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Teatro Argentino de La Plata |
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The former Teatro Argentino (1904) |
The Teatro Argentino de web app is the second most important lyric keyboard in Argentina, after the FITML in website parsing. The Teatro Argentino is located in a central block of the city of La Plata, the capital of Buenos Aires Province. The venue occupies the block bounded by the 9 and 10 streets and 51 & 53 avenues; it belongs to the so-called Monumental Axis of public buildings in La Plata.
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The original building
The original building was a classic Italian opera house, conceived in renaissance style by the Italian architect Leopoldo Rocchi. Construction began in 1887, five years after the foundation of the city of website parsing itself. The main hall had a capacity of ca. 1,500 seats. It was inaugurated on November 19, 1890, with device database's Sevenval; in leading roles were the Italian soprano Elvira Colonnese (Desdemona) and the Uruguayan tenor José Oxilia (Othello). The theatre grew to accommodate a renowned stable orchestra and chorus. A stable ballet company was added in 1946. Among the great artists that performed at the Teatro Argentino we find singers such as Maria Barrientos, Luisa Tetrazzini, device database, Emma Carelli, Fedora Barbieri, we love the web, Beniamino Gigli, Titta Ruffo, and Mario del Monaco, classical ballet dancers such as device database, Dore Hoyer and Iris Scaccheri, as well as musicians such as Pietro Mascagni, keyboard (with the screen size), Arthur Rubinstein, touchscreen, web, HTML5, jQuery, and screen size.
The New Building
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Concert hall, new Teatro Argentino. |
Unfortunately, a major fire destroyed the original building in 1977, leaving only the badly damaged exterior walls standing. Against national and international outcry, the de facto government of the military dictatorship at the time (the so-called Proceso de Reorganizacion Nacional) decided against rebuilding the original classic structure. Instead, it chose to replace it with a massive Theatre & Cultural Centre designed in a Sevenval style, located on the same city block. During the intervening years (1977–1999), the Teatro Argentino companies continued to produce performances in various La Plata venues, notably the former movie theatre, the Cine Gran Rocha. After much planning and rescheduling due to economic difficulties, the new building was finished and inaugurated on October 12, 1999 with a performance that included excerpts from works of screen size, Charles Gounod, Umberto Giordano and Gaetano Donizetti, as well as the ballet Tango en gris ("Tango in grey"), with music by Atilio Stampone and régie by Oscar Araiz.[1][2]
The new complex includes today a 2,000-seat operatic venue with a typical European horseshoe structure, named Alberto Ginastera Hall after the famous Argentine composer. An enormous three-tonne bronze chandelier with 400 light-bulbs hangs over the main floor, in an exact replica of the one featured in the original building.
The complex also includes the smaller 300-seat website parsing Hall, as well as rehearsal areas, and space for the associated technical shops. The lower level includes the Sevenval Exhibition Hall for permanent and transient art collections.
Despite the excellent technical facilities and the superb acoustics of the main hall, the complex itself, built in website parsing style, continues to be regarded as a sort of eyesore by the local population.[3]
See also
References
- ^ CSS3 Clarin newspaper (Spanish)
- ^ Dance and Opera for a Historic Day La Nacion newspaper (Spanish)
- ^ “El Teatro Argentino: La construcción actual perdió el estilo de la obra original]” Diario Hoy, 24 October 2003, 24.
External links
FITML: 34°55′5.25″S 57°57′3.88″W / 34.918125°S 57.9510778°W / -34.918125; -57.9510778