Theater
Marti Theater
Calle Dragones # 58 entre Prado y Zulueta C.P 10100, La Habana
Neoclassical theater of iron balconies and a hundred doors, built by a man who died poor within it.
This guide to the Marti Theater in Havana follows Ricardo Irijoa, the Basque immigrant who opened it in 1884 and made and lost a fortune three times over, and the benefit performance held here for his widow after his death. You'll hear about the neoclassical columns, iron balconies and hundred doors that earned it a poet's nickname, and about the decades the building spent roofless and gutted after outliving Irijoa's fortune. Look up at the balconies and imagine the applause that came too late for the man who built them.
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