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Article: Cuba's unfinished National Art Schools are being revived.
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- December 29, 2003
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Byline: Gary Marx
HAVANA _ Roberto Gottardi stands on the edge of a crater-size ditch, imagining the fulfillment of his dream to build one of the world's great theaters.
There would be a stage here and an orchestra pit there. The actors would perform to jubilant crowds, and the aging, largely forgotten architect and his colleagues would see brought to completion one of the stunning projects of their generation.
But Gottardi knows the odds are long that his theater and drama school _ along with the four other spectacular buildings known collectively as Cuba's National Art Schools _ will ever be created as once planned, even though the Cuban ...