Teatro Lope de Vega
Neo-baroque theater and former casino pavilion from a world exposition, staging opera, dance and flamenco today.
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This guide to Teatro Lope de Vega in Seville opens on a night in October 1929, with the king and queen in their box at the Ibero-American Exposition, and follows the theater through the fair, a fire, the civil war and the river's floods. Along the way you'll meet the casino that once sat beneath the tiled dome. Best heard standing back from the building, looking up at that dome.
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