Salón de Baile del Teatro Real

The Teatro Real has this space dedicated to flamenco, inaugurated in 2018, in which the Flamenco Real cycle is held, made up of regular performances of this Spanish artistic genre.

The former Ballroom at the Royal Theatre, completed in 1835, was initially used for dances and masked balls. Later, between 1841 and 1850, this room was used to hold Spanish parliamentary sessions  whilst Parliament was being built. 

In the Ballroom, the theatrical decoration created by Pascua Ortega harks back to the theatre’s original opera boxes. This room recreates an operatic ambiance, exhibiting costumes used in historical opera productions such as Aida and Anna Bolena. But the most characteristic feature is the starry ceiling, where 630 tiny fibre optic lights reproduce the night sky over Madrid the day the theatre opened and are a poetic tribute to the open-air courtyard theatres of yesteryear, as the Teatro Real once was.

Its 500 square metres, with its façade overlooking Plaza de Isabel II, are now a versatile and multi-purpose space, after being used as the auditorium of the conservatory that the Royal Theatre also housed for almost four decades.