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IVC Unveils Principal and Rialto Season for Oct–Jan With 33 Works and Flagship Premieres

Leaders cast the program as a public-service engine essential to civic life, supporting jobs.

Overview

  • The first-quarter 2025–26 schedule spans October to January with 33 titles, including 22 Valencian works, five premieres and two in-house productions.
  • Teatro Rialto opens 2 October with Crit Teatre’s Pobres, described with Italian–Spanish influences and wide-ranging cultural allusions.
  • Teatro Principal begins 8 November with Bambalina Teatre Practicable’s Goya, followed by national and international guests across dance, drama and circus.
  • IVC resumes its own production cycle with Lope de Vega’s Los locos de Valencia directed by Jorge Picó, premiering 22 January with 12 performers and six leads already selected.
  • Director Álvaro López-Jamar signaled near-term sector steps: a Circuit Cultural Valencià call within about two weeks, a provisional grants resolution next week for 505 applications under a €2.8 million budget, and the Premios de las Artes Escénicas gala projected for January or February 2026.