TEATRO MASSIMO OPERA HOUSE, Teatro Massimo Opera House
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Language: English / USA
Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the Wonders of the World: the Teatro Massimo opera house
The prestigious Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele is the largest opera house in Italy, with a surface area of over 7700 square meters. It is the third largest in Europe after the Opéra in Paris and the Staatsoper in Vienna.
The decision to build the opera house was taken by the city council, and it was named after the King of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele, a clear symbol of Palermo’s new identity as a city of unified Italy, and of the influential role its ruling class was to have on the new nation.
The construction, supported and funded by some of the most enlightened businessmen of the age, took place from 1875 to 1897, based on a project by Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile, an architect from Palermo....