The Teatro Real (literally Royal Theatre) or simply El Real (as it is known colloquially), is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.
After thirty-two years of planning and construction, a Royal Order on 7 May 1850 declared the immediate termination of the "Teatro de Oriente" and the building works are finished within five months. The Opera House, located just in front of the Palacio Real, the official residence of the Queen who ordered the...
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The Teatro Real (literally Royal Theatre) or simply El Real (as it is known colloquially), is a major opera house located in Madrid, Spain.
After thirty-two years of planning and construction, a Royal Order on 7 May 1850 declared the immediate termination of the "Teatro de Oriente" and the building works are finished within five months. The Opera House, located just in front of the Palacio Real, the official residence of the Queen who ordered the construction of the theatre, Isabel II, was finally inaugurated on 10 October 1850, with Donizetti's La Favorite. In 1863, Giuseppe Verdi visited the theater for the Spanish premier of La Forza del Destino. In 1925 the Ballets Russes of Diaghilev performed in the theatre with the presence of Nijinsky and Stravinsky).
From 1867 it housed the Madrid Royal Conservatory until 1925 when a Royal Order on 6 December calls for eviction due to the damage that the construction of the Metro de Madrid had caused on the building). The theater reopened in...
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