The austere season, on whose design and various redesigns they had been working since last year, was announced by the general director of the theater, Jorge Telerman, in a press meeting in which the Minister of Culture of the City, Gabriela Ricardes, was present.. The season, in which names of national artists and few from abroad stand out, will consist of 7 lyrical titles (including several revivals), 5 ballets and 20 concerts from the cycle of the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra, in addition to 5 concerts by the Orchestra Stable.
Among the salient facts it was pointed out that the Argerich Festival, with the presence of the international pianist, will be held during August, always with Charles Dutoit as conductor of the symphonic program, although it is not yet known who the guest performers will be. Marianela Nuñez, the Argentine prima ballerina of the Royal Ballet of London, will star in “The Sleeping Beauty of the Forest”, in a choreographic version by Mario Galizzi, Director of the Ballet Stable of the Teatro Colón.
The lyrical season will begin in April with the revival of “Ariadne in Naxos”, by Richard Strauss, with the well-known stage direction of Marcelo Lombardero, which with this title fortunately returns to Colón. This production was known in 2019.
May 17 will be the first performance of another celebrated performance, the “Turandot” by Puccinisigned by the remembered Roberto Oswald with Aníbal Lápiz. This monumental version (which continued at Luna Park in the 90s due to its success) will be the one with the most performances, a total of nine. Martina Serafín and Marcelo Puente will be the headliners of the first cast.
Then will come, in July, the premiere among us of the version of “Carmen”, by Bizet, according to the controversial Spanish putist Calixto Bieito, with Francesca Di Sauro and Gustavo López Manzitti in the title roles. This is a creation of the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Massimo in Palermo, the Liceu in Barcelona, and the Regio in Turin. On August 6th another revival, this time from two years ago: “The Consul”, by Gian Carlo Menotti, in the scenic vision of Rubén Szuchmacher.
The lyrical season will continue in September with the revival of the Argentine classic “Aurora”, by Héctor Paniza, in the stage version by Betty Gambartes and costumes by Graciela Galán. With direction by Pablo Maritano and starring Carlos Natale, it will be seen starting November 7 “Orpheus in Hell”, by Jacques Offenbachand the last title will be a new stage version, by Rita Cosentino, from Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Un ballo in maschera”.
Ballet at the Teatro Colón
With the address of Mario Galizzi the Ballet Estable will present 5 titles: on March 12 “Carmina Burana” by Carl Orff in version by Mauricio Wainrot, with the Stable Choir, the Children’s Choir and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic. In June she will go on stage, as already anticipated, “Sleeping Beauty” by Chaicovsky/Galizzi, with Marianela Nuñez; and at the end of August a mixed program composed of “Suite en Blanc”, “Adagietto” and “Bolero X”.
In October, the romantic classic “Giselle”, a version that has the choreographic contributions of Gustavo Mollajoli on the original by Jean Coralli, Jules Perrot and Marius Petipa. The ballet season will close with 7 performances of “The Bayadere” with choreography by Mario Galizzi and the participation of the first dancer of the Marinsky Theater, Kimin Kin.
The Contemporary cycle
The 2024 edition of Contemporary cycle will bring together the presentations of the Harmonielehre concert with orchestral music by John Adams and Thomas Adès by the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra and musical direction by Pablo Druker; the debut of the ArtHaus Ensemble, with works by Unsuk Chin, György Ligeti, Conlon Nancarrow and Pablo Rubino, and musical direction by Pablo Druker; the oratorio “Gurrelieder” by Arnold Schönberg for large orchestra, multiple choirs, vocal soloists and narrator, with musical direction by Alejo Pérez; and the replacement of “Einstein on the beach”an opera by Robert Wilson and Philip Glass in a version by Martín Bauer and Rodrigo de Caso, seen in the previous year’s season.
The Experimentation Center of the Teatro Colón, directed by Diana Theocharidis, will celebrate the 15 years of the Contemporary Music Ensemble of the Department of Musical and Sound Arts of the UNA with a program of short works by more than twenty Argentine composers, and the 20 years of uninterrupted work of “The Oblicua Company ensemble”with the direction of Marcelo.
The productions will be presented “The great parade”, live sound recording of the King Vidor film (1925) by Carmen Baliero; the peripheral opera “Neobarrosas”, with elements of queer culture by drag artists accompanied by a baroque ensemble and lyrical singers; “Mirlitons”, by François Chaignaud and Aymeric Hainaux; “Thirst”composed of works by the Argentine composer Alex Nante by the Terra Lucida Ensemble of the Human Vocation Foundation; “Bela Vamp”, by Alfredo Arias; the opera “Kassandr(x)” jointly commissioned by the Teatro Colón and the Alternative Stage of the Greek National Opera, according to the Uruguayan playwright Sergio Blanco and music by Pablo Ortiz; “Only extremes”, a set of works by Scottish choreographer Billy Cowie for a performer, dancer Luciana Croatto, with original texts and music by Billy Cowie; and “Chez la grande-mère Bzloch”, Essays for a Musical Biodrama, by Axel Krygier.
Concerts and children
The extraordinary concerts announced will feature the Chinese pianist Yuja Wang, soprano Hera Hyesang Park, the Camerata Antiqua of Curitiba with musical direction by Ricardo Kangi, the National Symphony Orchestra of Colombia with musical direction by Yeruham Scharovsky, a concert by the Orquesta Stable del Teatro Colón conducted by Sylvain Gasançony, and another by the Petrobras Symphony under the baton of Isaac Karabtchevsky. The cycle was scheduled “Music and Cinema”, about Italian cinema, with musical direction by Nicola Piovanithe composer who replaced Nino Rota, after his death, to collaborate with Federico Fellini.
Colón for boys replenishes the production of “To dance! Where is the teacher?”, and “La Bayadera”, both choreographed by Mario Galizzi; the one-act ballet “Graduate Ball” choreographed by David Lichine; the one-act ballet “Coppélia”, with choreography by Emanuel Abruzzo, dramaturgy by Juan Martín Delgado, music by Leo Délibes and musical direction by Nicolás Kapustiansky; “The Village Fortune Teller” by Jean-Jacques Rousseau with stage direction by Alejandro Cervera; “Danceworld” with choreography and direction by Laura Falcoff and musical direction by Nicolás Kapustiansky; and the show about texts by Molière “Grinding Molière” with music by Jean-Baptispte Lully and dramaturgy by Emiliano Dionisi.
Source: Ambito
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