The businessman and tutorial Gregorio Marañón (Madrid, 84 years previous) has been re-elected this Friday as president of the Teatro Real de Madrid – a place he has held since 2007 – for a brand new five-year time period, based on a press launch launched by the Madrid coliseum. The appointment, accepted unanimously by the Board of Trustees of the establishment, has been proposed by the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, with the help of the Community of Madrid and the Madrid City Council. After the vote, Marañón has dedicated to placing “his greatest enthusiasm and effort” right into a theater at all times dedicated to its “ambition of excellence and permanent renewal.”
The president has taken benefit of the second to focus on the challenge of his common director, Ignacio García-Belenguer; the inventive director, Joan Matabosch; and the deputy common director, Borja Ezcurra, in addition to the “loyalty of the public”, and the involvement of 150 sponsoring corporations, 250 non-public patrons and 13,000 members of the Friends of the Theater Foundation. “The Teatro Real is the only European opera in which public contributions do not exceed 35% of its budget, to which civil society contributes 30% and the rest comes from the income generated by the theater itself, mainly from the box office,” he stated.
El Real, based in 1850, remained silent for 70 years of the turbulent twentieth century in Spain. It reopened its doorways in 1997 and, since then, it has established itself as a related and cosmopolitan manufacturing middle. So a lot in order that, in 2021, it was acknowledged as one of the best firm on the earth for its 2019 programming at crucial opera awards, the International Opera Awards. This is the fourth time that the Madrid businessman has been re-elected to proceed able he reached virtually twenty years in the past, and during which he has been the architect and witness of this development in his high quality and in a status that, he stated, “has not stopped growing, appearing today among the most important international operas, alongside La Scala, Covent Garden or the operas of Paris, Vienna and Berlin.”
Marañón has additionally celebrated the work of its present 400 “excellent workers” and the efficiency of its “magnificent orchestra and its splendid choir”. In addition, he has additionally highlighted the Real’s dedication lately to sustainable improvement, an effort that was additionally awarded by the Opera Awads with the award for probably the most sustainable theater on the earth. They just lately launched a photovoltaic roof that makes the coliseum virtually self-sufficient.
According to the assertion launched, for the businessman “the theater always aspires to growth and improvement, with internationalization, modernization and sustainability as pillars of a work presided over by its commitment to civil society and that focuses on digital and audiovisual development, through its MyOpera platform, and on its consolidation as a reference space open to children and young people and diversity.”
The Madrid opera is without doubt one of the solely areas – if not the one one – during which the brawl between the central and regional governments doesn’t transcend. This Friday’s vote was attended by Jordi Martí, Secretary of State for Culture – representing Minister Urtasun -; Isabel Díaz Ayuso, president of the Community of Madrid, and José Luis Martínez-Almeida, mayor of Madrid. Martí has stated that “placing the Teatro Real in the first division,” as he claims it’s now, is “very difficult,” however Marañón has achieved it “with a solid cultural project,” presided over by stability and consensus, and giving his group autonomy in administration, ensures of fine work which are “complex to find.”
The 84-year-old patron can be in command of the Friends of the Royal Theater Foundation, is a full academician of the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, president of the Ortega-Marañón Foundation, and an Honoris Causa physician from the University of Castilla-La Mancha and the Rey Juan Carlos University.
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