Teatro de la Maestranza - Sevilla, Andalucía, España
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teatro vanguardista de finales del siglo XX
Avant-garde theater of the late 20th century
Waymark Code: WM16D0K
Location: Andalucía, Spain
Date Posted: 07/04/2022
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Opened: 1991
Years active: 1991 -
Architect: Aurelio del Pozo and Luis Marín
Capacity: 1800 people
The theatre was conceived to be one of the main cultural venues of the Seville Expo '92, and the first performance took place in 1991, shortly before the inauguration of the Universal Exposition. The theatre was refurbished in 2005.
Although the Teatro de la Maestranza is mainly devoted to opera, there are also performances of Zarzuela (Spanish operetta) and other musical performances.
The resident orchestra is the Royal Seville Symphony Orchestra (ROSS), and the artistic director is Pedro Halffter. The theatre is the ROSS' main concert venue and the home of the Choir of the Friends' Society of the Maestranza Theatre.
On 16 July 1992, during a rehearsal at the Teatro de la Maestranza for a performance by the Opéra national de Paris of Verdi's Otello, a suspended platform which formed part of the scenery collapsed onto the stage, killing a female member of the chorus and injuring a further 41 people, several of them seriously
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