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Teatro Karl Marx

Havana

The Teatro Karl Marx is equipped with one of the largest Venetian curtains in existence.These are its main data:- size 31,5 x h 16,5 m- vertical fullness 70%- 15 lifting points (every 2,1 m)- weight about 500 kg
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The curtain was is made of 105. gold FOT - Otello 105. velvet ...
... in accordance with the previous curtain of 1975, of which it uses the mechanical system.
On 15/5/2016 the Teatro Karl Marx hosted the farewell to the public of the famous Buena Vista Social Club, glory of Cuban music.
The Teatro Karl Marx is a theatre with a hall with a rectangular plan endowed with stalls and two galleries.
With a capacity of 5,500 seats, it is one of the largest theatrical halls in the world.
1949
It opens as the Teatro Blanquita, named after the owner's wife.
1959
At the end of the Cuban Revolution, it is renamed the Teatro Charlie Chaplin.
1970
The theater is closed.
1975
It reopens under the name of Teatro Karl Marx.
2013
The enormous Venetian curtain in the proscenium is replaced.

Materials used in this production

FOT - Otello

Velvets

Venetian curtains

Typology of curtain

Vertical fullness

Fabric: tailoring types

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