Sachgebiete

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149 S.; viele Fotografien; tls auch farbig; graph. Darst.; qu.-23,5 cm; fadengeh. Orig.-Pappband m. illustr. OUmschl.

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Gutes Ex.; Umschl. berieben. - Portugiesisch; tls. auch Englisch. - Titelblatt mit hs. Widmung und SIGNIERT von Eva Sopher, Präsidentin des Theatro Sao Pedro. - ... "Is the electrical system still connected?" asked Mr. Luiz Saia, an architect with the Instituto Patrimonio Historico Artistico Nacional. We were walking through what once had been a stage but was now an empty space littered with waste material. When I answered affirmatively and apologized for not having put on the lights, the visitor became uneasy and, much to the contrary of asking to put on any lights, asked that the system be disconnected immediately, adding that he had come down from Sao Paulo to inspect Theatro Sao Pedro and not to bum to death there. What he was inspecting was dangerous indeed, such was the state of what was left of the electrical system. That was on Thursday, 17 April 1975. Three weeks before I had been assigned to coordinate the restoration of Theatro Sao Pedro. What might yet become of the old house depended upon the report to be sent by our guest to the then Secretary of Culture, Mr. Ney Braga. For a long time, only termites had been looking after the theater. They were full-time workers who charged nothing for their services, as opposed to many well paid employees who never did any work. For the next nine years, the fight against bureaucracy or, rather, the coping with bureaucrats, would become my fiercest battle. I came to understand little by little that only one of them believed I would do the job - Paulo Amorim, the director of the Department of Culture. ? (S. 15) // El Teatro São Pedro es un teatro brasilero localizado en la ciudad de Porto Alegre, en Rio Grande do Sul. Es el teatro más antiguo de la ciudad. El Teatro São Pedro surgió por iniciativa de una sociedad accionarial compuesta por doce ciudadanos, que buscaban construir un teatro - que se originalmente se llamaría São Pedro de Alcântara - cuyas ganancias serían destinadas para ayudar a la Santa Casa de Misericórdia de Porto Alegre. En vista de la loable propuesta, el entonces gobernador de la provincia Manoel Antônio Galvão donó en 1833 un terreno de 100 por 200 palmos para su construcción, cerca de la Plaza Principal, en el centro de la ciudad. Las obras fueron iniciadas en el año siguiente, pero estuvieron interrumpidas por diez años, aun en la fase de los cimientos debido a la Revolución Farroupilha ocurrida entre 1835 y 1845. ... (wiki, span.)