In the old Liceu, the stage area took up 30% of the space while the public enjoyed 70% of it.
ECONOMIST: More gaudy than Gaudi
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But in a country where the Bilbao Guggenheim Museum by Frank Gehry has captured all the architectural headlines, many might see the new-old Liceu as a retrograde step.
ECONOMIST: More gaudy than Gaudi
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In a city renowned for its art nouveau treasures, the Liceu predated them with its own mid-Victorian fusion of gold and brown, blue and crimson almost more gaudy than Gaudi.