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Teatro Circo recovery for the city running smoothly.
At the moment, has already executed more than 50% of the project, as explained by the architect Vicente Pérez Albacete-charge of rehabilitation, the Mayor, Miguel Ángel Cámara, this morning visited the works, accompanied by those responsible for Town Planning and Culture, and Fatima Fernando Berberena Barnuevo.
Thus, Murcia will have by next year with this property, which will reopen become Experimental / Alternative Center for the Performing Arts.
This action, together with that carried out at the Casino, the city will allow rescue two essential elements of its historical and artistic heritage.
The rehabilitation project has a budget of nearly 9 million and is based on three fundamental aspects: the conservation of the building structure in its integrity and value, the extension of the stage, and the creation of a basement dressing rooms to locate , storage and rehearsal.
At this time has already run 40% of civil works and has recruited 30% of stage equipment budget.
The rehabilitation of the building began in spring of last year.
Both the restoration of the only existing facade, made of brick, located at the crossing Enrique Villar, as the interiors were completed by 90%.
It has also made excavations, pending only the space needed for comb-works, work in the two wedges new building overlooking the passage and the stairs.
Similarly, the basement has been expanded about the project, which will help maintain and enhance the room ready for storage space.
From now be undertaken electrical, air conditioning and plumbing.
Nearly 700 spectators
The new Teatro Circo have a capacity of 694 -290 sites in the stalls, 90 stalls, 120 in the first amphitheater and 194 in the second-, which will add another 117 in the rehearsal room that will enable in the basement.
The Romea Theatre has a capacity for 1,100 spectators.
The new scenic elements to be incorporated into a space suitable for both traditional representations of contemporary dance theater or circus shall:
Scenario turned to the stalls, with perfect view from any of its three plants.
The front of the stage area will be coordinated with a hydraulic mechanism which renders the scenery from the pit
Mobile racks system that will allow gauging the stage of many different modes
Small loom in the background, 2.70 meters deep, which will both close on black background to use a projection screen
Pit subdivision between the hydraulics, dressing area, storage and rehearsal.
The rehabilitation project has enabled the recovery of a property that was in obvious state of disrepair in recent years, since it was closed in the 70's.
Teatro Circo, which opened on November 5, 1892, was designed and built by Justo Millán along the lines of the famous "theater-circus" that, from Paris, spread through many European cities.
Millan also responsible for the final restoration of the Teatro Romea after a fire in 1899, was also author of the Plaza de Toros, the Provincial Hospital, the College of St. Joseph church vocations or the cover of San Bartolomé.
Teatro Circo Villar-acquired the name of its owner, Enrique Villar, suffered several modifications over the years.
For use as a theater and a circus, it should be added that of boxing events, wrestling, horse shows, movies, etc..
Since 1908, enabled film, depending on which survived, combined with other entertainment-up to the seventies, when it closed permanently.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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