More than 28,000 people attended events in the opera programme

The Auditorio de Tenerife has achieved the strongest results in the history of its opera programme, marking the 2025-2026 season the most successful in its twenty-three-year history with more than 28,000 people attending the events. The programme concluded last June with three performances of the zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma. The season featured a new edition of Ópera en minúscula (small-format opera), alongside large-scale productions, recitals, and Ramón Gener’s popular talks.

José Carlos Acha, Councillor for Cultural Affairs of the Tenerife Island Council, welcomed the results saying: “It has not been an easy season, but these figures confirm that we are moving in the right direction. They are only possible thanks to the loyalty of audiences enjoying our programme, who recognise the quality of the programme offered by the Auditorio de Tenerife.”

Acha also underlined the growth in subscriptions: “For the first time ever, Ópera de Tenerife has surpassed 1,300 subscribers. We see a growing interest in the genre, particularly among younger audiences, who are no longer afraid to attend an opera performance and increasingly see the genre as accessible rather than elitist.’

The councillor also pointed to the ticket pricing as a key driver in attracting new audiences to Auditorio de Tenerife, expressing confidence that “this positive trend will continue during the coming season. More than 6,000 seats have already been allocated, around 10 per cent of them to audience members under the age of 30.”

The season opened with Ópera en minúscula. whose seven performances at the Auditorio de Tenerife, the Espacio La Granja and the Teatro Leal attracted more than 800 attendees.

The main-stage season began in October with Heitor Villa-Lobos’s Yerma. The production drew over 3,800 spectators across its four performances and subsequently received two Talía Awards, for Best Lyric Production and Best Costume Design.

In November, Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman was presented in the Symphony Hall of Auditorio de Tenerife, with more than 4,000 attendees across the three performances. Despite the unexpected cancellation of the production’s shipment from Chile, the production has evidenced the adaptability of the Auditorio’s team, who staged the work. The calendar year concluded with two performances of Adiós a la bohemia by Pablo Sorozábal and Pío Baroja, attended by more than 2,000 people.

The 2026 programme opened with Christoph Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, which attracted more than 2,700 spectators. This was followed by three performances of Roméo et Juliette by Charles Gounod, attended by over 3,900 people, and two performances of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle —one of them an educational performance—, which reached a total audience of 1,000.

The season concluded with Los celos hacen estrellas y el amor hace prodigios and the zarzuela La verbena de la Paloma. The former was presented at Teatro Leal before an audience of more than 250, while the latter attracted over 4,200 spectators across three performances in the Symphony Hall of Auditorio de Tenerife.

Seven talks by Ramón Gener rounded off the opera programme, one of them featuring Javi Alonso, in addition to three recitals by José Bros—in Los Realejos, Adeje and Auditorio de Tenerife—together with a lieder recital. These complementary events attracted over 3,000 attendees.