Les Arts offers 64 days of artistic activity and more than 160 educational sessions in the 2016-2017 Season

The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía offers 64 days of artistic activity and more than 160 educational sessions in the 2016-2017 Season, which have been presented at a press conference by the Minister of Education, Research, Culture and Sports, Vicent Marzà, and the mayor of Les Arts, Davide Livermore.

The Valencian soprano Lucrezia Bori (1887-1960), recreated by the Valencian artist based in Los Angeles, Pepe Moreno, is the image of the first lyrical course of Les Arts.

The figure has been converted since September 25, the date when the activity began in the Calatrava building with the Day of Open Ports, in the leading line of the different purposes of the theater.

The IX Day of Portes Obertes will include, in addition to tours of the buildings, other free activities such as a concert by the Valencian Community Orchestra with Roberto Abbado or a recital by the artists of the Center Plácido Domingo.

On October 1, a new Preseason begins with popular preseasons. With venues from 7 fins to 50 euros for opera and sarsuela, or between 10 and 20 euros for concerts, this initiative is repeated, in which it is also commercialized the first performance at popular prices of the Subscription Season.

Five shows make up the activities window. Donizetti's opera “L'elisir d'amore”, in the production of Damiano Michieletto, set on the Malva-rosa beach, with Keri-Lynn Wilson in the orchestra, the second dona who directs the opera in the last two years of the theatre's life, the five performances of this work on days: 1, 4, October 7, 9 and 12.

The Spanish opera comes from the mother of Valencian Manuel Penella with “The Wildcat”. Óliver Díaz, musical director of the Zarzuela theater, assumes the title of this work, which is seen in a muntatge also of this theater with the signature of José Carlos Plaza on October 30, November 1, 3 and 5.

The concert offer is complemented by a Vivaldi monograph under the baton of Fabio Biondi, musical director of Les Arts, on October 6 at the Auditori; “Cantúria Cantada”, by Carles Santos, at the Cor de la Generalitat, directed by Dolors Ricart on November 10, and an opera gala with the artists of the Center Plácido Domingo, directed by Ramón Tebar, main guest director of the opera of Valencia, on the 26th of that month.

For the first time, Les Arts includes a performance with popular prices, from 7 fins to 50 euros, depending on the season. It will be on February 22, for the penultimate performance of the most popular title in the repertoire: “La Traviata”, by Verdi. A young distribution but with the mateixa musical direction, Ramón Tebar, and stage, Sofia Coppola, who the representations of the subscription, stars in this session.

Tickets for this “Traviata” will be sold during the Preseason sales period. The Arts offer new subscriptions to the Preseason with a discount from 20% to the general public at the end of 50%, in the case of the holders of the Carnet Jove. A Preseason pass that includes: “L'elisir d'amore”, “El gato montés”, the performance of “La Traviata” on February 22, the concert spectacle “Cantúria Cantada”, the opera gala “Noves Veus”, and the Vivaldi monographic concert will cost from 150 euros in the most expensive version (area of maximum visibility, general public), ends at 62 euros that the young public in zone 3 will pay.

Deu òperes

Together with the two Preseason titles, there will be three openings in the Main Hall, Auditorium and Teatre Martín i Soler between December 2016 and July 2017.

“I vespri siciliani”, by Verdi, opens the Subscription Season on December 10 with Roberto Abbado in the trap and a first-class distribution: tenor Gregory Kunde (Arrigo), recent winner of the International Opera Award; the soprano Anna Pirozzi (Helena), who is going to win Les Arts in “Nabucco” in 2015; Juan Jesús Rodríguez, great verdià baritone who has sung “Rigoletto” and “Il trovatore” in Valencia; and the baix rus Alexánder Vinogradov, who will debut at Lorin Maazel's center d'arts de la mà in 2006.

Davide Livermore is responsible for the staging of this production of the ABAO i el Regi de Torí, triad for “Musical America” with one of the best shows of 2012. There will be five performances of “I vespri siciliani” on December 10, 13, 16, 18 and 21 in the Main Hall.

In this month, the Martín i Soler Theater presented one of the most innovative shows in the country: “Philemon und Baucis”, by Haydn, an opera with titles by the company Carlo Colla and fills, under the baton of Fabio Biondi and with the veus of the Center Plácido Domingo. There have been four performances of the first show of Les Arts titles on the 8th, 12th and 25th, with an educational function on the 11th.

In February, Verdi's “La Traviata” arrived, for the third time since the inauguration of Les Arts. Hi there set functions, including the representation at popular prices, on days 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 22 and 23.

Ramón Tebar musically directs this production of the Rome Opera with the film by the filmmaker Sofia Coppola and costumes by Valentino. An exuberant production by a stellar cast of Plácido Domingo with Germont, Marina Rebeka, one of the most sought-after sopranos of the moment, and the tenor Arturo Chacón in the papers of Violetta Valéry and Alfredo Germont, respectively.

The first new production of the 2016-2017 Season, “Lucrezia Borgia”, by Donizetti, premieres in March and April. Fabio Biondi, conducts one of the composer's most demanding scores, especially for his leading role, the song of Pope Alexander VI, which featured the diva Mariella Devia, also winner of the International Opera Award, among other roles, in the name “Norma” in Les Arts. Accompanying the cast is Silvia Tro Santafé, the most international Valencian mezzo-soprano. Emilio Sagi designed this new muntatge that can be seen on March 26 and 29, and on April 1, 5 and 8.

The French opera returns to the maig, with “Werther”, by Massenet. For the third time, Henrik Nánási, chief conductor of the Berlin Komische Oper, conducts the Palau de les Arts. “Werther” is one of the most feared tenor scores, which will be sung by one of the greatest stars of the moment, Jean François Borras, acclaimed by critics after replacing the tenor of the moment, Jonas Kaufmann, at the New York Metropolitan in this mateix role.

Al seu costat sings one of the most fascinating veus on the scene, the mezzo-soprano Anna Caterina Antonacci (Charlotte). Jean-Louis Grinda directs this new muntatge that Les Arts coprodueix with the Monte-Carlo Opera and is performed on May 20, 23, 26, 28 and 31.

In June, the center d'arts made a foray into the repertoire of the 19th century. XX and in Britten's work with “The Turn of the Screw”, at the Teatre Martín i Soler on the 2nd, 4th, 6th and 10th of this month. Christopher Franklin is the protagonist of the stable works of Les Arts with this work with an intriguing plot and great theatrical force. Davide Livermore is responsible for the staging of this new production by the artists of the Plácido Domingo Center.

Last month, on the 15th, the Auditori hosted an opera in concert spectacle format. Fabio Biondi reveals to the public of the cultural enclave another score known to the general public: “Piramo e Tisbe”, by the German composer Johann Adolf Hasse, with Vivica Genaux and Valentina Farcas with the protagonists.

Rossini shares his operatic proposals with his first Madurese opera, “Tancredi”, with Roberto Abbado and musical director in a muntatge by Emilio Sagi for the Lausanne Opera and the Teatro Municipal de Santiago de Xile with excellent interpretations of the work of the Pesaro composer in the main papers.

Daniela Barcellona, a leading Rossinian mezzo-soprano who will last sing at Les Arts in 2010, is Tancredi. Accompanying them are the soprano Jessica Prat, who will participate in Rossini's “Stabat Mater” in 2015, and the acclaimed Chinese tenor Yijie Shi. The Main Hall will host the performances of “Tancredi” on June 23, 25, 27 and 29 and July 1.

Ballet, concerts, chamber music, recital

Accordingly, the program included a ballet show. From April 21 to 24, in the Main Hall, the director of the National Ballet of Spain, Antonio Najarro, will offer a spectacle-tribute to Antonio Ruiz Soler, “Antonio the Dancer”, in which several of his most emblematic choreographies will rest, among them “The three-pointed barret”.

Works of different styles and stages comprise the concert offering for the 2016-2017 Season. Fabio Biondi will conduct at the Auditori “Israel in Egypt”, on December 22, an oratori by Handel, a composer of which the musical director of Les Arts is a great advisor.

On April 6, the cultural content premiered a symphonic work by Francisco Coll, “Mural”, a tribute to the Valencian composer, who is currently offering his second revival “Café Kafka” at the Teatre Martín i Soler. The program of this evening is complete with “Das Lied von der Erde”, by Gustav Mahler, with tenor Gregory Kunde.

For the latter band, on May 11, Francesc Perales conducts the Choir of the Generalitat in “Missa del papa Marcel”, by Palestrina. A concert that the public will be able to watch in a disconnected Arts space: the Galeria dels Arcs, in the artistic corridors on the 3rd floor.

Another novelty of the Season is the turn of chamber music into the artistic offering. A project that, thanks to the interest of Fabio Biondi and the professors of the Valencian Community Orchestra, takes shape in three sessions at Espai los Toros, another new building space that is open to public activity.

On the 14th of January, in the month of the anniversary of the Geni of Salzburg, Fabio Biondi presents 'Mozart's Environment', both works by composers close to the author: Joseph and Michael Haydn, Salieri and Beethoven. On March 30, in parallel with the performances of 'Lucrezia Borgia', by Donizetti, Master Biondi offers fishes by great composers of bel canto such as Bellini, Cherubini, Mercadante and Rossini. On May 6, the master and professors of the OCV suggest a trip to Baroque Germany, with scores by Telemann, Händel and Bach.

In the recital department, the distinguished pianist and repertoire Roger Vignoles will accompany the artists of the Center Plácido Domingo on March 25 at the Teatre Martín i Soler.

ActiviArts

Throughout the 2016-2017 Season, free activities have been created with innovative proposals: “Les Arts Volant” and “Mozart Nacht und Tag”, in addition to the traditional “Jornada de Portes Obertes” and the “Nit a Les Arts”, the night in white of the center d'arts.

“Les Arts Volant” is an unprecedented initiative to bring the opera to all parts of the city of Valencia and the Valencian Community, which will be presented in conjunction with the collaboration of the Autonomous Secretariat of Tourism and the City Council of the capital: a two-way stage with which to represent the Mozartian Singspiel “Bastian und Bastienne” in qualsevol lloc.

“Mozart Nacht und Tag” is a 24-hour marathon at the voltant of the Salzburg genius with music, recitals, concerts and free activities around the same figure in different sales and countries of Les Arts, coinciding with the day of his birth, the 27th of June.

Didactic Program

The increase in didactic activities is one of the pillars of the new Season, with more than 160 activity sessions, 40 more than the present course and with an attendance forecast that will exceed the 12,000 students who have so far passed through Les Arts.

The educational program includes independent activities and also linked to artistic activities such as: “Detectius en l'òpera”, “Dibuixar la musica”, lectures dramatitzades, workshops, “La veu de…”, trobades magistrals, “Tots a Cor”, “Sent l'òpera”, “European Opera Days”, general assessments, functions didàctiques i “Al voltant de…”.