Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía

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The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía (German: Queen Sofia Palace of the Arts) is an opera and culture house in Valencia .

Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía illuminated at night

The structure was opened on October 8, 2005. The first performance took place on October 25 of the same year with the opera Fidelio by Ludwig van Beethoven .

architecture

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía is part of the Ciudad de las Artes y de las Ciencias and was designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava . Calatrava made the first concept studies for this building back in 1995.

  • View from the south

  • View from the southeast

  • View from the east

description

The auditorio.
The Palau after the ceramic cladding was removed (2014).

The opera house stands out because of its unusually curved design. The narrow roof curves outwards in the form of a folded spherical segment. The outer walls also describe curved lines. At the highest point, the structure reaches 75 meters spread over up to 14 floors; there are three more floors below the ground floor. The house is 230 meters long and offers a total of 40,000 m². In terms of the built-up volume, it is the largest opera house in the world.

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía has a total of four auditoriums :

  • The main hall, Sala Principal, has space for 1412 people and is primarily used for opera performances.
  • The auditorio is located above the main hall and has 1490 seats.
  • The Aula Magistral is primarily used for chamber music performances . It seats 400 spectators.
  • The underground Teatre Martín i Soler is a theater for 400 people.

Construction defects

At the end of 2013, parts of the ceramic cladding came loose, and the region's government ordered it to be temporarily closed.

In 2014 the original surface was completely removed. The ceramic cladding was then applied again true to the original; the work lasted a year and was finished in October 2015.

Web links

Commons : Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thomas Urban , Many Buildings and One Death , sz.de , January 7, 2020.
  2. ^ Dpa: Calatrava opera house closed due to construction defects , Der Tagesspiegel , December 28, 2013, p. 25
  3. ↑ Cristina Vázquez: El Palau de les Arts de Valencia luce nuevo 'trencadís'. In: El País. October 21, 2015, accessed May 13, 2018 (Spanish).

Coordinates: 39 ° 27 ′ 28 ″  N , 0 ° 21 ′ 20 ″  W.