The Arts offer free shows and free access to all countries at the IX Portes Obertes Conference
19.09.2016
The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía will celebrate the day that sees, September 25, the second IX Day of Open Ports, in which it proposes, in addition to visiting the building, three free concerts.
The Arts opened here every day from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., uninterrupted, so that citizens can discover its most emblematic spaces: the Main Hall, the Terrasses de les Palmeres, which serve as access to the Auditori, or the Balcó de la Mar, with a view of the entire area. City of Arts and Sciences.
The tour is only conditioned by the celebration of the different shows included in the offer of this day. Interested parties may also look at the cafeteria, on the third floor of the building with views of the Jardí del Túria and on the eleventh floor.
Així mateix, the box offices of Les Arts will open on the 25th day for all those who wish to obtain information or acquire locations for the purposes of the II Preseason with popular prices, which begins on October 1 and includes titles such as 'L'elisir d'amore', by Donizetti, and 'The Wildcat', by Penella o concerts com ara 'Cantúria Cantada', 'Gloria i Imeneo' and 'Noves veus'. The lyric center has maintained the rates of this initiative for all audiences, both tickets for the opera in the Main Hall between 7 and 50 euros, concerts at the Auditori from 10 to 20 euros, and shows at the Teatre Martín i Soler for 15 euros.
Three free musical offers
In the musical department, the Teatre Martín i Soler holds two sessions, at 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m., a spectacular tribute to the Valencian soprano Lucrezia Bori, muse of the 2016-2017 Season of Les Arts. Actress and ballarina Fatima Samles embodies the diva in her journey with different titles from the new curriculum sung by the artists of the Plácido Domingo Center. Fragments of 'La traviata' with the famous 'Bríndisi' or 'Addio del passato', as well as a series of other operas such as “Werther”, “L'elisir d'amore” or 'El gato montés' are part of the program of this concert-spectacle directed by Emilio López.
Roberto Abbado, musical director of Les Arts, will be in charge of presenting the event at the Jornada de Portes Obertes with a concert, also free, at the Auditori, at 7:00 p.m. The Valencian Community Orchestra under the baton of the Milanese maestro offers a program of works including 'Egmont Overture' by Beethoven, 'Simfonia Nº8' by Schubert, and 'Simfonia Nº4' by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.
Les Arts reminds you that it is essential to request a ticket to attend these shows. For this purpose, 70% of the invitations available through the website www.lesarts.com will be distributed starting at 10:00 a.m. on December 22. On December 23, there will be an in-person distribution of 30% of the remaining tickets starting at 10:00 a.m. at the Box Office. Only two locations per user will be assigned to one of the three concerts both in the online and in-person distribution.
Transmission of “Otello” from the Teatro Real in Madrid
On Saturday the 24th, at 8:00 p.m., Les Arts joins the bicentennial celebrations of the Teatro Real with the live broadcast of Verdi's "Otello" from the Madrid coliseum.
The Aula Magistral contains this free screening of the opera that has inaugurated the 2016-2017 Season in Madrid, with Gregory Kunde and 'The Moor of Venice', a paper that will debut at the Palau de les Arts in 2013, directed by Zubin Mehta in a production by Davide Livermore.
George Petean (Iago) and Ermonela Jaho (Desdèmona) accompany the North American tenor in the repartiment of this quest “Otello”, which includes musical direction by Renato Palumbo and stage direction by David Alden.
The distribution of tickets for the screening of “Otello” is available on the 24th, starting at 7:00 p.m., at the Les Arts Box Office in order to complete the capacity of the theater.
