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The tests are for the cast of `Il matrimonio segreto´, the title chosen for the 8th year of this renowned programme

Please, check the last information at www.operaestudio.eu

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by Enrique Arriaga, has announced the dates of the auditions for Ópera de Tenerife’s project Opera (e)Studio. The international tests will take place from 30 November to 18 December in four Italian and Spanish cities: Parma, Palermo, Madrid and Santa Cruz de Tenerife. If you are interested and have not applied yet you can do it until 6:00 pm on 10 November. 

The singers chosen will take part in the eighth Opera (e)Studio, the comprehensive training academy for young artists directed by Giulio Zappa. They will go on stage on 18, 19, 20 and 21 March 2021 to perform Cimarosa’s Il matrimonio segreto, a co-production with Teatro Regio di Parma and Teatro Massimo di Palermo.

Apart from Zappa, the project, which is known internationally, will have Davide Levi as musical director and Roberto Catalano as stage director; the costumes will be designed by Ilaria Ariemme and the lighting design will be by Fiammetta Baldiserri.

The auditions were meant to take place between 11th and 19th May 2020 but had to be put off because of the health crisis. So, the new dates for the 2020 auditions, unless the health situation prevents it again, are as follows: 30 November and 1 December in Parma, 3 December in Palermo; 15 and 16 December in Madrid, and on 18 December  in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

All the information about the auditions and how to apply is available on www.operaestudio.eu. The regulations are in Spanish, Italian and English. Those who have already applied will receive the information individually via email but for any specific query please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

The purpose of this programme for young artists is to provide highly specialized training in the international opera field while it is also a springboard for many of the young talents. Singers from more than 24 different countries -including the auditions- have taken part in previous years. Ópera (e)Studio also highlights Auditorio de Tenerife’s technical production work and in 2019 and 2020 was recognised by the European Commission’s programme Creative Europe, which shows the development, sustainability, job creation and training.

Creations for duets from the Low Countries, Germany and Spain will be on the Sala de Cámara stage on Sunday the 18^th

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by Enrique Arriaga, is hosting four contemporary dance duets of the Festival Internacional de Danza Contemporánea de Canarias MASDANZA’s Tenerife Extension on Sunday the 18^th at 9:00 pm.

The duets titled Moi-Je, Out of the blue, Hito and Ode to phanes will be on at the Sala de Cámara. Tickets are on sale up to two hours before the show starts at 8 euros with a special discount for dance school students. 

The first piece comes from Madrid and is titled Moi-Je, created by Fabián Thomé. The choreography, performed by Thomé and Javier Monzón García, calls for introspection through listening and abstraction. 

From Rotterdam in the Low Countries comes Out of the blue, a work with original music by Guillem Góngora Moral, inspired by dream landscapes that convey the uncertainty and difficulty faced by human beings when confronting the unknown. Danielle Huyghe and Alexandra Verschuuren both created and perform the piece. 

Hito, penned and performed by Chey Jurado and Akira Yoshida portrays the search for conection of two people through emotion and the unexpected. From Badajoz, Spain, these creators will dance to the sound of Silver Mt. Zion’s Mountains Made of Steam.

And finally, Ode to phanes comes all the way from Berlin to stage the symbology shared by the different myths related to the cycle of life and death.  Melissa Kieffer and Susanna Yliskosky will dance Alma Edelstein’s choreography complemented by two songs: Heptapod B by Jóhann Jóhannsson and Order from Chaos by Max Cooper.

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. 

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.

The show by La Phármaco and the Centro Drámatico Nacional, is performed on Thursday and it is based on the life of María Teresa León

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is putting on Una gran emoción política at Sala Sinfónica on Thursday, the 15th at 8:30 pm. The show is by La Phármaco, coproduced with the Centro Dramático Nacional and is part of the 2021 FAM Special.  Tickets cost 8 euros and can be bought up to two hours before the show begins.

Luz Arcas, Málaga dancer and choreographer and founder of La Phármaco, has penned this work that is inspired by María Teresa León’s autobiography Memoria de la melancolía, 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. 

Rather than having historicist aspirations the show aims at revealing the archetypal and universal qualities of those events with the company trying to portray the political emotion that drives a people to believe in their right to intervene in the history of their country, as if the future belonged to them. In Luz Arcas’s view, this is about “the emotion that the disasters of the 20th century -the wars, totalitarian regimes and their consequences- have undermined”.

Dance and physical activity, the songs and breathing, the author’s original texts and original music performed live and inspired by European popular themes evoke María Teresa’s memories: fundamental episodes of her life, like saving the Museo del Prado, the activities in the trenches of the Teatro de Guerrillas, political and social events like the participation of women in the war and key concepts such as the mass or the collective body, exile and memory. 

Through her memories, La Phármaco does not intend to dance María Teresa León’s life but her view of the world that was marked by an unrelenting empathy with the disadvantaged classes full of contradictions, and her failed dream of the triumph of a Republican and Communist Spain. From exile, María Teresa hoped to return one day to a country free of Franco’s dictatorship. When she finally returned in 1977, Alzheimer’s disease prevented her from realising where she was. 

On Saturday, 17 October FAM open-air performances start every half hour from 5:30 pm. The shows included areExpectations 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. More information and tickets are available 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.

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. 

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.

Tuesday is time for ´Anhelo´, nominated for three Premios MAX, and on Thursday, ´Una gran emoción política´, inspired by María Teresa León

Auditorio de Tenerife, a cultural venue under the Cabildo de Tenerife’s Department of Culture run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, welcomes on Monday, the 12th El festín de los cuerpos, a show that celebrates diversity. This contemporary dance show by Sevilla company Danza Mobile, is part of the Festival de las Artes del Movimiento FAM, and takes place at 6:00 pm in the Sala de Cámara. Tickets at 8 euros are now on sale.

El festín de los cuerpos a choreography by Manuel Cañadas, Ana Erdozain and Arturo Parrilla, is a celebration of the body, its movement and diversity. Danza Mobile was set up in 1995 with the aim of creating a space to bring together the worlds of the arts and disability; a joint work of professionals of both areas to contribute to the creative, social, and personal processes of disabled people.

The following day [Tuesday, the 13th] Anhelo will be on the stage of Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala Sinfónica at 8:30 pm. It is by Seville company Marcat Dance, nominated for three Premios MAX de las Artes Escénicas. Anhelo is a choreography by Mario Bermúdez Gil that 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 Thursday, 15 October Una gran emoción política is on at Sala Sinfónica 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 there are open-air performances starting 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. Information on the programme and tickets is available 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 the Circuito Acieloabierto of 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. 

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. 

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/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.

La Asociación Teatro Nova representa en el teatro municipal esta historia sobre mujeres que rodearon al marqués

El programa Teatro Aficionado del Cabildo de Tenerife, dependiente del área insular de Cultura que dirige el consejero Enrique Arriaga, estrena mañana [viernes 9] a las 20:30 horas en el Teatro Príncipe Felipe de Tegueste el espectáculo Madame de Sade. La nueva propuesta de la Asociación Teatro Nova es una obra de Yuko Mishima publicada en 1965 y para esta versión, con entrada a seis euros, cuenta con la dirección de Irene Pérez.

Madame de Sade habla de las mujeres que rodearon al Marqués de Sade, con atención especial dirigida sobre su esposa, Renée, y su suegra, Madame de Montreuil, la figura esencial en manipular su arresto y encarcelación. Se dibuja el retrato de seis mujeres que, desde distintas visiones, rememoran al Marqués de Sade.

Tres personajes son reales y formaron parte de la vida del marqués: Madame de Sade-Renée, que representa la fidelidad; Madame de Montreuil, el orden social; y Anne, el candor y la falta de principios. Y los otros tres personajes son ficción: Madame de Simiane, la moral; Madame de Saint-Fond, la perversión; y Charlotte, la criada, el pueblo.

La obra recoge tres momentos concretos a lo largo de veinte años y finaliza en plena Revolución Francesa, cuando Sade vuelve a su casa. El marqués nunca aparece en la obra, pero está continuamente presente en el mundo de estas seis mujeres.

Actúan en esta obra: Sandra González (Madame de Sade- Renée), Myriam García (Madame-Montreuil), Beatriz Fernández (Anne), Fátima Gutiérrez (Madame-Saint-Fond), Pepi Correa (Madame-Simiane) y Mónica Clark (Charlote). El sonido corre a cargo de MAD, la iluminación es de Alberto García y el vestuario y la escenografía lo firma la propia compañía.

El espectáculo de este programa, que gestiona Auditorio de Tenerife, cuenta con la colaboración del Ayuntamiento de La Laguna, Centro Ciudadano de Gracia y el Ayuntamiento de Tegueste.

Carmela Visone & The Grooves and Imazighen will play at the Sala de Cámara, while Matt Reverb performs at the Hall

Auditorio de Tenerife, a venue under the Department of Culture of the Cabildo de Tenerife run by councillor Enrique Arriaga, is hosting three of the concerts of the 12^th Canarias Jazz Showroom, a leading event featuring groups from the island. Carmela Visone & The Grooves are playing on Friday, the 9^th and Imazighen on Saturday, the 10^th. Both concerts start at 7:30 pm in the Sala de Cámara. The Swing Fest closes the showroom with Matt Reverb. Tickets are available on www.auditoriodetenerife.com at a general rate of 10 euros with discounts available. 

The showroom opens with Carmela Visone & The Grooves, a group that has played jazz, blues, R&B, Funk and Samba since 2015. They are currently immersed in a new music project, recording new songs, experimenting with new sounds with the collaboration of other musicians including Sissi del Castillo, percussion; Oscar Hernández (trumpet) and Fran Rodríguez, saxophone, always loyal to the group’s personal brand. A gospel choir brought the first two members together, Carmela Visone and Pablo Díaz (keyboard), who were later joined by Jonás Álvarez (drums).

Imazighen makes Gnawa music, one of the main genres of Morocco’s folklore. It is very rhythmic and has a characteristic chant in which the main voice makes invocations that are answered by the choir, on a simple melody played with a guembri. The band plays this music with respect for tradition, but they allow it to blend with more current trends such as jazz, rock, or even other roots music.  The instruments used include the guembri, a three-string instrument with a bass sound; the tbel, a drum played with a curved stick; and qraqeb, the characteristic metal castanets.

Admission to the Swing Fest is free but there is a limited number of seats available. It is held at the Auditorio’s lobby and is a tribute to swing, jazz manouche and the style as a whole that emerged in the US in the 1930s and translated into a culture that included music, dance, clothes, food, etc. and above all joie de vivre.  The star this year is Matt Reverb, a Canarian-German musician who lives in Tenerife. The Showroom‘s programme includes swing, so Reverb is playing some of his songs adapted for the occasion, plus classical swing pieces with his own arrangements. 

Tickets for Carmela Visone & The Grooves e Imazighen concerts can be booked via the websitewww.auditoriodetenerife.comand 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/contactarand 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. 

Canarias Jazz Showroom started in 2008 so this is its 12th year running. In this time, groups have played on stages both on the islands and abroad, having travelled to Tenerife, Gran Canaria, La Palma, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, El Hierro, Madrid, Barcelona, London, Brussels, and Maastricht. 

Canarias Jazz Showroom aims to give a chance to all Canarian creators to exhibit their work, get the public to meet them and encourage Canarian artists and groups, boosting their work forward. 

´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’.