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2 unusual facts about Open Air


Open Air

Unlike Right to Reply, Open Air went out live on a daily basis and had live phone-ins.

Open Air was BBC1's flagship programme for their new daytime service which began on 27 October 1986.


Sheila Florance

In a heated on air exchange with Grundy's senior Vice President Peter Pinne on a live British television programme Open Air in 1989, Florance was highly critical of the production company and its treatment of the cast.


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A Terrible Night

The film was made with the Méliès-Reulos portable camera in the open air, in the garden of Méliès's home in Montreuil, using natural sunlight and a cloth backdrop.

Aniela Cukier

During those years she also frequented open air workshops in the Kazimierz Dolny art colony.

Arminda Schutte

In 1936 she performed the first ever open-air concert in Cuba, having been presented as soloist with the Symphonic Orchestra in the National Amphitheatre by the Department of Culture of the municipality of Havana.

Bad Schandau

The new Schrammstein Open-Air Pool (Schrammstein-Bad) that was badly damaged before it could open by the flooding of the Elbe in 2002 went bust but, after a two-year delay, was able to open under its new owners, toskanaworld, as the so-called Toskana Thermal Baths (Toskana-Therme); this firm has similar facilities in Bad Sulza and Bad Orb.

Bălți International Airport

In between rare flights, the runway serves for Moldavian rallies and open air concerts, such as ones organized by the mobile operator Orange Moldova.

Blake Pier, Central

The top structure of the pier was later transferred to the open-air oval theatre in Morse Park, in between Wong Tai Sin and Lok Fu, Kowloon.

Brownsea Open Air Theatre

B.O.A.T receive excellent national and regional coverage, and have been featured in The Guardian as one of the UK's Top 10 Open Air Theatre Venues, listed second to the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall.

Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival

Centretown Movies Outdoor Film Festival is an open-air, pay-what-you-can community film festival held annually in Ottawa during late summer in Dundonald Park.

Danish Dance Theatre

Besides touring and several stationary performances in Copenhagen, the company is also famous for two annual open air events: “Copenhagen Summer Dance”, which takes place in the Copenhagen Police Headquarters and runs for one week in August and the picnic-performances “Spring Dance at Carlsberg”, which takes place during the two first weekends of June.

Dargoron

They had their first performance at the Open Air festival in Smederevo on August 9, 2002.

Deadly Circus Fire

Deadly Circus Fire have performed at the Hammerfest on 17 March 2011 and at the Bloodstock Open Air Metal Festival on the Sophie Lancaster stage on 13 August 2011, where although the band was hugely delayed by technical faults they turned their near-disaster into soundscaped triumph with an emotive display of showmanship and musical ability.

Fehmarn

Fehmarn was also the location of Jimi Hendrix's final concert, at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival, on September 6, 1970.

Fotos Politis

He also tried his first open air performance of ancient tragedy, Euripides' Hecuba (1927), with Greece's famous actress Marika Kotopouli and her troupe, in the all marble Panathenaic Stadium, build in the 1890s for the first Olympic Games of modern times.

Frantz Seimetz

He was the first Luxembourger to delve into Impressionism and the first, after Nicolas Liez, to paint out in the open air.

Good Things Happening

The songs on the album were of a more diverse nature to the pure pop the group would later become famous for, with themes including a song about prostitution ("Lady"), open air sex ("Movin' With Susan") and a real-life tragedy ("Spring of 1912").

Heldenberg Memorial

The Heldenberg Memorial is an open-air pantheon in the grounds of the castle at Kleinwetzdorf, Heldenberg, Lower Austria.

Illinois Route 146

The city of Jonesboro was the site of an open-air debate between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas in 1858.

Jödde i Göljaryd

The entertainer, whose real name was Karl Peter Rosén, was famous for his stone — Jödde’s Stone — which can still be seen at the open air museum of Skansen in Stockholm's Djurgården park.

John R. Rice

In July 1932, Rice held an open-air evangelistic campaign in the Oak Cliff section of Dallas and hundreds made professions of faith.

Jonathan Tisch

The game will be played at MetLife Stadium, the first open-air stadium in a cold-weather region to host a Super Bowl.

Josiah Zuro

In the summer of 1925 he managed a free municipal opera project, producing three open-air operas in Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, before large crowds.

Kloster Veßra

Vessra Abbey (now an open-air museum) was founded and supported by the Henneberg family and abandoned after the Reformation.

Kostrzyn nad Odrą

Since 2004 Kostrzyn has annually hosted Przystanek Woodstock in the summer, the largest open-air music festival in Europe and one of the largest in the world.

Live at the Isle of Fehmarn

The album documents the band's performance at the Open Air Love & Peace Festival in Fehmarn, Germany on September 6, 1970: Jimi Hendrix's final concert performance.

Madinat Al Sultan Qaboos

While the expansion plans include a cinema, there are already several shops and restaurants located in the shopping centre including KFC, Starbucks, Pavo Real (a Mexican restaurant famed for its Karaoke Monday Nights), Kargeens (a popular open-air sheesha cafe) and Ziyara (another shisha bar with open-air seats outside along with an inside facility).

Maeve O'Boyle

O'Boyle was asked to perform at Bellahouston Park in Glasgow on 16 September 2010 for Pope Benedict XVI where he was performing an open air mass for 100,000 people.

Mönchgut

One main attraction is the local history museum in Göhren, an open-air museum located on historical settlements.

N.E.P.

In 2012 and 2013 it took part in the biggest Russian open-air rock festival Nashestvie run by the nation-wide pop rock Nashe Radio.

Nopporo Shinrin Kōen Prefectural Natural Park

also located inside the Park, is an open air museum with more than 50 historical Japanese and Western-style buildings, dating mostly from the Meiji and Taisho periods, and brought here from different locations in the Hokkaido Prefecture.

Owen Spencer-Thomas

Other famous celebrities he interviewed included comedian Eric Morecambe, pop singer Helen Shapiro, children’s presenter and campaigner Floella Benjamin, National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) President Arthur Scargill, Methodist minister and open air preacher at Speakers' Corner in Hyde Park Lord Soper and former Prime Minister John Major.

Pedvale Open Air Museum

The Pedvale Open Air Art Museum is a State Historical Monument near Sabile, Talsi Municipality, Latvia.

Piłsudski Square

Pope Benedict XVI celebrated an open-air Holy Mass on the Square on 26 May 2006, during his first pastoral visit to Poland.

Pueblo Criminal

In summer 2011, Pueblo Criminal played at many festivals as at the Heitere Open Air in Zofingen and Imagine Festival in Basel.

Pure Food Building

The building featured six open-air courts, with booths arranged in squares, built in Italianate architecture.

Senay

Présilly is well known for its vestiges of a castle dating from the 11th and 14th centuries where every summer open air theatrical shows are organized in the summer.

Shahrdad Rohani

One of such projects was arranging and conducting the Yanni Live at the Acropolis concert, an open-air concert with the London Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra in the Parthenon, Athens, Greece.

Skansen

The name "Skansen" has also been used as a noun to refer to other open-air museums and collections of historic structures, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe, but also in the United States, e.g. Old World Wisconsin and Fairplay, Colorado.

Son Sardina metro station

The above ground open-air station lies parallel to Highway Ma-11 and also serves the adjacent Ferrocarril de Sóller line going to the town of Sóller.

Stanserhorn

Unusually, it has a double decker arrangement, and is claimed to be the first in the world with an open-air upper deck, which has standing room for 30 persons.

The Cosmos Rocks

The tour included one of the largest open air concerts in Kharkiv, Ukraine which garnered 350,000 people.

The Open Air Meeting

The Open Air Meeting is a live album by Muhal Richard Abrams and Marty Ehrlich which was released on the New World label in 1997 and features duet performances by Abrams and Erlich recorded in August 1996 at the Brooklyn Museum.

The Plains, Virginia

The Plains is home to Great Meadow, a large open-air and open-field facility that hosts several large events throughout the year, including the Virginia Gold Cup steeplechase horse race, which attracts over 50,000 guests on the first Saturday of each May.

Théodore-Adrien Sarr

He received his episcopal consecration on the following 24 November from Archbishop Thiandoum, with Bishops Théophile Cadoux, MSC, and Augustin Sagna serving as co-consecrators, in an open-air ceremony at the grand square of Collège Pie XII in Kaolack.

Torre del Lago

The Festival Puccini, an annual opera festival which attracts around 40,000 attendees, is held in its open-air theatre, a short distance from the Villa where opera composer Giacomo Puccini lived and worked.

Trepanga

Known for its usage of texts by Western romantic poets, like Heinrich Heine, Emily Dickinson, Emile Verhaeren or Robert Burns, Trepanga is a regular guest of Nashestvie, the largest Russian open-air rock festival.

Underground Zerø

They performed at the large open air concert Anglia for Africa in Norwich in 1985, which also featured Hawkwind, Magnum, Amazulu, Eek-A-Mouse and Dean Friedman.

Waverly, Alabama

The event is held in the neighborhood's open-air amphitheater at Standard Deluxe Inc. (A Internationally known Design & Screen Print Shop/Music Venue) The 2012 Waverly Boogie featured sets from Centro-Matic, Hurray for the Riff Raff and The Pine Hill Haints among others.

Winthrop M. Crane

He was hosting President Theodore Roosevelt in Pittsfield, Massachusetts on September 3, 1902 when a speeding trolley car rammed into the open-air horse carriage carrying Roosevelt.