Taiwan inaugurates its performing arts center with the production “Das Rheingold” by Les Arts

This past week, Taiwan inaugurated its national performing arts center, National Taichung Theater (NTT), with two performances of the Palau de les Arts' production: Wagner's L'or del Rhine ( Das Rheingold ). The concerts will take place on September 30 and October 2, as announced by the Valencia Coliseum through a communication. The production is a muntatge that was performed by La Fura dels Baus per a Les Arts in co-production with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino.

The Taiwanese building, designed by the Japanese architect Toyo Ito, winner of the Pritzker Prize in 2013, will accompany the representations of each of the titles that make up The Nibelung Ring by the end of 2019. The Asian island has now become the fifth stop of the museum most awarded in the history of the Arts, which has been awarded to Valencia, Florència, Seville and recently to Houston.

The recording of the tetralogy, during the different sessions that have taken place in Valencia, in high definition and the subsequent commercialization on DVD and BLU-RAY so that the segell C Major has donated to conèixer the production and the Palau de les Arts to the rest of Europe, the Statistical Units of America and Japan. A screening that has increased with the exhibition of this work in the cinema sales of Australia, the Statistical Units of America, Ireland, New Zealand and the Regne Unit, as well as the subsequent series broadcast on the German speaking channels ZDF, 3Sat and ÖRF and the British Sky Arts.

As part of the launch of the new theatre, the NTT has also programmed a series of presentations and trobates on the integration and interaction of cultural centers in their environment. The seminar, organized by the theater's artistic director, Victoria Wang, included local experts and managers of European theaters and festivals, including the Intendant of Arts, Davide Livermore.