Teatro El Circulo

Rosario (Argentina)

The FTE - Teatro burgundy velvet main curtain was made with 80% vertical fullness.Its lower edge is decorated with a 50 cm high gold NFR - Fringe.The large valance displays the theater's emblem, a female face turned toward the sun.The curtain can be opened ...

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... or with Fly opening.The curtain also features two portal wings and a movable valance.

The pictorial decorations of the hall were executed by the Parma-born set designer Giuseppe Carmignani (1871 - 1943) ...

... who painted roundels on the ceiling with allegorical figures alternating with portraits of Verdi, Wagner, Mozart, Donizetti, Meyerbeer, Bellini, Gounod, and Rossini.

The Teatro El Círculo is a Italian-style theatre with a horseshoe-shaped hall with four tiers of boxes and a gallery, 1.476 seats.
Amongst the most important of Argentina, it was attended by Tito Schipa, Enrico Caruso, Beniamino Gigli, Richard Strauss Pietro Mascagni e Igor Stravinskij.

1888

The construction of the theatre begins, but the company carrying out the work goes bankrupt without completing it.

1903

The unfinished theatre is purchased by Emilio Schiffnerz, who entrusts the project to George Goldammer.
Some Italian decorators also participate in the finishing touches.

1904

The work is completed, and the theatre is inaugurated with the name of Teatro de la Ópera.

1943

After four decades of top-level activity, the theatre is at risk of closure and demolition, but it is acquired by the cultural association El Círculo, from which it takes its new name.

2012

The stage is given a new curtain, installed by Peroni's Argentine distributor Stage Tech SRL.

Materials used in this production

Fly curtains

Typology of curtain

FTE - Teatro

·Limited fabrics·

NFR - Fringes

Trimmings

Swag curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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