Teatro Lope de Vega
Neo-baroque theater and former casino pavilion from a world exposition, staging opera, dance and flamenco today.
This guide to Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville opens on the night of October 28, 1929, when King Alfonso XIII and Queen Victoria Eugenia took a box built for them to watch a zarzuela during the Ibero-American Exposition. You'll hear how architect Anibal Gonzalez's original plans gave way in 1926 to Vicente Traver y Tomas's restless neo-baroque redesign, fusing a casino and a theater into one pavilion. The narration follows the building through the years after that glittering opening season, when fire, flooding from the Guadalquivir and the Spanish Civil War each left their mark on the hall.
Audio guides are written and narrated by AI.