Francisquita
Lluís Pasqual dirige una de las zarzuelas más populares de Amadeu Vives con Maria José Moreno y Celso Albelo. La obra maestra absoluta de Amadeu Vives regresa al Gran Teatre del Liceu con la puesta en escena de Lluís Pasqual, que cambia los diálogos hablados para ofrecer una visión fresca de la zarzuela del maestro de Collbató. Ubicada en tres tiempos diferentes, los amores de Fernando, Aurora, Don Matías y Aurora “la Beltrana” se pasean en un contexto diseñado escenográficamente por Alejandro Andújar, en esta coproducción entre el Liceu y el Teatro de la Zarzuela de Madrid. El reparto está encabezado por el exitoso binomio formado por Celso Albelo y María José Moreno. Un nuevo modo de acercarse al género grande de la mano de un equipo artístico simplemente extraordinario.
The central character of Mozart’s opera Lucio Silla is inspired by the historical figure of Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix, a dictator and Roman general who ruled during the 1st century BC. In this production at Madrid’s Teatro Real, an intriguing minimalist staging is complemented by Ivor Bolton’s expert music direction, and a talented cast.
For reasons that are by no means clear, in this production the work is set in an hotel at which the guests are invited to a soirée based on the legend of Count Ory. They dress up as the characters in a rudimentary way. The director clearly gets much fun from the disguise of the men as nuns in Act 2 when their nuns’ habits are worn over old-fashioned underwear which they take every opportunity to reveal.
The work was given its first performance in Rome in 1812. It is still unclear whether Rossini was 14 or 18 when he wrote it; what is beyond doubt, however, is the anticipation of great things to come. The libretto is a far-fetched tale of feuding kings, mistaken identities, disguises and cruel fates typical of the late 18th-century opera seria. Young stage director Davide Livermore, heading a production of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Urbino, turns the libretto into a ghost story, setting the action behind the stage of an opera house, when everyone has left and all that remains are the spirits of an opera that yearns for the breath of life much like the practically forgotten Demetrio e Polibio itself.
Zerlina
La poderosa producción de Lluis Pasqual para la capital española sitúa la atemporal historia de sordidez y seducción de Da Ponte en el oscuro mundo de la España de los años cuarenta. Carlos Álvarez, en el papel principal, juega con los afectos de Donna Anna, Zerlina y la española Donna Elvira, antes de que sus abrumadores métodos finalmente traigan su propia destrucción.
