The Pedreira Paulo Leminski is a house of spectacles, outdoors, in Curitiba, with a capacity of up to 20,000 people.[1] Its name is a tribute to Paulo Leminski, curitibano writer of the twentieth century, and because the place formerly had served as a Municipal Pedreira, a plant of asphalt. Today the site is surrounded by a wall of rock thirty meters (100') high. Located in the neighborhood of Abranches, the site has about 103,500 metres, and its stage has around 480m². It was planted in 1990.
Near the quarry is the Wire Opera House, opened in 1992 because of the first Festival of Theater of Curitiba. Together, the two sites make up the Parque das Quarries.
During the anniversary of the city's three hundred years, the pedreia was the scene of the tenor Jose Carreras, accompanied by the Brazilian Symphony Orchestra.[1]
Van Halen were scheduled to perform during their III Tour on September 25, 1998, but the show was cancelled.
On March 4, 2008, British heavy metal band Iron Maiden played its most ambitious tour ever, Somewhere Back In Time World Tour, to at least 20,000 fans.[2]