Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex

Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño
Address Caracas
Venezuela
Coordinates Coordinates: 10°29′56″N 66°53′52″W / 10.4990°N 66.8978°W / 10.4990; -66.8978
Capacity 2900
Construction
Opened April 19, 1983
Architect Tomás Lugo Marcano, Jesús Sandoval and Dietrich Kunckel
Website
www.teatroteresacarreno.gob.ve

The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex (Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño), also known as Teresa Carreño Theater (Teatro Teresa Carreño), is the most important theatre of Caracas and Venezuela, where performances include symphonic and popular concerts, opera, ballet and plays. It is the second largest theater in South America after the Teatro Colón of Buenos Aires.

The theatre was built on a 22,000-square-metre (240,000 sq ft) lot and named after the Venezuelan pianist Teresa Carreño. It is located in the cultural district of the city: Bellas Artes. It houses two concert halls: the José Félix Ribas and the Ríos Reyna (named after Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna).

The following are resident performing arts groups:

Its spaces are also shared by the National Theater Company of Venezuela and the Monte Ávila Editores bookstore (Librerías del Sur).

The artistic director of the theater is the Venezuelan conductor Rodolfo Saglimbeni.

History

Ballet Giselle, directed by the Prima Ballerina Assoluta Alicia Alonso
La Traviata, 2008

In the 1970s, Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna presented a plan to build a theatre to serve as the residence of the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra. The Simón Bolivar Center expanded the project so that the center would serve multiple uses.

The funds for construction were granted in September 1970, and the architects were Tomás Lugo, Jesús Sandoval, and Dietrich Kunckel.

The theatre was inaugurated in two phases: the José Félix Ribas Hall in February 1976, followed by the Ríos Reyna Hall and the rest of the complex on 19 April 1983.

The center facilities have been expanded with two exhibition halls, one dedicated to the pianist Teresa Carreño and another one to the composer Reynaldo Hahn.

Performance venues

Ríos Reyna Hall
Foyer ceiling by Jesús Soto

The Teresa Carreño Theatre is an architectonical and cultural masterpiece of Venezuela. It covers a surface of 22,586 m² and has a completed area of over 80,000 m².

Enormous columns and hexagonal roofs in an harmonic overlaid position, integrate the majestic expression of joint architecture and pluralist nature, making it a unique theatre.

Artwork

The Theater has extraordinary decoration, with fine pieces of artwork.

See also

References

  1. Ed Vulliamy (29 July 2007). "Orchestral manoeuvres". The Guardian. Retrieved 2007-09-01.

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