Real Coliseo Carlos III - Programming history - Year 2024
Programming history. Year 2024.
Programming - January
Movements through bulerías
DATE: Saturday, January 6, 2024
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Stella Arauzo and Eugenia Eiriz
ABOUT US: Antonio Gades Company
INTERPRETATION: Eugenia Eiriz (narrator), Ana del Rey, Álvaro Madrid and Miguel Lara (dance), Stella Arauzo (dance teacher and soloist), Alberto Fuentes (guitar) and Enrique Bermúdez "Piculabe" (singing)
Movements through bulerías It is an emotional journey that will transport us through time, space and the history of Spanish dance. A show that tells us about the legacy of dance and Antonio Gades, through a story narrated by Eugenia Eiriz and danced by three solo dancers from the Antonio Gades Company, accompanied by live flamenco music.
The straight line, by Borja Rodríguez
DATE: Sunday, January 7, 2024
ADDRESS: Borja Rodriguez
ABOUT US: 300 White Wings
INTERPRETATION: Ana Torres Lara
Exciting and multidisciplinary, the work tells us the story of Antonia, a girl born in a small town in the Sierra de Segura capable of looking at the world through the eyes of creativity, possibility and a wider range than the of the paradigms assumed by the adult world.
January-2
Until death do us partby Emilio del Valle
DATE: Saturday, January 13, 2024
ADDRESS: Emilio del Valle
ABOUT US: Inconstant Theater
INTERPRETATION: Lidia Palazuelos, Jorge Muñoz and Nacho Vera (Captain Bazofia)
A couple has just separated after a long coexistence in which both have dreamed of ending their lives with each other. But they have a daughter, who makes that separation not such and that the famous phrase of the Catholic rite acquires all its force... Until death do us part It is a shared monologue, a very serious comedy that reflects on the couple as a social, cultural, economic and religious construct.
Dream and time, between America and the Mediterranean
DATE: Sunday, January 14, 2024
ABOUT US: Rita Barber and Miguel Núñez
INTERPRETATION: Rita Barber (voice) and Miguel Núñez (piano)
Rita Barber, Menorcan actress and singer, and Miguel Núñez, Cuban pianist, play, in this concert, to bring the soul of their roots music to the world, discovering themselves in the songs, chatting through them. Popular songs, songs as an excuse to travel together and enjoy the landscape, the here and now.
January-3
mother's courageby George Tabori
DATE: Saturday, January 20, 2024
ADDRESS: Helena Pepper
ABOUT US: Ur Theater
INTERPRETATION: Carmen del Valle, Pere Ponce, David Bueno, Xavi Frau and Sacha Tomé
George Tabori, one of the European theater leaders after the Second World War, claims, in this work, his mother as an anonymous heroine and tells with her, by her and for her, a story of survival, in a constant search for how represent on stage, and with words, something as terrible as mass deportation and extermination.
Pairs and Nines, by José Luis Alonso de Santos
DATE: Saturday, January 27, 2024
ADDRESS: Peter Segura
ABOUT US: Bonjourmonamour Productions
INTERPRETATION: Manuel Llamas, Pepe Salguero and Cely Dieste
Written by José Luis Alonso de Santos, Pairs and Nines is a comedy of entanglements and misunderstandings in which two great friends, in the autumn of their lives, face a great love dilemma. Love, friendship, humor, humanity and a certain eroticism in one of the most representative works of the 80s.
January - 4
Ay Carmela!, by José Sanchís Sinisterra
DATE: Sunday, January 28, 2024
ADDRESS: Jose Carlos Plaza
ABOUT US: Faraute Productions
INTERPRETATION: María Adánez and Joaquín Notario
Three and a half decades after its premiere (1987), Carmela returns. The actress María Adánez plays this woman, an example of love for life and for others. With her truth, her vitality, her passion and her courage will make us take a breath with the greatest joy and depth possible to sigh again: !Ay Carmela!
Programming - February
Cristian's letters, by Antonio C. Guijosa
DATE: Friday, February 2, 2024
ADDRESS: Antonio C. Guijosa
ABOUT US: Serena Productions
INTERPRETATION: Cristina Bertol, Fael Garcia, Ana Mayo, Rodrigo Poison and Chema Ruiz
Based on the story of Cyrano de Bergerac, Antonio C. Guijosa offers us this magnificent text committed to ethical and social conflicts, which puts history and words first as the master pillars for constructing his stage discourse.
Passage
DATE: Saturday, February 3, 2024
ADDRESS: Juan Carlos Avecilla
ABOUT US: Juan Carlos Avecilla Dance Company
INTERPRETATION: Juan Carlos Avecilla (dance), Marta Gálvez (guest artist), Naike Ponce and Desiré Paredes (vocals) and Javier Valdunciel (percussion)
Juan Carlos Avecilla, director, choreographer and dancer from Cadiz, presents his latest show, Passage, accompanied by Marta Gálvez on the dance floor, two singers and the sounds of the most traditional percussion. A sonorous imprint, as simple and as complex as the sound atmosphere created by nature itself.
February - 2
Breezes of Spain
DATE: Sunday, February 4, 2024
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Antonio Hernandez
ABOUT US: Spanish Soul
INTERPRETATION: Yoel Vargas (dance), Consuelo Garres (soprano) and José Alberto del Cerro and José Vicente Riquelme (piano)
With the aim of recovering and restoring forgotten or rarely programmed works of Spanish music, the Alma española group, led by Antonio Hernández, is offering its most recent production and research at the Real Coliseo dedicated to the composer Óscar de la Cinna (1836-1906) and his Spanish work, which, after 150 years of oblivion, will be re-released for the first time, both in its original version, for piano, and choreographed.
Counting Ullmann
DATE: Saturday, February 10, 2024
ABOUT US: Love of Theatre
INTERPRETATION: Frances Albiol (interpretation) and Maria Garzon (piano)
Through the piano of María Garzón and the voice of the actor Francesc Albiol, different musical pieces by Viktor Ullmann will be played and the poems he wrote during his stay in the Terezin concentration camp (Theresienstadt), before his deportation to Auschwitz, will be recited. A show, like his music and his words, vital, reflective, poetic, empathetic, emotional, tragic, intimate, with a sense of humor and universal.
February - 3
Naked guitar I
DATE: Sunday, February 11, 2024
ABOUT US: Gerardo Nunez
INTERPRETATION: Gerardo Núñez, Juan Antonio Suárez "Canito", Álvaro Martinete, Rycardo Moreno, Jerónimo Maya and José Quevedo "Bolita" (guitars)
To commemorate the tenth anniversary of the death of Paco de Lucía (1947-2014), the Real Coliseo offers us two concerts in tribute to him. The guitarist Gerardo Núñez and other guitar professionals will remember the unforgettable maestro with their own repertoires.
Collioure destination, Antonio Machado's last trip
DATE: Saturday, February 17, 2024
ADDRESS: Juan Carlos Gate
ABOUT US: Sun and Horseflies
INTERPRETATION: Angel Gonzalo, Isabel de Antonio, Montse Simon and Ramiro Melgar
The Sol y Tábanos company draws on the life and work of Antonio Machado as the material that allows it to create this living testimony to bring us closer to that almost always veiled story of a time of hope and frustration. Dialogues sprinkled with Machado's poetry put into the voices and bodies of actors and actresses that take us back to those turbulent years.
February-4
The Trickster of Sevilleby Tirso de Molina
DATE: Sunday, February 18, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo, Juan Jose Sevilla, Nuria Gil and Oscar Fervaz
Luciano García Lorenzo, uniting word and music on the stage, invites us, on a monthly Sunday morning, to enjoy the semi-staged re-reading of great titles from our theater. A series of "theatrical appetizers" by EscénaTe that begin with The Trickster of Seville.
guide
DATE: Saturday, February 24, 2024
MUSIC DIRECTION: Bauti Carmona
STAGE DIRECTION: Ricardo Campelo
ABOUT US: Xtremo Theatre and Euroscena
INTERPRETATION: Ruth Gonzalez (soprano), Blanca Valido (mezzo-soprano), Enrique Sanchez-Ramos (baritone), Francisco J. Sanchez (tenor), Cristina Santirso (flute), Carmen Ruiz (oboe), Andrea Perez (bassoon), Marian Tur (violin), Alvaro Vazquez (cello) and Alexander Alvarez (guitar)
guide is the latest opera by the National Music Prize winner David del Puerto, based on the novel of the same name. Performed by an ensemble of six musicians and a cast of four singers, the work presents a raw look at a Spain plagued by misery, fanaticism and exploitation, through the life of Lázaro. In addition, the staging uses audiovisual technology to amplify the theatrical experience.
February-
Naked guitar II
DATE: Sunday, February 25, 2024
ABOUT US: Gerardo Nunez
INTERPRETATION: Gerardo Núñez, José Manuel León, Álvaro Martinete, Salvador Gutiérrez, Pedro Peña and Alejandro Hurtado (guitars)
On the day that marks ten years since the death of Paco de Lucía (1947-2014), the Real Coliseo offers us its second concert in homage to him and to the instrument that made him famous. We have magnificent guitarists headed by Gerardo Núñez.
Programming - March
Gentle crystal. Songs and tunes by Durón, Literes and Torres
DATE: Friday, March 1, 2024
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Manon Chauvin (soprano), Juan Carlos de Mulder (baroque guitar) and Camerata Antonio Soler: Manuel Muñoz (concertmaster violin), Lidia Fernández, Roi Pérez, Sergio Suárez and Helena Reguera (violins) and Alejandro Marías (cello)
The Camerata Antonio Soler, conducted by Gustavo Sánchez, the soprano Manon Chauvin and the vihuelist Juan Carlos de Mulder offer us a concert based on the manuscript of the Benedictine friar Anselmo de Lera, from the monastery of San Martín in Madrid. The programme is completed with two sonatas by Corelli that give us a broader view of the instrumental context of Europe at the turn of the 17th and 18th centuries.
to the cool, by Pablo Rosal
DATE: Saturday March 2, 2024
ADDRESS: Pablo Rosal
ABOUT US: The Awakened
INTERPRETATION: Alberto Berzal, Israel Frias and Luis Rallo
Through a polyphonic, comic and intimate score, tender and abysmal, of deep listening and created word, to the cool It wants to be a (d)space to dignify rest and generate an oasis where the imagination can expand, because we all resonate with the idea of going out into the fresh air on summer evenings (or any other time of year, really) to say almost nothing, to comment on almost everything…
March - 2
Woman's words
DATE: Sunday March 3, 2024
ADDRESS: Maria Jose Goyanes
ABOUT US: Maria Jose Goyanes
INTERPRETATION: María José Goyanes, Gloria Vega and Karmele Aranburu (interpretation) and Maru Mararía (piano)
Directed by María José Goyanes, accompanied on stage by actresses Gloria Vega and Karmele Aranburu and pianist Maru Mararía, Woman's words was born with the purpose of vindicating the name and work of certain poets, to give them the place that corresponds to them in history. An artistic proposal in which poetry, music and dance come together.
All the women I live in, by Angela Conde
DATE: Friday, March 8, 2024
ADDRESS: Montse Rangel
ABOUT US: Angela Conde
INTERPRETATION: Angela Conde
Combining drama and comedy to bring to life different female characters endowed with tenderness, passion and truth, All the Women I Live In invites us to travel to the past to understand the present and look to the future in a tribute to all those invisible women, mothers, grandmothers and daughters, who cared in silence, who rebelled, who kept quiet out of fear...
March - 3
THEATER 2024
Greguerías flower, by Ramon Gomez de la Serna
DATE: Saturday March 9, 2024
ADDRESS: Malgosia Szkandera
ABOUT US: Luna Dance Theatre
INTERPRETATION: Alba Vergne López and Antonio Lafuente
Inspired by the poetic and humorous world of the great Madrid writer Ramón Gómez de la Serna (1888-1963), Greguerías flower invites us to dream and imagine possible games, entering into a poetic atmosphere to offer an emotional and sensorial journey to the spectators. Music for the eyes, painting for the ears, theatre for the senses, poetry for the emotions.
FIAS 2024
The Miracles of Our Lady, by Gonzalo de Berceo
DATE: Sunday March 10, 2024
ABOUT US: Pepe Viyuela and Sara Agueda
INTERPRETATION: Pepe Viyuela (actor) and Sara Águeda (harp)
Gonzalo de Berceo (c.1196-c.1264), the first known poet in the Castilian language, returns to the scene, eight centuries later, in the voice of the actor Pepe Viyuela and the music of the harpist Sara Águeda. An immersion in the soul of the XNUMXth century that makes us reflect on the spirit of the XNUMXst century, because Berceo's great miracle is that he is still alive eight centuries after his death.
March - 4
Stabat Mater, by Pergolesi
DATE: Friday, March 15, 2024
ADDRESS: Ricardo Campelo
ABOUT US: Xtreme Theater
MUSIC DIRECTION: Carmena Bauti
INTERPRETATION: Cristina del Barrio (mezzo-soprano and performer), Ruth González (soprano and performer), Cristina Hernandez (performer), Paloma Albadalejo (performer), Ana Maria Alonso (viola), Ramon Mascaros (double bass), Tony Millan (harpsichord), Miren de Felipe (violin), Marian Tur (violin) and Blanca Budiño (cello)
The Madrid collective Teatro Xtremo offers us an open and sincere vision of the musical composition of the religious text Stabat Mater, by Pergolesi (1710-1736). A piece of contemporary creation and performative nature, with plastic actions and live cameras, performed by a mezzo-soprano, a soprano, two performers and six musicians.
Raquel Lanseros. Poetry on stage
DATE: Sunday March 17, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Raquel Lanseros and Luciano García Lorenzo (interpretation) and Helena Fernández (music)
On a Sunday close to the celebration of World Poetry Day, EscénaTe and Luciano García Lorenzo bring us closer to the work of one of the most relevant new poetic voices: Raquel Lanseros, with the presence of the author and live music.
March - 5
Flamenco praises
DATE: Friday, March 22, 2024
ABOUT US: Lola Cortes Company
INTERPRETATION: Maria del Mar Fernandez, Carmina Cortes and Antonio Carbonell (singing)
Flamenco and poetry come together in this concert to celebrate the Friday of Sorrows, in which the a cappella voices of María del Mar Fernández, Carmina Cortés and Antonio Carbonell bring to life the poetry of San Juan de la Cruz and Santa Teresa de Jesús, demonstrating that flamenco singing, with its expressiveness and its ability to move, dialogues with mystical poetry and can help appreciate it in a different way.
THEATER 2024
A thread links me to you, by Beatriz Giménez de Ory
DATE: Saturday March 23, 2024
ADDRESS: Juan Muñoz and Inés Maroto
ABOUT US: The Tartana Theater
MUSIC DIRECTION: Ana Sanchez-Cano Jimeno
INTERPRETATION: Soraya Martinez-Santos Manjavacas and Felipe Guerin (actors-manipulators) and Amara Antía Rios (music)
Based on the book of poems by Beatriz Giménez de Ory, winner of the 2021 National Prize for Children's and Young People's Literature, A thread links me to you It fuses poetry, the visual language of puppet theatre and live music to tell us about Theseus' fight with the Minotaur in the labyrinth, Daedalus' plan to escape with his son Icarus and the fate of Arachne after her challenge to Athena.
March-6
Barbieri 200 years
DATE: Sunday March 31, 2024
ABOUT US: Concerto XXI Nvivo
STAGE DIRECTION: Francisco Matilla
ARTISTIC COORDINATOR: Fernando Poblete
INTERPRETATION: Carolina Moncada (soprano), Gerardo Bullón (baritone), Juan de Dios Mateos (tenor) and Carlos Diez (pianist and concert master)
The composer, musicologist, manager and bibliophile Francisco Asenjo Barbieri was born in Madrid in 1823 and spent his entire life trying to rescue Spain from its musical prostration. 200 years after his birth, and indebted to his immense legacy, the Community of Madrid is offering a series of concerts at the Real Coliseo as a tribute to his work and his projection. This first concert will be given by Concerto XXI Nvivo.
Programming - April
Rage, from the novel by Sergio Bizzio
DATE: Saturday April 6, 2024
ADDRESS: Claudio Tolcachir and Lautaro Perotti
ABOUT US: Contemporary Theatre Productions, Pentación, Timbre 4, Morris Gilbert – Best Theatre, Mariano Pagani, Teatro Picadero and Hause & Richman
INTERPRETATION: Claudio Tolcachir
Sergio Bizzio's acclaimed novel becomes a monologue performed by Claudio Tolcachir in which, through the anguished story of the protagonist, he also speaks to us about creation, about the unmanageable vertigo of feeling how a story finds you, kidnaps you without too many explanations and asks to be told.
Atrapados, by Juana Casado
DATE: Sunday April 14, 2024
ADDRESS: Juana Married
ABOUT US: Nomads
INTERPRETATION: Inma "La Carbonera" (singing), Ana Salazar (singing and dancing), Juan Amaya "El Pelón" (dance) and Paco Iglesias (guitar)
Following the success of Flamenco Kitchen, the trio of creators that make up Nómadas - Juana Casado, Inma "La Carbonera" and Ana Salazar - present this new production, accompanied by Juan Amaya "El Pelón" in dance and Paco Iglesias in guitar. A dramatized dance show, in a comedic tone, that investigates the human condition and the futility of existence.
April - 2
I live Vivaldi, by Ines Narvaez, Monica Runde and Elisa Sanz
DATE: Saturday April 20, 2024
ADDRESS: Ines Narvaez, Monica Runde and Elisa Sanz
ABOUT US: 10&10
INTERPRETATION: Alberto Almazan, Luis Carlos Cuevas, Ines Narvaez, Monica Runde, Elisa Sanz, Jose Luis Sendarrubias, Gonzalo Simon and Irene Vazquez
Designed to be enjoyed by the whole family, this show immerses us in the world of Vivaldi from a contemporary perspective and a multidisciplinary stage creation. Experience Vivaldi from the emotions and places that inspired his work, experience the changing of the seasons through his music, movement and plastic-scenic actions.
Cervantes and Lope de Rueda. The greatness of the short genre
DATE: Sunday April 21, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Luciano García Lorenzo, Antonio Ponce, Noah Vannei, Jesús Blanco, Gonzalo Lasso and Ana Veganzones
On this occasion, our morning appointment of words and music invites us to enjoy the semi-staged version of The divorce judge, by Cervantes, and by Cuckold and happy, by Lope de Rueda. Interludes in which humor, sarcasm and cruelty accompany the protagonists of these stories.
April-3
1953
DATE: Saturday April 27, 2024
ADDRESS: Carmen Werner
ABOUT US: Provisional Dance
INTERPRETATION: Sebastian Calvo, Raquel Jara, Cristian Lopez, Alejandro Morata and Carmen Werner
Carmen Werner, one of the most talented and prolific creators on the international scene, choreographs and directs this piece in which dance becomes an expression of the unlived, the told and the imagined, demonstrating the human capacity for self-improvement.
Barbieri 200 years
DATE: Sunday April 28, 2024
ABOUT US: Ensemble Madrid
ARTISTIC COORDINATION: Fernando Poblete
INTERPRETATION: Roberto Mendoza (first violin), Esperanza Velasco (second violin), Fátima Poblete (viola), Paul Friedhoff (cello), Fernando Poblete (double bass) and Ángel Huidobro (piano)
In this second concert of the series that the Community of Madrid is organizing at the Real Coliseo as a tribute to the work and projection of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823-1894) on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, Ensemble Madrid offers us a program with original selections of zarzuela for sextet with piano. Another opportunity to enjoy the legacy that this genius left us.
Programming - May
Summer madness, by Carlo Goldoni
DATE: Thursday, May 2, 2024
ADDRESS: Eduardo Vasco
ABOUT US: November Theater Company
INTERPRETATION: Jesus Calvo, Elena Rayos, Rafael Ortiz, Mar Calvo, Jose Ramon Iglesias, Alberto Gomez Taboada, Celia Perez, Anna Nacher and Manuel Pico
Two gallants in love with the same woman, two ladies who compete to be fashionable, servants who are in awe, parents who don't understand anything and freeloading friends complete the cast of characters in this funny and elegant comedy by maestro Goldoni, inviting us to reflect on some of the values of that time that still condition our behaviour today.
Tribute to maestro Alonso on his 75th anniversary
DATE: Friday, May 3, 2024
ABOUT US: Manuel Tevar
INTERPRETATION: Manuel Tevar (piano)
Remembering the 75th anniversary of the death of Francisco Alonso (1887-1948), we continue to discover facets of the talent of one of the most important composers of our country. On this occasion, the pianist and conductor Manuel Tévar offers us the complete works for solo piano by the maestro, revealing his talent, with a delightful finale that pays homage to his inspiration.
May 2
The prodigious shoemaker, by Manuel Segovia
DATE: 4 May 2024 Saturday
ADDRESS: Manuel Segovia
ABOUT US: Iberian Dance
EXECUTIVE DIRECTION: Violeta Ruiz del Valle
INTERPRETATION: Adrián Gómez, Santiago Herranz, Francisco Linares, Alejandro Mármol, Marta Mármol, María Muñoz, Jaime Puente, Alejandra Rodríguez, Raquel Ruiz and Nuria Tena
Manuel Segovia covers The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, a tragicomedy by Federico García Lorca, turning it into a comic ballet with subtle touches of the comedy of art, using the codes and character of Spanish stage dance and flamenco and respecting the original essence of the work, with an innovative approach that explores the feminine universe in an allegory of the human soul.
The chulapa life
DATE: 11 May 2024 Saturday
ABOUT US: Singus Music
STAGE DIRECTION: Alberto Frias
MUSIC DIRECTION: Dustin Calderon
INTERPRETATION: Olga Maria Ramos (voice), Alberto Loranca, Adrian Perez and Cristina Perez (violins), Ruben Torres and Ines Fernandez (flutes), Dustin Calderon (piano), Geni Uñón (drums), Joaquin Molina and Carlos Segui (trumpets), Luis Martinez de Aguirre (double bass) and Sergio Bernabe and Txema Cariñena (saxophones)
Olga María Ramos, heiress to the best know-how in the interpretation of chotis and cuplé, bequeaths us all her knowledge about Madrid traditions with a show where the unforgettable compositions of a genre that represents one of our greatest hallmarks come to life, accompanied by the wonderful Orquestina MadriZ.
May-3
#Euphrasia, by Borja Centeno
DATE: Sunday May 12, 2024
ADDRESS: Rosa Fernandez Cruz
ABOUT US: COART+E Productions
INTERPRETATION: Alba Lopez, Violeta Marchena, Isabel Romero de Leon, Natxo Lapieza, Javier Martin Hernandez and Fran Bas
Praised, envied, desired, hated, accused of murder and tried by the Inquisition, #Euphrasia This is the true story of Catalina Hernández, a Sevillian actress who lived for and by the theatre in the Golden Age, whose story aims to introduce the audience to a 21st century comedy corral and serve as a tribute to all the women who have been, for centuries, protagonists of our theatre.
The Regenta, by Leopoldo Alas "Clarin"
DATE: 18 May 2024 Saturday
ADDRESS: Helena Pepper
ABOUT US: Sequence 3
INTERPRETATION: Joaquin Notario, Francesc Galceran, Alex Gadea, Ana Ruiz, Pepa Pedroche, Lucia Serrano, Jacobo Dicenta and Alejandro Arestegui
One of the great novels of 19th century Spanish literature comes to the Real Coliseo, in a version faithful to the original text, to serve as a mirror in which we recognize ourselves and discover how our feelings are stirred by the behavior of the characters created by Leopoldo Alas "Clarín".
May-4
The festival of romance
DATE: Sunday May 19, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Daniel Migueláñez and Luciano García Lorenzo (interpretation) and Helena Fernández (live music)
The ballad is one of the most dazzling chapters of Spanish literature and our monthly morning appointment of words and music is dedicated to it, in which the spectator will be able to listen to and see some of the most significant ballads, from Count Alarcos, from the novelesque ones to the most lyrical ones, like Gerineldo.
MADRID IN DANCE
Flamingo: Creative Space
DATE: Friday, May 24, 2024
ABOUT US: Alfonso Losa
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Rafael Estevez & Valeriano Paños
MUSIC DIRECTION: Francisco Vinuesa
INTERPRETATION: Alfonso Losa (dance), Paula Comitre (dance, guest artist), Sandra Carrasco (singing, guest artist), Antonio Campos (singing) and Francisco Vinuesa (guitar)
The Madrid en Danza festival brings to the Real Coliseo the performance of one of the most genuine representatives of the Madrid school of flamenco dance: Alfonso Losa. Harmonizing austerity, verticality and elegance with a dizzying rhythm and prodigious body control, Alfonso Losa reveals his purest love for dance in a show full of contrasts and emotions.
May-5
Let's tell lies, by Alfonso Paso
DATE: 25 May 2024 Saturday
ADDRESS: Elvira Pineda
ABOUT US: La Cómica Theatre Company
INTERPRETATION: Chus Florenciano, Andrea Díez, Jesús García, Jesús Martínez Orenes, Álvaro González, Salva Gallego, Ilu Vera, Victoria Fernández, José María Hidalgo, Alba Martínez Sánchez and Lucía Jiménez
The La Cómica Theatre Company is bringing back to the Real Coliseo the repertoire of comedies that filled the stages and lives of several generations in the second half of the 20th century. Alfonso Paso and his comedies of intrigue are back, a memory and a tribute to the prolific author.
Little Red Riding Hood
DATE: Sunday May 26, 2024
ADDRESS: Elvira Pineda
ABOUT US: La Cómica Theatre Company
INTERPRETATION: Andrea Díez, Salva Gallego, Victoria Fernández, Jesús Orenes, Álvaro González Pineda, Chus Florenciano and Lucía Jiménez Ruiz (Pineda)
What can be said about Little Red Riding Hood that we don't know? The La Cómica Theatre Company invites us to enjoy and have fun with a version of this classic tale that emphasizes values such as obedience, friendship, affection and respect for the environment and animals.
May-6
Barbieri 200 years: Radio Barbieri
DATE: Friday, May 31, 2024
ABOUT US: Concerto XXI Nvivo
STAGE DIRECTION: Francisco Matilla
ARTISTIC COORDINATION: Fernando Poblete
INTERPRETATION: SOPRANOS: Sonia de Munk and Sofía Gutiérrez-Tobar (sopranos), Pablo Puértolas (tenor), Pablo Rossi (baritone), Miguel Ortega (piano and concertmaster), Martín Llade (presenter) and Enrique Mejías (musicologist)
Halfway through the series of concerts that the Community of Madrid is organizing at the Real Coliseo as a tribute to the work and projection of Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823-1894), Martín LLade hosts a radio program in which interviews with the young musicologist Enrique Mejias and the veteran stage director Francisco Matilla will give way to the live performance of works by four great composers who changed the history of zarzuela.
Programming - June
The 18th century French harpsichord vs the Spanish fandango
DATE: Saturday June 1, 2024
INTERPRETATION: Yago Mahúgo (key)
The Community of Madrid wants to join in the celebration of European Music Day with a series of concerts opened by harpsichordist Yago Mahúgo, presenting a small compilation of the main harpsichord works of 18th century French music, compared to Spanish creations at that time, two of the main musical stages of the era.
April and May mornings, by Calderon de la Barca
DATE: Sunday June 2, 2024
ADDRESS: Laila Ripoll
ABOUT US: Fernán Gómez Theatre and Malta Theatre
INTERPRETATION: Jorge Yumar, Guillermo Calero, Jose Ramon Iglesias, Sandra Landin, Juan Carlos Pertusa, Cristina Bertol, Sheyla Niño and Ana Varela
Play and joy in this spring-like and playful Calderón. A delightful comedy full of joy and vitality, full of entanglements and confusions, where a green and flowery, bucolic and sensual Madrid is recreated, where young couples in love get confused, avoid each other, deceive each other, surprise each other, look for each other, and sometimes even find each other.
June - 2
Revolutionary airs
DATE: Saturday June 8, 2024
ABOUT US: Mr. Fuchs Trio
INTERPRETATION: Eduardo Gaspar Polo Baader (flute), Carolina Guiducci (clarinet) and William Gough (bassoon)
Historicist musicians, enthusiastic and committed to the goal of making known the unusual combination of flute, clarinet and bassoon and its versatile repertoire, the Monsieur Fuchs trio offers us, in the second concert of the cycle that the Community of Madrid celebrates on the occasion of Music Day, a program around the French-influenced composer who gives his name to his group: Georg Friedrich Fuchs.
Final concert of the XI International Course for Orchestra Conductors "Escorial"
DATE: Friday, June 14, 2024
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Atso Mila (teacher), Gustavo Sánchez (director), Eleanor Núñez-Mason, Elisenda Post-Coma, Francisco Corrales Rubio and Robert Ruohola (directors-students) and Paloma Álvarez Crespo, Paolo Catalano, Carlos Corales Ríos, Ana Davó, Sergio Fernández Castro, Sergio Martín Gómez, Manuel Hernández Panza, Manuel Muñoz, Emilio Sánchez, Carlos Wernicke Fernández, Manuel Urios Fernández and Cristina Santos Taboada (musicians)
This concert is the culmination of a week of work by the students of the XI International Course for Orchestra Conductors "Escorial", together with the eminent Finnish maestro Atso Almila, in which each student will conduct a work or fragment, offering the spectator an interesting and varied sample of the different ways of conducting and interpreting the selected music.
June - 3
Southern Colors
DATE: Saturday June 15, 2024
ABOUT US: Euskal Barrok Ensemble
INTERPRETATION: Miren Zeberio (baroque violin), Pablo Martín Caminero (double bass), David Mayoral (percussion) and Enrike Solinís (lute and baroque guitar)
The third concert of the cycle Music monthBaroque roots comes to us from the early music group Euskal Barrok Ensemble. Faithful to their desire to investigate and delve into the roots of music, the group invites us to enjoy a captivating set of marionettes, canaries, cumbés, jácaras, fandangos and pasacalles taken from the Spanish and Italian baroque traditions.
Ricercar to 3
DATE: Friday, June 21, 2024
INTERPRETATION: Miriam Hontana (violin), Ismael Camapnero (violin) and Ignacio Prego (harpsichord)
In this fourth concert of the cycle Music monthBaroque roots, Miriam Hontana, Ismael Campanero and Ignacio Prego come together to offer us a programme, both virtuoso and mystical, that covers the entire spectrum of the Baroque sonata, from its beginnings in the 17th century to the mid-18th century, emphasizing the violin in its most virtuoso aspect.
June - 4
Dialogues: between key and bow
DATE: Saturday June 22, 2024
ABOUT US: The Stampa
INTERPRETATION: Fátima Fuster Antón (baroque violin) and Isabel Fernández Olalla (harpsichord)
La Stampa formation closes the cycle Music Month. Baroque roots offering us a programme that covers two of the most important territories of 17th-century music. A sample of the German and Italian repertoire, through works from the most famous collections of composers such as Johann Schop, Nicola Matteis, Giovanni Battista Fontana, Pandolfi Mealli, Georg Muffati, Jakob Froberger and Marco Ucellini.
The elf lady, Calderon de la Barca
DATE: Sunday June 23, 2024
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo, Sheila Niño, Jose Juan Sevilla, Ana Veganzones and Oscar Fervaz
The morning event of words and music for the month of June takes to the stage of the Real Coliseo The goblin lady, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). One of the best of the so-called cape and sword or intrigue comedies of the Golden Age, which revolves around love and freedom as the fundamental motives of its dramatic development.
June - 5
Barbieri 200 years: two picaresque skits
DATE: Saturday June 29, 2024
STAGE DIRECTION: Francisco Matilla
ABOUT US: Concerto XXI Nvivo
INTERPRETATION: Ruth Teran (soprano), Pancho Corujo (tenor), Cesar San Martin (baritone), Lola Casariego (mezzo-soprano) and Ensemble Madrid (Roberto Mendoza, Esperanza Velasco, Fatima Poblete, Paul Friedhoff, Fernando Poblete and Angel Huidobro
Concerto XXI Nvivo culminates this cycle of concerts dedicated to Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (1823-1894) on the two hundredth anniversary of his birth, rescuing from oblivion two picaresque farces: Man is weak y The childLast chance to enjoy the work of one of the most influential figures in Spanish music of all time.
Programming - August
Discovering the Royal Colosseum
DATE: Saturday, August 10, 2024
ABOUT US: Archeodidat
INTERPRETATION: Guillermo Llanso
The oldest indoor theatre in Spain opens its doors, joining in the celebration of San Lorenzo Day, so that adults and children can learn about its history from the hand of Charles III himself. A tourist and cultural activity that combines historical and architectural rigor with the magic of this architectural gem.
Programming - September
The king who was, by Albert Boadella and Ramon Fontserè
DATE: Saturday, September 21, 2024
ADDRESS: Albert Boadella
ABOUT US: The Joglars
INTERPRETATION: Ramon Fontserè, Pilar Sáenz, Dolors Tuneu, Martí Salvat, Javier Villena and Bruno López-Linares
Boadella and Fontserè once again combine experience and theatrical wisdom. Incisive, caustic and always elegant, with El Rey que fue, Els Joglars returns to the figure of the comedian who puts his finger on the sore spot, placing the spectator in front of the political and social evolution of his country and reflecting on the nature and existential condition of Juan Carlos I.
Coriolanus, after William Shakespeare
DATE: Sunday September 22, 2024
ADDRESS: Emilio del Valle
ABOUT US: Inconstant Productions
INTERPRETATION: Gonzalo Hermoso, Jorge Muñoz, Lidia Palazuelos, Luna Mayo and Soledad Vidal
Opening the 7nd Edition of the 1605 Villas Festival of the Community of Madrid, Producciones Inconstantes aims to demonstrate that great texts withstand the passage of time and, by setting the plot on a television set, they draw on Shakespeare and try to imagine how he would rewrite his Coriolanus today. The political plot that Shakespeare conceived between 1608 and XNUMX, in a space full of current references.
September 2
Tribute to Claude Bolling
DATE: Saturday, September 28, 2024
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Soler Camerata Jazz
INTERPRETATION: Gustavo Sanchez (flute), Juan Sanchez Molina (piano), Juan San Martin (double bass) and Jose San Martin (drums)
Soler Camerata Jazz pays tribute to the pianist and composer Claude Bolling (1930-2020) by offering us the best of jazz and classical music through one of the authors who has most masterfully managed to combine both musical styles, along with other works for jazz trio by other similar authors.
The teacher
DATE: Sunday September 29, 2024
ADDRESS: Ivan Alonso
ABOUT US: Anita Maravillas & Portal71
INTERPRETATION: Look at Larrea and Valentina Raposo
Inspired by the aesthetics of animal fables, La Maestra creates her own imaginary world in which a friendly group of animals will bring the characters of this story to life so that children and adults alike can travel through this story full of emotion, humour and love, reminding us of the value of education and freedom in the face of barbarism and whispering in our ears that the first condition for being free is to try.
Programming - October
The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross
DATE: Saturday, October 5, 2024
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Jose Luis Vega Loeches (narrator) and Roi Cibran Perez, Miguel Munoz, Lidia Fernandez, Manuel Munoz, Santiago Daneyko, Sonia Benavent, Alicia Calabuig, Javier Lopez, Sergio Fernandez, Antonio Campillo, Jacobo Diaz, Guillermo Beltran, Francisco Mas, Miguel Olivares, Vicent Serra, Javi Alcaraz, Jose Padilla and Onofre Serer (musicians)
Maintaining its usual historicist interpretation and the use of period instruments, the Camerata Antonio Soler offers us the original version of The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809), for solo orchestra and narrator.
HISPANICITY 2024
Estebanillo González, soldier and jester
DATE: Saturday, October 12, 2024
ADDRESS: Agustin Iglesias
ABOUT US: Guirigai Theater
INTERPRETATION: Jesus Peñas, Raul Rodriguez and Agustin Iglesias
A classic picaresque novel in which three actors bring to life the adventures of the jester Estebanillo and his historical characters, in a satirical text about war in which the crudeness and acid humour of the text explode with luminous lucidity and relevance in today's Europe.
October 2
Dreaming of Pinocchio, by Juan Muñoz and Inés Maroto
DATE: Sunday, October 13, 2024
ADDRESS: Juan Munoz
ABOUT US: The Tartana Theater
INTERPRETATION: Carlos Cazalilla, Edain Caballero and Esteban Pico
After a year full of activities around the art of puppets, La Tartana offers us a newly created show that tells us the possible story before the story of the classic tale of Pinocchio. A magical show about loneliness and perseverance in achieving a dream.
FLAMENCO SUM 2024
2.0 women
DATE: Friday, October 18, 2024
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Patricia Donn
MUSIC DIRECTION: Jose Jimenez "The Old Man"
ABOUT US: Patricia Donn
INTERPRETATION: Patricia Donn (dance), Yaman Kelement and Shani Peretz (solo dance), Israel Cerreduela (guitar), Iván Fernández (percussion) and Batio (cello)
Patricia Donn's flamenco dance company, together with its guest artists and musicians, recreate a flamenco, contemporary and neoclassical dance show in which these female artists, in love with art and life, meet, observe, complement and empower each other, constantly seeking equality.
October 3
FLAMENCO SUM 2024
Ignite (an act of combustion)
DATE: Saturday, October 19, 2024
ADDRESS: Antonio Molina "The Thief"
ARTISTIC COMPANY: The Choro
INTERPRETATION: Antonio Molina "El Choro" (dance), Manuel Marín (singing), Raúl Cantizano (guitar) and Francisco Roca (instrumentalist)
The Huelva-born dancer Antonio Molina "El Choro" brings the verb "to ignite" to the stage in different ways: holding the weight of recognition on his shoulders, depriving his dance of freedom or lighting the fuse that ignites it, always seeking to execute the quality of the dance, whether by burning it or embellishing it.
Brunetti Symphonies I (1780): Il Maniac
DATE: Sunday, October 20, 2024
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Manuel Hernandez Panza, Manuel Munoz, Edelweiss Tinoco, Roi Cibran Perez, Lidia Fernandez, Kevin Merchan, Marta Asensio, Javier Lopez, Ramon Mascaros, Aviad Gershoni, Guillermo Beltran, Francisco Mas, Miguel Olivares and Vincent Serra (musicians)
Over the course of two concerts, the Camerata Antonio Soler will offer us some of the more than 25 symphonies by Cayetano Brunetti (1744-1798) that the group has recovered over the last ten years, starting with one of the most important and disconcerting entitled The Maniac.
October 4
FLAMENCO SUM 2024
From Jerez to Granada
DATE: Friday, October 25, 2024
ABOUT US: Claudia la Debla & David Carpio
INTERPRETATION: David Carpio (singing), Manuel Valencia (guitar) and Salome Ramirez and Maria Reyes (clapping) / Claudia La Debla (dance), Miguel Levi and Sergio "El Colorao" (singing) and Fermin Fernandez (guitar)
Claudia la Debla, a flamenco dancer from Granada whose name is based on the name of one of the flamenco styles, la debla. And David Carpio, a singer from Jerez of solid lineage. Two artists, two emblematic cities of flamenco art, Jerez and Granada, on the stage of the Real Coliseo.
FLAMENCO SUM 2024
Amaya
DATE: Saturday, October 26, 2024
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Candela's work
ABOUT US: Juana Amaya
INTERPRETATION: Juana Amaya (dance), David "El Galli" and Ismael "El Bola" (singing), David Jiménez (guitar), Fernando Gª Rico (violin) and Paco Vega (percussion)
Recognized as one of the most talented artists of her generation, Juana Amaya bravely looks into the mirror in this autobiographical life story, narrated by flamenco singing. Dancing with blood and fire, she will sketch out her life with gypsy spirit, looking to the future with certainty, power and the vulnerability of the flamenco artist who always finds an olé in time, an olé to life.
October 5
yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca
DATE: Sunday, October 27, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Natalia Llorente, Samuel Viyuela, Juan Carlos Mesonero, Lidia Oton and Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
A new date with the cycle Sunday matinees. Word and music with the aim of bringing the most outstanding creations in the history of our theatre closer to the audience. Today it is the turn of Federico García Lorca with yerma.
Programming - November
Don Juan Tenorioby José Zorrilla
DATE: Friday, November 1, 2024
ADDRESS: Manuel Canseco
ABOUT US: Manuel Canseco-Aitana Galán (The Radical Theatre)
INTERPRETATION: Sergio Otegui, Fran Leal, Alejandra Torray, Adolfo Pastor, Manuela Collado, Manuel Brun, Victor Benede, Cristina Palomo, Alberto Closas, Orencio Ortega, Marta Calvo, Angel Amoros, Cristina Juan, Julio Tejela, Pablo Barquilla and Pablo Bohorquez
Following the success of the previous edition, the Community of Madrid and its Department of Culture, Tourism and Sport are once again staging the performance, in a semi-staged reading, of the play Don Juan Tenorio, by José Zorrilla (1817-1893), on All Saints' Day, led by the prestigious stage director Manuel Canseco.
AUTUMN FESTIVAL 2024
Duel Opus 3by Gil Galliot and Laurent Cirade
DATE: Saturday, November 9, 2024
ADDRESS: Gil Galliot and Laurent Cirade
ABOUT US: Compagnie Duel/Laurent Cirade
INTERPRETATION: Nathalie Miravette and Laurent Cirade
The Autumn Festival of the Community of Madrid invites us to witness this musical duel, an explosive encounter in which Nathalie Miravette (pianist) and Laurent Cirade (cellist) act and interpret. A breeze of humor between two virtuosos, whose background points to the eternal battle of the sexes, to which they put a soundtrack that comes from the classical world, but which immediately jumps to the jazz, to rock…
November 2nd
Lyrical keys
DATE: Saturday, November 16, 2024
ADDRESS: Teo Cardalda and María Monsonís
ABOUT US: Teo Cardalda
INTERPRETATION: Teo Cardalda (piano, guitar, lead vocals and recitations), María Monsonís (percussion, dance, vocals and recitation), Miguel Ángel Orengo (drums and percussion), Yago Cardalda (keyboards and programming) and Susana Blanco (cello)
Nine poems by Ramón María del Valle-Inclán are set to music in scores created by his fellow countryman Teo Cardalda, a member of renowned groups such as Partners in crime y Low hits. A music with rhythmic ornaments of the century (drums, guitars, cymbals and keyboards), for the author's words, which turn poetry into song and highlight his emotion, his intuition, his words with hidden meaning, in short, his lyrical keys...
Rossini in the kitchen, by Juan Muñoz and Inés Maroto
DATE: Sunday, November 17, 2024
ADDRESS: Juan Muñoz and Inés Maroto
ABOUT US: The Tartana Theater
INTERPRETATION: Esteban Pico and Carlos Cazalilla and Edaín Caballero (manipulation)
An approach to classical music for children with objects and puppets of all sizes and techniques. A fun play that revolves around the musical work of Rossini (1792--1868), which will allow us to get to know the musician and the person with his two great passions: music and food.
November 3nd
The song of cinema
DATE: Friday, November 22, 2024
ADDRESS: Roman Clemente Magan
ABOUT US: Coral Cantoría – Five Words Foundation
INTERPRETATION: Almudena Olayo, Antonia Mateas, Elena Galicia, Marta Alvarez, Pilar Galicia, Silvia Valdes, Lorna Sueiro, Charo Tome and Consuelo Briceno (sopranos), Carina Pelaez, Irene Garcia, Mar Olayo, Maria Isabel Alvarez, Rosa Moya, Begoña Pastor, Mar Pastor, Rosa Gala and Esperanza Lafuente (contraltos), Angel Garcia, Antonio Moreno, Benito Jorge Rubio, Carlos Garcia, Francisco Mencia, Jacobo Atienza, Juan Jesus Sanchez, Mercedes Evangelista Roses and Michi Esteban (tenors) and Fernando Ruiz, Carlos Hurtado, Pedro Liviano, Emilio Montenegro and Jose del Campo (basses)
In commemoration of the feast of the patron saint of music, the Cinco Palabras Foundation offers us a journey through the music that cinema has bequeathed to us through unforgettable songs that create a show full of brilliance and colour.
Brunetti II Symphonies (1779-1783): Symphonies with trumpets
DATE: Saturday, November 23, 2024
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Manuel Munoz, Edelweiss Tinoco, Roi Cibran Perez, Kevin Merchan, Lidia Fernandez, Marta Asensio, Javier Lopez, Ramon Mascaros, Rodrigo Gutierrez, Guillermo Beltran, Francisco Mas, Miguel Olivares, Vincent Serra, Javier Alcaraz, Jose Padilla and Onofre Serer (musicians)
In this second concert in homage to Brunetti (1744-1798), the Camerata Antonio Soler presents to the public for the first time three symphonies with trumpets, the fruit of its enormous work to recover the entire symphonic legacy of the Italian musician to bring us closer to the sound world of the court of Charles III and Charles IV.
November 4nd
Altarpiece of greed, lust and death, by Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclán
DATE: Sunday, November 24, 2024
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Sheila Niño, Iballa Rodríguez, Óscar Fervaz, Ernesto Arias and Luciano García Lorenzo
With the title Altarpiece of greed, lust and death In 1927, Don Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) published five short works of a tragic nature, which today come to the Real Coliseo in this cycle of words and music that aims to bring the main theatrical works in the history of theatre to the spectators in a very special format.
Heaven
DATE: Saturday, November 30, 2024
ABOUT US: Pipo Prendes
INTERPRETATION: Pipo Prendes (voice and guitar), Fernando Pérez-Vega (guitar), Xaime Arias (piano and keyboards) and Óscar Santos (bass)
Maturity and vitality are the hallmarks of his new songs; serenity and passion mark his current moment. Pipo Prendes is a different kind of classic who knows that life is always "one step further." Habaneras, boleros, songs that bring us closer to María Dolores Pradera and his own songs make up the repertoire that the Asturian artist presents at the Real Coliseo. Songs that move those who listen to them.
Programming - December
Pepito (a life story for children and grandparents), by Itziar Pascual
DATE: Friday, December 6, 2024
ADDRESS: Carmen Losa
ABOUT US: Ireala Theatre
INTERPRETATION: Leyre Abbey
Pepito it's our story. Pepito They are our fathers, our mothers, our grandparents. Pepito is memory. A work that wants to share experiences and ask questions to children and adults about joy, overcoming difficulties and love. Because sometimes life is not easy, but it is a great adventure.
Tennessee, two short plays and an interlude
DATE: Saturday, December 7, 2024
ADDRESS: Maria Ruiz
ABOUT US: Come and Shut Up Productions
INTERPRETATION: Cristina Medina, Rebeca Torres and Eleazar Ortiz
The Marchioness of Larkspur Lotion y Talk to me like the rain, by Tennessee Williams (1911-1983), and an interlude written by María Ruiz and Cristina Medina give us the opportunity to immerse ourselves in the prodigy that is the American playwright. An encounter with one of the greatest authors in history.
December2
The Giants of the Mountain, by Luigi Pirandello
DATE: Saturday, December 14, 2024
ADDRESS: Cesar Barlo
ABOUT US: AlmaViva Theatre
INTERPRETATION: Teresa Alonso, Juan Carlos Arráez, Samuel Blanco, Moisés Chic, David Ortega, José Gonçalo Pais, Javi Rodenas, Natalia Rodríguez and Paula Susavila
AlmaViva Teatro takes on the challenge of bringing to the stage the last, unfinished text by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936). An exquisite fable that the author himself places "on the limit that separates fable from reality." A text as enormous as its title that invites us to ask ourselves if we really are who we would like to be or if the giants impose on us our way of being in this world.