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The performance includes some of the best arias by Donizetti

Ópera de Tenerife, in collaboration with Garachico Town Council, has staged an opera recital on Sunday, 24 February at 12:00 noon, in the former Convento de San Francisco. This is a good chance to listen to some of the most outstanding arias by composer Gaetano Donizetti (Bergamo 1797– 1848).

The recital features tenor David Astorga and soprano Nina Solodovnikova, who will be accompanied by pianist maestro José Miguel Román. The activity, one of our “Opera Titbits”, will be introduced by Ópera de Tenerife’s intendant, Alejandro Abrante.

The different pieces you can enjoy include: ‘Una furtiva lagrima’ [L’elisir d’amore], ‘Una parola, o Adina… Chiedi all’ aura lusinghiera’ [L’elisir d’amore], ‘Quel guardo ilcavaliere… So anch’io la virtù magica’ [Don Pasquale], ‘Tornami a dir che m’ami’ [Don Pasquale] and ‘Ah! Mes amis, que jour de fête… Pour mon âme’ [La fille du régiment]. This get-together will end with an aperitif.

This activity, which started last season and has already been to Puerto de la Cruz, La Laguna and Güímar, aims to disseminate opera by offering recitals in different venues across the island of Tenerife.

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La Sinfónica de Tenerife finaliza este viernes [22 de febrero] su recorrido por la obra sinfónica de Brahms, una experiencia “mucho más intensa y completa” para conocer mejor al genio de Hamburgo. El programa, que integra la Segunda y Cuarta sinfonías, será conducido por el director principal de la orquesta, Antonio Méndez, a las 19:30 horas, en el Auditorio de Tenerife.

Johannes Brahms (1833-1897) se consolidó como uno de los grandes compositores de su generación tras el éxito de su Primera sinfonía, a pesar del tiempo que tardó en trabajar en ella. Con la mirada puesta en la tradición, el conjunto de su obra sinfónica muestra buena parte de su propuesta estética. “A pesar de que por supuesto cada sinfonía es muy diferente, no se puede hablar de diferencias estilísticas, puesto que las cuatro sinfonías son todas obras de madurez y forman un bloque muy coherente”, explica Antonio Méndez.

La integral sinfónica supone para el público tinerfeño una oportunidad única para “sumergirse en este universo sonoro apasionante”, comenta el director principal. “Disfrutar de un ciclo de esta manera, como mucha gente ya sabrá a través del mundo de la literatura o de la cinematografía, crea una experiencia mucho más intensa y completa, que permite apreciar tanto sus diferentes partes como el todo”. Tanto el público habitual en los conciertos de la orquesta tinerfeña como el que se acerque por primera vez “tendrá la ocasión de descubrir de manera particular los diferentes instrumentos, las secciones, la forma que tiene Brahms de combinarlos, la gran paleta de colores y la infinidad de afectos que estas obras evocan”, concluye.

La primera parte del repertorio de este viernes 22 está protagonizada por la luminosidad de la Segunda sinfonía, “la demostración de una forma de componer que representa el sello personal en Brahms” al igual que la Cuarta, que será la de cierre de este homenaje de la Sinfónica de Tenerife al compositor romántico.

El ciclo que la Sinfónica de Tenerife dedica a Johannes Brahms finaliza el 21 de junio con la interpretación del Réquiem alemán, también con Antonio Méndez en el podio, una cita que constituye el cierre de esta temporada, cuya la línea programática se sustenta en la combinación entre tradición y modernidad, en consonancia con la identidad de la Sinfónica de Tenerife.

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.

Quantum Ensemble, Auditorio de Tenerife resident group sets One thousand and One Nights to music with the concert Shéhérazade, which ison at 7:30 pm on Thursday, 21^st at Sala de Cámara. The programme offers a stimulating stylistic contrast with pieces by Szymanowski, Ravel and Rimsky Korsakov related to the heroine of this medieval Middle Eastern tale.

The concert features soprano Sarah Fox and six musicians: Alissa Margulis (violin), Francisco García (flute), Cristo Barrios (clarinet), Emil Rovner (cello), Miguel Ituarte (piano) and Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (piano). Barrios and Díaz-Jerez are two of Quantum Ensemble funding members, together with David Ballesteros.

This time pianist Miguel Ituarte will be discussing Shéhérazade an hour before the concert starts at Sala de Cámara. Admission to the talk is free. 

Shéhérazade, the character and narrator of One thousand and one nights has been a source of inspiration for many composers and the origin of many musical adaptations, including the three pieces in this programme. Masques for piano (1915-1916) is one in a series of three compositions by Karol Szymanowski based on literary works; Shéhérezade, which opens the work; Mythes (1915) about Tristan and Isolde and Métopes (1915) on Don Juan.

 Shéhérazade is also the title of two works by Maurice Ravel: an overture which is considered to be his first orchestral composition and a series of songs -also included in this concert- which have become well-liked pieces in the French musician’s repertoire, both in its orchestral and chamber versions. This piece by Ravel is strongly influenced by Russian composers, mainly by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov, whose symphonic poem is particularly relevant. This is no surprise since the Russian composer’s Shéhérezade is probably the best-known musical response to this emblematic literary character.

Quantum Ensemble once again includes a music arrangement -made by Pablo Díaz this time- to offer this great piece by Rimsky-Korsakov in a chamber version. This arrangement closes a concert made up of highly stimulating, contrasting compositions which at the same time are linked together by one of the most fascinating stories in universal literature.

As part of the outreach work of Quantum Ensemble, at 5:30 pm on Wednesday, 20^th a session will introduce music to a group of La Casita, in collaboration with “la Caixa” volunteers. This is a Barcelona-based project which is managed in Tenerife through a programme of Hermanas Oblatas La Casita, which offers help and training to women related to prostitution and/or victims of sexual exploitation dealings.

Also, on Friday, 22^nd as part of their training, clarinettist Cristo Barrios is giving a Performance class for students of Conservatorio Profesional and Conservatorio Superior de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which collaborate in this activity.

Tickets for the concert can be booked via the usual channels of Auditorio de Tenerife: at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com  here or calling 902 317 327.

The QB subscription is also available on Auditorio’s website and at the box office. It offers an additional 15% discount on the standard ticket price for Quantum Ensemble and Orquesta Barroca de Tenerife concerts in the present season.

Ópera de Tenerife has organised a talk on the stage design work involved in the production of an opera. The meeting with Jorge Cabrera (Ópera de Tenerife’s stage designer, technical director and technical production coordinator) is taking place at 6:00 pm on Tuesday, 19^th February at Sala Alisios in Auditorio de Tenerife.  Admission is free but registering in advance is required. Please write to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. indicating in subject Ópera Fórum and including name and telephone number of the participant.

Ópera Fórum is a new means of communication to bring opera to citizens. This new project aims to explain the ins and outs of opera in different meetings to be held throughout the season where different opera aspects will be dealt with using a holistic approach. These sessions are carried out by different opera professionals and will help to pull down misconceptions and prejudices about opera.

In the first Ópera Fórum talk this season, which took place in December, Ópera de Tenerife’s intendant Alejandro Abrante, talked about the history of opera in the Canary Islands and the buildings for opera on the islands.

The Film Symphony Orchestra (FSO) is back at Auditorio de Tenerife in 2019. This time, the film music group is paying tribute to composer John Williams with a double programme in two different concerts, and the collaboration of Multicines Tenerife. The first concert, to take place on Saturday, 16^th at 7:30 pm is sold out. But there are seats available for the Sunday, 17^th show at 7:00 pm.

Film Symphony Orchestra’s tour includes more than 60 concerts across Spain and Portugal paying tribute to the composer who took five Academy Oscar awards and was nominated 59 times. This is a very special tour where the composer’s best themes are played under the baton of FSO’s charismatic conductor, Constantino Martínez-Orts.

For the first time, this 2018/2019 tour includes more than four hours of live music divided in two programmes that include 30 soundtracks in two concerts you just can’t miss. Saturday is the turn of Lincoln, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, The Lost World: Jurassic Park, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Jaws, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, Schindler’s List and Superman.

On Sunday, the programme includes Fiddler on the Roof, Olympic Fanfare and Theme, The Patriot, JFK, The Adventures of Tintin, The Witches of Eastwick, War Horse, Memoirs of a Geisha, Munich, Jurassic Park, The Adventures of Indiana Jones, Angela’s Ashes, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Terminal, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Battle of Midway, E.T., Star Wars: A New Hope.

The Film Symphony Orchestra is an original artistic project that was set up to fill a gap in the musical and cultural offer available in Spain. It is a professional symphony orchestra of the highest quality with more than 70 musicians who offer film music concerts exclusively or music by composers who are closely related to film.

Tickets for Sunday concert can be bought at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or calling 902 317 327.

Sinfónica de Tenerife is for the first time offering all four symphonies by Brahms, “the perfect way to bring this composer to Tenerife audience”. The  principal conductor, Antonio Méndez, leads the orchestra in this unique occasion to enjoy the German author’s compositional expressiveness and symbolism in two consecutive concerts to take place at Auditorio de Tenerife on 15 and 22 February at 7:30 pm.

“Sinfónica de Tenerife has performed these compositions many times before but never like this. I’m happy that in our first season together we can highlight these pieces which, in my view, are one of the pinnacles in the history of music”, says the maestro about the opportunity to listen to these creations together, a completely different experience from enjoying them separately.

The concerts start on Friday with the performance of the Third and First symphonies, played in that order. Two beautiful epic works which prompted critics to compare Brahms with Beethoven. The programme does not follow a chronological order as the aim is to “find a sense of balance and contrast between the pieces”, Méndez explained, taking into account that “the nature and duration of each symphony is very different”.

“Brahms’s four symphonies are a rare case in the history of music” -the principal conductor pointed out. This is due to the fact that “Brahms spent 21 years working on his First Symphony and then took only nine years to compose the remaining three”.

This performance of the symphonies by Hamburg’s genius agrees with the lines to be followed this season by Sinfónica. Its principal conductor, Antonio Méndez, puts an emphasis on “the great Central European Romantic and Post-Romantic repertoire in a season where the main features are Brahms and Debussy”. Indeed, Sinfónica and I are thrilled at having the chance to present the Brahms series in these two weeks, as it is the main feature in the season and a clear example of the programme line we decided to follow.  The great Central European Romantic repertoire will have an outstanding position in our programme and performing these Brahms symphonies in our first season together is a good starting point, to then develop our repertoire in different directions”.

Tickets can be purchased at  Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín box office, from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; by telephone on 902 317 327; or on the internet www.sinfonicadetenerife.es and www.auditoriodetenerife.com.

The Red de Coros de Tenerife [Tenerife Choir Network] has organised a performance workshop by Portuguese conductor Pedro Teixeira, to take place on Sunday, 24 March at Auditorio de Tenerife. The training session is free of charge and its main goal is to put an emphasis on the way compositions are performed. The workshop closes with a concert at Santa Cruz’s Real Casino de Tenerife in the evening. You can enrol now on Tenerife Artes Escénicas website here.

Regarded as one of the best European specialists in Renaissance music, Teixeira specifically targets this applied training course to choir singers with an advance level of musical knowledge. He is also giving a master class to students of the Choral Direction course under the programme put together by Tenerife Choir Network and Nuria Fernández Herranz, director of the course. In this session students will work on the following pieces: O Lux Beatissima, by Howard Helvey; Nunc Dimittis, by Erik Esenvadls; Ubi Caritas, by Gjeilo and There is no rose, by Andrew Cusworth.

Teixeira’s activities in the choir projects under Cabildo’s Tenerife 2030 strategy also include three rehearsals with Coro Juvenil de Auditorio de Tenerife [Auditorio Young Choir], who are getting ready to compete at the European Choral Games to be held in Gothenburg (Sweden) next August.

Lisbon-born Pedro Teixeira has a Masters in Choral Direction by Escola Superior de Música in Lisbon, and has gained much of his performance experience as director of Queluz Choral Group  (2000-12) and Eborae Musica (1997-2013).  Since then, he has been known in the choir world for his sensitive and sagacious performances. He has also specialised in building and keeping nuclear sound, the purity of voice issuing and musicality in the choirs he works with. He currently teaches at Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Música and Escola Superior de Educação.

Teixeira has trained professional choirs in collaboration with conductors like John Nelson, Joana Carneiro, Víctor Pablo Pérez, Riccardo Muti, Paul McCreesh, and Lawrence Foster. He recently worked on Haydn’s The Creation, and War Requiem by Britten at Auditorio Nacional de Música (Madrid); Falstaff by Verdi at Fundación Gulbenkian (Lisbon) and Verdi’s Requiem at Teatro Real de Madrid. In December 2017 he prepared Handel’s Messiah with Coro de la Comunidad de Madrid, and directed the Gulbenkian Choir in April 2018, at Gran Auditorio of the Gulbenkian Foundation, in Lisbon.

Auditorio de Tenerife offers a concert by Carlos Mena y The Disfonik Orchestra. Under the shadow is the title of the show by the singer and the ensemble on 2 March at 7:30 pm at Sala de Cámara in Auditorio. Tickets are  available here.

The music The Disfonik Orchestra offers is an intimate encounter of classical music and jazz. Some of the most beautiful pieces of the classical repertoire have been carefully chosen and delicately arranged for a jazz ensemble like The Disfonik and a distinct countertenor classical voice, Carlos Mena’s. Singer Ghalmia Senouci (alto) is also performing at Auditorio.

The Disfonik Orchestra was founded by Jacques Beaud and it is made up of seven professional musicians from very different music backgrounds who are connected by one single idea: Music. The following musicians will be playing: Juan Munguía, trumpet; Matthieu Roffè, piano, Salvatore Reitano, keyboard; Marc- Olivier Savoy, drums; and Jacques Beaud, electric bass.

Carlos Mena studied at Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel with Richard Levitt and René Jacobs. His many concerts have taken him to the most prestigious venues in the world, such as Konzerthaus in Vienne, Berlin Philharmonic, Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, Alice Tully Hall at New York’s MET, Kennedy Center in Whashintong, Berliner Philarmoniker, Suntory Hall and Opera City Hall in Tokyo, Osaka Symphony Hall, Sydney Opera House, Concert Hall in Melbourne.

He has performed the operas “Radamisto” by Händel (in the title role) at Felsenreitschule in Salzburg, at Dortmund Konzerthaus, at Musikverein in Vienne, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw and Bellas Artes in Mexico City conducted by M. Haselböck and H. Grazer; “Orfeo” by Monteverdi (Speranza) at Festwoche in Innsbruck and at Berlin’s Staatsoper; “Il Trionfo” by Händel (in the role of Disinganno) at Grosses Festspielhaus in Salzburg and “Europera 5” by J. Cage at Flanders Festival.

He has an interest in the lied and contemporary repertoires and has premiered different works by composers like José María Sánchez-Verdú, Gabriel Erkoreka and Alberto Iglesias. He has also conducted the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta Ciudad de Granada and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias with works by Handel, Bach and Mozart

He is currently music and artistic director at Capilla Santa Maria promoted by Fundación Catedral Santa María de Vitoria and directs programmes spanning from the Middle Ages to Classicism at national and international festivals.

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

Auditorio’s usual discounts are also available for this concert including the new group discount.

La Sinfónica de Tenerife explora el romanticismo alemán más creativo en su nuevo concierto de temporada conducido por Víctor Pablo Pérez, que cuenta con obras de Wagner, Bruch y Bruckner. El programa, que tendrá lugar el viernes [día 8] a las 19:30 horas en la Sala Sinfónica del Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín, incluye también la presencia como solista invitada de la violinista Alexandr Soumm, quien debuta con la formación musical del Cabildo.

El director honorario se reencuentra con la orquesta en esta nueva cita que nos permitirá escuchar, en primer lugar, el preludio del Acto III de la ópera Los maestros cantores, de Richard Wagner (1813-1883), una magistral obertura de concierto, que refleja la voluntad del compositor de reconciliación con la tradición. La segunda parte del concierto estará dedicada a la Sinfonía nº 6  en La mayor de Anton Bruckner (1824-1896), quien tuvo una gran afinidad con Wagner y por ello fue blanco de las críticas de Eduard Hanslick, considerado padre del formalismo musical. Esta partitura, con una de las orquestaciones más imaginativas de su autor, comprende temas de gran belleza y armonías al mismo tiempo sutiles y atrevidas, con un gran dominio de las formas clásicas.

La propuesta de Víctor Pablo Pérez transportará a los asistentes a la composición romántica alemana a través también del Concierto para violín nº 1 en Sol menor de Max Bruch (1838-1920), que será interpretado por Alexandra Soumm. Partidaria de “tratar de representar las piezas que tocamos los músicos a través de los ojos de la historia”, la violinista francesa es consciente de tal fidelidad que no es posible en la actualidad, aunque encuentra en el romanticismo “el movimiento musical que permite mayor involucración personal”.

Soumm profundizará en la que se considera la obra más interpretada de Bruch, hasta el punto de que eclipsó el resto de sus composiciones. Una partitura imprescindible, por tanto, en el repertorio de todo solista, como es el caso de la intérprete invitada, quien confiesa que a pesar de haber tocado este concierto durante más de quince años, todavía le ilusiona descubrir “nuevas ideas y nuevos puntos de vista” a la hora de tocarla sobre un escenario. “Sentir el amor que el público de todo el mundo tiene por este trabajo siempre me conmueve, y estoy seguro de que España no es una excepción”, añade.

Las entradas para este concierto 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.

Clases magistrales

Alexandra Soumm es una apasionada de la enseñanza y ofrece clases magistrales en numerosos países. Avalada por una carrera con sólidos conocimientos ella quien inaugure, el próximo jueves 7 de febrero, las clases magistrales que la Sinfónica de Tenerife ha preparado para esta temporada, una propuesta que se integra en el programa del área socieducativa de la orquesta, a través de la iniciativa Tenerife 2030 del Cabildo.

Con estas actividades, organizadas con la colaboración del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, el Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Santa Cruz de Tenerife y la Joven Orquesta de Canarias, además del patrocino de la Fundación Cepsa y la Obra Social la Caixa, la Sinfónica de Tenerife apoya la formación de los jóvenes músicos de la Isla aprovechando la presencia de los solistas que colaboran en los programas de temporada. Ian Bousfiel impartirá la siguiente clase magistral, de trombón, el 28 de marzo, François Leleux, oboe, el 2 de mayo y el violinista Michael Barenboim el 13 de junio.

La violinista francesa se muestra “muy feliz de poder enseñar durante mi estancia en Tenerife y compartir con estos estudiantes todo lo que pueda” al tiempo que aplaude la iniciativa de la Sinfónica de Tenerife. “Para ser totalmente un artista, uno debería haber tocado en un cuarteto de cuerdas, trabajado en sinfonías, tocado música de todos los lugares y tiempos diferentes, con el objeto de tener un punto de vista lo más amplio posible a lo largo de la historia de la música, y no convertirse en un artista encasillado en un periodo de tiempo (en su mayoría, del siglo XIX)”, indica, lo que ayuda a construir, a su juicio, “el pensamiento crítico”.

A total of 170 young artists from 33 countries have applied to take part in the 7^th  Opera (e)Studio. This is a 50 per cent increase over last year. Auditions are starting on Monday, 4 February in Bologna, and will continue in Tbilisi and Madrid, ending at Auditorio de Tenerife on 16 February.

This year -funded by the European Commission under the Creative Europe programme- the singers chosen to take part in this project, led by Ópera de Tenerife in partnership with Teatro Comunale di Bologna and Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre will put on stage L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti. Artists can compete for more than one role which are divided as follows: Adina and Gianetta, for sopranos; Nemorino, for tenors; Belcore, for baritones and Dulcamara, for baritones or bass.

Over half of the applicants have registered to attend auditions at Teatro Comunale di Bologna, reason why three days have been allowed for them. The tests in Tbilisi Opera and Ballet State Theatre (Georgia) are taking place on the 8^th and 9^th, followed by auditions at Escuela Superior de Canto de Madrid on the 11^th and ending on the 16^th at Auditorio de Tenerife. All the auditions will be supervised by Opera (e)Studio artistic director, Giulio Zappa.

The artists registered come from 33 countries in America, Europe and Asia. Most come from Italy, with 64 candidates followed by Spain, with 24, and Japan with eight. The singers chosen will travel to the Island in early September to get comprehensive professional training on all the disciplines included in the opera genre, from musical to stage aspects. In addition to musical education, Opera (e)Studio pays particular attention to training singers in acting and body language.

The opera L’elisir d’amore will open the next Tenerife opera season in October and will be performed four times at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife. In 2020, it will be put on at Teatro Comunale di Bologna and at Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre. This show by Ópera de Tenerife has Antonio Méndez as music director, who is the Principal Conductor of Orquesta Sinfónica de Tenerife, in Tenerife and Bolonga; and Zaza Azmaiparashvii, Principal Conductor of Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, in Georgia. Stage design is by stage director Pablo Maritano.

Ópera de Tenerife starts the talks series on Puccini’s Turandot, the upcoming production that is on at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife in March. Nine talks have been scheduled before the show is on in different municipalities of the Island as part of the activity Ópera en ruta [Itinerant Opera].

The talks are starting on Thursday, 31 January at 7:00 pm in Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Tabaiba (El Rosario). In February they are taking place at the libraries of Garachico [5th], Vilaflor [8th], Biblioteca Pública del Estado, in Santa Cruz [11th], Güímar [15th], La Laguna [18th]. On 25th at La Casa de la Castaña y la Alfarería, in La Victoria and at Tomás de Iriarte in Puerto de la Cruz on 28, ending on 1 March at Candelaria’s library.

In the one-hour talks Iván Morales will deal with the historical context, give biographical references on Italian composer Giacomo Puccini, and explain Turandot’s three acts. He will also put an emphasis on pulling down clichés about the world of opera.

Turandot is the fourth title of Ópera de Tenerife this season and it is one of the most widely performed operas in theatres across the globe. It has such impressive arias as In questa reggia or one of its most famous to be sung by a tenor, Nessun Dorma. Auditorio de Tenerife is welcoming this production on 19, 21 and 23 March at 7:30 pm at Sala Sinfónica. Music direction is by Giampaolo Bisanti, the stage director and designer is Giuseppe Freigeni and the cast led by soprano Tiziana Caruso in the role of princess Turandot and tenor, Carlo Ventre, as Calaf.

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

The Ballet of Grand Théâtre De Genève is landing on the island next weekend to put on the legend Tristan and Isolde on Saturday, 2 February and Sunday, 3 at 7:30 pm at Sala Sinfónica in Auditorio de Tenerife. When it was premiered, the show was awarded the Critics’s Great Prize for Best Dance show granted by the Paris Professional Critics Association.

Nine technicians and 24 dancers of the company are travelling to Tenerife for this performance. The prestigious company turns this love story between a young man and a princess into a visual show. The story is part of the literary Arthurian legends which Richard Wagner turned into an opera in the 19^th century. This version starts from compositions recorded by the German genius for a staging where its two protagonists fly thanks to a pulley and ropes system.

The choreographer of the show, who is also a dancer, Joëlle Bouvier, employs an oneiric and metaphorical language to deal with the main themes: love, disturbed love, betrayal, resentment and forgiveness. “…some simple wooden planks recall the forest, a wall or a room and the great iridescent blue pieces of fabric that move evoke sea waves… All these stage elements suggest rather than show”, the artist explains.

A great mobile spiral staircase, wooden rods and light bars are also elements of the stage design. With this version of Tristan and Isolde Bouvier, founder of the L'Esquisse company in 1980, once again explores an iconic piece of Wagner’s music after her version of Romeo and Juliet. She now displays on stage moments of rupture as hatred rubs shoulders with the flames of extreme passion.

The leading characters in Tristan and Isolde are two lovers: a princess, played by Madeline Wong, and a young man performed by Geoffrey Van Dyck. She is engaged to King Mark, interpreted by Armando Gonzalez Besa, and has a confidant, the Witness, danced by Sara Shigenari. Other dancers include Yumi Aizawa, Céline Allain, Ornella Capece, Angèle Cartier, Diana Duarte, Léa Mercurol, Tiffany Pacheco, Mohana Rapin, Lysandra van Heesewijk, Valentino Bertolini, Adelson Carlos, Andrei Cozlac, Xavier Juyon, Juan Perez, Zachary Clark, Simone Repele, Sasha Riva and Nahuel Vega.

Tickets  for both performances can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday, on www.auditoriodetenerife.com  in this link or calling 902 317 327.