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

Frutillar Frutillar is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, 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 L ...

Los Lagos Region Los Lagos Region ( , 'Region of the Lakes') is one of regions of Chile, Chile's 16 regions, which are first order administrative divisions, and comprises four provinces: Chiloé Province, Chiloé, Llanquihue Province, Llanquihue, Osorno Provin ...

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Overview

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

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

, 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

1997 Asian financial crisis The 1997 Asian financial crisis gripped much of East Asia, East and Southeast Asia during the late 1990s. The crisis began in Thailand in July 1997 before spreading to several other countries with a ripple effect, raising fears of a worldwide eco ...

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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