The Auditorium and Convention Centre yesterday lived El Batel great opening night of the artist's hand Ryuichi Sakamoto, who served in the Cartagena Jazz Festival programming.
In total, 1,400 people filled the seats of the 'big room' Auditorium nearly filled its capacity.
Among the audience, the Mayor of Cartagena, Pilar Barreiro, the Councillor for Culture, Rosario Montero, or the architect, José Selgas, lost no detail of this first successful test of the auditorium, waiting for an official opening will the presence of the royal family and the spectacle of dancer José Carlos Martínez.
The audience came not only the region but throughout Spain to enjoy one of only four concerts that will offer Sakamoto on tour in our country.
Even British tourists and several Japanese fans attended the Batel and received with bouquets of flowers to the Oscar-winning composer.
The action served to welcome the boat as a new cultural reference.
The acoustics, lighting and careful staging accompanied Sakamoto's music sounded in the room masterfully.
Facilities also worked to perfection inside and outside the building, which features modern security and safety systems and is equipped with infrared cameras, monitors and various detectors of opening.
Sakamoto performed for two hours a company of J Acquir Morelenbaum Judy Kang on cello and violin.
The trio played songs from his new repertoire and the great classics of the soundtracks to which the composer has given Nippon Life as Welcome Mr. Lawrence, The Sheltering Sky, Femme Fatale or The Past Emperor, which won the golden statuette in Hollywood.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena