Fri 25May18
Philosopher Fernando Broncano will be talking about the story of the two lovers in Alexander Dumas’s novel Camille on Monday, 28 at 7:00 pm at Salón de Grados de Filosofía. With the aim of looking into the cultural keys of romantic love, the expert is giving the last talk included in “Purple Spring”, a scheme by the Cabildo and the University of La Laguna built around The Traviata, which encourages the development of equality values through culture.
Broncano’s talk is entitled “What men ignore. Camille and opacity in affective spaces”, thus disclosing the limits of our ideas on love and affective relationships. The works by Dumas and Verdi are valuable documents portraying the distortion of affection. They are both an insight on social blindness and how feelings are shaped by other forms of social existence. Admission is free.
Fernando Broncano (Salamanca, 1954) is Professor in Logic and Philosophy of Science at Carlos III University in Madrid. His work focuses on the notion of rationality in theoretical, epistemic and practical terms, offering conceptual and critical diagnosis on culture, science and contemporary society.
This is the last conference in the “Purple Spring” cultural series, a collaboration between Ópera de Tenerife, the University Institute of Women’s Studies (IUEM), and Pedro García Cabrera Cultural Chair. The scheme included a programme of multidisciplinary talks dealing with gender equality, which took as reference the opera The Traviata, an Auditorio de Tenerife production to be performed from 31 May to 3 June at Paraninfo in La Laguna University. On 9 and 10 June, it is on in Garachico.
The director of IUEM, Inmaculada Perdomo; the programme included the following speakers: the intendent of Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante; stage manager Stefania Bonfadelli; Opera (e)Studio director, Giulio Zappa, and writer Laura Freixas.
Thu 24May18
Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (OST) and Tenerife Contemporary Music International Festival (FMUC) get together tomorrow, Friday, 25th to offer the concert “Consecration” at 7:30 pm at Auditorio de Tenerife. This concert, which is part of the 2017/2018 OST season, opens the 9th FMUC that goes on until 17 June.
Barcelona maestro Edmon Colomer, who was conductor of the OST from 1985 to 1986, is leading a session that features Béla Bartók’s Concerto for two pianos and percussion, to be performed on the island for the first time. The programme also includes Symphonies of Wind Instruments, by Igor Stravinsky, and The Rite of Spring. Pianists Gustavo Díaz-Jerez and Javier Negrín, and percussionists Francisco and Emilio Díaz will be accompanying Tenerife Symphony Orchestra.
Bela Bartók’s Concerto for two Pianos and Percussion has not often been played. Following his agent’s suggestion, the composer himself arranged his sonata for the same soloist configuration. Tenerife pianists Gustavo Díaz-Jerez, an expert in contemporary repertoire and founding member of Quantum Ensemble, and Javier Negrín, in addition to the wonderful percussion soloists of the OST, the brothers Francisco and Emilio Díaz, are taking up this challenge at Auditorio de Tenerife.
Symphonies of Wind Instruments was written by Stravinsky in memory of the death of his much-admired Debussy and we will enjoy the version the composer himself made in 1947. The concert closes with The Rite of Spring, the masterpiece from his rebellious youthful years, whose premiere was one of the major scandals in the History of Music.
Tickets can be purchased at the Auditorio de Tenerife box office, from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; via the internet here or by calling 902 317 327. When buying the ticket for this concert, you have the chance to get 10% discount on the other two FMUC concerts being held at the Auditorio (Leigh Howard Stevens, on 31 May, and Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic and the Schlagwerk Wien Ensamble, on 14 June).
In addition to conducting Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, Edmon Colomer has also led Simfònica de Balears, Simfònica del Vallès, and Filarmónica de Málaga in Spain; Orchestre de Picardie in France; Daejeon Philharmonic in South Korea. He has also been the main guest conductor at the Eastern Music Festival in the United States. Being a firm believer in the educational and social power of music, he has often linked his professional activities to training. In 1983 he set up the Joven Orquesta Nacional de España [Spanihs Young National Orchestra] (JONDE). In 2002 the French Ministry of Culture appointed him Chevalier dans l’ordre des palmes académiques.
Tue 22May18
The Cabildo hosted on Tuesday, 22 May the presentation of the 9th Tenerife Contemporary Music International Festival (FMUC), to be held from 25 May to 17 June. Six concerts, two masterclasses, five talks and a percussion campus make up the project, which includes leading percussionists and contemporary musicians. The highlight this year is Leigh Howard Stevens, a visionary of the marimba whose ground-breaking method has been adopted by musicians worldwide.
The details of this year’s festival were disclosed by the Island Director for Culture and Education, José Luis Rivero; the vice-councillor for Culture of the Government of the Canary Islands, Aurelio González; the festival director, Francisco Díaz; the head of Culture for CajaCanarias Foundation, Alvaro Marcos Arvelo, and the Culture expert of Disa Foundation, Andrea León.
José Luis Rivero highlighted “the strength this event has gained throughout the years on the island of Tenerife. It offers both artistic and training activities, including talks before the concerts in order to make the audience aware of what they are about to listen to”. “This festival draws attention on contemporary repertoires and it does so amusingly, attracting a wide range of audiences, especially young people”, he reflected.
Rivero also praised the new musicians the festival has brought about, “many of them started off as students and are now teaching and giving high-level concerts”, which is helped by “the great department of Percussion of the Higher Music Conservatoire of the Canary Islands, where Santa Cruz de Tenerife professionals get their grounding”.
For his part, Francisco Díaz explained the importance “of bringing international performers for local students to learn where they stand, know their level and become aware of what happens outside the island”. Díaz, who is a musician too, recalled the history of the festival in which “200 pieces have been performed, of which 8 have been world premieres, some being specifically commissioned by Auditorio de Tenerife”. In these years, FMUC has held 37 concerts, where more than 150 musicians from 12 different European, Asian, and Latin American countries have taken part.
Aurelio González pointed out the international character of FMUC and praised “the inherent didactic values of percussion, which can awaken new sensitivities and stimulate creativity. In the Canaries, we are very productive when it comes to creating art”.
Álvaro Marcos Arvelo said that music has “the power to arouse the most intense emotions” and referred to FMUC as an example of projects in which rather than gain, the major feature is the investment made on culture”. For the representative of Disa Foundation, Andrea León, “we are proud to participate in a music event which has become the temple of percussion in the Canaries”.
The festival venues are Auditorio de Tenerife, Espacio Cultural CajaCanarias, Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, and Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife. In addition to Leigh Howard Stevens, Wing Marimba Duo and Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic with the Schlagwerk Wien Ensamble round off the bill. Tenerife Symphony Orchestra and artists from COSIMTE-Asociación de Compositores Sinfónicos y Musicólogos de Tenerife [Tenerife Symphony Composers and Musicologists Association] will be performing too. Organisers have the collaboration of Tenerife Cabildo, the Government of the Canary Islands, CajaCanarias Foundation and Disa Foundation.
The first concert of the 9th FMUC is taking place on Friday, 25 at 7:30 pm at Auditorio de Tenerife Concert Hall. “Consecration” is a season concert by Tenerife Symphony Orchestra that is playing pieces by Bartók and Stravinsky. Conductor Edmon Colomer is leading the session, which includes Francisco and Emilio Díaz as solo percussionists, and pianists Gustavo Díaz-Jerez and Javier Negrín. FMUC director explains that Bartok’s two pianos concerto in the orchestra version will be played in Tenerife for the first time, and with Canarian soloists”. As a foretaste, you can come for the general rehearsal and talk on the repertoire on the day of the concert at 10:00 am. Before coming, please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
On 29 and 30 May Leigh Howard Stevens masterclasses are taking place at the Chamber Hall from 4:00 pm to 7:30 pm. They are addressed to musicians, composers and Medium and Higher percussion students. The US marimba expert is known for having developed his own four-drumstick system, which he explains in his book Method of Movement, translated into five languages.
Stevens, whose approach has widened the compositional possibilities of the marimba, is offering a concert on 31 May at 7:30 pm at the Chamber Hall in Auditorio de Tenerife. It is a contemporary repertoire which includes two compositions of his own. An hour earlier, percussionist Verónica Cagigao is giving a talk before meeting the avant-garde performer.
Wing Marimba Duo, made up of Takayoshi Yoshioka and Reiko Shiohama, will be playing at Espacio Cultural CajaCanarias on 6 June at 7:30 pm, admission free. Their programme includes both arrangements of symphonic music and original music written for this group. The international musicians are joined by Tuópali Dúo (Francisco Díaz and Carlos Llácer), Tak-Nara Percussion Group (Carlos Castañeda and Verónica Cagigao) and Andrea Domínguez. An hour earlier, Cagigao herself is offering a talk before listening to the Japanese duo. Wing Marimba Duo are also giving a masterclass on 7 June at 4:00 pm at the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
DifrAcción Ensemble, made up of musicians from COSIMTE-Asociación de Compositores Sinfónicos y Musicólogos de Tenerife, are giving a concert on 12 June at 7:30 pm. Admission is free and the venue is Círculo de Bellas Artes de Tenerife. Leandro Martín, artistic director of this Tenerife ensemble, will be talking about the programme an hour before the event.
On Thursday, 14 June at 7:30 pm, FMUC has programmed another special concert at the Chamber Hall in Auditorio de Tenerife. Serbian musician Nebojsa Jovan Zivkovic, hailed by critics as one of the most expressive marimba and percussion interpreter, is playing live with the Percussion Group of Vienna Conservatoire, which he directs: the Schlagwerk Wien Ensamble. And hour earlier, musician Verónica Cagigao is offering a talk before this international performance.
The second Tenerife Percussion Camp (TPC), to take place on 16 and 17 June at Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias, is a meeting place for professional percussionists, students, amateurs and families around percussion. The TPC wants participants to share and learn by doing what they enjoy most: making music through percussion. In addition to drums, Latin percussion and classic percussion lessons, there are also African and Brazilian percussion for amateurs plus percussion workshops for all the family. Please register at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..
At the end of the TPC, there will be a free-of-charge concert with teachers and students of percussion for amateurs as well as families taking part in this innovative workshop. It will be on 17 June at 6:30 pm at the Auditorio del Conservatorio Superior de Música de Canarias. This is the last concert of the 9th FMUC programme.
Tickets for the concerts held at Auditorio de Tenerife can be obtained at the box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday; via the internet on www.auditoriodetenerife.com or by telephone on 902 317 327. If you buy your tickets for “Consecration” at the box office, you can also buy tickets for the two other FMUC concerts at Auditorio (Stevens on 31 May and Zivkovic on June) at 10% discount.
Mon 21May18
On 17 May, Auditorio de Tenerife Chamber Hall was host to the premiere of the sixth project by 2018 Manos a la Ópera [Hands-on Opera]. Brundibar, the Bumblebee is performed by 130 children 3 to 5 years old from the schools CEIP El Chapatal, Las Retamas, Ernesto Castro Fariñas, and San Fernando.
The show was put on for a further 400 children from these four schools. On Friday, 18 at 11:00 am, they performed for 413 students from the following schools: CEIP Ofra Vistabella, Colegio Cervantes, La Salle de La Laguna, and CEIP Fernando III El Santo. Finally, the families of the 130 children performing this children’s opera came to the Chamber Hall on Saturday, 19th.
The Island Director for Culture and Education of Cabildo de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero, attended the first performance of this well-established scheme, “which has been on for six years now; with Manos a la Ópera our aim is to foster creativity in the youngest”. This initiative meets the objectives set by Cabildo Insular for their Tenerife 2030 strategy. Rivero also stresses the involvement of the teachers in the activity.
The story of Brundibar, the Bumblebee is about two children who must find a way to get a bottle of milk for their sick mother. With the help of some animals, the kids overcome the problems to get the milk and they even manage to defeat organ grinder Brundibár, who wants to steal their money.
Manos a la Ópera is a project of the Learning Area of Auditorio de Tenerife and has the contribution of Fundación Cepsa and Obra Social “la Caixa” and is part of the Ópera de Tenerife season. The scheme is addressed to preschool children and it consists of creating a free version of an original opera in which the kids are the artists, producers and stage managers.
Parents and relatives also take part in creating the show as they come to the workshops at Auditorio de Tenerife where the costumes and stage designs are made. Melodie Pérez is in charge of directing and pedagogical co-ordination of Manos a la Ópera.
Fri 18May18
The first Choral Conducting course by Tenerife Choir Network is coming to an end on Sunday [20th] with a closing concert at 7:00 pm at Auditorio Capitol in Tacoronte. In the event, which is free of charge, University of La Laguna Polyphonic Choir and Auditorio de Tenerife Young Choir are also taking part. They are directed by Julio Chinea and Roxana Schmunk, respectively. The Choir Network is an initiative of the Performing Arts and Music Island Scheme fostered by the Cabildo as part of the Tenerife 2030 strategy.
Two pilot choirs, trained during the course and directed by Nuria Fernández Herranz, and two guest choirs are singing in the first part. The programme includes pieces they have worked on throughout the course; the teachers have chosen ten of the students as conductors. In the second part of the concert, the guest choirs will sing several songs from their repertoire, concluding with Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah sung by the Auditorio de Tenerife Young Choir.
The Choral Conducting course of Tenerife Choir Network started last September. Its objective is to unify choir activity on the Island through training, learning and joint performances by Tenerife choirs. The last session is taking place tomorrow [Saturday, 19th] and will focus on finalizing the closing concert.
Directed by Nuria Fernández Herranz, in the past seven months the course has offered future choirmasters the chance to widen their knowledge on vocal technique, performing and directing. This has been possible thanks to the work done by a group of teachers in addition to master sessions given by directors of national and international standing, like Javier Busto and Paulo Vassalo Lourenço.
Nuria Fernández Herranz trusts the scheme will continue in the coming years and has pointed out the vocal quality and the musical vocation found in Tenerife, where “in general, people sing very well thanks to tradition and folklore”. She has also stress the “experience” shown by the students, most of whom are directors or choir members.
Wed 16May18
La explícita exclusión de la palabra en la esfera pública a las mujeres, como mecanismo fundamental de la sociedad patriarcal, supone el punto de partida de la quinta conferencia del programa del Cabildo y la Universidad de La Laguna, Primavera Violeta, que la escritora Laura Freixas ofrecerá mañana [jueves 17], a las 19:00 horas en TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes.
A lo largo de una hora, Freixas disertará con su propuesta titulada Mujeres que sufren, cantan, mueren callan. Una constante cultural: la exaltación del sufrimiento, recorriendo el amplio abanico temporal que abarca los textos y manifestaciones culturales clásicas desde Homero hasta las actuales letras de reguetón; pasando por San Pablo, Quevedo, Shakespeare, Tiziano o Moliere. Desgranando a través de estos ejemplos que la mujer puede tomar la palabra con la única condición de que la expresión de su sufrimiento no se traduzca en cuestionar la jerarquía entre los sexos o que no ataque ni destruya a nadie ni a nada. La entrada será libre hasta completar aforo.
Laura Freixas (Barcelona, 1958) es autora, investigadora y promotora de literatura escrita por mujeres que ha escrito, entre otros: Todos llevan máscara. Diario 1995-1996 (2018); El silencio de las madres (2014) o La novela femenil y sus lectrices (2008), con el que recibe el galardón Leonor de Guzmán.
Esta conferencia se incluye dentro de del ciclo cultural Primavera Violeta, una iniciativa conjunta entre Ópera de Tenerife, el Instituto Universitario de Estudios de las Mujeres y la Cátedra Cultural Pedro García Cabrera, a través de un amplio programa interdisciplinar de actividades que pivota en torno a la próxima producción de Auditorio de Tenerife La traviata que se representará en el Paraninfo de la Universidad de La Laguna del 31 de mayo al 3 de junio y en la Glorieta de San Francisco (Garachico) el 9 y 10 de junio.
Wed 16May18
The Auditorio de Tenerife resident chamber music group, Quantum Ensemble, is giving their last performance in the 2017/2018 season at the Auditorio Antonio Lecuona of Tenerife Music Conservatoire. The event, “Transgression”Transgression”, is taking place on Thursday, 17 May at 7:30 pm. Admission is free and invitations can be picked up either at the Auditorio de Tenerife box office or at the Conservatoire.
The ensemble is made up of the following musicians: Cristo Barrios (clarinet), David Ballesteros (violin) and Gustavo Díaz-Jerez (piano). On this occasion, they welcome three guest performers: Javier Negrín, piano, and Carlos Llácer and Francisco Díaz, percussion.
The programme includes Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring and The Miraculous Mandarin by Béla Bartók. Two ballets which are full of imagination and cruelty, and which were both viewed as shocking and transgressing when they were first performed. The programme is rounded off with the first performance of a piece that Laura Vega has expressly composed for Auditorio de Tenerife resident chamber ensemble.
As usual in Quantum Ensemble’s events, there will be a talk before the concert to learn more about the pieces to be listened to. This time, Gustavo Díaz-Jerez will meet us at the Conservatoire at 6:30 pm.
The Rite of Spring by Igor Stravinsky depicts the ritual sacrifice of a maiden who is forced by her tribe to dance to death in order to gain the benevolence of the gods. Its first performance took place in Paris in 1913 and has gone down in history as one of the most notorious failures. The critics described it as “an incomprehensible raucous succession of sounds and noise”.
Béla Bartók’s The Miraculous Mandarin tells the story of a young woman that seduces a mandarin who is robbed and suffocated by some tramps. His body glitters mysteriously before dying. Its premiere in Cologne in 1926, the audience felt so offended that the police had to intervene and its performance was temporarily banned.
The concert prompts us to reflect on how masterpieces are eventually accepted, in spite of the rejection their being radical and original caused in the first audiences.
Tue 15May18
A total of 113 artists from 27 countries took part in the auditions for a place in the 6th Opera (e)Studio. The tests ended yesterday, [Sunday 13] at Auditorio de Tenerife, after the sessions held in Bologna and Madrid. All the auditions were overseen by Opera (e)Studio director, Giulio Zappa. The last one was also attended by the Cabildo Director for Culture and Education, José Luis Rivero.
In all, 27 different nationalities from Europe, America, Asia and Oceania took part in the selection process. The countries with more representatives were Italy and Spain with 37 and 24 candidates, respectively; followed by Russia, with seven, and France and Japan, with six contestants each. Compared to the previous year, there were eleven new nationalities taking part: Belgium, Chile, Denmark, Finland, Guatemala, Latvia, Mexico, Peru, Sweden, Turkey and Venezuela.
In this year’s call, candidates could opt for more than one character. Out of the six roles available to choose from in The Italian in Algiers, entrants’ option was as follows: 48 chose to perform Elvira [soprano]; 24, Haly [bass, bass-baritone or baritone]; 19, Isabella [mezzosoprano or contralto]; 20, Taddeo [baritone, bass-baritone or bass]; 8 Mustafá [bass, bass-baritone] and 6 picked Lindoro [tenor].
The candidates chosen to take part in the 6th Opera (e)Studio will start their course in comprehensive artistic improvement in September on the Island, which will conclude with a performance of the opera The Italian in Algiers, by Rossini, from 25 to 28 October. This new proposal of Auditorio de Tenerife also has Nikolas Maximilian Nägele as musical director and Giorgia Guerra as stage manager. It is a co-production with Teatro Comunale di Bologna, where the seven performances scheduled for 2019 will be held.
Fri 11May18
Coinciding with the next production of Auditorio de Tenerife, The traviata, the exhibition “Virtudes públicas, vicios ocultos” [Public Virtues, Hidden Vices], opened at La Laguna University Paraninfo yesterday afternoon [Thursday, 10]. In it visitors can learn about the creative process of this opera, the 6th show in the current Ópera de Tenerife season. It is on until 3 June and can be visited Monday to Friday from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
The presentation was attended by the vice-chancellor of the University, Antonio Martinón; the deputy vice-chancellor for Relations with Society, Francisco García; the Island Director for Culture, Education, and Artistic Units of Cabildo de Tenerife, José Luis Rivero; and the intendant of Ópera de Tenerife, Alejandro Abrante.
The 10 panels with 65 images and 4 text panels offer an enjoyable way of seeing the preliminary meetings that gave rise to the project; the details of the stage design; the work done by the tailoring and make up departments, and even the first costume fittings or a selection of accessories to shape a production that is now opening to new venues without losing the essence of a major production. The exhibition includes two lady costumes made by the tailoring department of Auditorio de Tenerife.
To set up the exhibition, the Cabildo’s Ópera de Tenerife had the collaboration of the University of La Laguna, the University Institute of Women’s Studies, Pedro García Cabrera Cultural Chair, the Faculty of Philosophy of La Laguna University, the CIFP Las Indias of Santa Cruz de Tenerife and, Garachico Town Council.
.beThu 10May18
Next Saturday, the Learning and Community section of Tenerife Symphony Orchestra (OST) is performing a great concert of the tale The biggest Flower in the World, conducted by Ignacio García Vidal. Along with the musicians, some twenty people from Canaries Full Inclusion with Functional Diversity are leading this all-audiences show. It will take place on Saturday, 12 at 12 noon at the Concert Hall of Auditorio de Tenerife.
The concert tells the story of Edu, who returns to his childhood through the memories-songs he reveals to the audience from a great trunk. The sessions for primary school children started today [Wednesday, 9], will go on tomorrow [Thursday, 10] and on Friday, 11. A total of 2,200 students from ten municipalities on the Island will enjoy the show.
Ana Hernández Sanchiz, area co-ordinator and narrator of the tale, was in charge of the workshops, carried out at Auditorio de Tenerife with adult intellectually disabled people, which gave rise to this show.
The project is based on the OST’s experience with Mosaic of Sounds last year, which was created by the Spanish Association of Symphony Orchestras. The proposal was to work at a national level with The biggest Flower in the World, by Emilio Aragón, and texts by José Saramago. In 2018 the starting point was the 2017 production plus Edward Elgar’s The Wand of Youth, resulting in an almost one-hour concert.
The full Orchestra plays at this concert, which has very simple props including a great trunk where the memories shaping the story come from, and many flowers that come together at the end to make a great big one. This union is a symbol of collaboration and integration, the social message The biggest Flower in the World aims to spread.
Tickets for this family show on Saturday -with the contribution of Fundación Cepsa and Obra Social “la Caixa”- can be purchased at the Auditorio de Tenerife box office, from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm, Monday to Saturday; via the internet here or by telephone on 902 317 327.
Tue 08May18
Tenerife Baroque Orchestra celebrates its first year by closing their first season with Handel & friends. The concert is to be held at the Chamber Hall of Auditorio de Tenerife on Thursday, 10 at 7:30 pm. It features Jacques Ogg as harpsichord and guest conductor. In addition, the Auditorio resident ensemble will play a Baroque bassoon for the first time.
In this concert, apart from playing the best scores by the German-born British composer, the group is premiering Telemann’s Concerto à 6, in G minor for violin and orchestra, transcribed by Jacques Ogg expressly for the Tenerife ensemble.
Handel & friends is a carefully chosen selection of works from the Baroque London of Handel, where the works of Francesco Geminiani (1687-1762), Christoph Graupner (1683-1760) and Georg Philipp Telemann (1681-1767) were also listened to. From the latter, letters remain on the exchange of bulbs and seeds between Hamburg and London, evidencing their close friendship. From this period, Graupner has manuscripts by Telemann and Handel in the Livre de clavecin de Darmstadt. There is also record of Geminiani having been invited to play the violin for George I, accompanied by Handel’s harpsichord.
The Tenerife Baroque Orchestra musicians playing at this show are: Adrián Linares, Baroque violin and concertmaster; Mario Braña and Judith Verona, Baroque violins I; Leo Rossi, Sergio Suárez and Juan Carlos Gómez, Baroque violins II; Iván Saez and Melchor García, Baroque viola; Hugo Rodríguez, Baroque bassoon; Fernando Santiago and Diego Pérez, Baroque cello; Juan Carlos Baeza, double bass; and Raquel García, harpsichord.
Conrado Álvarez, artistic director of Tenerife Baroque Orchestra, believes that “recalling Handel is having a glimpse at the sonorous world of his opera Rinaldo, which was premiered at Queen’s Theatre in London on 24 February 1711; at the splendour of the oratorio Messiah, put on at New Music Hall, in Dublin on 13 April 1742; or the program Music for the Royal Fireworks performed in London’s Green Park, on 27 April 1749. “Handel’s skilful colourful music represents the most genuine English Baroque, which is the widespread opinion nowadays”, the music expert says.
Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday, on the internet here or by telephone on 902 317 327.
Tue 08May18
Prestigious dancer Sara Baras brings her latest show, Sombras, to Auditorio de Tenerife on Sunday 13 and Monday, 14 May, at 7:00 pm and 8:30 pm respectively. It is a new staging and choreography by the Cadiz dancer in collaboration with violinist Ara Malikian, whose music will be played in some of the pieces.
In this new show, which includes some twenty artists on stage, we have the chance to see Sara Baras’s artistic evolution, as she combines modern present-day features, making use of first-rate technical resources, with the magic and feeling of the essence of flamenco. Sara Baras proposes a journey through time, colours, silence and bustle, crowds and solitude, light and shadows. Using the style known as Farruca as leading motif, she brings together rhythms, cadences and cultures from the world.
Tickets can be purchased at Auditorio de Tenerife Adán Martín box office from 10:00 am to 7:30 pm Monday to Saturday, on the internet here or by telephone on 902 317 327.
The concert is organised by Comtigo Producciones and Nuryana Art Lab and is sponsored by the Government of the Canary Islands and Vueling.
Sara Baras is one of the most prestigious and renowned performing artists internationally. A dancer, director and choreographer, she has been at the helm of her own company since 1997, Ballet Flamenco Sara Baras, and has put on 13 shows with over 4,000 performances worldwide. She has presented her shows at Teatro Real in Madrid, Royal Albert Hall in London, Sidney Opera House, Kennedy Center in Washington, Teatre Champs Elysees in Paris, Shanghai Grand Theatre, Teatro Orb in Tokyo, Splanade in Singapur, Dubai Opera, Kremlin Palace of Congresses and Teatro Bellas Artes in Mexico.
Her countless awards and distinctions include Médaille de Vermeil de la Villa de París, Premio Nacional de Danza 2003, 5 MAX awards for performing arts, the Gold Medal of the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for the performing arts, Andalusia Gold Medal or the Galilee award granted by the city of Florence. She also collaborates with the Vicente Ferrer Foundation, Aldeas Infantiles, the Down Syndrome Foundation, and Mi Princesa Rett Foundation.