Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex
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The Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex (Complejo Cultural Teresa Carreño), or more commonly the Teresa Carreño Theater (Teatro Teresa Carreño), is one of the most important Theaters of Caracas and Venezuela, where symphonic and popular concerts imagine frequently, operas, ballet and theater. It is located near the Seat of the museums, the Caobos Park and the Athenian of Caracas,in the cultural zone of the city. It is divided in two rooms: Jose Felix Ribas and Ríos Reyna. The theatre is constructed on a land of 22 thousand square meters. The theater was thus called in honor to the pianist Teresa Carreño.
In the theater works three companies of prestige: the Opera Choir Teresa Carreño, the Teresa Carreño Ballet, directed until 2002 by the teacher Vicente Nebrada, and the National Philarmonic of Venezuela.
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[edit] History
In the 1970s, Pedro Antonio Ríos Reyna presented a plan to construct a theater that served as seat 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 of 1970, and the architects were Tomás Lugo, Jesus Sandoval, and Dietrich Kunckel. The theater was inaugurated in two phases. The Jose Felix Ribas room was inaugurated in February of 1976, and then the Rios Reyna room and the rest of the complex opened on April 19, 1983.
Recently, the center's facilities have been expanded with two exhibition halls, one dedicated to the pianist Teresa Carreño and another one to the composer Reynaldo Hahn.
[edit] Spaces
The Rios Reyna Room has a capacity of 2400 people. It is the scene of symphonic spectacles, opera and more important ballet of the city. Usually it lodges the seasons of opera and ballet of the city. The Jose Félix Ribas Room was thought like symphonic concert hall (it would be possible to be said that of study, dice the privacy that produces the size of the room) and of camera. It has a form of Greek semicircular theater, a space of 507.5 square meters, a lobby of 160 square meters and capacity for 440 people. It is the official building of the Venezuela youth orchestra since February of 1976.
In the theater there are plastic works of Jesús Rafael Soto, white vibrant Buckets on yellow projection (in the ceiling of the entrance of the Ríos Reyna Room), vibrant Buckets on white and black progression (in the parking, in front of the Room Jose Félix Ribas), vibrant Pyramids (acoustic ceiling of the Room Jose Felix Ribas), black Scripture on white bottom and fire-resistant drop curtain (drop curtains of the Ríos Reyna Room); of Pedro Basalo, bust of Teresa Carreño (located in cellar 1); of Harry Abend, Relief mural on inclined screens (in the troncopiramidal peak of the scene of Ríos Reyna), in addition to other artists like Erling Oloe, Colette Dellozane, Jorge Pizzani and Vincenzo Gemito.
In its spaces they work the office of the National Company of Theater, the Monteávila bookstore, and the Store of Cinema of the National Film Library of Venezuela.
