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The '''Teatro Nacional Cervantes''' in [[Buenos Aires]] is the national stage and comedy theatre of [[Argentina]].<br />
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==Overview==<br />
Located on [[Córdoba Avenue]] and two blocks north of Buenos Aires' renowned [[opera house]], the [[Colón Theatre]], the Cervantes houses three performance halls. The María Guerrero Salon is the theatre's main hall. Its 456 m<sup>2</sup> (4,900&nbsp;ft<sup>2</sup>) stage features a 12&nbsp;m (39&nbsp;ft) rotating circular platform and can be extended by a further 2.7&nbsp;m (9&nbsp;ft). The Guerrero Salon can seat 860 spectators, including 512 in the galleries. A secondary hall, the Orestes Caviglia Salon, can seat 150 and is mostly reserved for [[chamber music]] concerts. The Luisa Vehíl Salon is a multipurpose room known for its extensive [[gold leaf]] decor.<br />
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==History==<br />
[[File:Cervantes.jpg|thumb|210px|The stage in the María Guerrero Salon.]]<br />
The Cervantes Theatre of Buenos Aires owes its existence, in part, to the 1897 relocation to Argentina of Spanish theatre producer [[María Guerrero]] and her company, who popularized professional stage theatre in Argentina. A commercial success at the [[Teatro Odeón]], her adaptations of classics in [[Spanish literature]] took her to theatres nationwide. Following the opening of a number of large, ornate [[opera house]]s and stage theatres in Argentina, Guerrero and her husband, Fernando Díaz de Mendoza, set aside a share of their fortune in 1918 for the creation of their own grand theatre house. The project caught the attention of both local high society and the King of [[Spain]], [[Alfonso XIII]], who collaborated with its construction by commissioning artisanal fixtures, material and elements of [[stagecraft]] for the theatre, built accordingly in [[Spanish baroque]] style and named in honor of Spain's legendary novelist and dramatist, [[Miguel de Cervantes]].<br />
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The Cervantes Theatre was inaugurated on September 5, 1921, with a production of [[Lope de Vega]]'s ''[[La dama boba]]'' (''The Foolish Lady''). The proliferation of theatres in Buenos Aires and the advent of the [[Communications in Argentina#Radio|radio in Argentina]] soon eroded the Cervantes' audience base, however, and in 1926, the couple was forced to auction the institution. Lamenting this turn of events, National Music Conservatory Assistant Director [[Enrique García Velloso]] persuaded President [[Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear]], whose wife, [[Regina Pacini]], had been an opera [[chanteuse]] and was an avid patroness of the arts, to create the National Stage Theatre at the ailing Cervantes. The theatre also became home of the National Comedy Theatre in 1933. A massive fire in 1961 nearly destroyed the Cervantes, a misfortune leading to the aging house's extensive modernization, including the construction of a 17-story annex. The main hall itself was rebuilt according to its original specifications and the renovated institution reopened in 1968. Tireless advocacy on the part of [[Lito Cruz]], stage director, actor and one of the best-known figures in [[Argentine cinema]] and [[Culture of Argentina#Cinema and theatre|theatre]], led to [[Argentine Congress|Congressional]] passage of a National Theatre Law in 1997, providing yearly subsidies for the art and for the designation of the Cervantes itself as an official entity.<br />
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