Teresa Carreño Cultural Complex

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 Caracas Athenaeum,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.

Its artistic director is the venezuela conductor Rodolfo Saglimbeni.

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 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 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.

Spaces

The Rios Reyna Hall 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 Hall 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 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 Jose Félix Ribas Hall), vibrant Pyramids (acoustic ceiling of the Jose Felix Ribas Hall), black Scripture on white bottom and fire-resistant drop curtain (drop curtains of the Ríos Reyna Hall); 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.

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Dustin Linero
11 September 2016
Excelente lugar, una infraestructura para la cultura y el esparcimiento, el estacionamiento con varios niveles y cercano a las escaleras de acceso, las entras a los conciertos muy solidarias
Últimos En Salir
17 December 2014
Ayer estuvimos (por pura casualidad) en la apertura del Café Venezuela en una de sus terrazas, la vista de las copas de los árboles del parque los caobos hace de entrada que sea un lugar especial.
Diego F.
10 August 2019
Abandono por parte de nueva administración (gubernamental) el estacionamiento carece taquilla, solo efectivo a "cuidadores", sótanos oscuros... al menos patios siguen mayormente en uso por artistas
Abrah
15 August 2015
El ambiente del Teresa carreño es bastante tranquilo y es una experiencia cultural bastante buena, siempre hay eventos para todos y ferias interesantes
Gaby Camaton
8 May 2015
De los mejores espacios que hay en la actualidad para las artes escenicas y siempre con nuevas propuestas
Alvaro Omar Martinez
12 March 2012
Desde su inauguración en 1983, ha recibido a artistas musicales nacionales e internaciones, jefes de estado de la OPEP y de la OEA, hasta el papa Juan Pablo II.
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