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Teatro Biondo
Palermo
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The Teatro Biondo is a Italian-style theatre with a horseshoe-shaped hall.
The stalls, two tiers of boxes, and the gallery can accommodate 950 spectators.
The building's interior decorations are influenced by the Art Nouveau style, which, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, left Palermo with countless highly valuable creations.
The stalls, two tiers of boxes, and the gallery can accommodate 950 spectators.
The building's interior decorations are influenced by the Art Nouveau style, which, between the late 19th and early 20th centuries, left Palermo with countless highly valuable creations.
1899
The brothers Andrea, Eugenio, and Luigi Biondo, cosmopolitan Palermitan entrepreneurs, entrust the design of a new theater to the engineer Nicolò Mineo.
1903
The Teatro Biondo is inaugurated by the famous Ermete Zacconi, an event that immediately makes it the Palermo prose theater par excellence.
1978
Under the direction of Pietro Carriglio, the theater begins producing shows independently and on a non-occasional basis.
1986
The Associazione Teatro Biondo is established, and the theater becomes the headquarters of the Teatro Stabile di Palermo.
2025
The main curtain and the Swag opening mechanism are replaced.
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Teatro Biondo
Materials used in this production
7QX30 - Square trusses 29 cm
Aluminium trusses
FMB - Macbeth 400
Velvets
FTA - Tancredi 500
Velvets
HSS - Shelter
Duvetyne and blackout fabrics
NBT - Bordo traforato
Trimmings
NFR - Fringes
Trimmings
Stage maskings
Acoustic curtains
Swag curtains
Typology of curtain