The Cabildo of Tenerife presents the opera L’elisir d’amoreby Donizetti, which will be performed at the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife from October 24 to 27, a co-production of Ópera de Tenerife, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, which this year features with funding from the Creative Europe programme of the European Commission. The cast is in charge of staging the production will be the components of the seventh edition of the academy of high specialization Opera (e)Studio.
The details of this production were released today [miércoles 16] in the Auditorium of Tenerife by the councilor for Culture of the Council, Concepción Rivero; the artistic director of the Auditorium, José Luis Rivero; the artistic director of Opera (e)Studio, Giulio Zappa; the music director, Antonio Mendez, and the stage director, Pablo Maritano.
The ten components of this edition come from the auditions held in the month of February in Bologna, Tbilisi, Madrid and Tenerife, to the which fielded 181 candidates from 33 nationalities. The singers involved are Mary Rita Combattelli (soprano); Beatriz de Sousa (soprano); Klodjan Kaçani (tenor); César Arrieta (tenor); Alberto Bonifazio (baritone saxophone); James Ochoa (baritone); Givi Gigineishvili (bass); Matteo Andrea Mollica (bass); Sofía Esparza (soprano) and Leonora Tess (soprano).
Concepción Rivero acknowledged that “it is a pleasure to present L’elisir d’amore”, which will be represented in this magnificent setting” and that implies the start of a new season of the Opera de Tenerife. For its part, the artistic director of the Auditorio de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero, presented this production, which will be starring singers of Opera (e)Studio, “the academy of specialization in a song lyric that from the beginning we had the honor of being the direct Giulio Zappa, and of which we have got arising out singers who are currently in the international career”.
The artistic director explained that “this edition is unique for a number of issues: it is the first time that the chief conductor of the Symphonic orchestra of Tenerife directs musically one of our operas and for that we are grateful for the generosity of Antonio Méndez; it is the european debut of one of the most renowned stage directors in Latin america, Pablo Maritano; and this project is a co-production of Ópera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bolognia and the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, chosen from among more than 500 european projects within the Creative Europe programme, being the only opera selected”.
For Giulio Zappa, “this seventh edition is special because of the support of Creative Europe”. The artistic director of Opera (e)Studio said that “in my more than 20 years of professional career I have not found in any theatre to a team of dedicated and passionate as the Opera de Tenerife, which is already family.” In terms of the participants, Zappa thanks them “these two months of living in the I have also learned a lot from them.”
The chief conductor of the Symphonic orchestra of Tenerife, Antonio Méndez, acknowledged that “it makes me very excited to make her debut at Opera de Tenerife and it is a pleasure to be at the forefront of this title of Opera (e)Studio, a cool project and needed in the world of the lyric, that has brought us this year to two great casts with high level and very different from each other, which improves the final result because the public values every voice, every character”. For his part, Pablo Maritano thanked for the invitation to the mayor of Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante, and Jorge Cabrera, head of technical production of Auditorium of Tenerife, and your computer a “tireless”. “The whole team has wrapped up with his illusion, and, although there are always challenges in this sector, we are very happy with how we have dealt with and the end result.”
This Opera production of Tenerife is a melodramma giocoso by Gaetano Donizetti libretto by Felice Romani, based on the text You philtre of Eugène Scribe for the opera of Daniel François Esprit Auber. One of the operas defiler’s most critically acclaimed composer, thanks to unforgettable melodies as ‘A furtive tear’ and an argument effervescent where he recounts the loves of the beautiful Adina and naive Nemorino. The play was premiered at the Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan on 12 may 1832.
Opera (e)Studio, the academy is highly specialized for artists of Ópera de Tenerife, which has since 2012 with Giulio Zappa as the artistic director. This project was born with the aim of training in all disciplines of the genre opera a quarry of artists who complies with the requirements of the current labour market. Since the month of September, the selected artists are in Tenerife working on multiple aspects, from the various interpretation techniques, musical and theatrical style, diction, body language, or drama, which are interspersed with trials rimo professional marks a theatre: evidence of costumes, make-up and rehearsal with the orchestra.
The functions, Thursday 24, Friday 25 and Saturday 26 will take place at 19:30 pm, and Sunday 27 will be at 18:00 hours. Tickets can be purchased in the usual channels of Auditorium of Tenerife, at the box office from 10:00 to 19:30 hours, from Monday to Saturday; through www.auditoriodetenerife.com or by phone at 902 317 327.