The Teatro Nacional Sucre
Between years 1565 to 1765, the present Seat of the Theater was the Square
of the Slaughters, where bullfights of bulls were celebrated. In 1867, the
Congress prohibited them and the Seat was turned theater space.
Guayaquil, our main port, already counted on a theater from 1857 in where
companies appeared that came from Europe. These could not appear in Quito
because there was no room. The Government of Ignacio de Veintimilla, in
1877, yielded the house and lot of the Seat of the Slaughters to the society
Civilization for the construction of a theater.
The works were made between
1879 and 1886. The 25 of November of 1886, to eight and the average one at
night, Voyer Captain was inaugurated the scene with the presentation of the
famous Parisian pianista, with the support of the National Orchestra
directed by Aparicio Córdova.
 In his first 50 years of life two or three annual spectacles occurred. Soon,
it served more for functions as year end of schools and schools and for
dances of society.
The first national company that sang opereta in Ecuador was the Company of
Zarzuelas and Operettas de Maria Victory Eyrie in 1927.
Thanks to the magnificent contribution of the Filarmónica Society of Quito,
have appeared in the theater artists of reputation like the Chilean pianista
Claudius Arrau in 1950; the violinista Yehudi Menuhin in 1950; ' jazzistá
North American Dizzi Gillespie in 1956; the Spanish guitarist Andrés Segovia
in 1958; the saxofonista Stan Getz in 1980, among others.
Restorations and Interventions
 In the presidency of general Eloy Alfaro the first intervention takes place,
took place the second intervention in the presidential period of Jose Luis
Tamayo; thus, in 1922, for the 100 years of Batalla of the Pichincha, he is
reinaugurado.
There were more interventions years 1948 to 1952. From the year of 1992 they
have been continued with intense and massive restorations.
 The
Theater belonged to the Ecuadorian Government through the Undersecretary's
office of Culture of the Ministry of Education. It happened to hands of the
Central bank of Ecuador, that with the support of UNESCO made the works of
rehabilitation.
In 2001 position becomes of the theater the Bottom of Rescue
of the Cultural Patrimony of the Municipality of the Metropolitan District
of Quito, that, with the Company of Development of the Historical Center of Quito, is carrying out its putting in value. Today National Theater Sucre
works under the administration of the Foundation, whose executive director
is the teacher Good Julio. |
