The Building

The Palau de la Música de València was inaugurated on April 25, 1987, establishing itself as the musical and cultural engine of the city. Designed by the architect José María García de Paredes, it has a large symphony hall for 1,781 spectators and a chamber hall, with 417 seats. The acoustics of the Palau are described as exceptional, a benchmark in Europe and unanimously praised by all the orchestras, soloists and lyrical voices that have performed in it.

It is the headquarters of the Valencia Orchestra, the main symphonic group in the city, which is celebrating its eightieth anniversary, and which constitutes one of the main axes of the auditorium’s musical activity.

Other halls – Lucrecia Bori, Martín y Soler and Exposiciones, as well as the magnificent glass-enclosed lobby of Hall Naranjos, make the auditorium a cultural center of enormous vitality and dynamism, full of activity eleven months a year.

In 2002, the auditorium was extended with an underground annex, integrated into the landscape of the Turia riverbed by the architect Eduardo de Miguel. In these new facilities there are various rehearsal rooms: a replica of the Sala Iturbi stage -Sala García Navarro-, two choir rooms and four individual ones, as well as four collective dressing rooms, as well as intense administrative activity, in addition to housing a large archive and music documentation center.

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