The 2022 season of Teatro Mayor: Spain is the guest of honor

Within the framework of an exceptional programme, Spain will be the guest of honor for the 2022 season Teatro Mayor Julio Mario Santo Domingo in Bogota. In addition, the program will feature a Basque window and Norwegian Spotlight.

High-level national and international guests, symphony orchestras, lyrical music, ancient and chamber music, sounds of the world, Colombian music, theater and dance will be present at the Teatro Mayor next year.

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Notable artists and groups include: the great Polish tenor Pyotr Pyczala, the Japanese buto dance company Sankai Goku, the famous Georgian pianist Katia Bonatechvili, the St. Martin’s Academy of Fields Orchestra, writer, playwright and actress. Argentina Camila Sosa Velada.

According to the Santo Domingo Theater, There will also be important advocates of lyric singing, such as Mexican tenor Ramon Vargas; Argentine soprano Veronica Kangimi, From the successful participation in the last Bogotá es Barroco Festival, the Czech mezzo-soprano Magdalena Kožená, who will perform with the Venetian Baroque Orchestra.

As a guest of honor, Spain will bring artists of various disciplines. In flamenco, Eduardo Guerrero stands out, who will present his program “Sombra epímera II”. The early musical season will feature Catalan violinist Jordi Saval, one of its greatest experts and scholars in the world and co-founder of one of Europe’s most famous historical performance orchestras, Le Concert des Nations.

Likewise, the Trio Acento consists of three outstanding players of violin, viola and cello.It will be in chamber music season, and the quartet will perform the Sigma Project as part of Basque Window.

An important presence for the lyric

This song will have a prominent presence in 2022 with the participation of the aforementioned Polish tenor Piotr Beczala, who is considered one of the most famous voices in the international arena and who played, among many other roles, the duke in Verdi’s “Rigoletto”, and Rodolfo in “La Boheme”. , by Puccini, an opera performed at the Metropolitan Opera in New York and at the La Scala Theater in Milan.

Certifying the Teatro Mayor’s commitment to the development of opera in Colombia, at the end of August, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ‘Las Boda de Fígaro’ will be presented, under the musical direction of Austrian Martin Haselböck and staged by Pedro Salazar.

For its part, great concert season will see groups from the UK, the Netherlands and Canada. Martin’s Academy at Fields Orchestra, led by famed violinist Joshua Bell, will perform the show. In addition, there will be Sinfonia Rotterdam, who achieved world fame thanks to his musical quality and the strong personality of his leader, Conrad van Alphen.The Longueuil Symphony Chamber Orchestra with conductor and violinist Alexandre da Costa and pianist Jean-Philippe Silvestre.

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Under the Norwegian focus, the Orkester Nord group with oratory will perform “The Triumph of Time and Disappment” by George Friedrich Handel, and the Engegård Quartet with works by Mozart, Haydn and Schubert.

In the theatrical season, writer, playwright and actress Camila Sosa Villada, winner of the Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz award for her novel “Las Malas”, will present the play “Carnes Tolindas, a scenic portrait of a sexual androgynous.” It will also premiere “Amo y criado (Where There Are Grievances There Is No Jealousy)”, directed by Francisco de Rojas Zorilla, a classic theater from Spain, which will be directed by Eduardo Vasco, one of today’s leading directors in it. country. This latter work is a co-production of Teatro Mayor, Teatro Libre and Festival del Teatro Clásicos in Alcalá (Spain).

Finally, according to the organizers, Teatro Mayor’s programming will feature the much-loved Tango and Fado festivals with some of the best The most representative of these are traditional, national and nostalgic music genres.

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The Teatro Mayor, led by its Director, Ramiro Osorio, launched the 2022 season with a warm party held at the Teatro Estudio del Santo Domingo which was a joyous and fraternal climax to Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Performed by the Bogotá Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Swedish maestro Joachim Gustafsson.