The Santa Eulària des Riu Town Hall will open 2026 with a performing arts program that will run from January to April and will bring together four cultural proposals designed for audiences of all ages, with performances at the Palau de Congressos d’Eivissa and the Centre Cultural de Jesús. The initiative includes family theater, circus, a cappella opera and a show of local creation, with companies from Catalonia, Madrid and the Balearic Islands.
The programming is framed, for the most part, in the Platea program of the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), in which Santa Eulària participates for the twelfth consecutive year, allowing the arrival of professional shows to the municipality. The cycle is completed with a proposal starring artists from Ibiza, reinforcing institutional support for local talent.
Family theater, circus and a capella opera
The first appointment will be on Sunday, January 18, 2026, at 6 p.m., at the Centre Cultural de Jesús, with “Sigues Tortuga”, by Xip Xap Teatre. The puppet theater show, recommended for ages 4 and up, lasts 50 minutes and is performed in Catalan. The play adapts the story “Sé tortuga”, by Agustín Sánchez Aguilar, Edebé Children’s Literature Award 2023, and proposes a fable starring a rooster and five turtles that invites us to reflect on the importance of living calmly and practicing kindness.
The program will continue on Saturday, March 28, at 7 p.m., at the Palau de Congressos, with “SinSolo”, by the Faltan 7 Company. It is a circus show for all audiences, recognized with the FETEN 2019 Award and the First Prize Circada Off 2018. Through comic situations and circus techniques such as vertical and acrobatic bicycle, the proposal raises a reflection on human relationships, group membership and the value of diversity and inclusion.
The third proposal will arrive on Sunday, April 19, also at 7 p.m. at the Palau de Congressos, with “Operetta”, by Cor de Teatre. The a cappella opera, recommended for ages 6 and up, combines humor, rhythm and a careful staging to reinterpret, from the theatrical gag, emblematic fragments of the operatic repertoire. From an apparently empty stage and a grand piano, the performers construct a succession of scenes based on works by Verdi, Rossini, Mozart, Bizet, Wagner, Saint-Saëns and Offenbach, bringing opera to new audiences.
Commitment to local talent
The cycle will close on Sunday, April 26, at the Centre Cultural de Jesús, with “Els colors de la música”, a show starring the painter Antoni Marí ‘Tirurit’, Pere Prieto on saxophone and Juan F. Ballesteros on piano. The proposal combines live painting and music in a didactic and visual format, in which a painter must illustrate a story in less than an hour inspired by music.
During the performance, colors and emotions build the story, based on the story “The Selfish Giant” by Oscar Wilde, while the audience attends a sonorous journey through styles such as baroque, jazz and pop. Live painting thus becomes a central element of the show, accompanying the narration in front of the audience.
