What is Teatro Massimo?
{{Infobox Theatre |name = Teatro Massimo |image = Palermo-Teatro-Massimo-bjs2007-02.jpg |image_size = 300px |caption = Teatro Massimo |address = Piazza Verdi |city = [[Palermo]] |country = [[Italy]] |designation = |latitude = |longitude = |architect = Giovanni Battista Filippo Basile (1874–1880), Ernesto Basile (1891–1897) |owner = Comune di Palermo |capacity = 1.387 |type = |opened = 1897 |yearsactive = |rebuilt = |closed = |othernames = |production = |currentuse = |website = http://www.teatromassimo.it/ }} [[File:Interior of Teatro Massimo (Palermo) SAM 0423.JPG|thumb|Interior view of the Teatro Massimo]] [[File:Verdi palermo bust 200805.jpg|thumb|[[Bust]] of [[Giuseppe Verdi]] outside of the Teatro Massimo]] The '''Teatro Massimo Vittorio Emanuele''' is an [[opera house]] and opera company located on the Piazza Verdi in [[Palermo]], [[Sicily]]. It was dedicated to King [[Victor Emanuel II]]. It is the biggest in [[Italy]], and one of the largest of Europe (at the time of its opening, it was - with its area of 7730 m² - the third largest opera house in Europe after the [[Palais Garnier]] in [[Paris]], and the [[Vienna State Opera|K. K. Hof-Opernhaus]] in [[Vienna]]).<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.teatromassimo.it/il-teatro/storia.html |title=Archived copy |access-date=2021-07-26 |archive-date=2017-01-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106201851/http://www.teatromassimo.it/il-teatro/storia.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> It is famous for its perfect [[acoustics]]. ==Media interest== The final scenes of [[Francis Ford Coppola]]'s film ''[[The Godfather Part III]]'' (1990) were filmed at the theatre, where the uncle of Francis Ford Coppola, the [[composer]] and [[conductor (music)|conductor]] [[Anton Coppola]], is shown conducting the [[opera]], ''[[Cavalleria rusticana]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.movie-locations.com/movies/g/godfather3.htm