I'd brought opera glasses for the distance, but I was told I couldn't use them.
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If much of diplomacy is optics, President Trump seems to have left his opera glasses at home.
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He made several trips to Rome; in 1871, he spent an entire day in the Sistine Chapel looking at the ceiling through opera glasses.
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Packing a pair of her own personal opera glasses, she goes to see Bette Davis (Susan Sarandon), who's starring in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana.
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On the assigned Saturday morning in early May, I showed up at the entrance to the historical society on Central Park West carrying an embarrassing little pair of opera glasses.
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Newspaper ads of the day reveal a motley tenant roster that included the Sons of Temperance and an auction house selling odds and ends like seashells, opera glasses and pistols.
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Eager to try out daguerrotypy, a photography method that had been invented just two months prior, Cornelius set up a large box camera with a lens fashioned from a pair of opera glasses, according to the Library of Congress.
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Many details won't be caught by even the most powerful opera glasses — but now that the Met simulcasts its performances to cinemas around the world through its Live in HD series, every opera must be ready for its close-up.
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The team gazes through magnifying devices (used for the then-fledgling science of "finger marks") and later through opera glasses in order to spy on Commissioner Roosevelt and his companions — an aging Mayor William Lafayette Strong and the philandering robber baron J.P. Morgan.
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You can reprint a model of the Apollo 11 capsule from the Smithsonian Institute, opera glasses from the virtual museum Morbase, a Greek amphora from the Cleveland Museum of Art, or the skull of a T-Rex from the Digital Atlas of Ancient Life.
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Certain dignitaries did not have to wait in line; Loretta Weinberg, an 81-year-old state senator and tireless critic of the governor, observed the trial through opera glasses, shaking her head as prosecutors and defense lawyers conjured the crass political maneuverings of the Christie administration.
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Her sketch shows Brodie with his opera glasses over his eyeglasses to better see the proceedings, alongside artists including Williams, Bill Robles, Bill Lignante, Walt Stewart, and David Rose, all with their paper pads and pile of pencils, crayons, and pens ready to swiftly document the trial of an automobile manufacturer on trial for cocaine possession with the intent to sell.
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This book is Forbes's opportunity to tell everyone all about his things: Fabergé Imperial eggs (Forbes then owned more than the Kremlin), a hundred thousand or so toy soldiers, a helicopter, yachts, cars, a 727 (which he named Capitalist Tool), a Renoir, a Gilbert Stuart, the opera glasses President Abraham Lincoln was using at Ford's Theater, a fleet of hot-air balloons modeled after other objects of beauty — Lahore's Minar-e-Pakistan, a Fabergé egg, a 17th-century chateau.
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The design of many modern opera glasses of the ornamental variety is based on the popular lorgnettes of the 19th century.
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In the end, Goofy tells the audience to return their "opera glasses" in the bins outside of the theater and says goodbye to the viewers.
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It was not until 1912 that the London Opera Glass Company installed discrete dispensers on the backs of seats, enabling patrons to rent them for 6d (2p in today's money). Since the formation of the company, around 11 million patrons have used its opera glasses to view theatre productions such as Noël Coward's comic play Hay Fever in 1925 and The Phantom of the Opera musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber. In 2009, two major London theatres, the Comedy Theatre and the Savoy Theatre, installed £1 opera glasses from the company throughout their auditoriums. , around 1.8 million people have used the company's opera glasses at the Lyceum Theatre during performances of the Lion King since it opened in October 1999.
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Mother of pearl opera glasses and leather case. Opera glasses, also known as theater binoculars or Galilean binoculars, are compact, low-power optical magnification devices, usually used at performance events, whose name is derived from traditional use of binoculars at opera performances. Magnification power below 5× is usually desired in these circumstances in order to minimize image shake and maintain a large enough field of view. A magnification of 3× is normally recommended.
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The London Opera Glass Company was officially formed in London, England on 20 May 1913 to produce opera glasses for theatres in London. The company's purpose was to offer fashionable theatre goers in London's West End, technology that had started in Vienna and Paris in the 19th century. Opera glasses were not new at the time of the company's formation. In fact, they were a fashion accessory at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century.
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Voigtländer was founded in Vienna, Archduchy of Austria, in 1756, by . Voigtländer produced mathematical instruments, precision mechanical products, optical instruments, including optical measuring instruments and opera glasses, and is the oldest name in cameras.
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She points her opera glasses at him and smiles. Going up to her box and kissing her hand in greeting, he realises she is now blind. Geoffrey, her loving husband whose lack of looks she cannot see, rejoins the two.
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In The Loge is an 1878 Impressionist painting by American artist Mary Cassatt. It depicts a woman at the Garnier Opera using opera glasses to watch the opera, while she herself is being spied upon by a gentleman in the audience.
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In 1865, Denis Albert assumed control of the family business.Légion d’honneur file, Denis Albert Bardou, cote LH/114/21. The company was located at his residence at 55, rue de Chabrol. The company manufactured and sold astronomical telescopes, spyglasses, binoculars, microscopes and opera glasses.
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Tower Optical coin-operated binoculars Hand-held binoculars range from small 3 × 10 Galilean opera glasses, used in theaters, to glasses with 7 to 12 times magnification and 30 to 50 mm diameter objectives for typical outdoor use. Many tourist attractions have installed pedestal-mounted, coin-operated binoculars to allow visitors to obtain a closer view of the attraction.
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"Jazz Band Ball: New Orleans to Hammersmith". Jazz Illustrated 1 (6): 11. and was followed by a command performance for King George V at Buckingham Palace. The concert did not start auspiciously, with the assembled aristocracy, which included French Marshal Philippe Pétain, peering through opera glasses at the band "as though there were bugs on us", according to LaRocca.
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During their wait, guests hear orchestral music from Fantasia, Fantasia 2000, and other Disney animated films. Goofy, the Concert Hall's stage manager, admits the guests into the main theater, where final preparations for the performance are underway. Minnie Mouse then tells the guests to put on their "opera glasses." Minnie then realizes that Donald Duck has gone missing and goes to tell Mickey.
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Later in life, he accepted an appointment to a chair of mathematics at the University of Vienna. Petzval became a member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1873. Petzval is considered to be one of the main founders of geometrical optics, modern photography and cinematography. Among his inventions are the Petzval portrait lens and opera glasses, both still in common use today.
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In May 2015, the band released their eighth album, Wonder Future, produced by Masafumi Gotoh. The only single from the album, "Easter" was released in March 2015. To promotion album, they released two music video, "Opera Glasses" and "Planet of the Apes". They held tour named "Asian Kung-fu Generation Tour 2015 (Wonder Future)" from July until October 2015 in Japan and November in Europe.
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According to critic Dave Kehr, The Pleasure Garden's opening scene stands like a virtual "clip reel of Hitchcock motifs to come". The very first shot captures chorus girls descending a spiral staircase (see Vertigo); a man uses opera glasses to better appreciate a blonde chorus dancer (see Rear Window); and the same blonde, who at first appears erotically remote, later emerges as down-to-earth and approachable (see Family Plot).
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Throughout the video, there are cuts of her standing up in a white dress and sitting down on a long couch, holding golden opera glasses. Other cuts show groups of men and women as well as Monica and her love interest sitting on a couch. The instrumental break features breakdancing then cuts back to the dance with the crowd. The video ends with Monica rejecting her lover's kiss.
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During the latter part of the voyage, it becomes apparent that the gravitational force of their earlier encounter with the asteroid has caused the projectile to deviate from its course. The projectile enters lunar orbit, rather than landing on the Moon as originally planned. Barbicane, Ardan and Nicholl begin geographical observations with opera glasses. The projectile then dips over the northern hemisphere of the Moon, into the darkness of its shadow.
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He plans the attack for when Michael's son, Anthony, is performing in Cavalleria Rusticana at Teatro Massimo opera house. Before the performance, Connie presents Altobello with a box of cannoli as a birthday gift. He takes one from the box and offers Connie the first bite. She takes a small taste, and Altobello eats the rest of the poisoned cannoli throughout the performance and dies in his seat as Connie watches through her opera glasses.
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Louise wrote an unpublished autobiography recounting a highly cultured education and upbringing. From an early age, she was enthusiastic about literature and music, opera in particular—Ingres would later include opera glasses in her portrait. Notably intellectual, she was said to have read every new book. At age 11, she attended the opening night of Victor Hugo's play "Hernani", famous for the demonstrations it provoked; as a young pianist, she had personally known Chopin.
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These may also have been drawn from Balzac's experience, as he once wrote in a letter about a set of "divine" opera glasses he ordered from the Paris Observatory.Robb, p. 183. Similarities exist between Olympe Pélissier and the novel's "Woman without a Heart", but critics and biographers agree that the character is a composite of women from Balzac's life. More significant is the connection between the women in the novel and the women in Balzac's life.
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The woman was modelled by Nini Lopez, Renoir's new model who would feature in fourteen of his paintings over the next few years. The man was his brother Edmond, a journalist and art critic. Going to the theatre was as much about being seen as watching the performance and whilst the woman is making her presence obvious, her companion is scanning the audience through his opera-glasses. La Loge was included in the Impressionists’ first group exhibition in 1874, where reaction was mixed.
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An article in the Pre-Raphaelite Society journal, The Review, has hypothesised that Waterhouse may have painted an image of his own face into The Magic Circle and that the image is only viewable at a specific required distance from the painting. The article also suggests that it may have been possible to achieve that distance by viewing the painting through reversed binoculars or opera glasses. An accompanying documentary, Inside the mystery of JW Waterhouse's The Magic Circle, presents the visual argument.
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The small company he controlled was not able to compete with the larger and professionally managed cinema companies, so market forces led to the decline in his business. Redfern operated a photographic studio, and sold cameras (and other optical goods including opera glasses). The cameras, instruments and articles he sold were inscribed with the name "Jasper Redfern". Redfern held the credentials FSMC, and BOA The designation FSMC was from the Fellowship in Optometry of the Worshipful Company of Spectacle Makers.Editor. (1905).
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Marratt & Ellis Opticians was a company established in 1828 in London, England. Initially known as J S Marratt, then Marratt and Short, this optician's was situated at 63 King William Street, the northern end of London Bridge where King William Street meets Gracechurch Street. Marratt and Ellis was at one time a large business engaged in sight testing, dispensing spectacles, making artificial eyes and a supplier of optical and scientific instruments. There are many examples of opera glasses, thermometers, barometers and meteorological instruments etc.
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Théophile Gautier wrote of the model (Le Moniteur Universel, 13 May 1863) that "the general arrangement becomes intelligible to all eyes and already acquires a sort of reality that better permits one to prejudge the final effect ... it attracts the crowd's curiosity; it is, in effect, the new Opéra seen through reversed opera glasses."Mead 1991, p. 303. The model is now lost, but it was photographed by J. B. Donas in 1863. The emperor's quadrigae were never added, although they can be seen in the model.
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For a person with arthritis mutilans in the hands, the fingers become shortened by arthritis, and the shortening may become severe enough that the hand looks paw-like, with the first deformity occurring at the interphalangeal and metacarpophalangeal joints. The excess skin from the shortening of the phalanx bones becomes folded transversely, as if retracted into one another like opera glasses, hence the description la main en lorgnette. As the condition worsens, luxation, phalangeal and metacarpal bone absorption, and skeletal architecture loss in the fingers occurs.
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The theater doors open. Mickey Mouse is performing with his PhilharMagic Orchestra at the Fantasyland Concert Hall (Sunset Showcase Theatre at DCA and Discoveryland Theatre at Paris). Inside, there are posters advertising the Concert Hall's past productions and performers, such as Hades from Hercules, Ariel from The Little Mermaid, Genie from Aladdin, Wheezy from Toy Story 2, Willie the Whale from Make Mine Music, The Three Caballeros, The Big Bad Wolf and The Three Little Pigs. Upon entering the theater's lobby, guests pick up their "opera glasses" (3D glasses).
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Negative lens The simple negative lens placed before the focus of the objective has the advantage of presenting an erect image but with limited field of view better suited to low magnification. It is suspected this type of lens was used in some of the first refracting telescopes that appeared in the Netherlands in about 1608. It was also used in Galileo Galilei's 1609 telescope design which gave this type of eyepiece arrangement the name "Galilean". This type of eyepiece is still used in very cheap telescopes, binoculars and in opera glasses.
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Cartwright (2010). p. 514 Even earlier in life he had such worries and kept a sword and loaded pistols near his bed to defend himself from thieves.Cartwright (2010). p. 465 He gave a friendly welcome to Austrian soldiers who wanted to shoot revolutionaries from his window and as they were leaving he gave one of the officers his opera glasses to help him monitor rebels. The rebellion passed without any loss to Schopenhauer and he later praised Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz for restoring order.Cartwright (2010). p.
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"Surf's Up" contains references to artifacts of the patrician period, such as diamond necklaces, opera glasses, and horse-drawn carriages. It also espouses themes related to childhood and God, similar to other songs written for Smile ("Wonderful" and "Child Is Father of the Man"). The title is a play-on-words referring to the group shedding their image. In surfing, "surf's up" means that the conditions of the waves are good, but when the phrase arrives in the song, it is used to conjure an image of a tidal wave.
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514; and Andermatten's Führerbuch. an Englishman, successfully climbed the Mitteleggi of the Eiger. The event “was watched by guides, residents, and tourists along the whole Grindelwald valley.” A detailed account appeared in The Times (London): “All available telescopes and opera-glasses were in requisition, and it is not too much to say that each step taken for nine hours was both seen and noted, so that some even professed to give an exact number.”McCormick, Joseph. “Ascent of the Mitteleggi,” The Times (London) 21 September 1895, 7. Issue 34688.
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A typical Porro prism binoculars design Binoculars or field glasses are two telescopes mounted side-by-side and aligned to point in the same direction, allowing the viewer to use both eyes (binocular vision) when viewing distant objects. Most are sized to be held using both hands, although sizes vary widely from opera glasses to large pedestal mounted military models. Unlike a (monocular) telescope, binoculars give users a three-dimensional (3D) image: for nearer objects the two views, presented to each of the viewer's eyes from slightly different viewpoints, produce a merged view with an impression of depth.
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Galilean binoculars Almost from the invention of the telescope in the 17th century the advantages of mounting two of them side by side for binocular vision seems to have been explored.Europa.com — The Early History of the Binocular Most early binoculars used Galilean optics; that is, they used a convex objective and a concave eyepiece lens. The Galilean design has the advantage of presenting an erect image but has a narrow field of view and is not capable of very high magnification. This type of construction is still used in very cheap models and in opera glasses or theater glasses.
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Alone up there with thousands of eyes peering at me > -- opera glasses raised for a closer look, and the unasked but heavily felt > question "what's he going to do?" All this was going through my head as I > learned the lines -- all this was in front of my eyes as I lay down at night > -- and when the day came that I was to open at Texas A&M; University I was > filled with fear. A very primitive fear -- the fear of the actor. The > nightmare that all actors have from time to time is appearing naked in front > of an audience -- not knowing the lines, not knowing the play -- I was > living the dream.
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Punch The trial opened on 1 June 1891. Ticket holders began queuing at 9:30 am, and the court was full half an hour before its 11 am start time. The prince sat on a red leather chair on a raised platform between the judge and the witness box; his appearance was the first time since 1411 that an heir to the throne had appeared involuntarily in court. The Pall Mall Gazette stated that "the court presented an appearance which, save for the dignity of its own fittings and its rows of learned-looking law books, might have been taken for a theatre at a fashionable matinée", with society ladies watching proceedings with opera glasses or lorgnettes.
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A Canon F-1, 35mm camera with a telephoto zoom lens. The concept of the telephoto lens, in reflecting form, was first described by Johannes Kepler in his Dioptrice of 1611, and re-invented by Peter Barlow in 1834. Histories of photography usually credit Thomas Rudolphus Dallmeyer with the invention of the photographic telephoto lens in 1891, though it was independently invented by others about the same time; some credit his father John Henry Dallmeyer in 1860. In 1883 or 1884 New Zealand photographer Alexander McKay discovered he could create a much more manageable long-focus lens by combining a shorter focal length telescope objective lens with negative lenses and other optical parts from opera glasses to modify the light cone.
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Lepic is shown gazing through opera glasses in The ballet from Robert le Diable (1871; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York), one of Degas' earliest treatments of the subject, and in quarter profile from behind in the Victoria & Albert Museum's larger copy (1876). Lepic's fondness for dogs, evidenced by his many etchings, resulted in Degas' final pastel of Lepic holding one in the Cleveland Museum of Art (1889).View online Earlier, he had included another dog in the amusing Place de la Concorde, in which the elegantly dressed and cigar-smoking Lepic strides to the right, an umbrella under his arm, while his two daughters and the dog all face the other way. Earlier still, the daughters appeared on either side of their father in the intimate painting Ludovic Lepic and His Daughters (1871).
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After graduating from high school, she continued working in the entertainment field and signed with the talent management firm . She made her solo debut on January 1, 1986 with the hit single Winter Opera Glasses, which reached number one on the Oricon charts and sold over 300,000 copies. This was the record for a debut single for a female solo artist until Oricon changed their rules regarding what was considered a "debut" for people who had previously been a member of a group; Yuki Uchida now holds the record for a debut single for a female solo artist. Nitta was given the title "The Million Dollar Smile" on her single covers, and her smile was referred to as the "Nitta Trump", due to the extraordinary price she commanded due to her popularity.
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Although Mozart had the piano part securely in his head, he did not give himself enough time to write it out, and thus it was performed with a sheet of blank music paper in front of him in order to fool the audience. According to a story told by his widow Constanze Mozart, the Emperor Joseph II saw the empty sheet music through his opera glasses and sent for the composer with his manuscript, at which time Mozart had to confess the truth, although that is likely to have amused the monarch rather than cause his irritation. The work consists of three movements: #Largo – Allegro #Andante #Allegretto The sonata opens with an exceptionally slow introduction, in which emphasis is put on the equality of the two instruments, kept throughout the entire work. The opening theme was later echoed by Haydn Op. 50 No. 1 String Quartet and Beethoven's String Quartet No. 1.
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