Rialto Theatre
Beaux-Arts movie palace with a Paris Opera facade and a gilded, dome-lit Baroque interior.
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This guide to the Rialto Theatre in Montreal follows architect Joseph-Raoul Gariepy's unusual 1923 solution to a narrow Avenue du Parc lot, turning the whole auditorium sideways to seat over a thousand people behind a Paris Opera facade. It moves on to decorator Emmanuel Briffa's gilded, dome-lit interior, which he called his finest work. Listen for the stained-glass dome overhead as you picture the decades of film crowds it once held.
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