The Teatro del Lago (''Theatre of the Lake'') is a stage theatre and concert hall located in

Frutillar Frutillar is a city and commune located in southern Chile, Chilean Patagonia, in Llanquihue Province, within the Los Lagos Region, the lake district. The bay of Frutillar is placed on the banks of Lake Llanquihue, the largest lake entirely within ...

, Los Lagos Region, Chile.

Overview

Housed in a 10,000 m2 building, and located on the shores of

Llanquihue Lake Lake Llanquihue is the second-largest lake in Chile with an area of about , after Lake General Carrera which shared with Argentina. It is situated in the southern Los Lagos Region in the Llanquihue and Osorno provinces. The lake's fan-like form ...

, the Teatro del Lago includes the 1,178 capacity ''Espacio Volcán Tronador – Sala Nestlé'' concert hall; an amphitheater, seating 270, and a range of other multipurpose salons and foyers, exhibition areas, rehearsal spaces, conference rooms and congress halls. The theater was designed by a host of architects over twelve years. Every year, between late January and early February, the Teatro del Lago hosts its main event, the biggest Chilean classical music festival: the Semanas Musicales de Frutillar (''Frutillar musical weeks'').

History

The construction of the theater to create a new cultural space to house the Semanas Musicals de Frutillar after the Hotel Frutillar burned down in 1996. Businessperson, Guillermo Schiess lead an effort to build a new home for the festival starting in 1998. Architects Geradro Köster and Gustavo Greene began construction on January 27, 1998 with financial support from Schiess. The Asian Financial Crisis of 1997 impacted his finances, which, in turn, caused the theater's construction to be modified. In 2008 a new set of architects from Amercanda - Bernd Haller, Cristián Valdés, Pablo Cordua y Andrés Alvear - were added to the project to build with better acoustic materials. The Limarí Lightning Design company was in charge of the building's lightning, while the stage lightning was done by Clifton Taylor. After twelve years of work, the theater opened on November 6, 2010 at a cost of $20 million (US). It immediately became one of the largest concert spaces ever opened in Chile since the 1950s.

References

External links

Teatro del Lago website Semanas Musicales website
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