The RTVE.es Lab launches an interactive tour of the Teatro Real in 360º with exclusive guests

'The City of Wonders' is a project with 360º videos, photos and games developed in collaboration with the Teatro Real coinciding with the 200th anniversary of its foundation.

Classic opera meets cutting-edge technology to offer a totally different show. He RTVE Innovation Laboratory, in collaboration with the Royal Theater of Madrid, and the digital services company Vision presents this digital multimedia project in which it proposes to the user an interactive journey through the Royal Theater in 360º.

Coinciding with the 200 years of history of the Royal Theater of Madrid and when it also marks 20 years since its reopening as an opera house (1818-2018), the RTVE.es Lab invites the user to explore everything that happens inside the theater, to discover the opera from within through the eyes of its protagonists.

With the help of unique characters, users will be able to take a private and unique trip through the great City of Wonders that this theater hides inside. In just 65,000 square meters, more than 500 people live together, including singers, technicians, tailors, makeup artists, decorators, hairdressers, councilors, musicians, orchestra directors...

The user will be able to discover places that the public cannot usually access with the help of the professionals who work there and discover the day-to-day life of the production of an opera.

Exclusive content

Throughout 14 interactive points, located in the stalls, the pit and the stage box of the Teatro Real, the user can move on a free tour through the different spaces of the theater virtually with 360 web navigation from the computer, a mobile phone or a tablet.

In this virtual walk through the Royal, the visitor will have the unique opportunity to access exclusive content that reveals all the ins and outs of the theater and the opera: the history (at the hands of Isabel II), the architecture of the building, the evolution of the audience or the secrets of the tailoring and the characterization department, among others. Some of the characters that the user will discover are tenors of the stature of Plácido Domingo or José Manuel Zapata, or the orchestra director Pablo Heras-Casado.

Orchestra and choir in virtual reality

This interactive project also invites users to experience first-hand a rehearsal of the Teatro Real orchestra and choir in 360º.

Both experiences, in addition to being accessible on the web, can be consumed with glasses through the application 360 scene, RTVE's immersive theater app. The application is free and is now available for iOS y Android.

Thanks to the RTVE archive, the user on their virtual journey has access to historical documents (in video and audio) that portray the most notable events that the Teatro Real has experienced in its 200 years: the inauguration as a concert hall in 1966, testimonies from the public who experienced in first person the debut of the great tenor Miguel Fleta or his last performance, or interviews with theater workers such as Luisa Pequeno, the second woman who started working in the orchestra in 1912, or the statements of the person in charge of the tailoring shop. at the beginning of the last century.
In the stalls the user will find a game: a challenge with 10 questions about the Royal Theater in which numbers are the protagonists. How tall is the building? How much does the curtain weigh? How many motors does the stage box have? What is the work that has been performed the most times?

'Teatro Real: the city of wonders' is a project created by the RTVE.es Innovation Laboratory in collaboration with the Teatro Real and the digital services company Visyon. An invitation to enjoy an extraordinary place in an interactive adventure inside the Teatro Real: rtve.es/teatroreal.