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´Paula Quintana’s sold out LA CARNE, opens the busiest week in the festival, which goes on until December. 

Cabildo de Tenerife’s councillor for culture, Enrique Arriaga, presented the 2020 FAM Special at a press conference today. The festival will run until December and includes sixteen theatre and street shows by national companies. Enrique Arriaga, in this first press conference as Culture councillor,  highlighted that "this is a new era that comes with a steady, long-lasting project for Tenerife culture, with the new technologies playing a fundamental role".

Along with Cabildo de Tenerife’s councillor for Roads, Mobility, Innovation and Culture,  the island director of culture, Alejandro Krawietz, and dancer and choreographer Paula Quintana revealed the details of the 10th FAM.  Quintana’s show LA CARNE, opens the busiest week of the festival tomorrow, the 7th.

Arriaga explained that "FAM 2020 was meant to take place in June but had to be restructured and made longer to cater for the needs of this sector". He also highlighted Quintana’s professional curriculum and said that she "is a Tenerife artist that is well-established nationally" and revealed that "no one will be unmoved" by her new piece. 

For his part, Alejandro Krawietz stressed his current position: "with this new responsibility I’m privileged to take on, we’re going to start a lasting cultural scheme, which is what Tenerife creative companies need". Regarding FAM, he pointed out that "this festival started in 2010, so it’s not new to crisis, and its goal since 2019 has been to show the contemporary quality of national dance in Tenerife". "There’s quite a lot of dance activities on the island, that’s why our intention is for the crisis to affect dance as little as possible and reinforce it through FAM", Krawietz stated.

"We’ve tried to include as many companies as possible in the programme, that’s why there may be newcomers in the next weeks, especially Canarian companies’ shows”, the island director explained. When programming special attention was given to work done in artistic residencies in agreement with the Cabildo de Tenerife’s grants given to creators for professional stage productions. 

So, although the current programme ends on 6 December, Canarian dancers will continue to be supported with new proposals that are being carried out in residencies and productions to be shown at FAM shortly. Finally, the island director was clear that "all the necessary measures have been put in place to make sure that taking part in the festival is safe".

Paula Quintana admitted that “I’m extremely pleased and proud these leading national and international companies can come to Tenerife as part of the FAM programme". As for her premiere, LA CARNE, she explained that "the piece is about the arrival of a new time, a new era when the flesh is more dignified, and so are the bodies that have raised again and again throughout civilizations". Fiction, music, and text are brought together in this piece  of dance, a discipline that is "fundamental in our time when we need art as a way of imagining, thinking, asking yourself questions." she revealed.

You can enjoy the force of live dance at Sala Sinfónica, Sala de Cámara and Auditorio de Tenerife’s grounds, and also at the Canarian Government’s venue Espacio La Granja. Information on the shows and tickets, at 8 euros, on www.famtenerife.com.

The Government of the Canary Islands’ Espacio La Granja collaborates with FAM  by housing some residencies and performances, plus the Spanish Theatre Network’s Danza a Escena scheme, and of the Circuito Acieloabierto of the street and unusual places dance network, both under the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s INAEM. The festival has the European Union EFFE label, (Europe for Festivals, Festivals for Europe) a quality mark that is granted to festivals with an artistic mission, commitment to local communities and strategic vision at European level. 

In 2019, FAM changed its approach to become a platform of national dance while facilitating Canarian companies a space for creation and exhibition. The Auditorio turns into a multipurpose space during the festival to welcome the different Spanish contemporary dance shows. 

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

The tickets for most shows are now available on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or on  902 317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

The programme 

After Carlota Mantecón’s DANCE, NO GOAL on 31 July and Ígnea by Colectivo Lamajara on 20 September, comes the premiere of LA CARNE by Paula Quintana, the second part of a trilogy that started with Las Alegrías, whose successful premiere at 2019 FAM led to its national and international distribution. In this piece, the body, movement, text, installation, and electronic music make up an epic and contemporary tale. Tickets are sold out for the first three performances. 

In the Sala de Cámara at 6:30 pm on Monday 21 October Danza Mobile is putting on El festín de los cuerpos, a choreography by Manuel Cañadas, Ana Erdozain and Arturo Parrilla, a celebration of the bodies, their movement and diversity. 

Anhelo, by Marcat Dance, nominated for three Premios MAX de las Artes Escénicas is on the stage at 8:30 pm on the 13th in the Sala Sinfónica. Mario Bermúdez’s choreography focuses on the feeling of human desire, taking the frailty of some Armenian lullabies as a starting point to recreate, through the body, their own language of movement beyond its limit. 

On 15 October Una gran emoción política will take Sala Sinfónica’s stage at 8:30 pm. Luz Arcas pens this total show, inspired by Memoria de la melancolía, María Teresa León’s autobiography that deals with the decisive years of our recent history, the time of the Civil War and exile: years marked by political fervour, the myth of the Revolution and the belief in utopias. 

On Saturday, 17 October open-air performances start every half hour from 5:30 pm. The shows included are: Expectations will not kill you, by OSA+MUJIKA; Idi-Begi, by Proyecto Larrua; Colectivo Glovo’s Mapa; Kintsugi, by Iron Skulls Co, and Young Blood, by Arnau Pérez. The day ends at the Sala Sinfónica where Instituto Stocos is performing Marriage of Heaven and Hell at 8:30 pm.On 21 October at Espacio La Granja Instrucciones para mejorar la vida, by Compañía Provisional Danza in coproduction with Compañía Nómada, will show the result of bringing together four veteran performers and choreographers while the setting is a homely living room.  

Marco Vargas & Chloé Brûlé bring to FAM Los cuerpos celestes, a series of landscapes where five performers meet and get together to try to learn about the undefinable. Duos, trios, quartets, and quintets will be displayed on 26 October at Auditorio’s Sala Sinfónica to reflect on the place of each individual and their relation to the other. 

The mountain, the truth and the Paradise is the new show by the company Mal Pelo, made up of María Muñoz and Pep Ramis. The latter is giving a solo performance on 1 November at Sala Sinfónica. This show emerges from the need to build a very personal fiction, to update previous works and look into today’s artistic interests. 

The last FAM show this year is on 6 December. It is Lava Compañía de Danza’s new show: Kick the bucket, a choreography by de Iván Pérez. In addition, Auditorio de Tenerife’s company will also dance Bending the walls, a Korzo Theater and de Nederlands Dans Theater production.

After cancelling in March, the concert by the Portuguese singer and the Barcelona producer of Rosalía is taking place next Thursday

Next Thursday, the 8th at 7:30 pm Lina and Raül Refree are giving a concert at Auditorio de Tenerife. The music duo reinvents traditional fado by using the acoustic piano and synthesizers to add an electronic touch. Tickets to enjoy this concert at the Sala de Cámara can be booked on www.auditoriodetenerife.com at a general price of 15 euros with discounts available.

This show was meant to take place on 29 March but had to be put off because of the lockdown. Auditorio de Tenerife now presents the definitive date of the concert by the Portuguese singer and the Barcelona producer, who has worked with artists like Rosalía and Silvia Pérez Cruz.

Nominated for Best Album at the European Commission’s Music Moves Europe Talent Awards 2021, Lina and Raül Refree are two musicians who build an intense, touching and very special music relationship. Raül Refree, one of the most innovative European producers, was impressed by Lina’s voice when he heard her sing at the Club de Fado in Lisbon. Lina, a fado singer with a classical training, two records with Sony Music and an expert in Amália Rodrigues, selected some of the diva’s fado classics and they immediately got down to work in a joint project.

Refree Raül framed Lina’s voice in analogical clouds with brilliant arrangements and a completely novel approach, that is, adding an electronic touch to fado, which underlines its universal scope. You can now enjoy the result at the Auditorio de Tenerife with Refree at the acoustic piano and Lina’s voice while they both use synthesizers during their performance. 

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

The Chamber Series at Auditorio de Tenerife de, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, has programmed the concert Divertimento by the Ensemble Hespérides on Thursday, the 1^st at 7:30 pm. Tickets, at a general price of 15 euros with discounts available can be booked on www.auditoriodetenerife.com

The Ensemble Hespérides, who is playing at the Auditorio de Tenerife for the first time and is returning with Temperamentos on 29 October, is made up by Raquel Martorell, flute; David Ballesteros, violin; Macarena Pesutiç, viola; and Kathleen Balfe, cello. The repertoire includes works by Joseph Haydn, Gaetano Brunetti, Bernhard Heinrich Romberg and Wolfang Amadeus Mozart.

Entertain, show a carefree, joyful style, in short: amuse you. That is the goal of this kind of music from the Classical period, and that is what the Ensemble Hespérides wishes to convey. Through their historical interpretation using original instruments, they will transport listeners to this period thanks not only to the original repertoire but also to the performance, as they have steeped themselves in its history and treatises to learn about its ins and outs and decode this type of music, which is apparently simple, but it is in the details where the key to its simplicity and amusement is to be found.  

Tickets can be booked via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public.

On Wednesday, the 30th the Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) is putting the last show in their programme: San Juan, by La República theatre company. Written by Max Aub, it deals with exile through a ship journey. With the support of the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, the play will be performed at 8:30 pm in the Teatro El Sauzal. Tickets are at 12 euros and there are discounts available. You can book them on www.meitenerife.com.

San Juan is an allegory of exile written by Aub, a Spanish author who fled to Mexico after the Spanish Civil War. It is about the tragic journey of some Jewish people in 1938 on board the San Juan, a former animal cargo ship. They travel from country to country but are rejected at every port. Nonetheless, the hope that they will be allowed to land at some point drives them on. 

Nearly all the social types are on the San Juan: rich and poor, young and old, rebels and submissive, traitors and loyal, communist Jews... A piece of society that eventually shows its ugliest side: misery, despair, ambition, resignation… The boat becomes one single character with a common fate for everyone. 

With the Jews and the World War 2 as a backdrop, San Juan criticises the lack of humanity, also among the Jews, who are crowded together on the old boat. A redeeming shipwreck, therefore, death, is the longed-for freedom to escape from the tragedy. 

Directed by Nacho Cabrera, the cast performing the crew includes Miguel Ángel Maciel, Efraím Martín, Toni Báez, Abián de la Cruz, Idaira Lermo, Sara Álvarez, and Saulo Valerón. The play by the Gran Canaria company was performed at Teatro Cuyas de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria on 25 and 26 September. 

MEI shows, organised by the Auditorio de Tenerife, have two rates, the standard at 12 euros and one for El Sauzal residents at 9 euros. There are non-combinable discounts for the unemployed (50%), under 30-year-olds (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document to prove you are entitled to the discount must be shown at the door (ID, DARDE, large family card, student card…).

Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before the show begins and at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by making an appointment to come Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of COVID-19. You can read them on www.teatroelsauzal.com.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is giving the second season concert at 7:30 pm on Friday, the 2nd at Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme includes works by Schumann, Shostakovich and Ginastera and will be conducted by Juanjo Mena. It is also the first time the 2020/2021 season Artist in Residence, cellist Pablo Ferrández, is taking part. 

The Cabildo’s orchestra will play with the reduced orchestra now in place the Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 12 by Robert Schumann, Dmitri Shostakovich‘s Chamber Symphony, op. 110a -arranged by Rudolf Barshai- and Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 by Alberto Ginastera.

Tickets for all the concerts of the first part of the season are available from today, Monday the 28th. You can also get the Pack Otoño [Autumn Package], that includes five concerts with 10% discount. 

You can book them via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com and by telephone on 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office on www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public. 

The Cello Concerto in A minor, op. 12 was written by Robert Schumann in 1850, during a period regarded as his most creative.  Like an elegy, this composition, in which the cello has a conversation with the other instruments, evokes an atmosphere of withdrawal and melancholy. 

Chamber Symphony, op. 110a -arranged by Rudolf Barshai- is by Dmitri Shostakovich and has never been played by Sinfónica de Tenerife before. It is of an autobiographical nature and quotes from many of his main works are easily identified like his First and Tenth Symphonies, his opera Lady Macbeth, or his first Cello Concerto. 

Alberto Ginastera‘s Variaciones concertantes, op. 23 is one of the main works of the Argentinian composer’s “subjective nationalism” period, in which folklore and traditional music play a fundamental role as groundbreaking creative elements. 

Juanjo Mena was awarded the Premio Nacional de Música in the Performance category in 2016 and is internationally regarded as one of the most renowned Spanish conductors. He is currently principal conductor of the Cincinnati May Festival. He has been principal conductor of the BBC Philharmonic, Guest principal conductor of the Bergen Filharmoniske Orkester and the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, in addition to principal conductor and artistic director of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Bilbao.

He has led prestigious ensembles including the philharmonic of Berlin, London, della Scala (Milan), Oslo and Rotterdam, the symphony orchestras of Bavaria Radio, Bamberg, Swedish Radio, Danish National and NHK Tokyo, French National Orchestra, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and the Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. In America he has conducted the symphony orchestras of Chicago, Baltimore, Cincinnati, Montreal, Pittsburgh and Toronto, the New York and Los Angeles philharmonics and the Cleveland, Minnesota, Philadelphia and Washington orchestras, among others.

Cellist Pablo Ferrández, Sinfónica de Tenerife‘s resident artist for the 2020/21 season has been recognised at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition, ICMA Young Artist of the Year and in 2018 he won the Premio Princesa de Girona for his “exceptional talent and international scope”. In the last seasons he has taken part in music engagements like the Hollywood Bowl with Los Angeles Philharmonic, with Bavaria Radio Symphony Orchestra and has collaborated with Anne-Sophie Mutter playing Brahms Double Concerto in Madrid and Oxford; he also made his debut with Bamberg Symphony, or collaborated with Anne-Sophie Mutter, Khatia Buniatishvili and the London Philharmonic playing Beethoven‘s Triple Concerto.

Ferrández has also performed with Filarmonica della Scala and R. Chailly, Mahler Chamber Orchestra and D. Gatti, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Scottish Symphony, RTE National Symphony Orchestra, Dusseldorf Symphony at Elbphilharmonie, Orchestra Sinfonica Nationale RAI, St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Orquesta Nacional de España, Orquesta de RTVE, or Orquesta Sinfónica de les Illes Balears.

El Festival Internacional de Música de Cine de Tenerife (FIMUCITÉ) afronta este fin de semana la recta final de su decimocuarta edición, una entrega que un año más está llenando los espacios culturales de la isla con la mejor música de cine gracias al apoyo de Cabildo de Tenerife, Ayuntamiento de Santa Cruz, Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Gobierno de Canarias, Auditorio de Tenerife y Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife. La banda sonora de la exitosa serie de televisión ‘La Casa de papel’, compuesta por Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara, será absoluta protagonista con el estreno mundial de su interpretación en formato sinfónico bajo la dirección artística y musical del reconocido compositor y director de orquesta Diego Navarro, director de FIMUCITÉ.

Los detalles de estos conciertos históricos fueron dados por el presidente del Cabildo de Tenerife, Pedro Martín; el alcalde de La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez; el director del festival y conductor de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, Diego Navarro; el creador de La casa de papel, Álex Pina; el actor de la serie Pedro Alonso; la cantante del tema principal, Cecilia Krull, y los compositores Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara.

El presidente del Cabildo dio la bienvenida a los protagonistas de los conciertos de hoy y mañana. “Esta situación que estamos viviendo de crisis sanitaria tendrá que pasar pero para volver a una realidad nueva y definitiva necesitamos a la cultura porque hay ámbitos de la vida a los que no podemos renunciar”, declaró Pedro Martín.

Luis Yeray Gutiérrez agradeció a Navarro contar con La Laguna “de la forma tan firme en la que se ha desarrollado este año; un municipio con una apuesta decidida por la cultura, que quiere ser referente cultural y que gracias a FIMUCITÉ lo consigue”.

Diego Navarro aseguró que se trata de una rueda de prensa muy especial y que “ha sido tremendo llegar hasta aquí”. “Todos los festivales del mundo de este género han cancelado sus ediciones 2020, solo FIMUCITÉ resiste, el más antiguo de Europa”, compartió el también compositor.

El creador de la exitosa serie, la primera española en ganar un Emmy, aseguró que su relación con Tenerife “es cada vez más poderosa”. “Antes escribíamos aquí y ahora hasta grabamos y venimos a conciertos”, aseguró Pina, quien forma tándem con Santisteban desde hace 25 años y considera que “nuestra forma de diseñar personajes es conmovedora”.

El actor Pedro Alonso hizo hincapié en el esfuerzo que ha hecho el equipo para sacar adelante este festival: “Es una construcción de una gran envergadura que requiere muchísimo esfuerzo”. El intérprete que encarna a Berlín en la serie confesó que participará en dos momentos de la serie cantando y que, tras los ensayos, puede decir que “la vibración en el escenario con toda la orquesta tocando es alucinante, es otro nivel”.

La cantante de My life is going on,  Celicia Krull confesó que, “a pesar de que la canción pintaba muy bien desde el principio, nadie pensaba que fuese a gustar tanto, se ha buscado muchísimo en Shazam, es como un tesoro que ha creado Manel”. “Este proyecto de La Resistencia es maravillosos y le da empaque a esta música de la serie, que nos llega hasta los huesos”.

Manel Santisteban aseguró estar emocionado “y lo estoy desde el minuto uno de este proyecto, cuando Diego me llamó”. “Tenerife nos está dando una gran acogida desde que llegamos y he notado una buena energía y un nivel de implicación que no me esperaba”, explicó el compositor, quien asegura que “la Sinfónica de Tenerife es una de las mejores orquestas del mundo”.

Iván Martínez Lacámara habló de lo complicado que es elegir la música para un concierto así porque “en cada temporada de la serie puede haber cuatro o cinco horas de música”.

El Auditorio de Tenerife acogerá las dos funciones previstas de ‘Somos La Resistencia: La Casa de papel En Concierto’, que tendrán lugar este viernes y mañana sábado 26 de septiembre, con la presencia de los compositores Manel Santisteban e Iván Martínez Lacámara, y la cantante Cecilia Krull, quien interpretará sobre el escenario la popular canción principal de la serie, ‘My life is going on’.

Ópera de Tenerife’s coproduction L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti, is reaching Italian Teatro Comunale di Bologna next week. This is a transnational project that is supported by the European Commission’s prestigious grant Creative Europe. Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is the leading theatre of the project in partnership with Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre in Georgia.

The performances at the Italian theatre were originally scheduled for June but had to be put off due to the health crisis. They are now taking place on 29 and 30 September and 1, 3, 6 and 7 October, and are the first opera performances of this institution after the pandemic. L’elisir d’amore opened at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala Sinfónica with Pablo Maritano as stage director on 24 to 27 October 2019 and was on at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre on 26, 27 and 29 February and 1 March 2020.

The cast was selected in auditions held by the Opera (e)Studio high specialisation academy in February 2019 in Bologna, Tbilisi, Madrid and Tenerife, which were attended by 181 candidates from 33 different nationalities. The singers who took part in the original performance were María Rita Combattelli (soprano); Beatriz de Sousa (soprano); Klodjan Kaçani (tenor); César Arrieta (tenor); Alberto Bonifazio (baritone); Jacobo Ochoa (baritone); Givi Gigineishvili (bass); Matteo Andrea Mollica (bass); Sofía Esparza (soprano) and Leonora Tess (soprano). The Italian cast also includes David Astorga singer.

The project as a whole, which includes the coproduction, the tour, the auditions, the training and several other activities, is what the European Commission’s Creative Europe has singled out from the hundreds of projects received. The goal of this European programme is to support the cultural and film industries of the continent. 

Opera (e)Studio is Ópera de Tenerife’s high specialisation academy for artists and has had Giulio Zappa as artistic director since 2012. This project was set up with the aim of providing training to young artists in all the opera disciplines while at the same time meeting the demands of the present work market.

L’elisir d’amore is a melodramma giocoso by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani, based on Eugène Scribe’s text Le philtre for the opera by Daniel François Esprit Auber. It is one of the composer’s best-received opera buffa thanks to unforgettable melodies like ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ and a lively plot that tells us about the love affair between beautiful Adina and naïve Nemorino. It was premiered at Teatro della Canobbiana in Milan on 12 May 1832.

The Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) is presenting four shows this week: Siete hombres buenos, a text by Juan Mayorga; ¡Valientes!, with a singular setting; Informe Lope, a premiere; and Fábula del topo, el murciélago y la musaraña, based on a true story. These options of the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, will be on at 8:30 pm at the Teatro El Sauzal. Standard tickets at 12 euros and discounts are available on www.meitenerife.com.

The first show, on tomorrow, Tuesday, the 22nd is Siete hombres buenos, by 2RC Teatro. It is a text from the first play by Juan Mayorga, which was awarded Accésit Marqués de Bradomín in 1989, and is first showing now, thirty years later. It is about a government in exile for many years. Ideals have changed, past treasons return to the present, personal interests taint this government when the tyrant is overthrown and there is a chance to return. 

¡Valientes! by Burka Teatro, is an apparent dramatized guided tour by an exquisite historian who is interrupted by an astonishing character, a homeless woman who is actually a fount of wisdom. They will both take the audience on an exciting, amusing journey across the stories of many women who have fought for gender equality since Antiquity. This play will be performed on Wednesday, the 23^rd at MEI with a singular setting where there is no stage. 

On Friday, the 25th Informe Lope will be premiered. Morfema Teatro recreates the setting of a mysterious corporation whose basements store theatre plays from all periods, including the ones by Lope de Vega. Ramírez and González, a woman and a man respectively, are the officials in charge of classifying and preparing it for “publication”. The conflict develops from the main topic it deals with, that is, the way the playwright conceived his female characters. 

On Sunday, the 27th Fábula del topo, el murciélago y la musaraña, by Delirium Teatro, will tell us about the ups and downs experienced by Pedro Perdomo Pérez and his family. He was a chairperson of PSOE (Socialist Party) at the Casa del Pueblo in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria during the first days of the army uprising in 1936 after which he turned first into a target, then into a fugitive and eventually, into a topo of Franco repression. After hiding for 33 years at the house of two of his sisters and protected by an amnesty, he resurrects to the world at the beginning of the Transition. This show is part of Teatro El Sauzal programme.

MEI shows, which is organized by Auditorio de Tenerife, have two different rates: standard at 12 euros and El Sauzal residents at 9 euros. There are other non-combinable discounts available for the unemployed (50%), under 30 (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document proving entitlement to the discount must be produced when entering the theatre (DNI, DARDE, large family card, student card…).

Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before every MEI show, at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by making an appointment Monday to Friday 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can make an appointment for the box office on https://auditoriodetenerife.com/en/contact-us and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. 

Buying the tickets involves the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of COVID-19, which can be read on www.teatroelsauzal.com

The Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM continues its 2020 Special next Sunday at 8:00 pm with Ígnea, by Colectivo Lamajara. This new piece premiers today, 16th at the Sala Negra de los Teatros del Canal in Madrid and will be in Tenerife for a second performance at the Government of the Canary Islands’s venue Espacio La Granja, that collaborates in the festival with Auditorio de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero.

The group says that in this volcano-inspired piece “with pleasure, willingly, we let ourselves burn and invoke the unstable nature of things, bringing the image of a volcano as a metaphor for these thoughts.” “In times of explosions, the apparent balance rejects instability, which is, paradoxically, one of its means of expression…”, they say.

Paloma Hurtado, Reinaldo Ribeiro and Daniel Rosado are behind the concept of this new creation, which received a Cabildo de Tenerife grant for professional stage productions. Texts are by Arantza López in collaboration with Colectivo Lamajara. The bodies in Ígnea belong to Igor Calonge, Milagros García, Paloma Hurtado, Daniel Morales and Daniel Rosado; and they are clad with costumes by Héctor León. Stage design is by Luis Crespo and Irene Cantero takes care of lighting. Original music is by Paloma Peñarrubia.

El Colectivo Lamajara is an organization of artists who share a common interest in the language of the body and its possible expressions. It is made up of emerging creators, dancers and collaborators from other art disciplines. The group organizes work cooperatively, encouraging dialogue and agreement towards a common methodology. Their main goal is to support free artistic expression, helping to produce free, eclectic creations.

The public is kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this cultural centre by the Cabildo to deal with COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask. Please see FAM upcoming events on www.famtenerife.com.

Auditorio de Tenerife, que depende del Área de Cultura, Educación, Juventud, Museos y Deportes del Cabildo insular de Tenerife, que dirige la consejera Concepción Rivero, presenta este jueves [día 17] a las 19:30 horas el primer concierto de la temporada su Ciclo de Cámara. Al cappone, de la Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, agotó durante el fin de semana las entradas para este concierto, un homenaje a los castrati, el canto operístico barroco del siglo XVIII, que contará con el contratenor italiano Filippo Mineccia.

La formación, que tocará en la Sala de Cámara, contará en esta ocasión con Alfonso Sebastián como clave y director invitado. Por primera vez la violinista Judith Verona hará de concertino, mientras que Laura Díaz será el violín barroco I. Sergio Suárez y Giovanni Déniz se encargarán de los violines barrocos II, mientras que las violas barrocas sonarán de las manos de Víctor Gil y Melchor García. Completan las filas de la orquesta Diego Pérez al violonchelo barroco, Juan Carlos Baeza al violone y Jorge Rubiales a la tiorba. El broche de oro lo pondrá la voz de Mineccia

Este programa titulado  Al cappone no alude al famoso gánster estadounidense sin la doble pe, sino al mundo sonoro de los castrati  que cantaron los mejores roles de las óperas barrocas, producto de la historia. El director artístico de la Orquesta, Conrado Álvarez, explica que la voz del invitado especial de la noche “emula, con todo intacto, a los capones o castrati, invento del Imperio Romano de Oriente para los coros bizantinos de Constantinopla, desde el siglo IV hasta siglo XIII, en desuso tras la cuarta cruzada, que brotó con fuerza en el Renacimiento llegando a su apogeo, de la mano de la ópera, nell'ottocento y al declive en las postrimerías del siglo XIX”.

“Es bueno recordar que el canto de falsete existe en la naturaleza humana desde siempre  y que la técnica del falsete coexistía con los eunucos músicos desde la Edad Media, pero las exigencias de las partes vocales escritas por los autores barrocos necesitaba de la potencia, la presión sonora y, sobre todo, de la extrema extensión de la tesitura de los cantantes masculinos castrados”, explica Álvarez.

Se ruega al público llegar al recinto con antelación suficiente para realizar una entrada escalonada a la sala. La compra de las entradas supone la aceptación de las medidas implementadas por el centro cultural del Cabildo para hacer frente a la COVID-19, como el uso de la mascarilla o la asistencia solo con convivientes. Las medidas al completo, así como el plan de contingencia certificado por AENOR, se pueden consultar en la web del Auditorio. Tanto la cafetería GastroMag como el parking están disponibles.

Filippo Mineccia nace en Florencia y comienza sus estudios en la Escuela de Música de Fiesole, cantando desde niño en el coro polifónico con voz blanca. Obtiene las licenciaturas de violonchelo y canto en el Conservatorio Luigi Cherubini de Florencia.

Ha trabajado con grupos especializados y orquestas historicistas de toda Europa cantado con directores como: A. Viktora, A. Curtis, A. Florio, C. Ipata, C. Aragon, C. Cavina, D. Coleman, E. Onofri, F. M. Bressan, G. Rufet, J. U. Illán, M. Valdivieso, M. Mazzeo, M. Hofstetter, O. Dantone, R. Jais y T. Engelbrock.

Domina un amplio repertorio como solista y principales papeles tales como Giulio Cesare, Sila,  Ottone de las óperas de Handel, el Alessandro de Tolomeo y Dárdano de Amadigi, el Telamone de Ercole su’l Termodonte de Vivaldi, el Nerón de Ottavia restituita al trono de A. Scarlatti, Le disgrazie d’amore de Cesti, el Tamerlán de Bajazet de Gasparini o Fairy Queen de Purcell.

Cuenta con numerosas grabaciones y entre sus futuros compromisos, todos con formaciones historicistas europeas, se encuentran la Capilla de La Pietà de Turchini, la interpretación de Tolomeo en la ópera Giulio Cesare con la Academia Bizantina, o recitales dedicados a la figura del castrado Giovanni Francesco Grossi Siface, con la Orquesta Nereydas y la interpretación de Endimione en la ópera Calisto de Cavalli en Estrasburgo.

The Sinfónica de Tenerife, which is under the Department of Culture, Education, Youth, Museums and Sport of the Cabildo de Tenerife, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, is opening at 7:30 pm on Friday, the 18th its 2020/2021 season with a concert at Auditorio de Tenerife. The programme, featuring Strauss and Mahler, will be led by its principal conductor, Antonio Méndez, and includes French-Danish soprano Elsa Dreisig.

With the reduced version of the orchestra set up in the June and July extraordinary series, The Cabildo’s Orchestra presents a programme made up of Metamorphosen, TrV 290 by Richard Strauss and Gustav Mahler’s Symphony nº4 in G major (arranged by Klaus Simon).

Tickets are available on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or by calling 902  317 327 Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can also make an appointment to come to the box office Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on //www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they can also answer your queries, Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Audience members are kindly asked to come to Auditorio early enough to enter the theatre gradually. On buying the tickets, users accept the measures implemented at this cultural centre by the Cabildo to deal with COVID-19, such as wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with. The full measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan are available on Auditorio’s website. Both the GastroMag and the car park are open to the public.

Elsa Dreisig was recognised in 2016 as the best female singer at the Operalia competition called Vocal Discovery in the Victoires de Musique Classique Awards. She has been Opera for Peace ambassador since 2019 through the Crown Prince Couple's Awards. She has sung at the Berlin State Opera, Paris Opera, Zurich Opera, the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence or Salzburg Festival and has collaborated with ensembles like Staatskapelle Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, Munich Philharmonic, Orchestre Français des Jeunes and the West–Eastern Divan Orchestra.

Sinfónica de Tenerife’s principal conductor since the 2018/2019 season, Antonio Méndez, is one of the best-established and most sought-after conductors of his generation and has built close links with leading European orchestras. He has led different international ensembles including Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Staatskapelle Dresden, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic or Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

The Cabildo de Tenerife, through the Department of Education, Youth, Museums, Culture and Sport, run by councillor Concepción Rivero, presents the premiere of the show Todo el cielo, by Unahoramenos Producciones, at the Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) [Latin American Stage Showcase]. It is a dramaturgy of Canarian poems with live music that will be seen for the first time tomorrow Tuesday, the 15th at 8:30 pm in Teatro El Sauzal. Tickets, at a general price of 12 euros and with discounts now available, are on sale on www.meitenerife.com.

Many poets believe to be writing the same poem, that all of them in different languages, places and times have ventured into the blank page to add another piece to a wonderful, unfinished puzzle. That is how Todo el cielo came into being, a journey through Canarian poems from different periods and authors, selected by Yeray Rodríguez, that will come to life together, like voices in a choir to bring the song of the many into one single song.

Actors Marta Viera and Ruth Sánchez will bring these verses to life along with the music of Carlos Oramas, who is specialised in Baroque instruments. This play, directed by Mario Vega, has Nauzet Afonso as costume designer; the lighting design is by Ibán Negrín and Valentín Rodríguez is the production manager.

In the presentation of the show, it was said that “on these brief islands, for centuries we’ve pursued answers that poems have not fully given us; this makes the questions grow.  Perhaps in the voice of others, that becomes more our own the more choral it is, we may find rather than the answer, the definite question. We have the whole sky to find out”.

MEI shows, which is an event organised by the Auditorio de Tenerife, offer two different rates: general, at 12 euros and for residents in El Sauzal at 9 euros. Also, other non-combinable individual discounts are available: (50%), aged under 30 (30%), large families (25%) and students (10%). A document to prove this condition must be shown on entering the theatre. (DNI, DARDE, large family card, student card...).

Tickets can now be booked online on www.meitenerife.com, at Teatro El Sauzal box office 90 minutes before every MEI show and at Auditorio de Tenerife box office by getting an appointment to come Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 5:00 pm and Saturdays from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays. You can book your appointment for the box office on www.auditoriodetenerife.com/contactar and on 922 568 625, where they will also answer all your queries Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm, except holidays.

Buying a ticket implies users unconditionally accept the contents of the measures implemented by Teatro El Sauzal to prevent the spread of Covid-19. You can read them on www.teatroelsauzal.com.

The company

Unahoramenos Producciones was set up in the southeast of Gran Canaria in 1999. After some years producing very successful shows, in 2014 it focuses on social-based artistic creation. Mario Vega becomes the head of creative direction and at present all their shows have to do with social issues.

Me llamo Suleimán (2015) and Los Malditos (2016), both written by Antonio Lozano, denounce the unfair and unbalanced relationship between Europe and Africa through innovative staging that are very well-received by both critics and audiences.  Both shows were granted the R for recommended show from the Theatre Commission of the RED Nacional; Me llamo Suleimán got six Réplica Awards and Los Malditos have eight nominations for the XX Premios Max.

In 2018 the company started a three-year innovation and research project called Laboratorio Galdós, Ana, también a nosotros nos llevará el olvido, by Gran Canarian Irma Correa, about the social situation of women in 1960s Spain, during the dictatorship. The show got the R for recommended show from the Theatre Commission of the RED Nacional plus 3 nomination for the XXII Premios Max.

In 2019 and 2020 the Laboratorio Galdós continues with their creative innovation and research projects, encouraging citizens’ participation and attracting audiences with two other shows of marked social conscience. One of this shows is El crimen de la calle Fuencarral, which opened on Sunday, the 13th the 2020 Special MEI.

Moria is their new play on social issues, stage research and innovation down a path that brings together passion for the theatre and an obligation to denounce social injustice. Moria is a cry to Europe, a call to European citizens to become aware of the fact that our land is once again in a most atrocious situation: the death of hundreds f people through our indifference. It was meant to be premiered at MEI 2020 but it had to be postponed due to the health crisis as it is immersive theatre.