS!! Donner INJURES you with his MAULS. Donner MAULS you with his MAULS!! Donner INJURES you with his MAULS. Donner rips apart the fabric of time and space Break Room It's not much of a break room but at least there is one. An old refrigerator humms in the corner keeping things cool for the staff while cabinetry provides storage space for items not immediately perishable. A ceramic counter with a sink provides a place to either wash dishes or brush teeth. There is also a microwave oven for anyone with instant food or just needing to warm up food brought from home or bought earlier outside. A table and two long benches provide a place to dine.
• The File Room - This room is pretty big yet despite its size it's full of filing cabinets. There are isles up isles of metal filing cabinets. Unfortunately for you, they are all locked to keep them secure from intruders. If you could only open up these cabinets, it might be worthwhile to stick around and read the documents that they contain. However, the current state of things dictate that it would be best to seek entertainment elsewhere.
• The Green Room - Serving as a ballroom on special occasions and easily converted to a lecture room, the green room is an attraction in its own right. Huge draperies embroidered with fancy patterns cascade from the ceiling to the floor. The patterns are similar to Picasso paintings but the outlines are all in different shades of green. Statues made of green marble and jade inlays decorate the green marble floor.
• The Opera House Gift Shop - It's a quaint little place full of small expensive things. Glass mirrors cover all the walls making the place look much bigger than it really is. Along the walls are glass shelving where the merchandise have been placed. Although the items are a bit expensive, they are made of much better and more durable materials. Above you, a ventilation duct blows cool air conditioned air into your face.
• The Reading Room - How anyone can read here boggles the imagination. With three practice rooms around it, this room must sound like a circus. However, it would not if the rooms are soundproofed and very well insulated. There are high backed black chairs and a long reading table in the middle of the room. The walls are lined with shelves full of books about music and theory. A magazine stands holds the latest issues about the operas, musical instruments, and various pamphlets about local sites of interest to tourists.
• Underwater View - The eastern wall is covered by thick glass or plexiglass that is holding the waters back. You can't tell if that's an aquarium or the actual ocean. In any event, you see coral reefs and beautiful tropical fishes. The sheer number of fishes makes counting difficult and their constant motion makes you want to just sit and watch them for hours.