Teatro Solís
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The Teatro Solís is a building in the Uruguayan capital, Montevideo .
The Teatro Solís, located in Ciudad Vieja on Calle Buenos Aires 678-86, is the most important stage in the country and the second largest theater in South America. The Teatro Solis, one of the most important sights of the city, has two halls, whereby the large hall with the stage, the orchestra pit, the slightly elliptical shape of the room, as well as the surrounding boxes on top of each other, are very similar to La Scala in Milan . This hall with a capacity of 1500 spectators is used both for the performance of operas and for theater or concert events that take place there regularly. Furthermore, tango dance courses are offered in the varied program in the smaller rooms of the theater. Several times a day there are paid, optionally multilingual (Spanish, Portuguese, English) tours for tourists, led by students from the University of Montevideo who work at the theater.
history
The main building erected between 1842 and 1856 in the style of historicist eclecticism was opened on August 25, 1856. As an architect, Carlo Zucchi was responsible for the original plan in 1837, the final planning goes back to FX de Garmendia , while the facade is the work of the architect Clemente César . The side wings were built in 1868 under the aegis of the architect Víctor Rabu . In 1943 a renovation took place, led by the architects A. Altamirano and R. Cohe. The Teatro Solís has been classified as a Monumento Histórico Nacional since 1975 . From 1998 restoration work was carried out, the planning of which was carried out by the architects A. Farina and C. Pascual and the executive planning by L. Rocca and D. Giménez , the latter also leading the renovation work on the side wings.
location
It is located on the edge of Plaza Independencia in Ciudad Vieja , bordered by Calle Buenos Aires , where the main entrance is, as well as Calle Juncal and Calle Reconquista .
literature
- Guía Arquitectónica y Urbanística de Montevideo. 3. Edition. Intendencia Municipal de Montevideo et al., Montevideo et al. 2008, ISBN 978-9974-600-26-3 , pp. 33, 109.
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Coordinates: 34 ° 54 ′ 28.3 ″ S , 56 ° 12 ′ 3.7 ″ W.