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Massimo Vittorio Emanuele Theater - Virtual Tour 360°

The Massimo Vittorio Emanuele Theater (Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele), better known as Teatro Massimo, in Palermo is the largest opera house in Italy, and one of the largest in Europe, third in terms of architectural magnitude after the Opéra National in Paris and the Staatsoper of Vienna.

Representative rooms, halls, galleries and monumental stairways surround the actual theater, forming an architectural complex of grandiose proportions.

An area was chosen for the theater located between the ancient core of the city and the new northern expansion, as if to enshrine the historical continuity between the two areas.

The theater made its place between the ancient districts through radical demolitions which involved, in addition to sections of the walls, the district of the Aragonese, to the west, and the monastic complexes of S. Giuliano and the Stimmate.

The winning project of the competition, announced in 1864, was that of Giovan Battista Filippo Basile.

The Massimo Vittorio Emanuele theater covers an area of 7,730 square meters and is estimated to be the third largest theater in Europe by extension, after the Opera National in Paris and the Wiener Staatsoper in Vienna, capacity and technical requirements.

The entrance is characterized by a hexastyle colonnade on a monumental staircase.

Compositely, the theater has a two-storey body, arranged around the hall, behind which the stage develops; two circular vestibules protrude laterally.

The hall, covered by a dome, and the stage, with a pitched roof, rise up showing their formal autonomy with respect to the context of the building.

The monumentality of the architectural organism was ensured by the choice of the classical "Corinthian-Italic" style.

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