One of the most beautiful buildings of Rio de Janeiro, located in Praça Floriano, known as the Municipal Theater, in downtown, the Municipal Theater is the main home for shows in Brazil and one of the most important in South America since its inauguration on July 14, 1909, the Theatre has received the major international artists, as well as top Brazilian artists, dance, music and opera. Initially, the Theater was just a playhouse, which received mostly foreign companies, mostly brought from Italy and France. From the 30s, the City now has its own body art, orchestra, chorus and ballet (for the history of each check Artistic Directors). The three still in full swing and carry out various own productions each year. Today the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro is the only cultural institution in Brazil to keep both a choir, a symphony orchestra and a ballet company. Mayor of the Federal District, between the years 1902 and 1906, the engineer Pereira Passos planned it as the finishing touch of the reform that took place in the city of Rio de Janeiro, and the Theatre built on the fusion of the architectural design of Francisco de Oliveira Passos, the Albert Guilbert, who had tied the contest organized for the design of the new theater. The design of the building was inspired by the Paris Opera, built by Charles Garnier.
The façade stand out: the access staircase, the sight of two floors and three domes of the roof. The sense of verticality of the facade is given by the large columns in the main body and the columns of smaller roundabouts side. The balance of the lines are classic, but the profusion of decoration barroco.Na us back to the sidewalk, before and sides staircase, two granite columns, supporting lamps, ornaments and bronze emblem município.Na bottom and sides of the facade, the stairs are granite of Candelaria, and the pedestals of the columns and the garrisons of the gateways to the public. The color of the granite does highlight the bronzes, the six central pillars of Italian marble and marble from Belgian roundabouts laterais.As three main doors are wood and protected by bronze gates. Saint-arched, and the windows of the main speakers are fourteen rotundas.As Carrara marble, Corinthian. The emblem appears on the capitals of the municipality. About six columns central front, a small cornice and a decorative frieze has focused upon the inscription "Municipal Theater." Above this, in a small gable, there is the inscription "MCMV - MCMIX", flanked by sculptures of Rodolpho: Poetry and Music in the central facade, Dance and Singing in the Avenida Rio Branco and the Tragedy and Comedy Thirteen Avenue in May. Upstairs the main body, the roundabouts and the side stairways, large windows with stained glass windows are rectangular, with the three central and two side of the stairs, bearing precious German stained glass, with the figures of the muses of protective gear. Names of teachers of music and drama are engraved on the glass panes of roundabouts: Wagner, Carlos Gomes and Verdi; Goethe, Martin Pena and Molière.Sobre roundabouts there are two domes, covered with copper. On the main body there are three different vaults. The first covers the foyer of the hall, second hall of the main staircase and the third is the great dome, in the form of theater. All of them in copper. There is also a cover on the fourth stage and a fifth over the area of \u200b\u200bfunds from the theater. Over the first three domes there, on top, milky glass beads, illuminated from within. The central sphere, which has a diameter of 1.80 meters, holds a golden eagle copper, which is 2.80 meters long and 6 meters wide at its side walls asas.Nas Atlantean figures, in bronze, like caryatids represent the seasons and there is a profusion of decorative elements to the taste of the art-nouveau. Attention is drawn in each hand, loggie equipped with railings, with six marble columns each; on them, arched windows provide lighting bar gallery and Documentation Centre. And comic masks of the god Pan indicate the source of most classical decorative elements used in the theater.
Nothing simpler than the internal distribution of the hall. In the main body are placed into the entrance hall, foyer and vestibule escadas.Do, sideways, goes directly to the audience and stalls, leave it and the two side stairs that with the elevators on the left, leading to the upper floors. At its entrance are two bronze statues of the French sculptor Raoul Verlet they represent, to the left "The Dance", and the right "Poetry." The two sides roundabouts serve rest to the public. All the sumptuous decoration of the hall is made of marble of various origins, onyx, and bronze mirrors dourados.No opposite the entrance of the audience are five busts of Charles Gomes, Joao Caetano, Arthur Azevedo, Francisco Pereira Passos and Francisco de Souza Aguiar and corridors of stalls start two staircases that lead not only to the three upper floors and the restaurant Assyria, on the floor inferior.A main staircase gives access to the noble floor where the foyer, cabins, seats of the balcony and the two noble loggie side of the theater. This famous staircase that breaks after the first pitch, opening up for bids on two sides, is all done in two kinds of onyx, bronze and gold crystals. For it opens up the railings of decks being higher than the first are of the same material of the ladder, while the other floors are iron Cast and marble. On top of a marble statue representing Injalbert Jean Antoine "The Truth." Dela goes to the foyer, all decorated in Louis XVI style, where two pieces of art stand out: the three precious stained glass windows, and Fuerstein Fugel created in Stutgart and the dome painted by Eliseu Visconti from 1913 to 1916. In the two roundabouts there to admire the roofs, written by Henrique Bernardelli, 1908, and the panels, with scenes of dances from different countries, painted in 1916 by Rodolfo Amoedo.Nesta floor open two beautiful loggie with magnificent ceilings, ceramic , Venetian mosaic floors and marble counters in their overlooking the street. In the shop on Avenida Rio Branco a ceramic panel represents "The Modern Dance," made in Paris. Its counterpart, the side of May Avenue Thirteen, who represented "The Ancient Dance" was lost after a reform of the theater suffered. For these loggie open up the five existing branches in the corridors of simple counter.
placing the viewer towards the entrance of the Hall will see, beyond the 456 seats, the audience - all wood and velvet, and around, the 22 stalls. Above the balcony of her prime with 344 seats and 12 cabins and cabin lighting and sound. Upstairs are the 500 balcony seats up these simple and the 724 seats in the gallery, 2244 assentos.Voltando totaling up toward the stage will see the two big boxes on the sides of the frieze of the proscenium arch, drawing Elyseu Visconti, and the left of the Governor of the State and the right of the President. Below them is the orchestra pit, located on the lower level of the audience, with its floor sits on a hydraulic lift, q ue moves vertically according to the needs of the performances. Above the frieze of the proscenium is "Poetry and Love away the Virtue of Vice" to Elyseu Visconti, floating against a blue background of the Sierra Órgãos.Olhando up will see one of the wonders of theater, the large central chandelier, all in gilt bronze, with its 118 lamps with crystal pendants and sleeves, surrounded by dancing to "The Oreadas," one of the masterpieces of Visconti. The
Assyria down the stairs to the side of the headgear in the corridors of stalls, there are the lobbies of Assyria restaurant with eight tables mosaic Gian Domenico Facchina, featuring scenes from famous pieces of Dramatic universal. The restaurant is number one in the whole South America, all coated in glazed pottery, inspired by the ancient Babylon. The site is divided into two plans, the roof supported by columns that low end with heads of bull, in Persian style. In his notes we find the decoration Lions ramp and the stairs of the palace of Artaxerxes, the stresses of the archers, the throne room of Darius I, the huge Kerubs, which line the stairs. There are still Gilgamesch the palace of Sargon and two beautiful fountains, Persian and Babylonian motifs. The note also the inset in antique bronze mirrors and lamps extremely original.
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