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Gran Teatre del Liceu
Address: la Rambla, 51*59 Telephone: 934859900 / 934859918 (fax)
Web: http://www.liceubarcelona.com
E-mail: informacio@liceubarcelona.com
District: Ciutat Vella Zone: el Raval Postal code: 08002 City: BARCELONA
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- The Grand Theatre of the Liceu was built at the
initiative of the Liceu Filharmònico-Dramàtic Barcelonès . Joaquim de Gispert,
a member and director of the institution, won the concession of the lands of the
former Trinity Convent in the Rambla, where construction of the theatre began
in 1844, under the direction of the architect Francesc d'Assís Soler, who was
replaced a year later by Josep Oriol Mestres and Miquel Garriga i Roca.
- The Gran Teatre del Liceu was inaugurated in
1848.
- Over the years there have occurred two fires
and a bombing. The first fire was in 1861. For the restoration of the Liceu, the
architect Josep Oriol Mestres requested the collaboration of the finest realist
painters of 19th- Century Barcelona: Martí Alsina, Lluís Rigalt and Antoni Caba.
- The new inauguration of the theatre took place
on 20 April 1862. On 7 November 1893, during a performance of the opera William
Tell , the anarchist Santiago Salvador Franch threw a bomb into the audience,
killing 22 people.
- Performances were resumed in January 1894. On
31 January 1994, sparks produced by welders working on the stage caused the theatre's
second fire, which burned down the stage, consumed the stalls and destroyed the
roof of the building. Once the reconstruction works finished, the inauguration
of the new Teatre del Liceu took place in October 1999 with the opera Turandot
of Giacomo Puccini. .........click
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