The Eisenhower Theater seats 1,100, and is the smallest of the theaters on the Center's main level. It primarily hosts plays and musicals, operas, ballet and contemporary dance. Its namesake, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, signed into law the National Cultural Center Act in 1958, the first time in history that our government backed and helped finance a structure dedicated to the performing arts. The theater contains an orchestra pit for 40 musicians that is convertible to a forestage or additional seating space. The walls are of East Indian laurel wood. The red and black stage curtain of hand-woven wool is a gift from the people of Canada.

Coming to the Eisenhower Theater :

Jordi Savall: El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas (From the Old Spain to the New World)

• Sep 27, 2010 at 8:00 PM
• Eisenhower Theater
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Description:

Viol player Jordi Savall, one of the major figures in the field of early music, directs and plays in his program El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas (From the Old Spain to the New World). He is joined by soprano Montserrat Figueras, his vocal ensemble Capella Reial de Catalunya, his instrumental chamber ensemble Hespèrion XXI, and Mexican chamber group Tembembe Ensamble Continuo.