The Bolshoi Theater of Havana , also the Grand Teatro [1] ( Spanish: Gran Teatro de La Habana ) is a theater in the Cuban capital Havana , built in 1914 - 1915 according to the project of architect Paul Belau . Is the home stage of the ; 1,500 seats make it one of the largest theaters in the world.
| Bolshoi Theater of Havana | |
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 Bolshoi Theater of Havana | |
| Former names | Palace of the Galician Center, Tacon Theater (until 1985 ) |
| Based | April 15, 1838 |
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History
The official opening date of the first theater is April 15, 1838 , although the first performance on its stage took place in November 1837 . The current building was built in 1914 - 1915 according to the project of the Belgian architect of Transylvanian origin Paul Belau in the style of colonial baroque . The walls are decorated with statues of marble and stone, as well as allegorical sculptures by Giuseppe Moretti .
The building was called the Palace of the Galician Center ( Spanish Palacio del Centro Gallego , then for a long time it was called the Tacon Theater ( Spanish Teatro Tacón ), in 1985 it was renamed the Bolshoi Theater of Havana at the suggestion of the Cuban ballerina Alicia Alonso .
Enrico Caruso , Sarah Bernhardt , Anna Pavlova , Ruth Saint-Denis , , Arthur Rubinstein , Vicente Escudero , Maya Plisetskaya , Carla Fracci and others performed here. In addition to the theater stage, the building houses various concert halls, galleries, etc. [ specify ]
Gallery
Stage and auditorium
Theater interior
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- ↑ Havana / E.A. Larin, D.V. Soloviev // The Eightfold Path - Germans. - M .: Great Russian Encyclopedia, 2006. - S. 228-230. - (The Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 6). - ISBN 5-85270-335-4 .