Degollado Theater
The Teatro Degollado is the theater building in the city of Guadalajara in the Mexican state of Jalisco .
The building
The building, located in the city center on the Plaza de la Liberacion , is characterized primarily by its neoclassical portico with a triangular gable consisting of 16 Corinthian columns . The hall is 20 meters long, 18 meters wide and can accommodate 600 spectators. The vault is decorated with frescoes by Gerardo Suárez and Jacobo Gálvez and the oval vestibule is 10 meters long and 6.5 meters wide. Both classic and modern pieces are performed in the building, which is 97 meters long, 36.40 meters wide and 22.50 meters high.
history
The plans for the construction of the Teatro Degollado go back to the 1830s. The first building application was made in 1838, but only approved in December 1855 with the signature of the then governor of Jalisco, Santos Degollado . Degollado died in 1861 before completion of the building, which was only inaugurated in 1866 due to the chaos of war and the subsequent French occupation , and in the same year his successor Pedro Ogazón decided that the building should receive his name. Until then, it was planned to name the building after the Mexican writer Juan Ruiz de Alarcón .
The inauguration of the Teatro Degollado took place on September 13, 1866 with the performance of the opera Lucia di Lammermoor by Gaetano Donizetti . Well-known artists who have already performed there include Anna Pawlowa , Andrés Segovia , Rudolf Nurejew and Placido Domingo .
Web links
- El Teatro Degollado on the City of Guadalajara website (Spanish; accessed November 20, 2018)
Coordinates: 20 ° 40 ′ 37.3 " N , 103 ° 20 ′ 40" W.