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Belém Opera Festival
Belém receives, between August 9 and September 15, the fourth edition of the Festival Opera Theater of Peace. During this period, operas, concerts, lectures and book launch to bring the city's cultural dynamism that transforms the urban revitalization project into something alive. It is a clever shows occupation reclamation project designed by the architectural heritage architect Paulo Chaves, now the head of the Executive Secretariat of Culture of Pará The redevelopment work has transformed the city's port area and the former residence of the governors in complex cultural and tourism and restored buildings of the historic center, giving them cultural functions.
The Theatro da Paz, after undergoing its most complete restoration of a century, continues to offer one of the best speakers in the country, besides allowing the musicians, technicians, employees and the public to enjoy quality standardized services and facilities in both the old and in the new spaces designed to meet the current needs of use. The work, completed in 2002, covering the whole of the building 126 years, restoring the original features and removing inappropriate interventions. To retrieve the colors and shapes hidden for decades, were conducted architectural surveys and historical research in an attempt to find the first traces of its existence.
Also worth mentioning the recovery of other historic buildings such as the crib and Strong House of Eleven Windows, in a work that aims to encourage the historical references, social, economic and territorial occupation of the Amazon and Pará and urban dimensions, landscaping and architectural city. Another large-scale urban project is the Dock Station, which includes the recycling of three of the old English metal warehouses and consolidation of the foundations of the ancient fortress of St. Peter Nolasco, built in 1665.
The Opera Festival of Theater of Peace began with a new production of Madame Butterfly, Giacomo Puccini, and will continue until September 15 when it closes with a tribute to the 60th anniversary of the death of Pietro Mascagni. Also noteworthy are mounting an unprecedented programming Bug Jargal and concert to commemorate 400 years of the work Don Quixote, by Miguel de Cervantes. Conducted by the Government of Pará, through the Executive Secretariat for Culture (Secult) and produced by São Paulo ImagemData, the Festival is today is both a cultural reference in Latin America as a new focus of tourist interest in the region.
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