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The Musical.IES Project is premiering at 7:00 pm on Sunday, the 7^th their new show Ítaca at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife.  This musical, in which 160 secondary school students from nine schools on the island are taking part, will transport the audience to 1990s New York, in a sitcom atmosphere where crowded scenes are combined with more intimate ones. This week, President of Cabildo, Carlos Alonso, attended one of the rehearsals with the Island Director for Culture, José Luis Rivero.

The President of the Cabildo admits he is very fond of this project “which is one of the diamonds in the crown of Tenerife 2030, that will be heart forever”. “Creativity, innovation, languages… Musical.IES amply fulfils the values and objectives of the Tenerife 2030 strategy”, he highlighted and thanked the artistic team of the musical, and especially the participants and parents. “It’s very exciting to see them every year”, he said.

The musical is set in the bustling unstoppable 1990s New York. In Sullivan Street, there is a small corner to put your feet up, take a deep breath and let your heart rest. Ítaca is a small bar, full of memories and of lives lived to the full. If the viewer decides to pay them a visit, they will meet all the regulars and will embark on an adventure called life. Ítaca invites the audience to take a seat, make themselves comfortable, they’ll be served soon.

Actually, a comfy sofa is one of the main elements in this production, directed by Melodie Pérez. Other members of the pedagogic team include Alejandro de la Barreda, Elena Feria, Mirela Fregolent, Daniel Morales, Ubaldo Pérez and Roxana Schmunk. Apart from the family performance, there will be two school performances on Monday, the 8^th, at 10:00 am and 11:45 am for over 3,000 students from some thirty schools on the island.

Like every year, the theme is chosen with the students participating who reach an agreement that is then developed by the creative team of the project. Rehearsals start at the beginning of the year in the schools in combination with Saturday sessions. A few weeks before the premiere, they get together and outline the scenes and songs which are known to the general public.  

The education centres taking part in the project are:  I.E.S Alcalde Bernabé, I.E.S Teobaldo Power, I.E.S San Benito, I.E.S Los Realejos, I.E.S María Pérez Trujillo, I.E.S. Punta Larga, I.E.S Los Cristianos, C.E.O Leoncio Rodríguez and C.I.F.P César Manrique.

Musical.IES is one of the best-established projects of Auditorio de Tenerife’s Educational and Social Area, and it enjoys the collaboration of Fundación Cepsa and Obra Social “la Caixa”. In this experience, youths learn how professional artists work and perform at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife and all the means involved.

Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday, except holidays; on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or calling 902 317 327

This week Sinfónica de Tenerife, under the baton of Víctor Pablo Pérez, is performing one of the most beautiful requiem masses in the history of western music, Mozart’s Requiem, in three different venues in Güímar, Santa Cruz and La Laguna. The orchestra will be joined by soprano Alicia Amo, mezzo Anabel Aldalur, tenor Agustín Prunell-Friend, baritone David Wilson-Johnson and Ensamble Vocal de Tenerife, directed by Antonio Abreu Lechado.

“Mozart’s Requiem –the orchestra’s honorary conductor points out – is built around mystery from the very start. There have been many reconstructions in an attempt to find out Mozart’s real intentions. The last one was by Pierre-Henri Dutron, on René Jacobs’s request. Sinfónica de Tenerife is offering the one by Süssmayr with some modifications”.

The first concert will be at 8:30 pm on Thursday, the 4^th at San Pedro Apóstol Church in Güímar, where the orchestra is performing the Requiem for choir, soloists and orchestra by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791). This will be repeated at 8:00 pm on Saturday, the 6^th at La Laguna Cathedral. The audience will enjoy the “contrast and mystery” in this score. In Víctor Pablo Pérez’s opinion, “tears, sighs, prayers or liberation follow one another until we reach Lux Aeterna, which is like a rainbow reflecting the colours of Peace”.

With these concerts, Sinfónica de Tenerife reinforces their commitment to society by taking their work to other venues on the island, in agreement with the Cabildo’s Tenerife 2030 initiative. These two concerts are free of charge and their aim is to generate a relationship between audiences and musicians through experiencing music live.  

In their performance at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife, at 7:30 pm on Friday, the 5^th, the orchestra will be playing a programme starting with Symphony nº 49 in F minor “La passione” by Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) and ending with Requiem by Mozart. “The idea is to bring together human and divine feelings through the Baroque and the classical styles” Pérez explains.

While Mozart’s popular work is steeped in mystery, Haydn’s symphony complements this programme by “showing ‘human passion’ connected to the feelings associated with the week of the Passion. Deep, melancholy, melodies, sighs and laments follow one another throughout this amazing symphony”, the honorary conductor concludes.

Tickets for the concert are available at Auditorio de Tenerife box office, from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; on the phone, calling 902 317 327; or on the internet www.sinfonicadetenerife.es  y www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

This performance is part of the Choir Spring Series of Sinfónica de Tenerife’s current season, which continues with two concerts conducted by Antonio Méndez: the first one is on Friday, 10^th May with a programme that includes the Female Choir of Conservatorio Profesional de Tenerife, and ends on 21^st June with Brahms’s German Requiem, with the participation of the ORCAM choir and the Gulbekian choir.

The Nova Ars Organorum series of Festival Internacional de Música Antigua de Tenerife (Fimante) [Tenerife Early Music International Festival] is bringing the precocious young musician Thomas Ospital to play the organ at  Auditorio de Tenerife, unique in the world. Una suculenta degustación del atractivo mundo organístico francés [A rich sample of the attractive French organistic world ] is the title of the programme, which includes works by Ravel, Duruflé and Vierne, to be played by the organist at 12:00 noon on Sunday, 31 March at Sala Sinfónica.

Born in the French Basque Country in 1990, Thomas Ospital had his first contact with the organ thanks to the parish priest of his village, where he went with his parents. He then started to study at Bayonne Conservatoire with Esteban Landart and went on to further his learning at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris with teachers like Olivier Latry, Michel Bouvard, Thierry Escaich, Philippe Lefebvre, Laszlo Fassang, Isabelle Duha, Pierre Pincemaille and Jean-François Zygel.

He finished his degree with five First Prizes in the classes of organ, improvisation, harmony, counterpoint and fugue. He has since won countless awards at international competitions in Zaragoza, Chartres, Toulouse and Angers. In 2015, at 25, after winning a public exam competition, he was appointed head of the great organ at Saint-Eustache church in Paris. In 2016, French National Radio invited him to be the first resident organist of the new Grenzing.

He teaches keyboard harmony since 2017 at Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris. He travels the world offering recitals as a soloist or with symphony orchestras and has made two records, one with works by Franz Liszt and the other one with Bach’s and Thierry Escaich’s repertoires.

Nova Ars Organorum artistic director, musicologist Rosario Álvarez, explains that “we often regret Maurice Ravel did not leave organ compositions but, there is no doubt that organs at his time -still heavily influenced by symphonic instruments- were not suitable to his language. Fortunately, transcriptions allow us to imagine what “the encounter with this colourful king of instruments” would have been like.

On the other hand, Maurice Duruflé is the composer and organist who best represents impressionism. “His language comes both from Gregorain chants and the very French universe of Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy”, Álvarez says to then add that “in Louis Vierne the heritage of the great Romantics is quite evident in the way he uses symphony, although he does it in his very own personal style”. His work is deeply connected to the great Notre Dame de París organ, of which he was principal player until his death.

Auditorio de Tenerife boasts a greatly versatile instrument within the walls of Sala Sinfónica: a 21st century organ that has 3,835 tubes and whose stops and technical means are unique in the world. The head of Nova Ars Organorum, who gave her advice in the process of construction of this colossal organ, admits that “I’m proud we have on this Island an instrument like this one which has a superb sonorous capacity”. Its construction took 22,000 hours of work by expert Albert Blancafort and his team.

Tickets are available at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday (except holidays) on www.auditoriodetenerife.com on this link or calling 902 317 327. Our usual discounts are available plus the new ones for groups. 

Ópera de Tenerife organises the family workshop Mucho más que un cuento [Far more than a tale] coinciding with the performance of Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel as part of the 2018-2019 Ópera de Tenerife season and under the Ópera en Familia scheme. Performances are on 27 and 28 April.

The workshop is aimed at children aged 3 to 12 and is given by Natalia Díaz Llarena. It will help understand opera in general, and particularly this title, based on the tale by the Grimm brothers. The workshop includes games and deals with musical and stage creation, plot, the characters and Humperdinck’s melodies.

The activity is taking place on 13 April at Auditorio de Tenerife. It is divided in four sessions -two in the morning and two in the afternoon- arranged according to the child’s age. In both cases the maximum number of participants is 13 kids who can come with an adult. For the 3- to 6-year-olds, the workshop is from 12:00 noon to 1:00 pm or from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm. Children aged 7 to 12 can come from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon or from 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm.

To take part in this free activity you should have bought a ticket for one of the performances and register before Monday 8 April at 12:00 noon via the email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by sending the following details: full name of child and adult coming with him/her, child age, adult telephone number, email address and the time you wish to come.

Hänsel und Gretel is an Ópera de Tenerife production that has been adapted to be enjoyed by all the family. The show offers a combination of dialogues in Spanish and arias sung in its original language and subtitled. The musical director is Rubén Sánchez-Vieco and Stefania Panighini is the stage director.

Hänsel und Gretel was premiered on 23 December 1893 and the libretto, which was written by the composer’s sister, Adelheide Wetter, is about the adventures of two siblings who get lost in the forest while they are looking for strawberries. A world of chocolate houses and sweets, witches, forest creatures and, most of all, fantasy, is sure to thrill the kids who will love this good-fun, warm production whose style is close to the way children use their imagination. The score brings together popular songs and opera numbers carefully dealt with by Humperdinck, who uses a delicate language that is never monotonous or repetitive. A masterpiece that most of the audience will see for the first time, although it is widely performed in English-speaking countries.

Tickets can be booked here, at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, or calling 902 317 327.

El Cabildo presenta la segunda edición del Campamento Coral de Tenerife, que tendrá lugar del 1 al 5 de julio en el I.E.S. La Laboral. Ya están abiertas las inscripciones para formar parte de esta iniciativa de la Escuela Coral de Tenerife, en la que se ofrece a los participantes una convivencia formativa en canto, acompañamiento en piano y dirección. Las actividades incluirán ensayos, clases magistrales y representaciones conjuntas, que serán impartidas por docentes de prestigio en el panorama coral nacional e internacional: Basilio Astulez, Esther Andueza, Juan Pablo Agudelo, María Claudia Peña y Paulo Vassalo.

El Campamento, abierto a participantes desde los 8 años, ofrecerá la experiencia de convivir en un entorno coral en el que se sucederán las actividades dedicadas a afinar su interpretación y mejorar su técnica en canto. Además, los futuros directores, como aquellos pianistas que estén interesados en formarse para acompañar piezas corales, podrán asistir a actividades especializadas. Roxana Schumnk, directora de la Escuela Coral, hace un llamamiento a la participación por parte de los integrantes de coros, profesores de música, directores de coro e incluso músicos en activo.

La semana de aprendizaje y convivencia que propone la Escuela Coral de Tenerife con este Campamento terminará de manera muy especial, con un concierto final en el que todos los participantes sacarán a relucir sus nuevos conocimientos. Este evento se celebrará el 5 de julio, a partir de las 19:30 horas, en el salón de actos del mismo I.E.S. La Laboral.

Las inscripciones se pueden realizar a través de la página web de Tenerife Artes Escénicas, en el apartado de Escuela Coral aquí. Esta actividad forma parte del Área Educativa y Social del Auditorio de Tenerife, que cuenta con la colaboración de la Fundación Cepsa y la Obra Social “la Caixa”.

Para esta nueva experiencia, la Escuela Coral de Tenerife ha seleccionado a un equipo de especialistas que trabajarán con cada grupo de manera específica. Así, María Claudia Peña, licenciada en Música Vocal por la Universidad del Norte de Florida y directora y docente en el Coro de Jóvenes de la Ciudad de Nueva York, se ocupará de las actividades del más pequeño de los grupos de edad, entre 8 y 12 años.

Trabajará con el grupo intermedio Juan Pablo Agudelo, licenciado en Educación Musical de la Facultad de Artes de la Universidad de Antioquía y docente de cátedra en la Facultad de Música de la Fundación Universitaria Bellas Artes de Medellín, Colombia. El grupo de coralistas a partir de 17 años correrá a cargo de Basilio Astulez, profesor de Canto Coral en el Conservatorio Municipal de Leioa, al que respaldan numerosos galardones en certámenes europeos.

El Campamento incluye, además, un grupo de dirección coral, con Paulo Vassalo Lourenço, doctor en Dirección Coral por la Universidad de Cincinnati/College-Conservatory of Music y docente en el Máster de dirección Coral en la Escuela Superior de Música de Lisboa. Esther Andueza, por su parte, es pianista especialista en acompañamiento vocal y jefa del departamento de Repertorio y Canto en el Conservatorio Profesional Arturo Soria de Madrid y se encargará del trabajo intensivo con el grupo de pianistas acompañantes.

La Escuela Coral es una iniciativa de Cabildo de Tenerife, dentro del Plan Insular para las Artes Escénicas y la Música; incluido en la estrategia Tenerife 2030. Como espacio de aprendizaje, fomenta acciones formativas permanentes, que se adentran en todas las áreas relacionadas con la práctica del canto coral.

Trébol Teatro trae el sábado [día 30] al Teatro El Sauzal una obra sin escenario en la que tres amigos se reencuentran en una bañera tras unos años sin verse

La Muestra Escénica Iberoamericana (MEI) del Instituto de Artes Escénicas de Tenerife ofrece para este sábado [día 30] a las 20:00 horas en el Teatro El Sauzal Jacuzzi, una comedia de la mano de la compañía cubana Trébol Teatro. Esta propuesta escénica sin escenario, la segunda de la programación internacional de MEI, cuenta la historia de tres amigos que se reúnen en la bañera de uno de ellos tras unos años sin verse.

La obra comienza con Susy y Pepe, quienes regresan a La Habana después de pasar algunos años en Roma. Tras comprar un apartamento deciden inaugurarlo realizando una fiesta en el único sitio de la casa que está listo: el baño. Para esta celebración han invitado solamente a Alejandro, el mejor amigo de Pepe y exnovio de Susy.

Comienzan con un juego donde compiten por ver quién soporta más tiempo bajo el agua y la espuma. Para Susy, la bañera representa el jacuzzi que nunca pudo regalarse mientras vivía en Cuba.

Es entonces cuando salen a la luz las tres posturas que estos jóvenes sostienen frente a la realidad cubana. Pepe considera que la Revolución es justa y que el sistema debe mantenerse a toda costa, Alejandro ha dejado de creer, y a Susy la desborda su apatía ante todo: su bandera es sobrevivir y adaptarse. La espuma y el vino comienzan a agrandar sus diferencias colocándolos en extremos opuestos y eso desencadena otra serie de confesiones de los protagonistas.

Las entradas de los espectáculos de MEI -salvo el Foco México, que es gratuito- están disponibles en www.muestraiberoamericana.com, en la taquilla del Teatro El Sauzal 90 minutos antes de cualquier función de MEI y en la taquilla del Auditorio de Tenerife, de lunes a sábado excepto festivos de 10:00 a 19:30 horas.

Trébol Teatro es un colectivo fundado en Holguín en el año 2004 por Yunior García con el espectáculo Malos presagios. El grupo se ha caracterizado por representar obras que dialoguen con la realidad cubana contemporánea y por indagar en los conflictos que preocupan, sobre todo, a los sectores más jóvenes. Siguiendo esa línea, una inquietud fundamental ha sido la formación de públicos y la preparación de actores recién egresados de las escuelas de arte en la región. Entre los espectáculos más destacados se encuentran Cierra la boca (2009), Asco (2010), Semen (2012), Pasaporte (2014) y Jacuzzi (2016).

Ópera de Tenerife will be holding auditions for extras to take part in their next production this season, Hänsel und Gretel (Humperdinck), under the Ópera en Familia programme. The title will be performed on 27 and 28 April 2019 at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife.

The selection process is open to boys and girls aged from 18 to 30 who look young. The deadline for entries is until 12:00 noon on Friday, 5 April 2019. They should be sent to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. The body of the message must include the following details: full name of candidate, date of birth, contact telephone number, email address, full-length recent photography, and artistic cv; and in the subject: 'Audiciones figuración Hänsel und Gretel'

Auditions will be held at 3:00 pm on Monday, 8 April at Sala Puerto in Auditorio de Tenerife, which is reached through the reception in the car park.

La Sinfónica de Tenerife ofrecerá en su nuevo concierto de temporada una mirada hacia la música de transición del s. XIX al XX a través de las obras de Chaikovski, Shilkret y Shostakovich. El programa, que tendrá lugar el próximo viernes [día 29] a las 19:30 horas en la Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio de Tenerife, estará dirigido por Nuno Coelho y contará en el trombón solista con la intervención del inglés Ian Bousfield.

Comenzará con la Obertura Romeo y Julieta, de Piotr Ilich Chaikovski (1840-1893), una de las piezas que ha hecho inolvidable a su autor. Con un tema sugerido por Balákirev, compositor fundamental del nacionalismo ruso, esta partitura permite explorar la oscuridad y la luz: un idílico y delicado tema de amor; la representación de Fray Lorenzo; el tema del conflicto entre Capuletos y Montescos, para acabar con el fatal desenlace. Como Wagner en su Tristán e Isolda, Chaikovski compone un final optimista, esperando el triunfo del amor prometido más allá de la muerte.

Escrito por encargo de Leopold Stokowski, director de Fantasía, que lo estrenó en 1945 por la Orquesta Sinfónica de Nueva York, el Concierto para trombón de Nathaniel Shilkret (1889-1992) estuvo perdido durante 60 años. Fue Bryan Free, trombonista de la Orquesta Nacional Escocesa (RNSO), quien lo recuperó en 2003 tras una búsqueda de dos décadas. La pieza ofrece una combinación exquisita entre la música clásica y la popular, reflejada esta en las reminiscencias cinematográficas y jazzísticas que se aprecian, además de una gran riqueza rítmica que ensalza la versatilidad del trombón.

Esta nueva cita de la Sinfónica de Tenerife con el su público finalizará, en la segunda parte, con la Sinfonía nº 6 en Si menor, op. 54 de Dmitri Shostakovich (1906-1975), la obra de un maestro que ya desde su estreno en 1939 fue recibida con entusiasmo. Si bien el autor había anunciado su intención de componer una sinfonía dedicada a Lenin, posteriormente no solo omite este aspecto de la obra sino que además anuncia que será una partitura desprovista del aspecto trágico y en la que predominará el tono contemplativo. El resultado no deja de ser una composición marcada por el carácter irónico de Shostakovich, donde queda patente su pesimismo sobre la existencia del ser humano.

Las entradas se pueden adquirir en la taquilla del Auditorio de Tenerife, de 10:00 a 19:30 horas de forma ininterrumpida de lunes a sábado; por teléfono en el 902 317 327; o por internet a través de www.sinfonicadetenerife.es y www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

Ópera de Tenerife’s 2019-2020 season features great composers like Donizetti, Verdi or Handel, but it also includes more avant-garde authors like Ullmann and Krenek, increasing the opera offer to a total of eight titles, which consolidates Auditorio de Tenerife as the major production centre in the Canaries. The details of this new season were disclosed today, Monday the 25^th, by the President of the Cabildo, Carlos Alonso; the Island Director for Culture, José Luis Rivero, and Ópera de Tenerife’s intendant, Alejandro Abrante.

The President highlighted the success of the current Ópera de Tenerife season, “that is not over yet and is being very successful”. “As it happens, last Saturday tickets for Turandot were sold out and the audience at Sala Sinfónica gave standing ovation”, recalled Alonso, who added that “when one talks about opera, the first thing that comes to mind is creativity, that’s why Ópera de Tenerife helps understand what Tenerife 2030 means; and they take care of it from very young ages, with the Manos a la Ópera project”, to then admit that at the Cabildo “we are very proud of this project, which opens Tenerife to the exterior”.

Carlos Alonso explained that Ópera de Tenerife season is the most reasonably priced in Spain thanks to its subscriptions, discounts and price reductions. “A new thing is that we have extended to 30 the age limit to benefit from the Young Subscription or the young discount for standard single tickets”.

The island director for Culture detailed that “there are many factors that come into play for the success of Ópera de Tenerife, like professional, technical, educational, social, creative, territorial and the work done to increase audiences”. “Ópera de Tenerife carries Tenerife 2030 as a banner from its home, Auditorio de Tenerife, which has become an Opera house”, he stated.

The Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife and Auditorio de Tenerife are the two mainstays that make Ópera de Tenerife possible, “a project with which we are leaders in opera, at the same level as the great theatres in the world”.

José Luis Rivero detailed that more than 127 cultural activities related to opera are made with programmes that spread the knowledge of opera across the island, like the schemes Ópera en Ruta, Aperitivos Líricos or Ópera Fórum, and just 19 take place at Auditorio de Tenerife, as the remaining 108 go to different municipalities on the Island. “We have over 27,000 viewers, thanks to our pricing policy too, which is the right one to encourage access to opera”.

Alejandro Abrante was clear that “Ópera and Tenerife are two terms that must go together”. In Abrante’s opinion, “Opera (e)Studio is one of our major projects because it encourages young talent and leads to singers who feel from Tenerife”. “Great artists start here and later on come back during the season to return what they received”, said the intendant, who added that out of the 70 artists who have been to this voice improvement academy, 40 are currently following their careers. “We are now a model of opera production”, he concluded.

The season raises the curtain with the seventh Opera (e)Studio, the comprehensive training academy for the development of young artists, which this year is funded by the European Commission through Creative Europe.  The title chosen by the projects’ artistic director, maestro Giulio Zappa, is the melodramma giocoso by Gaetano Donizetti, L’elisir d’amore. This co-production of Ópera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bolognia and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre will be performed four times from 24 to 27 October.

On 19, 21 and 23 November, Rigoletto comes on stage. The title is part of Giuseppe Verdi’s famous popular trilogy, where the title role will be performed by one of the most acclaimed artists of Verdi’s repertoire, Leo Nucci.

To close the first quarter of the season, we’ll enjoy two operas composed by Austrian composers of the first half of the 20^th century, who using sarcasm, deals with the issue of totalitarian power. Der Diktator (The Dictator) by Ernst Krenek, composed in 1928 in fascist Italy, and Der Kaiser von Atlantis (The Emperor of the Atlantid) by Viktor Ullmann, composed in 1943 at a concentration camp.

The adventures and misfortunes of the daughter of a Pope, Lucrezia Borgia, by Donizetti, reach Ópera de Tenerife on 17, 19 and 21 March. Stage director Silvia Paoli, who made her debut in Ópera de Tenerife with La Cenerentola (2014) and repeated, with equal success, with Le nozze di Figaro (2015) and I Capuleti e i Montecchi(2017), returns with this international co-production of Ópera de Tenerife, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Ópera de Oviedo and Teatro de la Maestranza de Sevilla. Her interpretation of the opera transports us to the 1930s, where the rise of fascism in Italy marks female behaviour, ruled by the hidden vices and public virtues of a male-centred society.

Ópera en familia is putting on Rinaldo on 25 and 26 April. Ardent battles, spells, and beautiful melodies, like the famous ‘Lascia ch’io pianga’ make this title by George Frideric Handel one of the most acclaimed of his works. The next in-house production, for the Ópera Pocket programme will take us to the unforgettable love story composed by Verdi in The Traviata, which, as in previous occasions, will tour the Island municipalities with the intention of bringing opera to new venues and audiences. Continuing our support to zarzuela, the programme includes the romance La tabernera del puerto by Pablo Sorozábal, one of the most renowned zarzuela composers in the 20^th century.

The new opera season also brings the 7^th Opera de Tenerife Singing International Competition, which is now established as a not-to-be-missed engagement in the international opera world. We will once again enjoy a range of great voices in La final on 24 June, admission is free, and the Award-winner Concert on 25 June. This season includes masterclasses on voice and performance for young talents, to be held from 28 October to 2 November. In addition, the learning activity Ópera en Ruta, will explain to new audiences the ins and outs of the world of opera and the titles offered.

Antonio Méndez, Philippe Auguin, Pedro Halffter, Andriy Yurkevych, Giovanni Paganelli, Rubén Sánchez-Vieco and Alessandro Palumbo -the latter with Orquesta de la Academia Ópera de Tenerife- will be leading Sinfónica de Tenerife to put music to one more season of productions to be performed in Auditorio de Tenerife along with Coro de Ópera de Tenerife directed by Carmen Cruz.

As in previous years, Ópera de Tenerife offers the chance to get different types of subscriptions which do not only involve a discount on ticket prices, but they also allow you to enjoy exclusive advantages including securing your seat, priority access to the auditorium, free Ópera Bus, or receiving the digital programme ahead of the première.

The titles included in all types of subscription available, Club Ópera and Club Ópera Joven, are: L’elisir d’amore, Rigoletto, Der Diktator and Der Kaiser von Atlantis, Lucrezia Borgia and La tabernera del puerto. The Club Ópera Joven subscription also includes Rinaldo and the Award-winner concerts of the Singing International Competition. This will also enjoy an additional 15% discount for different events at Auditorio de Tenerife like Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife, Quantum Ensemble, Ópera en familia, Ópera Pocket. The offer also includes 10% off at Gastromag in Auditorio, as well as in some cafeterias and restaurants in Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

The Club Ópera subscription includes different rates like: Ambassador, First-timer, Corporate, Large Families and Groups (conservatoires, music schools and universities) which involve a specific discount for each group ranging from 30 to 40%. If you do not opt for a season subscription, Ópera de Tenerife offers a series of special discounts on standard single tickets for students, unemployed, large families, Ópera en Ruta participants and Ten+ Mayor card holders. Also, new this year, the age range to enjoy the young people discount has been extended to 30 years of age, with tickets at a single price of 5 euros.

The period to renew subscriptions starts tomorrow, [Tuesday, the 26^th] and ends on 14 April. The period for new subscribers is from 7 May to 24 October. In both cases, the purchase can be arranged via the Internet, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com, or in person at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday.

All the information on the titles of the 2019 - 2020 season are available on Ópera de Tenerife

El Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife será el coro piloto del concierto final del Taller de Interpretación Coral que el director portugués Pedro Teixeira imparte el domingo [día 24]. El concierto, de entrada gratuita hasta completar aforo, se celebrará en el Real Casino de Tenerife a las 19:30 horas y servirá como broche final de esta actividad abierta al público y organizada por la Red de Coros de Tenerife.

El mismo Pedro Teixeira, Roxana Schmunk, directora del Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife, y Núria Fernández Herranz, directora del Curso de Dirección Coral y del Coro de la Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, se repartirán la batuta de las diez piezas que podrá disfrutar el público. Además del Coro Juvenil, participarán en el concierto los alumnos del Curso de Dirección Coral y un coro compuesto por los participantes del taller.

Con un amplio reconocimiento en su trayectoria y dirigido por Roxana Schmunk, el Coro Juvenil celebró recientemente su segundo aniversario, convirtiéndose en uno de los proyectos corales más ambiciosos de la estrategia Tenerife 2030 del Cabildo. Teixeira trabajará con esta formación hoy [día 22], mañana [sábado 23] y el mismo día del concierto [domingo 24]. En estas sesiones se abordará el repertorio previsto para el concierto final del Taller y el que el Coro Juvenil llevará a los European Choir Games, un certamen europeo en el que ha sido seleccionado tras un proceso en el que participaban coros de todo el continente.

Considerado uno de los mejores especialistas europeos en interpretación coral y música renacentista y maestro en Dirección Coral por la Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, Pedro Teixeira dirige este Taller, en el que participan 45 miembros y simpatizantes de los proyectos corales de Cabildo de Tenerife, haciendo especial hincapié en la sincronización de las emociones y técnicas a la hora de interpretar una pieza. Durante el fin de semana, ofrecerá también una clase magistral a los alumnos del Curso de Dirección Coral, dentro del programa de actividades propuestas por la dirección de la Red de Coros y Nuria Fernández Herranz.

El Cabildo, a través de la Red de Coros de Tenerife y la Escuela Coral de Tenerife, fomenta espacios comunes que aúnan y sirven de plataforma para promover la actividad coral de la Isla, favoreciendo intercambios de información, experiencias, recursos humanos y materiales entre todas las entidades que lo componen. Por otro lado, se persigue el perfeccionamiento y búsqueda de la excelencia en la actividad coral a través de distintas propuestas formativas abiertas a todos sus componentes.

Dentro de este marco, ya se encuentran abiertas las inscripciones de la segunda edición del Campamento Coral de Tenerife, una convivencia de cinco días, que aunará del 1 al 5 de julio talleres en canto e interpretación coral, dirección de coro y acompañamiento para pianistas.

Tres bandas federadas de Los Silos, Los Realejos y Arafo dan un concierto el domingo [día 24] en el marco del ciclo Primavera Musical, organizado por la Federación Tinerfeña de Bandas de Música en colaboración con el Cabildo Insular. La Sala de Cámara del Auditorio de Tenerife acoge a los 175 músicos que tocarán a partir de las 11:30 horas. La entrada para todos los conciertos es libre hasta completar aforo.

Los 45 músicos de la Agrupación Musical Nueva Unión Los Silos inician el programa con  Cielo Andaluz, de Pascual Marquina. La banda, dirigida por Juana Mª Bolaños Polegre, tocará seguidamente Euterpe, la Musa de la Música, de Ferrer Ferrán, que contará con María Elizabeth Pérez García para la flauta solista. La banda sonora de West Side Story, de Leonard Bersntein con arreglos de Naohiro Iway y Michael Sweeney, cerrará la puesta en escena de esta formación cuyo origen se remonta al año 1899.

El programa de esta tercera sesión de Primavera Musical continúa con la Sociedad Musical Filarmónica de Los Realejos, que comenzarán con Robinson Crusoe, de Bert Appermont. Los 50 músicos dirigidos por Francisco José Hernández Padrón tocarán entonces la Overture, Entr'acte y Finale del Theatre Music de Philip Sparke. Esta banda, que debutó en 1847, finalizará su intervención con el pasodoble La Cruz, de Miguel Linares.

Cierra el concierto la Asociación Musical Nivaria, de Arafo, cuyos 80 músicos comenzarán con el pasodoble Juan Palomares, de Ferrer Ferrán. Seguidamente, la formación fundada en 1860, hará sonar la Overture to a New Age de Jan de Jaan. La banda, dirigida por Miguel Ángel Expósito Marrero, terminará con el intermedio de la zarzuela La Boda de Luis Alonso, de Gerónimo Giménez.

La próxima cita con el ciclo Primavera Musical tendrá lugar el domingo 7 de abril a la misma hora y lugar con un concierto en el que participarán la banda Ernesto Beteta, de Santa Úrsula, y las asociaciones musicales San Miguel de Abona, Arona y La Candelaria de Arafo.