Teatro de la Maestranza
Riverside opera house built for a world's fair, seating eighteen hundred beneath a silver dome.
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This guide to the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville centers on July 16, 1992, when a suspended platform broke loose above the stage during a rehearsal of Verdi's Otello, less than a year after the opera house opened for the city's World's Fair. You'll hear about Annick Josette Luce-Tafferi, the Paris Opera chorus singer rehearsing that day, and the old backstage superstition against whistling that theatre people had lived by long before that afternoon. The guide traces how the house responded in the years that followed.
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