National Theater of Costa Rica (Q19504)
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theatre in San José, Costa Rica
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | National Theater of Costa Rica | theatre in San José, Costa Rica |
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9°55'59.28"N, 84°4'37.26"W
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Architect Charles Thirion from Verviers involved in construction. The DGOP was directed, in different periods, by the engineers Nicolás Chavarría, Luis Matamoros, Leon Tessier and Ángel Miguel Velázquez. The architects Guillermo Reitz and Augusto Fla-Chebba and the engineers Tessier and Enrico Invernizio carried out the technical aspects during different phases of the construction. Reitz, the young architect who designed the National Theatre, was trained professionally in Germany. The interior distribution was defined by Chavarría, modeled after French-style theaters in accordance with the theories of the French architects and treatise writers Hippolyte Meynadier, Charles Garnier and Alphonse Gosset. Romulo Rotta (English)
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Has still heritage stage machinery? (English)
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HST_0057
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1897
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