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There are new opera houses, and then there’s this one


by Jerome Weeks 11 Apr 2008 7:59 AM

Oslo, Norway, has opened a new $800 million opera house that looks like an iceberg sloping into the fjord. The marble-clad center — Norway’s largest cultural building in seven centuries — took five years to complete and is part of a giant complex designed to revive the harbor-front area. All of Norway has only 4.7 million […]

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Oslo, Norway, has opened a new $800 million opera house that looks like an iceberg sloping into the fjord. The marble-clad center — Norway’s largest cultural building in seven centuries — took five years to complete and is part of a giant complex designed to revive the harbor-front area. All of Norway has only 4.7 million people, but the country is the fifth-largest oil and third-largest gas exporter.

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