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{{short description|Government agency of Uruguay}}
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| name = SODRE &mdash; Servicio Oficial de Difusión, Representaciones y Espectáculos
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| image = Edificio del Consejo Directivo del SODRE.jpg
| image_caption = Headquarters in Montevideo
| type = [[state-owned]]
| genre = Cultural organization
| foundation = 1929<ref name="started">{{cite web|url=http://www.sodre.gub.uy/Sodre/Sodre/Quiénessomos/tabid/59/Default.aspx|title=How SODRE started|accessdate=8 April 2013|publisher=SODRE|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141108141637/http://www.sodre.gub.uy/Sodre/Sodre/Qui%C3%A9nessomos/tabid/59/Default.aspx|archivedate=8 November 2014}} {{in lang|es}}</ref>
| founder = [[Government of Uruguay]]
| location_city = [[Montevideo]]|
| location_country = [[Uruguay]]
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| industry = Media
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| owner = [[Minister of Education and Culture (Uruguay)|Ministry of Education and Culture]]
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| homepage = [http://www.sodre.gub.uy SODRE]
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The '''Official Service of Broadcasts, Performances, and Entertainment''' ({{langx|es|Servicio Oficial de Difusión, Representaciones y Espectáculos}}; styled '''Sodre''') is a national cultural organization in [[Uruguay]], controlled by the [[Ministry of Education and Culture (Uruguay)|Ministry of Education and Culture]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Schmidt |first=Leonel |date=2022-12-16 |title=93 años del Sodre |url=https://sodre.gub.uy/2022/12/16/93-anos-del-sodre/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Sodre |language=es}}</ref>
It was formerly the national broadcaster of Uruguay prior to the separation of [[Radiodifusión Nacional del Uruguay]] as a distinct agency in 2015. It is headquartered in 444 [[Peatonal Sarandí]], [[Ciudad Vieja, Montevideo|Ciudad Vieja]], [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=SALA DE EXPOSICIONES {{!}} Municipio B |url=https://municipiob.montevideo.gub.uy/sala-de-exposiciones |access-date=2023-04-20 |website=municipiob.montevideo.gub.uy}}</ref>
== History ==
The Official Service of Broadcasts, Performances, and Entertainment was created as the "Official Radio Electric Broadcasting Service" on December 18, 1929 during the administration of President [[Juan Campisteguy|Juan Campisteguy Oxcoby]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-12-16 |title=Juan Campisteguy y el nacimiento del Sodre {{!}} La Mañana |url=https://www.xn--lamaana-7za.uy/cultura/juan-campisteguy-y-el-nacimiento-del-sodre/ |access-date=2023-03-25 |language=es}}</ref> The foundation was given after an initiative of the [[National Council of Administration]], which sought to "spiritually improve" the inhabitants of the country, by transmitting artistic, scientific, illustrative shows or auditions.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Ley N° 8557 |url=https://www.impo.com.uy/bases/leyes/8557-1929 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=www.impo.com.uy}}</ref> The law that originated it established as the body's competence to "create schools and conservatories", "acquire and lease phonographic, theatrical, cinematographic, printed musical material or any other that is related to its activities", "edit catalogues, programs or other publications", "act individually or in ensembles in the shows or auditions that it performs or that it contributes to perform, as well as in the schools or conservatories that it institutes".<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-07 |title=Institucional - Sodre |url=https://sodre.gub.uy/institucional/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807184907/https://sodre.gub.uy/institucional/ |archive-date=2022-08-07 }}</ref> The first president of the agency was Francisco Ghigliani.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-06-22 |title=Ghigliani: las sinrazones del corazón {{!}} La Mañana |url=https://www.xn--lamaana-7za.uy/opinion/ghigliani-las-sinrazones-del-corazon/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210622205948/https://www.xn--lamaana-7za.uy/opinion/ghigliani-las-sinrazones-del-corazon/ |archive-date=2021-06-22 }}</ref>
On April 1, 1930, the official station, [[CX 6 SODRE|CX 6]], began its regular transmissions, which had journalistic, cultural, sports, educational and broadcast programming from the agency's troupes.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Torres |first=Inés De |date=2015-12-10 |title=El surgimiento de la radiodifusión pública en Hispanoamérica. Contexto, modelos y el estudio de un caso singular: el SODRE, la radio pública estatal de Uruguay (1929) |url=https://revistascientificas.us.es/index.php/RiHC/article/view/6364 |journal=RIHC. Revista Internacional de Historia de la Comunicación |language=es |volume=2 |issue=5 |pages=122–142 |doi=10.12795/RiHC.2015.i05.08 |issn=2255-5129|doi-access=free }}</ref> Over time, the agency would acquire other radio stations, such as [[CX 38 SODRE|CX 38]] and [[CX 26 SODRE|CX 26]], which it managed until 2015.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redacción |title=Renunció el director de las radios públicas, Pedro Ramela |url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/renuncio-el-director-de-las-radios-publicas-pedro-ramela-20187918100 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=El Observador}}</ref>
== Troupes ==
=== Ballet ===
{{Main|National Ballet of Uruguay}}
The Sodre Dance Corps was founded in 1935 as the country's [[Uruguyan National Ballet|national ballet company]]. The first performance was ''Nocturno Nativo'', with music by Vicente Ascone and choreography by Alberto Pouyanne.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Redacción |title=Un homenaje a Nocturno Nativo |url=https://www.elobservador.com.uy/nota/un-homenaje-a-nocturno-nativo-20158917100 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=El Observador}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=2015-08-14 |title=Nocturno de la nostalgia |url=https://ladiaria.com.uy/articulo/2015/8/nocturno-de-la-nostalgia/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=la diaria |language=es-UY}}</ref> It also featured a performance by the Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Lamberto Baldi.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2017-11-18 |title=BNS {{!}} Ballet Nacional Sodre |url=http://www.bns.gub.uy/es/bns/historia |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171118234723/http://www.bns.gub.uy/es/bns/historia |archive-date=2017-11-18 }}</ref>
The company has made national and international tours, having performed in Spain, Italy, Oman, China, Thailand, Russia, Israel, Mexico, Cuba, Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Chile, Paraguay, Argentina and Brazil.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bns {{!}} Ballet Nacional de Sodre |url=https://www.bns.gub.uy/ |access-date=2020-07-25 |website=Bns {{!}} Ballet Nacional de Sodre |language=es-ES}}</ref>
=== Choir ===
SODRE established the country's first official choir in 1934. Its first conductor was Icilio Nini-Bellucci, and its first performance was [[Vincenzo Bellini]]'s opera ''[[La sonnambula]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Coro Nacional |url=https://sodre.gub.uy//organizador/coro-nacional/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Sodre |language=es}}</ref>
==== Children's Choir ====
The National Children's Choir was re-launched in July 2016, and is made up of 120 choir members between the ages of 6 and 15.<ref>{{Cite web |title=El Coro Nacional de Niños del Sodre alienta con sus voces a la selección |url=https://www.montevideo.com.uy/Tiempo-libre/El-Coro-Nacional-de-Ninos-del-Sodre-alienta-con-sus-voces-a-la-seleccion-uc687670 |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Montevideo Portal |language=es}}</ref> The group's first concert was held in [[Solís de Mataojo]], [[Lavalleja Department]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Más voces cantan |url=https://www.gub.uy/ministerio-educacion-cultura/comunicacion/noticias/voces-cantan |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Ministerio de Educación y Cultura |language=es}}</ref>
=== Symphonic Orchestra ===
[[File:Ossodre.jpg|thumb|180x180px|Seal of the SODRE Symphony Orchestra]]
Created in 1931, the SODRE Symphony Orchestra is the main orchestra in the country.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-08-07 |title=Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional - Sodre |url=https://sodre.gub.uy/orquesta-sinfonica-nacional/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220807195545/https://sodre.gub.uy/orquesta-sinfonica-nacional/ |archive-date=2022-08-07 }}</ref>
==== Youth orchestra ====
The Youth Orchestra was launched in 2011, as a result of an alliance between Sodre and the ''Fundación Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles del Uruguay''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-16 |title=Orquesta Juvenil Nacional - Sodre |url=https://sodre.gub.uy/orquesta-juvenil-nacional/ |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220516230103/https://sodre.gub.uy/orquesta-juvenil-nacional/ |archive-date=2022-05-16 }}</ref> Made up of more than 100 young musicians, it performs more than 50 concerts a year and has been awarded the National Award for Citizen Excellence on two occasions by the Latin American Development Center.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Juvenil del Sodre celebra sus cinco años y veinte del Sistema de Orquestas Juveniles |url=https://www.gub.uy/presidencia/comunicacion/noticias/juvenil-del-sodre-celebra-sus-cinco-anos-veinte-del-sistema-orquestas |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=Uruguay Presidencia |language=es}}</ref>
It has made different international tours: Panama-United States (2013), —in which it gave a concert in the [[Organization of American States|OAS]] Hall of the Americas in [[Washington, D.C.|Washington D.C.]], in front of diplomatic and political authorities—, Germany-Spain-France (2014), United States-Mexico (2015), Spain-Italy (2017), Cuba-United States (2019).<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-12-06 |title=QUIENES SOMOS {{!}} ojsodre |url=https://www.orquestajuvenildelsodre.org/quienes-somos |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221206193412/https://www.orquestajuvenildelsodre.org/quienes-somos |archive-date=2022-12-06 }}</ref>
== Auditoriums ==
=== National Auditorium ===
The [[Sodre National Auditorium|National Auditorium]] was inaugurated in 2009 and is located in ''[[Barrios of Montevideo|barrio]]'' [[Centro, Montevideo|Centro]], [[Montevideo]], in the same place as the old Urquiza Theater that was destroyed in a fire in 1971.<ref>{{Cite web |title=AUDITORIO DEL SODRE {{!}} Montevideo Audiovisual |url=https://mvdaudiovisual.montevideo.gub.uy/es/locaciones/auditorio-del-sodre |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=mvdaudiovisual.montevideo.gub.uy}}</ref> Named after the lawyer, politician and former president of the body [[Adela Reta]], it is the main venue of SODRE.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2013-06-14 |title=Auditorio Nacional Adela Reta |url=http://www.sodre.gub.uy/Sodre/Portals/0/fotogaleria2/visitasodre.html |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130614155058/http://www.sodre.gub.uy/Sodre/Portals/0/fotogaleria2/visitasodre.html |archive-date=2013-06-14 }}</ref>
=== Nelly Goitiño Auditorium ===
The Nelly Goitiño Auditorium is an old movie theater inaugurated in 1949 that served as the Eliseo Cinema for several decades. In the 80s it was acquired by SODRE, and in 2006 it closed its doors to be reconditioned.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-04-14 |title=Auditorio Nelly Goitiño - Historia |url=http://www.xn--auditorionellygoitio-m7b.gub.uy/index.php/auditorio-nelly-goitino/historia.html |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220414142747/http://www.xn--auditorionellygoitio-m7b.gub.uy/index.php/auditorio-nelly-goitino/historia.html |archive-date=2022-04-14 }}</ref> In 2008 it started operating again, being renamed after the lawyer, actress and theater director Nelly Goitiño.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2008-08-01 |title=La sala Brunet se convierte en un moderno auditorio |url=https://www.elpais.com.uy/tvshow/la-sala-brunet-se-convierte-en-un-moderno-auditorio |access-date=2023-03-26 |website=EL PAIS |language=en}}</ref> [[Art Deco]] in style, it is located in ''[[Barrios of Montevideo|barrio]]'' [[Centro, Montevideo|Centro]], [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2012-01-18 |title=El Auditorio "Nelly Goitiño" recibió inversión de un millón de dólares |url=http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2008/08/2008080811.htm |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120118053306/http://archivo.presidencia.gub.uy/_Web/noticias/2008/08/2008080811.htm |archive-date=2012-01-18 }}</ref>
=== Vaz Ferreira Auditorium ===
The Vaz Ferreira Auditorium is located in the first basement of the [[Biblioteca Nacional de Uruguay|National Library]] in ''[[Barrios of Montevideo|barrio]]'' [[Cordón]], [[Montevideo]].<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-28 |title=Auditorio Nelly Goitiño - Auditorio Vaz Ferreira |url=http://www.auditorionellygoiti%C3%B1o.gub.uy/index.php/auditorio-vaz-ferreira/descripcion.html |access-date=2023-03-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220528072952/http://www.auditorionellygoiti%C3%B1o.gub.uy/index.php/auditorio-vaz-ferreira/descripcion.html |archive-date=2022-05-28 }}</ref>
==See also==
* [[CX 6 SODRE]]
* [[CX 26 SODRE]]
* [[CX 38 SODRE]]
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