Ibiza Town’s Teatro Pereyra revived as a modern day performance venue with NST at its heart!

Teatro Pereyra is a privately owned theatre in the centre of Ibiza Town. Founded in 1898, it was the island’s first theatre. Over the next century it served as a local cultural centre for not only staging of theatre performances, but also functioned as a cinema, a meeting hall with a café and restaurant.

Having fallen on hard times in the 1980s, the main theatre finally closed its doors in 1987, with only the café remaining open.  Receiving recognition as a Cultural Heritage Site in 2006 jumpstarted a campaign to restore the theatre to its former glory, and work began in earnest in 2010.

Things took an unexpected turn early into the renovation works as, in 2011, archaeological remains were discovered beneath the theatre’s floor, belonging to a Roman settlement.  The excavation of the site meant a long delay in proceedings, and it was only in 2024 that all works were completed, and the theatre reopened in grand style, ready for another hundred years serving the people of Ibiza.

The audio system for the entire complex was central to the new vision of the theatre with an “integrated” philosophy, allowing for audio routing and control from a variety of locations.  This meant the use of network audio throughout the venue.

Three NST Audio processors were chosen to form the venue’s backbone to integrate a multitude of analogue sources and make them available to all areas, be that backstage in dressing rooms or FOH locations, including the main theatre.  Other locations include the café, the bar and the venue’s general purpose meeting rooms (available for hire).

A VMX88 handles the system’s analogue inputs and streams them onto the Dante network, as well as driving the Meyer active system in the main theatre.  Additional fills and delays are output via a VMO16 which picks up Dante inputs and outputs to analogue for a selection of active smaller Genelec speakers.

A second VMO16 is utilised for the majority of the backstage duties, such as stereo feeds to main dressing rooms, mono feeds to auxiliary dressing rooms and coverage of office spaces (luxuriously also in stereo!) and public areas including the bar and the café.

Three VR1 PoE remotes have been included in the system spec, with one in the meeting room to allow for local source and volume control, one in the bar which functions as a “Master” and has routing and control over all public spaces, and a secondary bar control with more basic routing and control configurations.

 

With a busy programme of live musical and streaming events, spoken word, dance party nights and consistently positive reviews from both locals and Ibiza visitors, the reinvention of the Teatro Pereyra looks (and sounds!) to be a success story that will support the venue for years to come.

 

Thanks to Salvador Velasco, the theatre’s sound tech, for supplying many of the photos* and the system file for us to examine.
Find out what’s coming up next at the theatre on their website here!