The Palau de les Arts resumes its activities to the public with the VII Open Day and ‘Nit a Les Arts’

· 'Nit a Les Arts', on October 8, offers technical-artistic exhibitions with the Centre de Perfecciomant Plácido Domingo, performances by the Cor de la Generalitat and Berklee, as well as an exhibition

· For the first time, those interested in attending the free concerts on the 5th and the technical-artistic passes of Nit a Les Arts on the 8th can request their tickets through the website www.lesarts.com

Online applications for tickets to these shows will open on Thursday, October 2nd. Tickets will be distributed in person at the box office on Friday, October 3rd.

Valencia. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía resumes its activities to the public in October with the celebration of its VII Open Day on Sunday, October 5, and a new edition of 'Nit a Les Arts' on Wednesday the 8th.

About to begin its ninth season, the Valencian arts center brings its spaces and its technical and artistic operation closer to the public, in addition to offering free performances by the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo, the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana, the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana and Berklee College of Music with these two initiatives.

On Sunday, October 5, the doors of the Palau de les Arts will remain open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. continuously, allowing visitors to freely explore the halls, terraces, lobbies and other corners of the opera house.

As a major new feature of this seventh edition, the Plácido Domingo Centre for Advanced Studies will open its classrooms to the public, allowing visitors to experience firsthand the daily lives of the artists involved in this project directed by Davide Livermore. From 10:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., those who visit the Teatre Martín i Soler, home of the Plácido Domingo Centre for Advanced Studies, will be able to observe young singers training to become professional opera singers.

The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana is also offering two free concerts today at the Auditori. At 12:00 pm, Joan Enric Lluna will conduct the Palau de les Arts' resident orchestra with a program featuring works by Mozart and Beethoven. The first half of the program includes Mozart's Symphony No. 25 and Sinfonia Concertante for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, and orchestra , with Pierre-Antoine Escoffier (oboe), Tamás Massànyi (clarinet), Tania García (bassoon), and Bernardo Cifres (horn) as soloists. After the intermission, the audience will enjoy Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 .

At 7:00 p.m., the OCV, conducted by Ricardo Casero, will close the 7th Open House at the Palau de les Arts with a program of Mozart and Rossini. The Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana will begin the evening with the overture to Rossini's L'italiana in Algeri and Mozart's Horn Concerto No. 1 , featuring David Fernández as soloist. To conclude the day, the Palau de les Arts' resident orchestra will perform Mozart's Symphony No. 40 .

Those interested in attending the free concerts must pick up their ticket in advance.

Night at Les Arts

On Wednesday, October 8, the ninth anniversary of the building's inauguration, the Palau de les Arts has programmed 'Nit a Les Arts', a white night in which the Valencian arts center offers technical-artistic exhibitions and live performances, as well as an exhibition with scenic elements and costumes from its most celebrated productions.

'Nit a Les Arts' begins at 7:30 p.m. with the first of six technical and artistic demonstrations in the Main Hall of the building. In groups of up to 240 people, attendees have the opportunity to experience firsthand, through a live performance on stage, the workings of the stage machinery, lighting, audiovisual equipment, and all the elements necessary to put on an opera production. The artistic portion is presented by artists from the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo, who perform arias and excerpts from some of the most well-known works in the repertoire.

The show is complemented by the free-access exhibition in the Main Hall Vestibule featuring costumes and set pieces from Puccini's Turandot and Verdi's La forza del destino , two of the Palau de les Arts productions that have received the most acclaim in recent years.

In this regard, the opera house reports that six performances of this show are scheduled, each lasting approximately 40 minutes. The last performance will take place at 12:30 a.m. Tickets must be reserved in advance to attend.

From 8:30 p.m. onwards, the building designed by Santiago Calatrava opens its terraces and balconies to anyone who wants to discover and enjoy the outdoor spaces of the opera house, enlivened by performances from the Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana and Berklee College of Music, which will continue until 2 a.m.

The Cor de la Generalitat, participating in this event for the first time, will perform five sets, from 8:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m., featuring choral excerpts from the operas comprising the 2014-2015 season at the Palau de les Arts. With Francisco Perales conducting and accompanied on piano by Francisco Hervás, the audience will enjoy passages from Puccini's Manon Lescaut , Moreno Torroba's Luisa Fernanda , Donizetti's Don Pasquale , Bellini's Norma , and Verdi's Nabucco .

Berklee College of Music, for its part, brings the contemporary note with two ensembles that, from 0.30 to 2.00 h, will perform a repertoire composed of jazz and Brazilian music.

In addition, from 8:30 p.m. until 2 a.m., the Palau de les Arts has provided a restaurant service both on the terraces of the eleventh floor and in the cafeteria on the eighth floor for those who decide to spend the night of October 8 to 9 at the opera house.

Request and distribution of tickets

Those interested in attending both the free concerts of the VII Open Day, on October 5, and the technical-artistic passes of 'Nit a Les Arts', must collect their ticket beforehand.

This year, the Palau de les Arts Box Office has enabled an online form on the website www.lesarts.com for all those who, due to mobility or time issues, cannot be present on the day of the in-person distribution at the box office, with the purpose of bringing the activities open to the public closer to all citizens of the Valencian Community.

To this end, the Valencian arts center has set the following dates. On Thursday, October 2nd, starting at 10:30 a.m., forms for attending the performances of the 7th Open House and 'Nit a Les Arts' will be available at www.lesarts.com . Two tickets will be allocated per form until the quota is exhausted. Ticket holders can then collect their concert tickets at the Box Office on Sunday the 5th, up to 30 minutes before the start of the performance.

Those who have requested tickets for the technical-artistic passes of 'Nit a Les Arts', will be able to collect their tickets on the same day, October 8, from 6:30 p.m. to 11:30 p.m. at the Palau de les Arts Box Office.

The usual in-person ticket distribution will take place on Friday, October 3rd, starting at 10:30 a.m. at the box office of the Valencian arts center. A maximum of two tickets will be allocated per applicant.

Season ticket holders at the Palau de les Arts can request tickets to attend these events preferentially on Wednesday the 1st, and in person on Thursday the 2nd.

For more information, those interested can consult the website www.lesarts.com .