Rivoli Theatre is a municipal theatre

Theatre

Theatre is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music or dance...

 in Oporto, Portugal

Portugal

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History

In 1913 opened in Porto a new theatre called Teatro Nacional.

In the following years, changes in the urban center had compelled to rethink and to modernize the property, and thus, in 1923 the new Rivoli Theatre appeared, remodelled, adapted to cinema

Film

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 and with programming of opera

Opera

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, dance

Dance

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, theater and music

Music

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The project of the new theatre, in Art Deco

Art Deco

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 style, was the responsibility of the Architect and Engineer Júlio Brito.

Presently, Rivoli Theatre belongs to the City Council of Porto and is managed by a private theater company.