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Ópera de Tenerife acercará L’elisir d’amore a doce municipios de Tenerife, a través de conferencias divulgativas que permitirá a todos los públicos conocer los entresijos de este título: desde las principales características de la obra hasta las anécdotas relacionadas con el autor, los personajes y el contexto histórico.

Estas charlas arrancarán mañana en la Biblioteca Municipal de Vilaflor, a partir de las 17:00 horas, y se prolongarán hasta el 22 de octubre, dos días antes de la puesta en escena en la Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio de Tenerife de L’elisir d’amore, que supone el comienzo de la temporada de ópera. Estas charlas serán de libre acceso hasta completar aforo y tendrán una duración aproximada de 60 minutos.

Este recorrido cultural contempla quince encuentros que tendrán lugar en diferentes instalaciones de la Red Insular de Bibliotecas Públicas. Después de Vilaflor, Ópera en ruta llegará a Puerto de la Cruz (19 de septiembre) y Güímar (día 24). Los encuentros del mes de octubre comenzarán el día 1 en la biblioteca de Tabaiba (El Rosario) y continuará en Los Cristianos (día 4), la biblioteca Adrián Alemán de La Laguna (día 8), la biblioteca Antonio Bello de San Juan de la Rambla (día 10), Candelaria (día 11), Garachico (día 15), la biblioteca del Estado en Santa Cruz (día 16), el Centro Cultural Casa de la Castaña de La Victoria de Acentejo (día 17), Adeje (día 18) y finalizará el 22 de octubre en La Orotava.

Ópera en Ruta se enmarca dentro de la estrategia de comunicación de Ópera de Tenerife y Auditorio de Tenerife para la nueva temporada 2019-2020 y además de la propia difusión lírica, se pondrá en valor la capacidad motriz económica del proyecto tinerfeño a partir de sus producciones que suponen un impulso para la industria cultural local.

L’elisir d’amore de Giacomo Donizetti es una producción que se encuentra dentro de la academia de alta especialización Opera (e)Studio. Se trata de la ópera cómica más famosa del compositor, gracias a melodías inolvidables como ‘Una furtiva lagrima’, que será representada los días 24, 25 y 26 de octubre a las 19:30 horas y el domingo 27 a las 18:00 horas en la Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio de Tenerife. Esta coproducción de Ópera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bologna y el Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre está  financiada a través del programa Europa Creativa de la Comisión Europea.

La producción contará con la dirección musical de Antonio Méndez y la dirección de escena de Pablo Maritano junto a un elenco de artistas seleccionados en las audiciones que se han celebrado para la séptima edición de Opera (e)Studio en Bolonia, Tbilisi, Madrid y Tenerife.

The Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife, led by Roxana Schmunk, opens the call for auditions for all types of voices until 27 September.  After taking two gold medals at the European Choir Games in Gotemburg, the group is now looking for reinforcements for the current season as they have set themselves a great new challenge at the World Choir Games to be held in Flanders, Belgium in early July 2020.

Sopranos, contraltos, baritones and bass aged from 16 to 30 can take part in the auditions, which consist of some simple exercises in order to assess whether the candidates’ voices are ready to be part of the Choir, which has increasingly demanding engagements and performances that in turn, are more enriching for its singers.

To take part in the auditions, to be held at Auditorio de Tenerife during the first week in October, all you need to do is send an email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. including your name, date of birth and telephone number; you should also mention your voice register, if you know it, and whether you have musical studies, previous choir experience, or can play an instrument. Taking part in the Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife is totally free of charge for the choir singers.  

All the applicants who still need some further voice reinforcement will be invited to take part in the Escuela Coral de Tenerife Young Choir, a new feature this season that is to function as a source of new talent for the Coro Juvenil.

According to Roxana Schmunk, Coro Juvenil’s fourth season comes “full of thrilling challenges”, that include the possible participation in the Semana Canaria de la Música Coral [Canarian Week of Choral Music] and the World Choir Games in Belgium. Having successfully entered a European competition, Schmunk now wishes to go one step further and establish the group at world level, in addition to placing them at the heart of the cultural scene both in Tenerife and the Canary Islands as a whole.

Tenerife LAV presents the 8th Course on Risk Management in the Performing Arts to be held from 2 to 11 October from 9:00 am to 2:00 pm at Teatro Leal in La Laguna. The classes are coordinated by Juan Bay, graduate in Chemistry and expert in Work Risk Management specialising in Hygiene, Safety, Ergonomics and Psycho-sociology.

Enrolment, at a subsidized fee of 50 euros per person, is available via the email address This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Please include your personal details. This 50-hour course offered by the Auditorio de Tenerife’s scheme has the collaboration of the Government of the Canary Islands, through its Canarias Cultura en Red, and of Teatro Leal under La Laguna Town Council.

The course is accredited by Previmac-Grupo Preving, and is aimed at professionals of the performing arts ranging from technicians to impresarios, to actors, producers, etc. It takes into account all the possible hiring systems including, third parties, self-employed, temp agencies, subcontracting plus the necessary coordination of business activities as established by law.

The course offers a training pack that consists of a basic course in compliance with the current legislation plus a supplement on specific risks as this sector has a wide and specific range of situations regarding risk management.

Since the current legislation establishes rights and duties in all the departments, the course aims at making up for a gap in the teaching area. Therefore, on the one hand it aims at making all those who are not part of the performing arts aware of risk management.

On the other hand, the goal is to provide attendees with the skills to carry out the duties granted by the law once they have completed the basic course, in agreement with Real Decreto 39/1997. For example, they will learn to collaborate in the assessment and control of general and specific risks of the company, and so be able to pay visits, listen to complaints and suggestions, record data and whatever other functions of the kind are needed.

The participants will also learn how to perform in the event of an emergency or first aid situation. They will also be able to make basic risk assessments and, if applicable, establish the appropriate measures according to their level of training.  

The singer Dulce Pontes is giving a concert at 9:00 pm on Saturday, the 14th at Auditorio de Tenerife as part of the programme of Festival Mar Abierto. The artist, who is known for her interpretation of Portuguese fado, presents her new double record, Peregrinaçao, at Sala Sinfónica. A journey to the inner self, to the emotions, to life in difficult times.

The fact that Peregrinação is bilingual -a recognition of Iberia- is no hindrance for the twenty-two songs in the records to keep a coherent musical line. The first record, Nudez, in Portuguese, is shaped from austerity and in it, Dulce Pontes goes from pianist to drum, djembe, bottle percussionist, and whatever else that can be tapped out. The second record, Puertos de Abrigos, mainly in Spanish, includes two songs in Galician-Portuguese and in English.

It has taken five years to shape Peregrinaçao, as she has carefully crafted every sound with the collaboration of António Pinheiro da Silva. The Portuguese city of Bragança has been the epicentre in the preparation of this conceptual work.

Dulce Pontes, born in Montijo (Portugal) in 1969, won the Festival Nacional de la Canción in her country in 1991. That same year she represented Portugal at the Eurovision Festival, where she took the award for best singer. That was the first time Europe heard the voice of Dulce Pontes. Since then, her life has taken a new turn as she immersed herself in the roots of Portuguese music, including traditional fado.

Tickets for the Dulce Pontes concert at Auditorio de Tenerife can be booked at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday except holidays, here or calling 902 317 327.

The Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife is giving tomorrow, Thursday the 12th at 7:30 pm in Auditorio de Tenerife’s Sala de Cámara the first concert of their third season, Tulipanes barrocos, [Baroque Tulips] featuring Jacques Ogg as guest conductor and harpsichord. In their first concert, the ensemble resident at Auditorio de Tenerife pays tribute to Dutch good taste, which has come down to them straight from the Baroque period, with music by Unico van Wassenaer, Willem de Fesch, Antonio Vivaldi, Pietro Locatelli and Jean-Marie Leclair.

Apart from the Dutch maestro, other members of the group include Adrián Linares, Baroque violin and leader of the orchestra; Lorena Padrón and Laura Díaz, violins I; Judith Verona, Mario Braña, and Giovanni Déniz, violins II; Iván Sáez and Melchor García, violas; Elsa Pidre, Baroque cello; Juan Carlos Baeza, violone; Raquel García, organ; Pablo Sosa, flute; and Hugo Rodríguez, bassoon.

The Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, who joined the Education and Social Area of Auditorio de Tenerife with a concert for school children, is again offering an activity at 11:00 am on Thursday for a group of 140 elderly people who are part of the Cabildo’s social programme Ansina and the Red Cross.

Tickets for the concerts at Auditorio de Tenerife can now be booked through the usual channels of this Cabildo cultural venue: at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday except holidays; via the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com  or calling 902 317 327.

The Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife plays period instruments, many of which belong to the collection of Real Academia Canaria de las Bellas Artes [Canarian Royal Academy of Fine Art], at whose headquarters the OBdT often rehearse.

The Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife was founded in 2017 by Andmúsica -the Association for the Standardization of Early Music in the Canaries- whose goal is to promote young Canarian interpreters, who have been educated in Europe in period styles and instruments. The association provides a suitable coordination platform to promote the historical musical heritage from different sound perspectives, bringing all the music forms of the 17th and 18th centuries to new audiences, thus adding to the cultural events available on the island.

 The artists will work on the different aspects involved in an opera production

The ten singers of the 7th Opera (e)Studio have started their training on the Island through different master classes. The teachers this year include the project’s artistic director, Giulio Zappa; the Italian soprano, Mariella Devia; the stage director, Pablo Maritano, and Ópera de Tenerife’s intendant, Alejandro Abrante.

The first of these master classes is under the guidance of maestro Giulio Zappa, who teaches in performative vocal technique, and specifically, the importance of Italian phonetics applicable to the model of opera performance in the first half of the 19^th century, which features composers like Donizetti, Bellini and Rossini.

For his part, Pablo Maritano will tackle stage performance. As in previous years, the soprano Mariella Devia will share with the singers her technique and experience, which made her stand out in the main opera houses in the world throughout her long career. To round off their training, Alejandro Abrante will give a talk to disclose the keys an artist needs to connect, from a comprehensive point of view, with the different aspects that make up the professional management of an artistic career, offering them the necessary tools to be competitive in the demanding opera market.

This training process will lead to the performance of Gaetano Donizetti’s L’elisir d’amore from 24 to 27 October. The title opens Ópera de Tenerife’s 2019–2020 season.

The cast for this production is double as they will sing in alternate days in the four performances of the opera. It includes the voices of Maria Rita Combatelli (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 ten members were selected in the auditions held in February in Bologna, Tbilisi, Madrid and Tenerife, which were attended by a total of 181 candidates from 33 countries.

El presidente del Cabildo comprobó el estado del nuevo equipamiento de la Sala Sinfónica, que vive el viernes su puesta de largo

El Auditorio de Tenerife cuenta desde hoy [martes 10] con una nueva concha acústica para su Sala Sinfónica que será estrenada el viernes [día 13] en el primer concierto de la temporada 2019/2020 de la Sinfónica de Tenerife. El presidente del Cabildo, Pedro Martín, visitó el primer ensayo de la formación para comprobar el estado del nuevo equipamiento, “un traje hecho a medida para la Sinfónica de Tenerife”, acompañado por la consejera de Cultura, Concepción Rivero, y el director insular de Cultura, Leopoldo Santos.

El presidente dedicó unas palabras a los músicos de la Sinfónica, a quienes manifestó que “nuestra presencia hoy aquí es el resultado del respeto que sentimos por esta formación”. “Con la Orquesta tengo una sensación de patrimonio social y por eso queremos continuar con la línea abierta por el anterior grupo de gobierno para difundir lejos de aquí el tesoro que tenemos con la Sinfónica de Tenerife”, declaró el presidente.

Pedro Martín finalizó su intervención asegurando que “con la nueva concha acústica y las fases que quedan por abordar el Auditorio y la Sinfónica entran un proceso de cambio y solo me queda esperar que el Cabildo esté a la altura del trabajo realizado aquí y el esfuerzo de todos ustedes”.

La consejera de Cultura reconoció a los intérpretes estar “emocionada de poder compartir el comienzo de la temporada de la Sinfónica de Tenerife con todos ustedes”. “Estamos disfrutando del estreno de esta nueva concha que parece que nos va a dar muchas satisfacciones”, añadió Concepción Rivero.

Leopoldo Santos hizo hincapié en la “feliz coincidencia de estrenar la concha justo en el primer ensayo de temporada de la Orquesta”. El director de la Sinfónica de Tenerife, Antonio Méndez, aseguró que “hoy es un día muy especial para nosotros porque llevamos mucho tiempo esperando este momento”.

Jorge Cabrera, jefe de producción técnica de Auditorio de Tenerife, explicó que ahora “la concha acústica ya no se pelea con la sala, hay una idea estética, aunque este es un proyecto fundamentalmente acústico para buscar las soluciones que necesitamos”. Este es el segundo proyecto más importante fuera de Estados Unidos de la marca, que ganó el concurso público abierto por el Auditorio de Tenerife para lograr este equipamiento. “Canarias se encuentra en el centro tecnológico y acústico y tenemos que ser conscientes de ello”, recalcó Cabrera.

“Este es la primera fase para conseguir todo lo que realmente requiere una orquesta como la nuestra, que vendrá seguida de otras dos, una para el proscenio y otra para la sala”, finalizó el jefe de producción técnica.

Ricardo Sanlés, el ingeniero de sonido que asesora la construcción del proyecto, se encuentra en la isla proveniente de Chile para supervisar la optimización de la concha. “Este proyecto presentaba varios desafíos y el principal problema es que los paneles de la concha anterior restaban potencia a la orquesta, la atenuaba y ahora tenemos unos paneles con un mecanismo de microabsorción que hace que el sonido se perciba de una forma suave y mejora el entendimiento sonoro entre los músicos”, analizó el especialista.

El director técnico del Patronato Insular de Música, Miguel Ángel Parera, agradeció “el esfuerzo realizado por el Cabildo de Tenerife y el equipo técnico del Auditorio de Tenerife, que se ha dejado la piel, para que esta orquesta tenga la concha que se merece”. Parera le aseguró al presidente que “países como Alemania e Inglaterra nos miran a nosotros, a lo que estamos haciendo y no al revés; ése es el nivel al que la Orquesta ha conseguido llegar”.

La Sinfónica de Tenerife ofrece el viernes [día 13] En tono al mar, el concierto de inauguración de la temporada 2019-2020 en el Auditorio de Tenerife que, dirigido por su director principal Antonio Méndez, contará con un programa compuesto por cuatro piezas inspiradas en el medio acuático. Desde la fuerza oceánica que cincela a Peter Grimes y El holandés errante a las coloristas Fuentes de Roma, se trata de un rotundo homenaje musical de la orquesta tinerfeña al medio natural que rodea a la isla.

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El Cabildo de Tenerife, dentro de la Temporada de Ópera de Tenerife 2019/2020, presenta la VII Masterclass en repertorio de ópera, impartida por el Maestro GIULIO ZAPPA para cantantes y pianistas acompañantes.

El periodo de celebración de la masterclass será del 28 de octubre al 2 de noviembre de 2019. En el marco de esta iniciativa, los alumnos admitidos participarán en una gala lírica de clausura programada para el día 2 de noviembre de 2019, a las 19:30 h, en el Real Casino de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Los interesados deben enviar antes del 15 de octubre 2019 a las 13:00h un correo electrónico a This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., indicando en el asunto “Nombre y apellido del participante – Masterclass Zappa”, adjuntando:

• un currículum (archivo pdf o doc de 1 o 2 páginas);
• el formulario cumplimentado;
• una grabación recién audio o video de una aria con orquesta o piano.

Por motivos de seguridad, Auditorio de Tenerife no acepta ficheros adjuntos de los siguientes tipos: .zip, .rar, .7z, .gz, .tar, .taz, .tgz o archivos cuya suma sea superior a 19MB. Si no es posible reducir el tamaño de los archivos adjuntos, se pueden usar servicios como Wetransfer o enviar varios correos electrónico (en el mismo día) numerados (por ejemplo “María Pérez – Masterclass Zappa – 1 de 2”).

Si dos días laborables después de haber enviado la inscripción no se ha recibido una confirmación de su recepción, los candidatos deberán ponerse en contacto con la organización (a través del mismo correo electrónico This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. o telefónicamente al número +34 922568600 ext. 179

El 16 de octubre se comunicarán a través de correo electrónico los nombres de los admitidos como alumnos efectivos de la Masterclass y los datos bancarios para efectuar la transferencia del importe de la matrícula (150 euros). También se admitirán asistencias como oyente a la Masterclass al precio de 50 euros por todo el período.

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7th Masterclass in Opera Repertoire, Giulio Zappa

As part of the Ópera de Tenerife 2019/2020 Season, Cabildo de Tenerife presents the 7th Masterclass in Opera repertoire for singers and repetitors led by Giulio Zappa.

This Masterclass will take place from October 28th to November 2nd 2019. The accepted students will participate in a lyric gala on November 2nd 2019 at 7:30 pm in Real Casino de Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Those interested in this Masterclass should send an e-mail to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. before October 15th 2019 at 13:00h indicating in the subject: “Name and surname of the candidate – Masterclass Giulio Zappa” and the following attached files:

• curriculum vitae (1 or 2 pages in .doc or .pdf format);
• the completed registration form;
• a recent live audio or video recording of an aria.

For security reasons, Auditorio de Tenerife cannot receive e-mails with attached files with the following extensions: .zip, .rar, .7z, .gz, .tar, .taz, .tgz or files larger than 19MB. If it’s not possible to reduce the size of the attached files, contestants can use cloud-based transfer services such as Wetransfer or send several numbered e-mails (e.g. “Mary Smith – Masterclass Zappa – 1 of 2”). If two working days after having sent the application no confirmation has been received, candidates must contact the organization (via the same e-mail address  This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or by phone +34 922568600 ext. 179).

On October 16th 2019 the names of the singers that have been selected as active participants will be communicated via e-mail, along with the bank details for the payment of the registration fee (150€). Listeners may attend the Masterclass for a 50€ fee.

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On Friday, the 13th  Sinfónica de Tenerife is performing En tono al mar [About the Sea], the concert that opens the 2019-2020 season at the Auditorio de Tenerife. Under the baton of its principal conductor, Antonio Méndez, it features four pieces inspired by the watery world. From the strength of the ocean that shapes Peter Grimes and The Flying Dutchman to the colourist Fontani di Roma, this is a rotund musical homage the Tenerife orchestra pays to the natural surroundings of the island.

Premiered in 1843, The Flying Dutchman Overture WWV 63 by Richard Wagner (1813-1883), was the first drama by the German composer about which he said “my career as a poet starts here”. The very essence of the work is present in the overture through its main motifs: the storm, the ship in the mist fighting against the inclemency of the sea, the joy of the seafarers and the redemption of the Dutchman; in addition to the well-known ballad of his beloved Senta.

British composer Benjamin Britten (1913-1976) immerses listeners in a sea that reflects the characters of his opera Peter Grimes, premiered in 1945.  Four Sea Interludes, op. 33a is a symphonic piece that synthesizes his own opera. It starts at dawn, which is represented by violins that could very well be the beams of the early sun on the peaceful waters of the ocean. A rougher writing anticipates Sunday and the anxiety that is beginning to gain hold of Ellen.

Luz de luna (Moonlight) introduces listeners to a tense calmness, simulating waves that come and go in the darkness, since the sea is an open wound in the fisherman Peter Grimes. Finally, the storm, the inner portrait of the hero that Britten moves from the original first act to the end of these four movements; here is where he suggests that although calmness seems to have arrived, it is really just pretence, as the end is an absorbing spiral of the fate he cannot escape from.

The second part of the programme starts with Fontane di Roma by the colourist Italian Ottorino Respighi (1879-1936), one of the major representatives of Italian symphony. This symphonic poem comes straight from French impressionism; it is a real sound stroll around the fountains of Rome. So, the tour will takes us from the wavy waters of the Valle Giulia fountain in a bucolic, pastoral atmosphere; to Fontana di Tritone, where the horns will bring to life Triton’s conch, which, as in Ovid’s Metamorphoses he plays to control the waters. There is also room for Fontana di Trevi, where the atmosphere becomes triumphant upon the distinguished appearance of god Neptune. The melancholy nightfall gazes at the Fontana di Villa Medici until the darkness of night makes everything vanish.

The first subscription concert in the season ends with La mer CD 111 by Claude Debussy (1862- 1918), an exquisite sensory experience. The French author started to work on his childhood memories of the beach and portrayed a sea that sways in exoticism, symbolism and impressionism. The composer plays with the light by drawing different sun reflections on the water and the waves, executing a continuous movement in which harmony and rhythm gain greater importance.

Antonio Méndez, who took up the position of principal conductor of the Sinfónica de Tenerife last season, has become one of the best established and most sough-after conductors in his generation. The Mallorca maestro has built links with the main orchestras in Europe, having conducted the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Danish National Symphony Orchestra, hr-Sinfonieorchester, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, StaatskapelleDresden, Scottish Chamber Orchestra or Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg.

In the 2018-2019 season, apart from his participation in the Sinfónica de Tenerife, Antonio Méndez returned to the Orquesta Nacional de España, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the Kammerakademie Potsdam, making his debut with Konzerthausorchester Berlin and Orchestre de Chambre de Paris.

During the current season, the conductor of the Cabildo’s orchestra will return to Orchestre de Chambre de Paris or to Iceland Symphony, in addition to making his debut with Orquestra Gulbenkian and Stavanger Symphony. In Spain he will continue his connection with Orquesta Sinfónica de Galicia and Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León. He will also make his debut in the opera productions L’elisir d’amore, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Carlo.

Tickets for this concert can be purchased at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; by phone on 902 317 327; or via the internet on the websites www.sinfonicadetenerife.es and www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

The Cabildo Insular has opened a new enrolment period for the 2019/2020 course of Escuela Coral de Tenerife. You can enrol until 25 September here via the website www.tenerifeartesescénicas.com. Classes are due to start on 8 October at the Auditorio de Tenerife.

The groups will be divided by age in order to include all the sectors of the community wishing to join choral singing: children’s choir, from 8 to 11 year-olds; pre-junior, from aged 12 to 15; young, from 16 to 26 year-olds; and the adult choir from 27 years of age on.  There is no enrolment fee and all the teaching resources, and the classes are free of charge.

This training is adapted to the needs of each age group and it includes choral singing, musical language, voice technique, body language and staging. With a hands-on methodology, the Escuela features teachers specialising in singing, body percussion, expression and interpretation. It can thus provide comprehensive training, guaranteeing students’ progress in their choral technique execution.

Working professionals such as the composer, organist and director Josu Elberdin; the teacher and choral singing director Basilio Astulez; the singer, author, composer and performer Vanina Fernández; plus the director and composer specialising in interpretation Pedro Teixeira, have all shared their knowledge with the students in special sessions.

Some two hundred and fifty people have already taken part in the different choirs of the Escuela Coral in its first two years, a fact that makes the project stronger and clearly shows the interest Tenerife people have in choral training.

La academia de alta especialización inicia la formación de los cantantes que concluirá con la puesta en escena en octubre de ‘L’elisir d’amore’

Los diez cantantes que han sido escogidos en la séptima edición de Opera (e)Studio han iniciado hoy [viernes 6] las sesiones de trabajo de esta formación lírica integral que van a realizar en el Auditorio de Tenerife. Este trabajo de perfeccionamiento artístico concluirá con la puesta en escena del 24 al 27 de octubre del título L’elisir d’amore, que supone el inicio de la temporada de Ópera de Tenerife 2019-2020 y se hace posible por medio de una coproducción con el Teatro Comunale di Bologna y el Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre, en un proyecto financiado a través del programa Europa Creativa.

El director insular de Cultura, Leopoldo Santos; el director artístico del Auditorio, José Luis Rivero; el intendente de Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante, y el director artístico de Opera (e)Studio, Giulio Zappa, dieron la bienvenida a los cantantes, elegidos entre los 181 participantes que concurrieron a la convocatoria de la presente edición.

El elenco de la producción de esta ópera está compuesto por dos cast que actuarán en funciones alternadas durante las cuatro representaciones y contará con las voces de Maria Rita Combatelli (soprano); Beatriz de Sousa (soprano); Klodjan Kaçani (tenor); César Arrieta (tenor); Alberto Bonifazio (barítono); Jacobo Ochoa (barítono); Givi Gigineishvili (bajo); Matteo Andrea Mollica (bajo); Sofía Esparza (soprano) y Leonora Tess (soprano). Los diez componentes de esta edición surgen de las audiciones celebradas en el mes de febrero en Bolonia, Tbilisi, Madrid y Tenerife, a las que concurrieron un total de 181 candidatos de 33 nacionalidades.

Los artistas inician los trabajos musicales y escénicos que se requieren para la formación de una compañía lírica novel y contará con una serie de clases magistrales de mano del propio director artístico del proyecto, Giulio Zappa; la soprano italiana, Mariella Devia; el intendente de Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante o el director de escena de esta producción, Pablo Maritano, en las que se abordarán tanto aspectos técnicos como la gestión profesional de una carrera artística. Todo esto se intercalará con las sesiones de trabajo al ritmo que demanda una compañía profesional, junto a las pruebas de vestuario y maquillaje o los pertinentes ensayos con la Sinfónica de Tenerife.

El actual director principal de la Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, Antonio Méndez, será el encargado de la dirección musical de la producción, que junto al director de escena, Pablo Maritano, y la diseñadora de vestuario, Lorena Marin, darán vida a esta obra que nos traslada a los años dorados del celuloide de Hollywood.

Las funciones tendrán lugar el jueves 24, viernes 25 y sábado 26 de octubre a las 19:30 horas y la del domingo 27 será a las 18:00 horas en la Sala Sinfónica. Las entradas pueden adquirirse en los canales habituales de Auditorio de Tenerife, en taquilla de 10:00 a 19:30 horas, de lunes a sábado; a través de www.auditoriodetenerife.com o por teléfono en el 902 317 327.

Cabildo’s Laboratorio de Artes Vivas Tenerife LAV presents the event Revelarnos: el laboratorio [Revealing ourselves: the Lab], to take place from 3 to 6 October. It consists of four sessions to take place at Auditorio de Tenerife and at other venues in Santa Cruz and La Laguna in which artists, curators, live arts professionals, culture professionals, thinkers and people connected to Tenerife LAV will take part.

Attendees include artists Alina Ruiz Folini (Arqueologías del Futuro, Buenos Aires) and Abraham Hurtado (AADK Centro Negra, Murcia) so that, quoting the project’s coordinator Javier Cuevas, “they lead us, challenge us and help us to look, touch, move and concentrate the powers offered by the Island in all its layers and dimensions”.

These activities call for a changing, physical and careful context to question the Tenerife LAV model as a project on relationship, research and reflection where contemporary live arts can have a place through the Island, making the most of the recent transformation of Leal.LAV into Tenerife LAV and all the powers displayed in this transfer.

The programme includes morning sessions, from 11:30 am to 1:00 pm at Sala Puerto in Auditorio de Tenerife. Every morning, Alina Ruiz Folini will show gymnastics-warmup exercises in order to share with the participants the interests, questions and concepts that will be dealt with in depth at the afternoon sessions. Gimnasias, from common Greek gymnos (γυμνός), which means nudity, related to the verb gymnazein, which means doing physical exercise.

The afternoon working sessions will be held from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm and will be done through written and spoken conversations in different locations. Tomorrow [Tuesday, the 3rd] the venue will be Sala de Cámara of Teatro Leal; on Wednesday [the 4th], the sessions will take place at Biblioteca Municipal Adrián Alemán de Armas de La Laguna; on Thursday [the 5th], the activity will be carried out in one of the offices Solar Acción Cultural, in Calle San Lucas, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife; and finally, Ateneo de La Laguna will host the fourth “Revelarnos” session.