More than 1,100 people will participate in the educational activities of Les Arts to celebrate the 'European Opera Days'

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía celebrates, at the end of next May 14, a new edition of the 'European Opera Days', with two educational activities for which more than 1,100 people will pass.

These days, promoted by Opera Europe - the continent's main organization with 170 associated opera companies and festivals - aim to value music as a universal language and exalt opera: art for the excellence of European identity.

For this reason, the cultural enclave has designed a series of proposals that, once again, are included in the didactic program. The activities, aimed mainly at students of Primary, Secondary and Conservatory Education, are held in different sales and countries of the building designed by Santiago Calatrava with the purpose of introducing the lyric to the citizens.

This group, a group of 25 people, coordinated by the Conselleria d'Egualtat i Pítiques Inclusives, will attend the general assembly of the 'Alemanya Barroca' concert, in which they will be able to see 'in situ' the work of Fabio Biondi and the professors of the Valencian Community Orchestra (OCV). One day later, the Calatrava building will open its doors to students of Conservatoris Professionals de Música who will discover the sales, terraces, and iconic spaces of the cultural center.

The dilluns, the most menuts, are the recipients of 'VestuArts', an educational project for children between 4 and 12 years old that helps to understand the activity of the costume department, one of the most colorful and essential in an operatic production. With reference to their apprenticeship, xiquets and xiquetes see some of the most spectacular models that have been made recently at the arts center.

Subsequently, the assistants will give a guided tour with access to sales and scenic spaces closed to the general public.

The musical director of the OCV, Fabio Biondi, will visit the Joaquín Rodrigo Conservatori Superior de Música on December 9 to star in a masterful performance with chamber music students. For the latter band, Henrik Nánási, musical director of 'Werther', by Massenet, has invited 15 orchestral conducting students from this center to the third OCV reading of Jules Massenet's score, to then hold a col·loqui with them.

The opera 'Werther' is one of the main works of these days. On December 10, more than a hundred Primary students will spend the day at Les Arts to participate in the 'Aproximació Werther' workshop. In addition to knowing the secrets of this new production, the most menus can include a picnic at the Terrasses de les Palmeres to later attend a part of Massenet's opera performance. Later, at 7:30 p.m., Ramon Gener will offer the usual preliminary presentation on this title to the master class.

The students of the Col·legi Maria Auxiliadora d'Algemesí commemorate the 50th anniversary of the inauguration of the center with a visit to the Palau de les Arts, on the 11th. With the activity 'Iaios a Les Arts', the most menus recall homage and will donate the thanks to their seus iaios, first students of this col·legi i a fundamental figure in their families, with a visit to the theater that will culminate with a recital by the artists of the Center Plácido Domingo with àries and romances of opera and sarsuela.

Understanding the importance of opera in European culture is one of the objectives of “Expopanorama”, aimed at students of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the University of Valencia, who through an emblematic title such as 'Carmen' will be able to learn the different lectures and purposes that opera has raised. Bizet on the continent through Opera Europa. The visit to Les Arts is complementary to the assistance of 'Werther' in the Main Hall.

Here, the CEIP Juan Esteve Muñoz d'Albal, the only center on the national scene that develops a LOVA program (L'Òpera com a Vehicle d'Aprenentatge) for students to go to Les Arts on Saturday 13 to join a training session similar to the workshop 'Un matí amb' that explains the creation of a production operatic.

The 'European Opera Days' of Les Arts conclude on the 14th. This day the cultural complex celebrates a three-hour photo marathon, 'Instameet', which will bring together 40 members of Instagrammers Valencia (@igersvalencia) to portray the most significant spaces of the Palau de les Arts. Soon, Jean-Louis Grinda, stage director of 'Werther', will star in the latest activity, aimed at students from choral groups in the Valencian Community. The Monegasque councilor will address both the details of this new muntatge, which can be contemplated later, during part of the joint session.