Valeria Castro closes her tour at Sagunto's Roman Theatre during Sagunt a Escena
Canary Islands singer-songwriter Valeria Castro will close the tour for her debut album on 10 August at Sagunto's Roman Theatre, as part of the Sagunt a Escena festival.
The Sagunt a Escena festival, organised by the Institut Valencià de Cultura (IVC, the Valencian regional culture institute) with Sagunto City Council and the theatre department of the Valencia Provincial Council, brings two shows to the Roman Theatre and to la Glorieta square this August, as part of the city's summer performing-arts programme.
On 10 August, singer-songwriter Valeria Castro — born in Los Llanos de Aridane, La Palma (Canary Islands), in 1999 — will close the tour for her debut album, "Con cariño y con cuidado", at the Roman Theatre. Discovered on Instagram by Alejandro Sanz, the 25-year-old already holds two MIN awards (May 2024, Spain's independent-music prize), a Latin Grammy nomination for "La raíz", and a Goya nomination alongside band Vetusta Morla for the song from the film "El amor de Andrea". The concert will mark the final stop of a tour that has taken her across much of Spain over recent months.
The next day, 11 August, the Bucraá Circus company brings "La gran final" to la Glorieta — a clown piece about two clowns reunited three decades after being separated by the outbreak of Spain's Civil War, just before their final act. The show blends contemporary circus language with a plot rooted in historical memory, a different register from the previous night's concert and one that widens the festival's audience appeal.
The Roman Theatre itself, the venue for Valeria Castro's show, was declared a national monument in 1896 and now holds the status of Bien de Interés Cultural, the highest heritage protection under Spanish law. Its present-day appearance, however, is not free of controversy: between 1990 and 1994, architects Giorgio Grassi and Manuel Portaceli carried out a restoration that added a large new structure over the original tiers and stage. The project was heavily criticised by historians and archaeologists, who accused it of building an almost entirely new theatre that hid the authentic Roman ruins rather than preserving them — a dispute that later reached the courts. Despite that debate, the venue remains one of the leading performing-arts spaces in the Valencian Community, and the stage chosen to close out Valeria Castro's tour.
According to El Periódico de Aquí, with additional background from Wikipedia on the singer and on the Roman Theatre's history.