Teatro Pérez Galdós
Teatro Pérez Galdós is the city’s principal theatre space in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and it is also the permanent home of the Festival de Ópera de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Alfredo Kraus. The building you see today anchors a long debate about where theatre should belong: Benito Lentini, an Italian pianist and composer living in the city, had pushed the idea of a purpose-built stage since 1830, and the earlier Teatro Cairasco was built between 1842 and 1845. For the Pérez Galdós, civic funding took a similar route—this time through a civil company by shares to raise money—yet the chosen site at the mouth of the barranco Guiniguada drew ridicule from Benito Pérez Galdós himself for its position by the sea. Construction began in 1888, and the theatre’s architect was Miguel Martín-Fernández de la Torre. …
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