Volcano of emotions
Season 2019-2020 of Ópera de Tenerife bears the signature of great composers such as Donizetti, Verdi, or Handel, but where there is room, too, for authors of more avant-garde as Ullmann and Krenek, expanding the offer of the lyrics to a total of eight titles that consolidates an Opera of Tenerife, such as the production center for more important of the Canary islands. The details of this new season were released Monday 25 by the president of the Cabildo, Carlos Alonso, the director of the island of Culture, José Luis Rivero, and the mayor of Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante.
The president highlighted the success of the current season of the Opera de Tenerife, “that has not yet finished, and that is bringing us a great success.” “Without going more far, the last Saturday in Turandot, with tickets sold out, we saw a Symphonic Hall standing start clapping,” he recalled Alonso, who added that “when one speaks of opera, the first thing that you think is in the creativity, and that’s why Opera de Tenerife helps to understand what it means to Tenerife 2030; and this is a job that takes care from the earliest age with the Hands to the Opera,” admitted the president, who acknowledged that the Council “we are very proud of this project, which opens in Tenerife to the outside”.
Carlos Alonso explained that the season of the Opera de Tenerife is the more affordable of Spain, thanks to its campaign of coupons, discounts and price reductions. “A novelty is that we have expanded to 30, the age limit to be eligible to compost young or discount young entry-loose”.
The principal island of Culture explained that “there are many parameters that define the success of Ópera de Tenerife, such as professional, technical, educational, social, creativity, the territory and the work of large audiences.” “Opera de Tenerife leads to Tenerife 2030 as a banner from your home, Auditorium of Tenerife, which has become an ‘ Opera house”, he said.
The Symphony Orchestra of Tenerife and the Tenerife Auditorium are the two great pillars that make it possible Ópera de Tenerife, “a project that we are at the forefront in the world of the lyric, talking face to face with the major theaters of the world”.
Jose Luis Rivero explained that there are more than 127 cultural actions related to the lyrics with programs that distribute the knowledge of the opera for the island, as Opera en Route, the Snacks, Opera, or the Opera Forum, and only 19 are held in the Auditorium of Tenerife, welcoming 108 the different municipalities of the island. “We added more than 27,000 spectators, also thanks to our pricing policy, that is suitable to promote access to the genre”.
Alejandro Abrante made it clear that “Opera and Tenerife are two terms that have to go together”. For Abrante “Opera (e)Studio is one of our most important projects because it makes quarry and gives rise to singers that feel of Tenerife”. “From here, born great artists, who would later return as part of the season to return what they received,” said the mayor, who said that of the 70 who have passed through this academy of perfecting vocal, 40 are doing career currently. “We’re already a model of opera production,” he concluded.
The season raises the curtain with the seventh promotion of Opera (e)Studio, the academy of comprehensive training to the development of young artists, this edition is sponsored by the European Commission within the Creative Europe programme. The title chosen for this occasion by the artistic director of the project, the maestro Giulio Zappa, will be the melodramma giocoso in Gaetano Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore, with four representations of the October 24 to 27,. This first title is a co-production of Ópera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bolognia and the Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre.
19, 21 and 23 of November we will be the turn of Rigoletto, a title that is inside of the famous popular trilogy of Giuseppe Verdi, where the main role, Rigoletto, will be played by one of the artists most acclaimed repertoire verdiano and verista world, Leo Nucci.
To close the first quarter of the season, we’ll have a double, version concert, which brings together two operas composed by austrian composers of the first half of the TWENTIETH century that, under the magnifying glass of the sarcasm, address the issue of totalitarian power. Der Diktator (The dictator) of Ernst Krenek, composed in 1928 during the fascinated in Italy, and Der Kaiser von Atlantis (the emperor of Atlantis by Viktor Ullmann composed in 1943 at a concentration camp.
The ventures and misadventures of the daughter of a Pope, Lucrezia Borgia by Donizetti, arrive at Opera de Tenerife on days 17, 19 and 21 march. The director Silvia Paoli, who made his debut at Opera de Tenerife with La Cenerentola (2014), and, in the wake of the success was repeated with Le nozze di Figaro (2015) and I Capuleti e i Montecchi(2017), returns with this international co-production between Opera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Opera de Oviedo and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Your interpretation of the work takes us back to the decade of the thirties, where the rise of fascism in Italy will mark the models of feminine behavior, governed by the hidden defects and virtues public of a society androcentric.
Under the format of Opera in the family will represent the 25th and 26th of April Rinaldo. Battles that rage, spells and beautiful melodies such as the famous ‘Lascia ch io pianga’ make this title one of the most acclaimed of George Frideric Handel. The following production, own of Ópera de Tenerife and within the program Opera Pocket, will transport us to the unforgettable love story composed by Verdi’s La traviata, which, as in previous editions, will travel through different municipalities of the island with the intention of bringing opera to new scenarios, and the public. Continuing with the line of support of the zarzuela, has scheduled the romance sailor La tabernera del puerto de Pablo Sorozábal, one of the composers most recognized of the zarzuela of the TWENTIETH century.
The new opera season of tenerife also offers the seventh edition of the International Singing Contest of Ópera de Tenerife, which has established itself as an unmissable event in the panorama lyrical, the international return to enjoy a cast of great voices on The end of the day, June 24, with free entry until capacity is full, and the 25th of June in the Concert of Laureates. This season includes the masterclass of perfecting vocal and interpretive for young talents that will be held from October 28 to November 2, in addition to the action teaching Opera in Path, which will bring new audiences the ins and outs of the world of opera and the titles that make up the offer.
Antonio Mendez, Philippe Auguin, Pedro Halffter, Andriy Yurkevych, Giovanni Paganelli, Rubén Sánchez-Vieco, and Alessandro Palumbo -the latter with the Orchestra of the Academy Ópera de Tenerife – will be in charge of putting themselves at the front of the Symphonic orchestra of Tenerife to musicalizar one more season productions, which is represented in the Auditorium of Tenerife, next to the vocal work of the Chorus of Opera de Tenerife directed by Carmen Cruz.
As in previous editions, Ópera de Tenerife offers the possibility to be paid via different modalities that do not only pose a discount on the price of the input, but also allow you to enjoy a number of exclusive benefits, among which is to ensure the location of the seat, preferred access to the living room, free shuttle service to and Opera Bus or the digital reception program hand before the première.
The titles that are included in any of the two types of fertilizer available, Club, Opera Club Opera Young, are: L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Der Diktator and Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Lucrezia Borgia and La tabernera del puerto. compost Club Opera Young will also Rinaldo and the Concert of Winners of the International Song Contest. Also you will get a 15% additional discount on different events, Auditorio de Tenerife, Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, Quantum Ensemble, Opera in family, Opera Pocket. The service offer includes a 10% discount on drinks in the Gastromag Auditorium, as well as a selection of cafes and restaurants of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Within the compost Club Opera include different fees, such as: Ambassador, the First time, Corporate, Family, and Collective (conservatories, music schools and universities) that pose a specific discount for each group that ranges between 30 to 40%. In the case of not opt for a season pass, Ópera de Tenerife offers a number of special discounts on localities loose for various groups, such as students, unemployed, large families, participants of Opera in Route and the holders of the card Please+ More. In addition, as a novelty of this season, extending the age range to benefit from the discount of minors, which happens to 30 years, with a single price of 5 euros.