Publisher's Synopsis
On the occasion or its bicentenial, La Fabrica presents this attractive coffee- table book on the Teatro Real, aimed for a broad audience. It is a big format volume that goes across the Teatro Real's unique architecture and history, but also examines its cultural influence and its indoor life, focusing on the plays, operas, ballets and concerts which have been programmed since its last reopening. The publication includes some 100 spectacular images of both its interior and exterior architecture, as well as montages and backstage. It also includes various texts by renowned experts which examine different aspects of the Teatro Real; its history, its architecture, its influence upon cultural life in Madrid ... But also rehearsals, costumes, intermissions and the work actors, actresses, musicians, maintenance workers, scene-shifters, ushers, ticket clerks, etcetera.
