Next Thursday at the Chamber Hall, the music disseminator will expound on the details of the first opera performance in the 2024-2025 season.

Ramón Gener returns for the second consecutive season to offer informative lectures in the Auditorio de Tenerife about the operas in subscription. This Thursday (3 October) at 7.30 p.m., the Chamber Hall is staging the first meeting with Ramón Gener, who is also a writer. Ramón –already a real ambassador of the Ópera de Tenerife– will analyse the details of Ariadne auf Naxos, composed by Richard Strauss.

For these presentations, where Gener enriches his explanations with live piano accompaniment, tickets for the general public are priced at 8 euros and 5 euros for those under 30. However, opera subscription holders receive a 50% discount, reducing the cost to 4 euros. After the lecture, there will be a stand in the Hall with Gener's first novel, Historia de un piano (History of a Piano), and the winner of the Ramon Lull Prize himself will sign his work.

Ópera de Tenerife starts its subscription programme for the 2024-2025 season, Tu lugar en la ópera (Your Place at the Opera), with an in-house production, directed by the Italian maestro Nicola Berloffa, of this work composed by the German genius Strauss and with a libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. The performances are scheduled for Tuesday, 15, Thursday, 17 and Saturday, 19 October in the Symphony Hall of the Auditorio, which kicks off this season by optimising its acoustics.

The plot begins with a mise en abyme prologue where the characters decide what to perform. The rest of the opera is based on the mythological story of Ariadne, who was abandoned by her lover, Theseus, on the Greek island Naxos shortly after helping him defeat the minotaur. Commedia dell'arte characters led by Zerbinette will encourage the princess, who ends up meeting the god Bacchus.

Lectures with Ramón Gener will continue in November (5 and 20 November) to delve into Madama Butterfly by Giacomo Puccini and La Bella Susona by Alberto Carretero. Gener's last lecture about Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco will take place on 14 March 2025.

Born in Barcelona, Ramón Gener holds a humanities and business studies degree. When he was six, he began his studies as a musician at the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Liceu. After a career lasting several years as a baritone, he started a new phase as a musical educator, offering conferences about opera, classical music and art, which have taken him to radio and television, even internationally.  He has published four books: Si Beethoven pudiera escucharme (2013), El amor te hará inmortal (2016), Beethoven, un músico sobre un mar de nubes (2020) and Historia de un piano (2024).

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.