Teatro Valle-Inclán, Modern theatre in Embajadores district, Madrid, Spain.
Teatro Valle-Inclán is a contemporary theatre building in Madrid's Embajadores neighborhood featuring a glass facade that reveals its internal architecture and technical systems. The structure houses multiple performance spaces, including a main auditorium with roughly 500 seats for various productions.
This theatre opened in 2006 after being designed by architects Ángela García de Paredes and Ignacio García Pedrosa. It was built on the site of the former Olympia Theater.
The theatre is the second venue of the Centro Dramático Nacional, whose main headquarters is the Teatro María Guerrero. Its name honours the writer Ramón del Valle-Inclán of the Generation of '98. The building has two rooms: the main auditorium with 450 seats and the Francisco Nieva hall with 150 seats arranged as an Italian-style theatre.
The theatre stands at the corner of Calle de Argumosa and Calle de Valencia on plaza de Lavapiés. It has two rooms: the main hall with 450 seats and the Francisco Nieva hall with 150 seats arranged as an Italian-style theatre. The entrance is on the plaza, and the glass wing faces the street.
The site on plaza de Lavapiés previously held Lo Rat Penat, a 1908 theatre whose concave Modernista facade was decorated with bats, the emblem of Valencia, and whose column tops emitted red beams of light. It later became the Salón Olimpia in 1916 and the Cine Olimpia before demolition in 2001.
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