Word: pitti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...opera house opened in 1841, burned down in 1869; his second design, an elaboration of the first, was supervised by his son Manfred and dedicated in 1878. A whimsical intermingling of neo-Renaissance Italian design and quasiabstract German folk-art motifs, it looks like an improbable combination of the Pitti Palace and a Pennsylvania Dutch farmhouse. Inside, its bright colors (whites, golds and reds) and intimate dimensions (only 1,300 seats) give it a light, cozy ambience. Trompe l'oeil reigns: columns that appear to be marble turn out to be made of skillfully disguised plaster. Scenes from plays like...