Tacón Theatre

The Teatro Tacón (Tacón Theatre) opened in 1838 in Havana, Cuba. Its auditorium contained 2,750 seats.[1] It was built by Pancho Martí.[2][3] In 1847 Bottesini's opera Cristoforo Colombo premiered there.[4] By 1855 so many attended events that the city issued parking regulations for carriages on performance nights.[5]

Tacón Theatre
Teatro Tacón in 1853 Map of Havana.

Architecture

The Teatro Tacón had excellent acoustics so much so that the Gran Teatro de La Habana was built around the its old hall. The architect Paul Belau and the U.S. firm Purdy and Henderson, Engineers kept the original structure and built the Centro Gallego (Galician Center), a European-styled addition and renovation for the purpose of enlarging its functions as well as serving as a means of introducing an elaborate system of circulation into an otherwise simple, and architecturally modest, preexisting box.

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  • Teatro Tacón, Havana, 1900
  • Teatro-tacon.
  • Gran Teatro de La Habana
  • Back of the original theatre at Calles San Rafael and Consulado.

References
  1. Leopoldo Fornés Bonavía (2003). Cuba, cronología: cinco siglos de historia, política y cultura (in Spanish). Madrid: Editorial Verbum. ISBN 978-84-7962-248-0.
  2. Ramírez 1891.
  3. Ned Sublette (2004). Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. Chicago Review Press. ISBN 978-1-56976-420-6.
  4. Robert Murrell Stevenson (1992), "Havana", New Grove Dictionary of Opera, New York, ISBN 0935859926
  5. "Art.169-175". Ordenanzas municipales de la ciudad de La Habana (in Spanish). Imprenta del gobierno y capitania general. 1855.

Bibliography

See also

File:Teatro Tacón desde la puerta de Monserrate 1855.jpg


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