Misplaced Pages

#967032

29-598: The Royal Conservatory of Music was founded on July 15, 1830, by royal decree, and was originally located in Mostenses Square, Madrid. In 1852 it was moved to the Royal Opera , where it remained until the building was condemned by royal order and classes ordered to halt in 1925. For the next sixty-five years, the school had no fixed home, operating in a variety of locations. Since 1990, the Conservatory has officially lived in

58-679: A concert hall as well as the main concert venue for the Spanish National Orchestra and the RTVE Symphony Orchestra . The reopening was celebrated with a concert of the Spanish National Orchestra, conducted by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos , in which it was performed Beethoven 's Symphony No. 9 –together with the Orfeón Donostiarra – and Manuel de Falla 's Homenajes . The venue closed for renovations with

87-467: A floor area of 78,210 square metres (841,800 sq ft), with a stage of 1,430 square metres (15,400 sq ft) and a maximum capacity, depending on the orchestra pit , of 1,958 seats. The theatre stages around seventeen opera titles and two or three major ballets per annual season, from September to July, both own productions or co-productions with other major opera houses abroad, as well as concerts and recitals. The most popular operas at

116-627: A last concert by the Spanish National Orchestra on 13 October 1988. From 1867 to 1925 and from 1966 to 1990, the Royal Opera also housed the Madrid Royal Conservatory and the Royal Higher College of Performing Arts . Starting on 2 January 1991, the house was remodeled to host opera again. The building was completed in late 1995, then the process of technical, administrative, artistic and functional organization began which led to

145-531: A monumental remodeling of the building. However, the Civil War and the post-war financial difficulties prevented the completion of these projects and led to a simple restoration, sponsored by the Juan March Institute , and carried out first by the architect Manuel Gonzalez Valcárcel, and later by architects Miguel Verdú Belmonte and Francisco Rodriguez Partearroyo. The theatre reopened on 13 October 1966 as

174-427: A recording that it had been he who had pressured and given directions to the theatre to cancel the performance. In 2020 the theatre cancelled a performance of the opera Un ballo in maschera amidst booing from the audience due to lack of safety distance in the roost. Several attendees complained about the relocation of some audience members in the gods' seats and the overcrowding of audience members with respect to

203-448: A restored 18th-century building (previously San Carlos Royal Hospital) in front of Queen Sofia Museum . Alumni of the school include: This Spanish university, college or other higher education institution article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Teatro Real The Teatro Real (Royal Opera of Madrid) is an opera house in Madrid , Spain. Located at

232-569: A special programme from 2016 through 2018. One of the operas featured was Bellini's I puritani , a co-production with the Teatro Municipal of Santiago , Chile. A performance of this work was streamed in July 2016 via the Royal Opera's Facebook page , an example of the theatre extending its reach by digital services. The event was also relayed to a number of venues and was a national trending topic on Twitter. The same production has been performed by

261-420: Is scheduled to stand down as music director at the close of the 2024–25 season. In July 2022, the company announced the appointment of Gustavo Gimeno as its next music director, effective with the 2025–26 season, with an initial contract of five years. The Teatro Real has hosted some special events throughout its history. On 29 March 1969, Televisión Española held the 14th Eurovision Song Contest at

290-553: The 25th Goya Awards in 2011 or the Lotería Nacional's Christmas special draw since 2012. The Royal Opera received the "Opera Company of the Year" award at the 2020/21 International Opera Awards . The building is listed as a Bien de Interés Cultural since 1993. The former Teatro de los Caños del Peral was a theatre, built over an earlier corral de comedias , and opened in 1738 under the reign of King Philip V . It got its name from

319-680: The Ministry of Culture of the Government of Spain , the Government of the Community of Madrid and the City Council of Madrid . Since 1998, its principal orchestra is the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid . In addition to its regular annual program of opera, dance, concerts and recitals, the theatre has hosted other special events throughout its history, such as the 14th Eurovision Song Contest in 1969,

SECTION 10

#1732856044968

348-721: The Palacio Real , the official residence of the royal family, was finally inaugurated by Queen Isabella II on 19 November 1850, attending the performance of Donizetti's La favorite . Madrid Opera soon became one of the most prestigious opera houses in Europe. For over five decades it hosted the most renowned singers and composers of the time. In the early period, it saw famous opera singers such as Alboni , Frezzolini , Marietta Gazzaniga , Rosina Penco , Giulia Grisi , Giorgio Ronconi , Italo Gardoni , Mario de Candia and Antonio Selva among many others. In 1863, Giuseppe Verdi visited

377-611: The Plaza de Oriente , opposite the Royal Palace , and known colloquially as El Real , it is considered the top institution of the performing and musical arts in the country and one of the most prestigious opera houses in Europe. The groundbreaking of the Teatro Real was on 23 April 1818, under the reign of King Ferdinand VII , and it was formally opened by his daughter Queen Isabella II on 19 November 1850. It closed in 1925 due to damage to

406-685: The Théâtre Italien , Paris. Rosina Penco was praised for her sweetness of voice combined with highly dramatic acting and vocal agility. Her success in the leading role of Leonora in the enormously popular opera Il trovatore led to further engagements in the top opera houses in London, Paris, Berlin , Madrid and Saint Petersburg . In 1858, however Verdi lamented that Penco had lost the fire that had distinguished her earlier appearances and had retreated into an old-fashioned manner of singing and performance like that of thirty years earlier. Penco retired from

435-459: The Teatro Real have included Verdi 's Rigoletto with 409 performances, followed by Aida with 378 and Il trovatore with 356. Two works by Meyerbeer L'Africaine –with 268– and Les Huguenots –with 243– have been shown to draw audiences, although the former work has not been performed since the 1920s, being no longer considered mainstream repertory. Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia has been given some 218 performances since its debut in

464-416: The building and reopened on 13 October 1966 as a symphonic music venue. Beginning in 1991, it underwent major refurbishment and renovation works and finally reopened as an opera house on 11 October 1997. It has a floor area of 78,210 square metres (841,800 sq ft) and a maximum capacity of 1,958 seats. Since 1995, the theatre is managed by a public foundation in whose Board of Trustees are represented

493-629: The company –including orchestra and chorus– in August 2017 at the Savonlinna Opera Festival . Since 1998, the resident ensemble of the Teatro Real is the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid . The current artistic manager is Joan Matabosch, former director of Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona . The current music director of the company is Ivor Bolton , since 2015. The current principal guest conductors are Pablo Heras-Casado and Nicola Luisotti . Bolton

522-435: The first complete staging, with sets and scenography, of Isaac Albéniz 's Merlin in 2003 –101 years after its completion–, the first modern revival of Vicente Martín y Soler 's Il burbero di buon cuore in 2007 and Poppea e Nerone , a new orchestration for a modern chamber orchestra of Claudio Monteverdi 's L'incoronazione di Poppea , by Philippe Boesmans in 2012. The Teatro Real celebrated its bicentenary with

551-948: The house in 1919. In addition of the world premiere of Divinas Palabras by Antón García Abril, the Royal Opera has staged another sixteen world opera premieres since its reopening: Don Quijote by Cristóbal Halffter (2000), La señorita Cristina by Luis de Pablo (2001), Dulcinea by Mauricio Sotelo (2006), El viaje a Simorgh by José María Sánchez-Verdú (2007), Faust-Bal by Leonardo Balada (2009), La página en blanco by Pilar Jurado (2011), The Perfect American by Philip Glass (2013), Brokeback Mountain by Charles Wuorinen (2014), The Public by Mauricio Sotelo (2015), La ciudad de las mentiras by Elena Mendoza (2017), El Pintor by Juan J. Colomer (2018), Je suis narcissiste by Raquel García-Tomás (2019), Marie by Germán Alonso (2020), Tránsito by Jesús Torres (2021), El abrecartas by Luis de Pablo (2022) and Extinción by Señor Serrano Group (2022). The company also premiered

580-498: The nearby Fountain of the Pear Tree Canals . The theatre was demolished in 1817 to clear the space for the current Teatro Real. The current theatre was founded by King Ferdinand VII in 1818, and after thirty-two years of planning and construction, a Royal Order on 7 May 1850, decreed the immediate completion of the "Teatro de Oriente" and the building works were finished within five months. The opera house, located just opposite

609-415: The opening of the theatre by King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofía on 11 October 1997. The opera program performed at the reopening was El sombrero de tres picos and La vida breve by Manuel de Falla, which was immediately followed by the world premiere of the opera Divinas Palabras by Antón García Abril –actually commissioned to open the house– with Plácido Domingo in the cast. The remodeling

SECTION 20

#1732856044968

638-571: The previous year as Azucena in Il trovatore by Francesco Cortesi, based on the same Spanish play as Verdi's opera. Verdi prized her for her combination of vocal agility with fervid dramatic commitment. The composer recommended her for the leading soprano roles of his subsequent operas La traviata and Un ballo in maschera , saying that Penco had much spirit and a good stage presence. She subsequently appeared as Amelia in Un ballo in maschera at Covent Garden and

667-472: The public the opportunity to learn about the building, including the stage area, the workshops and the rehearsal spaces. In 2019 Teatro Real scheduled several performances of a show by the American dance company, Shen Yun Performing Arts. The theatre sold 900 tickets for the performances, but canceled the event. The Royal Opera claimed technical problems, but the then Chinese ambassador to Madrid Lü Fan said in

696-727: The rest of the areas. The police later verified that the capacity was adequate for the restrictions imposed by COVID-19 . The theatre claimed that less than 50 percent of the tickets had been sold. Rosina Penco Rosina Penco (1823 in Naples – 1894 in Poretta, near Bologna ) was an Italian operatic soprano. She is most notable for creating the role of Leonora in Il trovatore by Verdi in Rome in 1853. Rosina Penco sang in operas by Rossini , Bellini and Donizetti in various German theatres in 1850. She

725-577: The theatre for the Spanish premiere of his La forza del destino . At its peak, in the last quarter of the 19th century, the Teatro hosted world renowned artists such as Adelaide Borghi , Marie Sasse , Adelina Patti , Christina Nilsson , Luisa Tetrazzini , Mattia Battistini , Julián Gayarre , Angelo Masini, Francesco Tamagno and Enrico Tamberlick . In 1917, the Ballets Russes of Diaghilev performed in

754-453: The theatre with the presence of Nijinsky and Stravinsky . In December 1925 a Royal Order ordered its activities to be discontinued owing to the damage that the construction of the Metro de Madrid had caused to the building. The government set out to restore it and ordered numerous projects to be drawn out for its renovation, such as that from architect Antonio Flórez Urdapilleta, who proposed

783-576: The theatre, featuring an onstage metal sculpture created by surrealist Spanish artist Amadeo Gabino  [ es ] . On 13 February 2011, the Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain held the 25th Goya Awards ceremony at the theatre. Every 22 December since 2012, Loterías y Apuestas del Estado holds its Lotería Nacional's Christmas special draw there. The Opera House offers daily different types of guided tours, lasting between 50 and 90 minutes and given in various languages. This gives

812-405: Was based on the old classical style of opera house with only basic modernization leaving many seats without a view of the stage. A considerable percentage of seats have a limited or zero view of the stage and a live stream of operas and ballets is projected on the upper side walls of the house so that the entire audience can follow the performance regardless of their view of the stage. The theatre has

841-575: Was praised for her fiery stage temperament and her virtuosic singing, in particular for an excellent trill. In Italy, she appeared in the title role of Verdi's Luisa Miller in Naples in 1851 and created roles in operas by Errico Petrella and Giovanni Bottesini . In 1853, she created the leading soprano role of Leonora in Giuseppe Verdi 's hugely successful opera Il trovatore . She had appeared in Trieste

#967032