Gran Teatro Nacional

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Gran Teatro Nacional
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General information
Type Multi-purpose theatre
Architectural style Postmodernism
Location Lima, Peru
Completed 2011
Opened 2012

The Grand National Theatre of Peru (Spanish: Gran Teatro Nacional del Perú) is a multi-purpose theatre and concert hall in Lima, Peru. It is part of the Cultural Tridium, flanked by the National Library of Peru and the Museo de la Nación.

Spanish language Romance language

Spanish or Castilian is a Romance language that originated in the Castile region of Spain and today has hundreds of millions of native speakers in the Americas and Spain. It is a global language and the world's second-most spoken native language, after Mandarin Chinese.

Theatre collaborative form of performing and fine art

Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of fine art that uses live performers, typically actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. The specific place of the performance is also named by the word "theatre" as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον, itself from θεάομαι.

Lima Capital city in Peru

Lima is the capital and the largest city of Peru. It is located in the valleys of the Chillón, Rímac and Lurín rivers, in the central coastal part of the country, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Together with the seaport of Callao, it forms a contiguous urban area known as the Lima Metropolitan Area. With a population of more than 9 million, Lima is the most populous metropolitan area of Peru and the third-largest city in the Americas, behind São Paulo and Mexico City.

The theatre has a capacity of up to 1500 people, and uses the latest technology in acoustics and sound engineering to support performance genres ranging from opera, philharmonic orchestra concerts, Broadway shows and more. The building includes rehearsal rooms, dressing rooms, restaurants, cafeteria, library and rooms for various types of events. [1]

The theatre was inaugurated in July 2012 with a performance of the opera-ballet Akas Kas [2] by Peruvian composer Nilo Valerde. [3]

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References

  1. Staff (6 August 2010). "Gran Teatro Nacional tendrá últimos avances tecnológicos y acústicos". El Comercio Perú (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 June 2012.
  2. BBC news website, Peru seeks place on world cultural map, Mattia Cabitza, 19 July 2012
  3. Peruvian Ministry of Culture, El Gran Teatro Nacional ya es una realidad (in Spanish) Retrieved 27 July 2012

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