Olympic Theater
- Palladian Routes
- Jul 8, 2022
- 1 min read
Updated: Feb 7
Everything was accomplished here, in this final act.
I lived an extraordinary life, and this is my gift to Vicenza, to its families, to Venice, to history.
With deep gratitude I remember my reliefs at the Berga Theatre, the Roman theatre of my city. Five thousand seats—how I longed to be there.
To live that Vicenza, and from there leave for Rome—for that Rome. With the Academy I had helped to found several years earlier together with my friends, we had obtained from the city the old prisons of the Castello del Territorio.
I was seventy-one. I lived that last year with the enthusiasm of a child: it would be the first permanent, roofed theatre in the world, at least as far as I knew.
And it would have been a dream—mine and that of my city: that Vicenza would be the stage we had wished for our lives, the magical illusion that brought us closer to our destiny every day.
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