The Gran Teatro Falla, located in the Plaza Fragela, opposite the Casa de las Viudas, is a building used for stage performances and concerts in the city of Cádiz. For example, every year during the month of February the Carnival of Cádiz Group Competition is held, where the different carnival groups show all their art and genius in various modalities, while the rest of the year the Theatre hosts an Autumn season and a Spring season with shows such as concerts, plays and, to a lesser extent, musicals and opera. The FIT, the Ibero-American Theatre Festival of Cádiz, and Alcances, a film festival dedicated especially to documentaries, are also held at the COAC (official carnival group competition).
Its construction began in 1884, following the project of Adolfo Morales de los Ríos and Adolfo del Castillo Escribano, when Miguel Martínez de Pinillos was mayor of Cádiz, on the site of the old Gran Teatro de Cádiz, built in wood in 1871 by the architect García del Álamo, and which burned down in 1881. In 1886 the City Council took over the direction of the works, although the lack of funds caused them to be stopped on several occasions, which prevented the work from being completed until 1905. The person in charge of the construction was the municipal architect Juan Cabrera de la Torre, who modified the original project to a large extent.
It was inaugurated on January 12, 1910 with the interpretation of a symphony by Barbieri, when Sebastián Martínez de Pinillos y Tourné was mayor of Cádiz. Until 1926 it was called Gran Teatro, when it was renamed Gran Teatro Falla in honor of the city's favorite son Manuel de Falla. A year later, the Carnival was played for the first time in the theater with the choir Los Pelotaris by Manuel López Cañamaque.
In 1984, architects Rafael Otero and José Antonio Carvajal took charge of the restoration of the building, which began in 1986 at the end of the carnivals, and ended in 1991, being reopened on October 18 of that same year in an event presided over by Her Majesty Queen Sofia.On March 4th, a show of digital creations projected onto the building's façade was held in Plaza Fragela.
On March 9th, 2010, to celebrate its first centenary, an exhibition entitled 'One Hundred Years on the Poster' began, and throughout the year guided tours were offered through the entrance hall, the snack bar, the attic or exhibition room, the press pit and the lower part of the stage, in which various curiosities were explained that cannot be appreciated when attending a normal performance.
In the Neo-Mudejar style, using Cordoban emiral-style horseshoe arches and Almohad-style brick. It is built in red brick, and has three large emiral-arched doors on its main façade, with alternating voussoirs in red and white. The plan is horseshoe-shaped, to which the floors were adapted, each one in the 1920s. It has a capacity for 1,214 spectators divided into seats, boxes, an amphitheatre and a paradise. The stage measures 18 metres long by 25.5 metres deep, and the ceiling shows an allegory of Paradise, a work by Felipe Abárzuza and Rodríguez de Arias.
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