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Singers Yolanda Auyanet and Antonino Siragusa star in the show at Sala Sinfónica on the 24th, 26th and 28th

The Auditorio de Tenerife welcomes the eagerly anticipated premiere of the opera Lucrezia Borgia. The details of the show were revealed by the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Councillor of Culture, Enrique Arriaga; soprano Yolanda Auyanet, who plays the leading role; renowned Italian tenor as Gennaro, Antonino Siragusa; stage director, Silvia Paoli, and musical director, Andriy Yurkevych. This opera, which had to be cancelled in March due to health crisis, can be enjoyed on 24, 26 and 28 November at the Sala Sinfónica of Auditorio de Tenerife at 7:00 pm, half an hour earlier than usual. 

Enrique Arriaga said he felt “proud of the effort made by Auditorio de Tenerife’s team to get the show off the ground, despite having to adapt it to the new safety measures”. “Auditorio de Tenerife is one of the few cultural venues that can still put on shows of this kind with full guarantees, because this is a safe show”, he stated, adding that tickets for Saturday are sold out, “but you still have the chance to come on the premiere or on Thursday”.

Yolanda Auyanet, an internationally successful Canarian soprano, admitted she was “delighted to be back here to do our Lucrezia”. “I’d like to thank Ópera de Tenerife and the Cabildo de Tenerife for their effort, because I know it’d have been very easy to cancel or postpone it but they decided to go ahead and that’s something culture in this country is going to be very grateful for”, the singer concluded.

Antonino Siragusa, one of the best tenors at present, confessed that “it’s a great satisfaction to be back on a stage after so many months”. “The organization of Ópera de Tenerife makes us feel calm because all the necessary measures are applied to make sure it is absolutely safe to work here”, added the singer, who is making his debut with this production in the role of Gennaro.

For Silvia Paoli “Ópera de Tenerife is my family, I feel at home and thank them for their love”. The stage director stated that “hope is fundamental to continue, and that’s what we’re offering with this Lucrezia Borgia”. “It’s difficult to understand the amount of people who work in shows”, Paoli added, to then point out that it is complicated to “redo the stage direction in four days, having to apply safety measures, including facemasks and distances”.

Maestro Yurkevych recalled that “landing at the airport was like getting back home, like a father returning home to see his children”. “When we left in March our heart remained here, our work was halfway through and now, when I saw my score again I felt as if it were a sacred book that can save our civilization”, shared the maestro, who also mentioned how complex it is to work as the choir wears facemasks and the Sinfónica de Tenerife has readjusted the number of musicians and their layout. “Through what we’re doing, we’re sending a message to the world, that’s watching us”, the musical director added.

This Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti, a co-production led by Ópera de Tenerife with Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Ópera de Oviedo and Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville, is back after applying all the safety and hygiene measures both in front and behind the stage, offering a show that is adapted to the current circumstances and is absolutely safe both for the audience and the artists. 

Silvia Paoli transfers the opera to Mussolini’s fascist Italy to reinforce the sense of oppression and claustrophobia the story suggests, specifically setting it in a slaughter house, which is recreated on the stage with a wealth of details by stage designer Andrea Belli, costumes by Valeria Donata Bettella and Alessandro Carletti’s lighting design. This is Paoli’s fourth title in Ópera de Tenerife, after La Cenerentola (2014), Le nozze di Figaro (2015) and I Capuleti e i Montecchi (2017), which are productions of the Opera (e)Studio programme. She recently directed Otello (Verdi) at the Teatro Sociale in Como and Enrico di Borgogna (Donizetti) in the Festival Donizetti in Bergamo. 

The Sinfónica de Tenerife will play under the baton of Yurkevych, musical director at the Teatr Wielki Opera Norodowa (Polish National Opera),one of the most sought-after conductors internationally. Maestro Yurkevych is making his debut with Ópera de Tenerife leading the Sinfónica and the Coro de Ópera de Tenerife after a long career as resident conductor at the Solomiya Krushelnitska Opera and Ballet Theatre, principal conductor at the Teatrul Naţional de Operă şi Balet in the Republic of Moldova and at the Teatr Wielki in Poland. He has also been musical director at Odessa’s Opera and Ballet Theatre. He is regularly invited to major theatres, festivals, and institutions worldwide. 

The leading role, Lucrezia Borgia, will be played by Canarian soprano Yolanda Auyanet, who is joined by internationally successful tenor Antonino Siragusa as Gennaro, bass Simone Alberghini playing Alfonso I d’Este, Duca di Ferrara, mezzosoprano Na’ama Goldman as Maffio Orsini, tenor Jorge Franco in the role of Jeppo Liverotto; bass Pablo Gálvez as Don Aposto Gazella, bass Daniele Terenzi as Ascanio Petrucci, tenor David Astorga playing Oloferno Vitellozzo, bass Borja Molina as Gubetta, tenor Mario Méndez as Rustighello and bass Eugenio Di Lieto as Astolfo.

The Coro de la Ópera de Tenerife is made up of the extras plus the voices of tenors and baritones and it will play a special role in this staging in which Auditorio’s Sala Sinfónica will shine again with the stage design, the orchestra, and the voices. 

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodrama in a prologue and two acts with music by Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani. It is based on a drama, with the same title, by French writer Victor Hugo, loosely inspired by the historical figure of Lucrezia Borgia. It was premiered at the Teatro alla Scala de Milan on 26 December 1833. The composer looks deeply into the morbid legend of Pope Alessandro VI’s daughter who grew up in a family surrounded by rumours of incest, adultery, infidelity, betrayal, murder, and horror, creating a strong psychological portrait of a powerful but fragile woman.

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/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.

Tickets can be bought up to two hours before the show starts, to give us time to finish preparing the auditorium so that you can enjoy a fully safe experience. Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Auditorio de Tenerife to deal with COVID-19, with no exceptions or reservations, including wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with.  Please see all the measures and the AENOR-certified contingency plan on Auditorio’s website.

An open day will be held tomorrow at 6:00 pm and the work will be showcased on Saturday at 7:30 pm

Auditorio de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is hosting the residence of dancer and creator Élida Dorta as part of the 2020 Festival de Creación y Experimentación de Canarias NUMAcircuit. Last Monday the artist started developing M, the piece that will be shown to the public in Sala Castillo on Saturday the 21^st at 7:30 pm. Also, tomorrow, Thursday, the 19th there will be an open day at 6:00 pm. Both events are free of charge but can only admit a very reduced a number of people. 

Élida Dorta, a classical and contemporary dancer, will present M, her artist residence that looks into the transforming capacity of art.  It is a personal and political work in which Dorta reflects on life, maternity, becoming aware, and on pain being inherent to constant change.  

M is a blank piece of paper that holds concepts, experiences, and myths. The dancer has opted for using artistic tools to decode life and transcend pain in this residence.  Élida Dorta’s talent is joined by pianist and composer Rebeca Píriz, dj and electronic music composer Dave Watts Riot plus costume designers Nikka XxX and Dosi Andrade, in addition to the photography of ENCARNEVIVA. Dimás Cedrés is the lighting designer of M, which also features Javier Arozarena as assistant director.

Admission to both sessions is free although only a reduced number of people can be admitted. On entry your personal details will be requested in order to meet the guidelines of the health authorities. Once the show has started you will not be able to leave until it has finished. Entering the auditorium implies that the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Auditorio de Tenerife to deal with COVID-19, like wearing a facemask. You can see the measures on www.auditoriodetenerife.com

NUMAcircuit is a platform to create and spread new forms of artistic expression. Its main goal is to provide a space and audience for artists, technicians and collectives who communicate by means of contemporary, experimental languages, showing their work coherently and set in a context.  This annual festival, that builds its programme with shows and training activities of very different nature, seeks to communicate the artists’ reflections, encouraging the curiosity and active participation of the audience. 

In the competition, they will choose the musician to represent the Canaries at the national final on 5 December in Alicante

Auditorio de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, welcomes the regional phase of the 19th Intercentros Melómano in the Professional Degree category on Saturday, 21st November at 4:00 pm. The winner will represent the Canary Islands at the national competition, to be held on 5 December in Alicante.Six students of the professional conservatoires of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria specialising in different instruments: guitar, oboe, saxophone and clarinet, are taking part in the competition. They are free to choose what to play and their performance will be 15 minutes long at most. After playing, the jury will discuss the performances to then announce who will represent the Canaries in this contest. 

Seventeen regional musicians will compete at the final in Alicante for the prize: a tour across Spain including solo recitals and concerts with a symphony orchestra, like the one given by Orquesta Filarmonía Granada or the Festival de Música de Segovia-MUSEG.The Intercentros Melómano is an initiative of the Fundación Orfeo that was set up in 2002 with the aim of encouraging the active participation of conservatoire students in professional competitions. The idea is to give musicians a practical experience where they face an audience and a jury that will judge their interpretation, not just their technical skills. 

Admission is free and audience members are kindly asked to come early enough to enter the theatre gradually and give their personal details to meet the guidelines of the health authorities. Coming to the competition implies accepting the measures implemented at this Cabildo cultural centre to tackle COVID-19, such as wearing a facemask 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 Ciclo de Cámara of the Cabildo’s cultural venue brings this 17th century violin music programme on Thursday, the 19^th

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, brings the concert La bellezza. The Beauty of 17th century violin music with renowned violinist Lina Tur Bonet and the MUSIca ALcheMica ensemble. Part of the Auditorio Chamber Music series, the concert is taking place on Thursday, the 19^th at 7:30 pm in the Sala de Cámara.

The programme includes a range of works from the Stylus Phantasticus and early Baroque, combining music from two of the most active centres at the time: Italy and Central Europe. It is a compilation of what could be called “the most beautiful music ever written", and it combines the famous follias, passacaglias and ciacconas with some bizzarrie or works that, through its symbols and sounds, aim at amazing and enchant the audience. 

Imitations of other instruments, scordature of violins tuned in a different way, wildness in the shape of quasi Dyonisian music and heavenly passacaglie... utter exuberance of sound for the senses in a period that, above all, aimed at touching the soul and give maximum expression to human passions through the music of the spheres. 

The programme makes an interesting route across violin music composed in the 17th century including works by authors like Dario Castello (1590 - 1630), Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663), Giovanni Girolamo Kapsberger (1580-1651), Marco Uccellini (1603? - 1680), Gian Paolo Cima (1570 - 1622), J. P. von Westhoff (1656 - 1705), Biagio Marini (1594 - 1663) and Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644 - 1704).

In addition to Lina Tur Bonet playing the violin and conducting the concert, other ensemble performers include: Pavel Amílcar, violin; Marco Ceccato, cello; Ismael Campanero, double bass; Jadran Duncumb theorbo; Marta Graziolino, Baroque harp; and Dani Espasa, harpsichord.

Lina Tur Bonet is founder and director of the MUSIca ALcheMIca ensemble, that made its debut at the Vila Musica Mainz and at Potsdam Festival with Handel’s opera Alessandro, directed by Alan Curtis.

The group enjoys international recognition thanks to their award-winning recordings and plays in Europe, America and Asia, and always includes first-rate world musicians. It was set up with the aim of interpreting music from all times and of embarking on cross-disciplinary and pedagogic projects. 

Tickets can be booked up to two hours before the show start 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 in order to enter the theatre gradually. By 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 ensemble presented a new Música Abierta programme, an initiative that will visit public health centres and Tenerife II

After performing in Barcelona and Málaga Auditorio de Tenerife’s company closes their autumn tour in A Coruña on Friday

Lava, the dance company of Auditorio de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, will be in Valencia and A Coruña this week to end their autumn tour. The Canarian company will perform Beyond and Bending the Walls at 9:30 pm at the Teatro Principal de Valencia to open the Dansa València, the Instituto Valenciano de Cultura dance festival. They will be on the stage of the Teatro Rosalía de Castro in A Coruña on Friday, the 13th.  

After visiting Barcelona and Málaga, Valencia is Lava’s next destination where they will open the Dansa València 2020. The festival was originally scheduled for March but had to be postponed due to the health crisis. Lava will close their autumn tour in A Coruña on Friday, 13 November. They will perform their double programme in the Teatro Rosalía de Castro at 8:30 pm as part of the venue’s regular contemporary dance programme. Dancers performing in the Lava tour include Fabiana Mangialardi, Emiliana Battista Marino, Amanda Rubio, Javier de la Asunción, Javier Arozena, and Adrián Díaz.

Bending the Walls, by choreographer Fernando Hernando Magadan, is an exploration of the world of restrictions and limitations in the search for happiness, freedom and understanding. The piece explores the physical and psychological limits of the individual and the world around them. It is a metaphor about the psychological, physical, and emotional forces human beings can approach in order to reach beyond palpable reality, overcome sorrow and escape into the world of the imagination.

Beyond, by Virginia García and Damián Muñoz of La intrusa, deals with the experience of searching through the emotional landscapes of memory, presenting a scenario of uncertainty that forces us to constantly create or reflect on our own life journey, on the landscape that every individual, consciously or fortuitously, gradually builds.

Lava Compañía de Danza is an Auditorio de Tenerife project that was set up in 2018 with Tenerife dancer and creator Daniel Abreu (Premio Nacional de Danza 2014) as artistic director. The company has a special interest in contemporary dance, and it focuses on building a repertoire of works by renowned international artists.

Six dancers with a strong presence on the stage, technically sound and versatile bring to life creations that share a contemporary dance language and other codes of today’s art discourse.

This Spanish and Italian opera coproduction starring Yolanda Auyanet will be on at the Auditorio de Tenerife on 24, 26 and 28

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, will start selling the tickets for the three performances of Lucrezia Borgia tomorrow, Thursday the 5th. The opera will be performed on 24th, 26th and 28th November at the Sala Sinfónica at 7:00 pm, half an hour earlier than usual. This eagerly anticipated Ópera de Tenerife’s premiere had to be cancelled last March due to the health crisis. It is now back with all the safety measures in place both for the audience and the artists. 

This production of Gaetano Donizetti’s Lucrezia Borgia is a coproduction of Ópera de Tenerife with Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Ópera de Oviedo and Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla. The main role will be performed by Canarian soprano Yolanda Auyanet, who leads the cast along with Antonino Siragusa, Simone Alberghini and Na’ama Goldman, among other singers. Ópera de Tenerife’s Choir will play a special role in this staging, which is going to make Auditorio’s Sala Sinfónica shine again with the stage design, the orchestra, and the voices. 

In her fourth title with Ópera de Tenerife, Silvia Paoli is the stage director and takes the story to Mussolini’s fascist Italy to underline the feeling of oppression and claustrophobia the story suggests, specifically setting it in a slaughterhouse. The Sinfónica de Tenerife will be conducted by Andriy Yurkevych, musical director at the Teatr Wielki Opera Norodowa (Polish National Opera), one of the most sought-after conductors internationally. 

Lucrezia Borgia is a melodrama in a prologue and two acts with music by Gaetano Donizetti and libretto by Felice Romani based on Victor Hugo’s drama and freely inspired by the historical figure of Lucrezia Borgia. It was performed for the first time at Teatro alla Scala in Milan on 26 December 1833.

The composer looks deeply into the morbid legend of Pope Alessandro VI’s daughter who grew up in a family surrounded by rumours of incest, adultery, infidelity, betrayal, murder and horror, creating a strong psychological portrait of a powerful but fragile woman.

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 https://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.

Tickets are sold up to two hours before the show starts so that there is time to prepare the auditorium and you can enjoy a totally safe experience. Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Auditorio de Tenerife to deal with COVID-19, with no exceptions or reservations, including wearing a face mask or coming only with people you live with.  You can see the measures in full and the AENOR-certified contingency plan on Auditorio’s website.

The concert is inspired by the Austro-Hungarian Empire including works by Brahms, Dvořák and Janácek. It also travels to Valencia and Ávila

The Ciclo de Cámara of the Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, presents the concert Bohemios by the Quantum Ensemble that includes works by Brahms, Dvořák and Janácek. It will take place on Saturday, the 7th at 7:30 pm at Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara. They are starting their tour today at the Almudín in Valencia to then go on to Fundación Ávila on Friday. 

The repertoire chosen by Quantum Ensemble is based on the music created under the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The rhythms, harmonies, melodies, and motifs in Bohemios will bring listeners to music itself through three compositions. This time, the chamber music ensemble is playing Leoš Janáček’s Dumka for violin and piano; de, Clarinet Trio in A Major by Johannes Brahms, and finally, Piano Trio nº4 in E minor by Antonín Dvořák.

Violinist Frederieke Saeijs and cellist Ángel Luis Quintana join Gustavo Díaz-Jerez’s piano and Cristo Barrios’s clarinet to perform the Bohemios repertoire. As usual in Quantum Ensemble concerts, there will be a pre-concert talk by composer and performer Fernando Palacios who will speak about the repertoire. This time and due to the current circumstances, the speaker will talk remotely.

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 https://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. By 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.

Auditorio de Tenerife and the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme offer five specialist training courses for technicians

Auditorio de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, and the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme start their third Courses on Live Show Production. The first one, on the analysis of acoustic systems, started yesterday Monday, the 2nd, and is taught by Mateu Coll Morey, who gives seminars and technical support at the company Meyer Sound.

The island director of Culture, Alejandro Krawietz, said that “this is the third time both institutions jointly offer this specialist training for the island’s technicians. The courses improve the professional skills and job opportunities of the young in addition to widening the work options for the veterans”.

Esther Martel, director of the Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, pointed out the importance of this training programme, which they have offered with Auditorio de Tenerife for three years now and that “reflects the commitment of the Fundación with the cultural sector of the islands, the professionals, especially at this complex times due to the pandemic”.

Martel encouraged students and professionals of the island “to make the most of this impasse due to COVID-19 and turn it into an opportunity to improve their knowledge and make their way into Canarian show business, by taking part in these courses, which are taught by professionals with wide experience both on the islands and mainland Spain”.

The welcoming event was attended by the manager of Auditorio de Tenerife, Daniel Cerezo, and the coordinator of the Tenerife office of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, José Martín Guerrero. The teacher, Mateu Coll, said it was the first course he was teaching after the beginning of the health crisis last March and encouraged the students to participate in the classes.

In 2020 there are five intensive courses on artistic-technical subjects available. The aim is to improve the knowledge of both the islands’ entertainment professionals and students. After the course on Acoustics Systems I and II, comes a course in lighting for theatre, musicals and dance; a course in stage management for live shows; course in video techniques applied to stage design and a foundation course in technical production. 

The courses will be held at Auditorio de Tenerife facilities that will make available all the technical, material, and human resources needed. Every speaker in the courses are professionals who have previously collaborated with the Auditorio de Tenerife, have wide experience in their field and know the working context of shows both on the islands and in mainland Spain. 

Thanks to the collaboration of Fundación MAPFRE Guanarteme, and taking into account the special circumstances due to COVID-19, the courses have a discount, so enrolment for professionals is 30 € + IGIC per person and course for a maximum of seven people; students and unemployed, free with eight places available. Enrolment is still open and there are only 15 places available. 

For more information on each course, teachers, subjects and enrolment please visit Auditorio de Tenerife on the following link  //auditoriodetenerife.com/educational-and-social-area.

The British conductor replaces Lucas Macías and has clarinettist Maximiliano Martín as guest soloist

The Sinfónica de Tenerife, under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is giving its fourth season concert on Friday the 6th at 7:30 pm in Auditorio de Tenerife. Conductor Catherine Larsen-Maguir is making her debut with the Tenerife ensemble, replacing conductor Lucas Macías. On this occasion the guest soloist is clarinettist Maximiliano Martín Lechado.

The Cabildo’s ensemble will play with the current reduced orchestra a programme featuring Quiet City and Clarinet Concerto, both by Aaron Copland and Ludwig van Beethoven‘s Symphony nº 4 in B flat major, op 60.

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.

To enjoy this cultural experience please make sure you arrive at the venue with time enough to enter the auditorium gradually. Buying the tickets implies the user unconditionally accepts the contents of the measures implemented by the Auditorio de Tenerife to deal with COVID-19, with no exceptions or reservations, including 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. 

North American Aaron Copland pens two of the pieces in the concert. The first one was written in 1940 for Irwin Shaw‘s theatre play of the same title about the conflicts of Gabriel Mellon, a middle-aged businessman. The composer displays a creativity where the constructive weight lies on the English horn and the trumpet. A sound metaphor, the trumpet seems to represent the longing for a better life in which Mellon would have fulfilled his dream of being a poet while the English horn evokes the reality he has been led to. 

Clarinet Concerto was a commission for jazz star Benny Goodman and was first played in 1950 with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The author explores this instrument with the intention of eliminating the artificial division between “popular and learned”. He challenges the established canon and gives more weight to the string section, which recalls the typical sound of a jazz orchestra. 

Ludwig van Beethoven composed his Symphony nº 4 in B flat major, op 60 during the summer and autumn of 1806. There was great expectation as his Third Symphony (Eroica) had been very well received. The success of the score lies in “extracting the maximum out of a very simple material”, as Brahms described it. So, in the development there is a highly contrasted tonality where time seems to stop and expand.  

British Catherine Larsen-Maguire has been exclusively concentrated on orchestra conducting since 2012, after gaining a thorough knowledge of the repertoire and an understanding of the orchestra’s psychology. 

Larsen-Maguire read Music at the University of Cambridge and studied the bassoon at London Royal Academy of Music and at the Karajan Academy in Berlin. In 1996 she took the top prize in the Prague Spring Bassoon Competition.

The orchestras she has conducted include  Bremen, Magdeburg, Augsburg and Nuremburg Philharmonic Orchestras, the orchestra of the Komische Oper Berlin, the Bochum Symphony Orchestra, the Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada, the Belgrade Philharmonic, the Slovenian Radio Orchestra plus the orchestras of the Sunflower and Buzzards Bay festivals in the United States and the Orquesta Filarmónica de la UNAM, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Xalapa and the Orquesta Filarmónica de Boca del Río, in Mexico.

Clarinettist Maximiliano Martín, currently soloist at the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, has performed in prestigious venues including the BBC Proms Cadogan Hall, Wigmore Hall in London, the Library of Congress in Washington, Hamburg’s Laeiszhalle, Slovenia Radio Auditorium in Ljubljana, Durban City Hall in South Africa, Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Teatro Monumental in Madrid, Auditorio Alfredo Kraus in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria or the Auditorio Principe Felipe in Oviedo.

Martín has performed solo with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, European Union Chamber Orchestra, Real Filarmonía de Galicia, Filarmónica de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and the Macedonian Philharmonic, with conductors like Brüggen, Ticciati, Antonini, Swensen, Zacharias or González. He regularly collaborates with ensembles and artists such as the London Conchord Ensemble, Cuarteto Casals, Francois Leleux, Pekka Kuusisto, Alexander Janiczek and Julian Milford.

The Canarian group is presenting a contemporary jazz multimedia show at the Sala de Cámara on Friday

Auditorio de Tenerife, a performing arts venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, welcomes the presentation concert of Out, the new work by Alexis Alonso Quartet on Friday, the 30th. The band, nominated for Best Jazz record of the year at different competitions, will start playing at 8:00 pm at the Sala de Cámara. Tickets are now on sale at the standard rate of 15 euros with discounts are available. You can buy them up to two hours before the show starts. 

Alexis Alonso Quartet presents their multimedia contemporary jazz show, Out, where you can enjoy a first-rate string and wind band. Sensitive and masterful Ciro Hernández at the cello along with the versatile and talented Moisés García playing the double bass plus Roberto Amor’s drums, one of the great names in Canarian jazz. Cello, double bass and drums will sail across virtuoso pianist Alexis Alonso, who seeks to connect with and thrill the audience. 

International jazz figures like saxophonist Seamus Blake, trumpetist Ralph Alessi and percussionist Pedrito Martínez take part in Out, a collaboration that is a great opportunity for the Canarian ensemble to grow internationally, although they are already attracted the praised of specialised press. 

In this new studio work, Alexis Alonso Quartet continues the path taken in their previous records In (2018) and Live in Barcelona – Jamboree Live 19 (2019). The latter was recorded in Barcelona’s iconic Jamboree Jazz, one of Europe’s jazz temples that named Alexis Alonso Quartet an outstanding performance, deserving to have their album publish in their own label (Jamboree Live). 

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. 

This co-production between Spain, France and Canada will reach us on Sunday, starring Mal Pelo’s Pep Ramis

On Sunday, the 1^st at 7:30 pm the Sala de Cámara of  Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is hosting The Mountain, the Truth & the Paradise. This contemporary dance show is part of the Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM. You can buy tickets, at a single price of 8 euros, up to two hours before the performance starts. 

This is a co-production of Catalonian company Mal Pelo with Festival de Tardor de Catalunya Temporada Alta 2017, the Théâtre de la Ville in Paris, France, and Agora de la Danse in Montreal, Canada.

The piece emerges from the need the protagonist, dancer Pep Ramis, felt to building a very personal fiction, to update the experience of his latest work and research in his present artistic interests. Working solo at 50 also involves revisiting the tools gathered throughout a long career creating for the stage. 

The Mountain, the Truth & the Paradise is a poetic world that wonders about the meaning of the divine and the vulgar, spirituality and ignorance, beauty and banality. The performer’s ability to transform in a blank, empty space and the accuracy of gestures and the voice are the fundamental lines in the dramaturgy of a piece that displays a changing, exciting, highly stimulating journey. 

Throughout the creative process, Ramis has had the collaboration of Jordi Casanovas and María Muñoz as directors, August Viladomat in the lighting design and Fanny Thollot who penned the soundtrack. 

Dancer, actor and stage director, Pep Ramis has been a member of Mal Pelo, along with María Muñoz since 1989. The dance company bases its work on the constant search of languages, which they have used to create countless shows that have toured the world and have won major prizes. In 2001 they promoted the centre for creation and interchange with other art forms L’animal a l’esquena. 

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.

The next FAM show this year is on 6 December with Lava Compañía de Danza’s new piece: Kick the bucket, a choreography by Iván Pérez. Auditorio de Tenerife’s company will also perform Bending the walls, a production of Korzo Theater and Nederlands Dans Theater. You can see all the information on www.famtenerife.com.

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. 

Collaborators with FAM include the Government of the Canary Islands 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.