Palacio de Bellas Artes (“Palace of Fine Arts”) is the premier opera house of Mexico City. The building is famous for both its extravagant Beaux Arts exterior in imported Italian Carrara white marble and its murals by Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and Jose Clemente Orozco. Rivera’s “Man at the Crossroads” mural was originally painted for the Rockefeller Center in New York City. Rivera had finished 2/3 of the mural when the Rockefellers objected to an image of Vladimir Lenin in the mural. When Rivera refused to remove Lenin, his commission was cancelled and the mural was destroyed. Rivera repainted it a smaller scale at the Palacio in 1934 and renamed it “Man, Controller of the Universe”. View of the Palacio de Bellas Artes from the Torre Latinoamericana. The theatre is used for classical music, opera and dance, notably the “Baile Folklorico”. A distinctive feature of the theatre is its stained glass curtain depicting a volcano and the valley of Mexico. It is the home of Mexico’s National Symphony Orchestra, the Bellas Artes Orchestra, the Bellas Artes Chamber Orchestra, the National Dance Company, and the Bellas Artes Opera. Mexico city travel guides.
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