Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele [Palermo]
type: Item
label: Teatro Massimo
label: teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele @it
description: Theatre building in Palermo, Italy, opened in 1897
description: bouwwerk in Palermo @nl
alternative label: Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele
alternative label: Teatro Vittorio Emanuele
EUTA building identifier: 892
Type of information: Performance venue
Field: architecture
Country: Italy
City: Palermo
GPS: Point(13.3572 38.1203)
Wikidata source: Q261439
Building date: 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
Redevelopment date: 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z
theatrEurope table: HST_0193
Capacity: 1358
Capacity: 1381
Capacity: 3000
opening date: 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
Address: Piazza Giuseppe Verdi
Web: www.teatromassimo.it
Commons galery: Teatro_Massimo_(Palermo)
orchestra pit type: Wagner orchestra pit
Reconstructing Theatre Architecture: 454
Importance: Not rated
Wikidata instance: Q153562
Carthalia ID: 2388
Modern Opera Houses index: Descriptive text, II. pp. 13, 14; Block plan, II. p. 13 ; View of central feature, II. p. 13 ; General view, p. 14; Front elevation, II. PL 25 ; Plan area, II. Pis. 26, 27 ; Plan 1st tier, II. Pis. 28, 29 ; Longitudinal section, II. PL 3c ; Skeleton section of auditorium, III. PL opp. p. 62 ; Skeleton plan of auditorium, III. PL opp. p. 62 ; Cost and dimensions, p. 18.
Preservation state: extant building
Preservation state: Used as theatre today
Census Italia 1968 ID: 89-12
Note: Vasto elegante teatro, celebre per le sue stagioni liriche e concerti­stiche. Fu eretto su disegno dell’archi­tetto Giambattista Basile fra il 1875 e il 1897. E’ la sede dell’omo­nimo Ente Autonomo che vi or­ganizza regolari stagioni musicali. Appartiene al Comune ed ha una capienza di 3.000 posti circa. @it
Note: Built 1875-1897 by G. B. Basile (who had been elected by a jury including the German theatre architect, Gottfried Semper). Opened 16 May 1897 with Verdi's Falstaff. Restorations from 1974. Subsequently closed for many years without an official reason. Re-opened 12 May 1997 as a concert hall, re-opened 2 Apr 1998 as an opera house. Also known as Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele. Capacity: 2228 persons.
Census Italia 1968 table ID: 257