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Academy of Music Review
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Academy of Music
Arts / Performance Venues, Rittenhouse Square
Fodor's Review:
The only surviving European-style opera house in America is the current home of the Opera Company of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Ballet; for the past century, it was home to the Philadelphia Orchestra. Designed by Napoleon Le Brun and Gustav Runge, the 1857 building has a modest exterior; the builders ran out of money and couldn't put marble facing on the brick, as they had intended. The lavish interior, modeled after Milan's La Scala, has elaborate carvings, murals on the ceiling, and a huge Victorian crystal chandelier.
INFO
- Address: Broad and Locust Sts., Avenue of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
- Phone: 215/893-1999 box office
- Web site
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