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El Petit Liceu, L'Auditori de Cornellà
Town: Barcelona Address: Albert Einstein 51 Phone: +34 93 485 86 38 e-mail: produccio@liceubarcelona.com

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The Petit Liceu is an operatic company geared towards the younger audience and their education. The Petit Liceu resides in the premises of the Barcelona opera house, but after the season is over, it stages its productions at any other venue, and for different private institutions. Meanwhile, following its educational goals, the Petit Liceu gives performances for schools and family audiences as well. Apart from that, its parent organisation, Grand Teatre del Liceu, also provides educational training as well as training for teachers.

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Grand Teatre del Liceu
Town: Barcelona Address: La Rambla, 51-59 Phone: +34 93 485 99 98
Website: http://www.liceubarcelona.com/
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Barcelona's El Liceu opened in 1847 and ever since has maintained the status of one of the world's most important opera houses. A major portion of the building burnt in 1861 and later in 1994 and needed to be substantially refurbished. In fact, the Liceu, also known as the Barcelona Opera House, is the city's top cultural attraction, as it houses Europe's second biggest hall for operatic performances. El Liceu opera company includes long lists of famous names, and maintains an educational entity where throngs of international students from the Netherlands, The United States, Switzerland and Israel study music. Its setting, near the Gaudi cathedral, over the main Plaza Sant Jaume, makes it a city landmark in its own right. Although the Liceu facade is not a glamorous spectacle, the interiors are lavishly decorated, featuring lots of Neo-Classical ornamentation. The horse-shoe shape offers excellent acoustics and has a seating capacity of 2,292.

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Teatro de la Zarzuela
Town: Madrid Address: Calle Jovellanos 4 Phone: +34 915 245 400
Website: http://teatrodelazarzuela.mcu.es
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The Zarzuela Theatre (Teatro de La Zarzuela) is strictly devoted to the production and promotion of one particular genre: the Spanish traditional opera, or the Zarzuela. Being a particular type of a musical comedy, the Zarzuela combines theatrical and vocal elements in a peculiar blend of opera and drama. Thus, this theatre is mostly thought to promote Spanish culture, showing the country’s best works of the Zarzuela repertoire.

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Teatro de Madrid
Town: Madrid Address: Avenida de la Ilustración s/n, La Vaguada Phone: +34 917 405 274

This theatre is the home of one of the most important international dance companies. Specialising in contemporary dance, ballet, flamenco and zarzuela, the well-known Spanish opera, this site is a principal Madrid venue. It has hosted the dancing groups Compañía Nacional de Danza, Momix and the American Ballet Company, plus the Culbert Ballet. With a seating capacity of 800 people, it opened in 1992 in the modern part of town, in the vicinity of the La Vaguada shopping mall. International companies that have performed here include Peter Sellars, the Batsheva Dance Company, Robert Wilson, Grupo Corpo, Gelabert Azzopardi, Royal Shakespeare Company, Ballet Nacional de Ucrania, Castafiore, Ballet de Biarritz, Ballet Nacional de Portugal, and many more. Local performing groups have included La Fura dels Baus, el Ballet de María Rosa, Ballet de Zaragoza, Carmen Cortés, La Cuadra de Sevilla, Ballet de la Comunidad de Madrid, etc.

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Teatro Fígaro
Town: Madrid Address: Doctor Cortezo 5 Phone: +34 913 600 829
Website: http://www.teatrofigaro.com/
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This theatre began operating as a small venue concentrating on contemporary comedies, theatrical pieces by Spanish playwrights and adaptations of international plays. Currently, the 935-seater is geared towards a more diversified audience, and also offers larger productions, operas, contemporary dancing and an array of cutting-edge hybrid genres. Following the fate of many post-war Madrid theatres, it operated as a cinema for several decades after the war, before being completely refurbished to host live performances in 1967. The first act performed here was a production of' Las Criadas', with the famous Catalan actress Nuria Espert.

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Teatro Real
Town: Madrid Address: Plaza Isabel II s/n Phone: +34 902 244 848	Price: 4 - 251 EUR

The Teatro Real, or the Royal Theatre in Madrid, is one of the most grand operatic venues in the world. Inaugurated in 1850 with Donizetti’s ‘La Favorite’, and under the aegis of Queen Isabella II, the Theatre overlooks the Palacio Real, the official residence of His Royalty the King of Spain. The Royal Theatre is associated with the famous work of Verdi ‘La Forza del Destino’, which was presented on its stage for the first time. After remaining idle for a long period, the site reopened as a concert hall in the 1960s, and a few decades later in the 1990s, it was refurbished to become an opera house. In 1997, the site was restored to its original 19th-century splendour and was chosen as the permanent home of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid.

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