The Teatro Real de Madrid has announced that it is preparing to reopen its theater on July 1 with a performance of Verdi’s “La Traviata.” Per an official press release on the company’s website, the organization’s leadership met to discuss, among other things, the details of its reopening and its 2020-21 season, which will be announced on June 2, 2020. {…}
The Spanish government seems to be taking a proactive approach to revitalizing culture around the country. Just weeks after the country’s Minister of Culture and Sport announced that he wanted to rescheduled all canceled events, the country has unveiled specific measures it plans to take to revitalize culture in the country. The government released an official document outlining the next {…}
Spain’s minister of culture and sport José Manuel Rodríguez Uribes has stated that the best way to help artists through the current crisis is to rescheduled performances that were recently canceled. The official stated publicly that he has no desire to cancel events that were unable to take place as a result of the spread of COVID-19. Rodríguez Uribes has, {…}
The Teatro Real in Madrid has donated medical supplies to three hospitals in the capital of Spain. The three hospital that will receive the medical supplies are Clínico San Carlos, 12 de octubre, and el Hospital de Emergencia created in IFEMA. Among the supplies that will be donated are patient robes, boots, and lab coats, among other things. The equipment {…}
The Comunidad de Madrid has approved 10.7 million Euros for cultural foundations as a relief from the economic crisis caused by coronavirus. The fund approved will give 3.8 million to the Teatro Real foundation, 1.75 million for Teatro La Abadía foundation, 1.75 million to the Cinema and audiovisual foundation in Madrid (Fundación Escuela de Cine y del Audiovisual de la {…}
(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid continued its staging of Wagner’s tetralogy with the second, and arguably most popular installment, “Die Walküre.” The production features the same artistic-conducting team with Robert Carsen directing and Pablo Heras-Casado on the pit. Sadly, given that each opera of this cycle is being performed one season at a time, the casts {…}
On Tuesday, March 17, 2020, the Teatro Real de Madrid will present the modern European premiere of Francesco Corselli and Pietro Metastasio’s “Achille in Sciro.” The work will be conducted by Ivor Bolton with Mariame Clement directing a new production. Audiences will get a chance to experience the rare work via two casts with Tim Mead and Christopher Lowrey as {…}
(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid kicked off 2020 with a revival of the successful production of “Die Zauberflöte” by Barrie Kosky and Suzanne Andrade-Paul Barrit, which was last seen in 2016. The staging is meant as an homage to silent movies and there are no sets, just a big white screen very close to the edge {…}
(Credit: Javier del Real) The Teatro Real de Madrid presented Bellini’s rarely performed “Il Pirata” with three casts in an aesthetically powerful production by Emilio Sagi in what is likely to be one of the highlights of the 2019-20 season. While the headliners of the first cast were Sonya Yoncheva and Javier Camarena, it was the second cast of Yolanda {…}
(Credit: Javier del Real) Mexican tenor Javier Camarena really needs no introduction. As one of the foremost tenors in the world, he has become a fixture at all the major opera houses. However, he has forged a particularly unique one with the Teatro Real de Madrid where audiences have witnessed some of his biggest triumphs. He performed the now legendary {…}
(Credit: Dario Acosta) Few sopranos have defined the last decade the way that Bulgarian diva Sonya Yoncheva has. Since her major victory at the Operalia Competition in 2010, Yoncheva has become a household headliner at all the major opera houses around the world. But what has arguably distinguished the soprano over these past few years has been her willingness to {…}
