The Palau de les Arts is putting the last tickets on sale for What are clouds?
22.01.2015
The Plácido Domingo Centre for Advanced Studies celebrates the anniversary of Mozart's birth on January 27th
< Davide Livermore presents a montage inspired by the short film Che Cosa Sono Le Nuvole by Pier Paolo Pasolini
Juan Luis Martínez from Valencia takes over the musical direction of this concert-show featuring excerpts from operas by the genius from Salzburg.
Valencia. The Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía puts on sale the last tickets for the concert-show What are the clouds , with which the Centre de Perfeccionament Plácido Domingo celebrates the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart on January 27.
Davide Livermore, the project's artistic director, is finalizing rehearsals this week for his first work in Valencia in 2015, which, with less than a week to go before its premiere, has already sold 95 percent of the seats at the Teatre Martín i Soler.
The Turin-born director begins the opera season after receiving his first Campoamor Lyric Theater Award for Verdi's La forza del destino . His repertoire also includes recent successes at the Palau de les Arts such as Puccini's La Bohème and Verdi's Otello .
Among their latest achievements, the debut of the Centre de Perfeccionament artists in Austria, at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival with Scarlatti's Narciso , as well as the premiere last December in Turin of Romancero gitano with actress Rossy de Palma and the singers of the Centre.
The staging of this show is inspired by the episode "Che cosa sono le nuvole" filmed by Pier Paolo Pasolini for the film Capriccio all'italiana (1967). The stage director, singer, teacher, and actor combines musical, cinematic, and theatrical elements to present a repertoire composed of excerpts from Mozart's most celebrated operas, such as the Da Ponte Trilogy ( Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Le nozze di Figaro ), as well as The Magic Flute .
Juan Luis Martínez, from Valencia, takes over as musical director. This is the second time the principal conductor of the Ciutat de Torrent Orchestra has led the Palau de les Arts ensemble and collaborated with the artists of the Centre de Perfeccionament, whom he conducted in 2012 in the successful production of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas .
Tickets for What Are Clouds? are 15 euros. According to Livermore himself, “the Centre de Perfeccionament's shows are an excellent way to approach the world of opera, with fresh and youthful productions, of course of the highest artistic caliber, featuring the great voices of our artists and an exceptional ensemble like the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana in the pit.”
Narciso closes offer from the Centre de Perfeccionament
The first international co-production of the Centre de Perfeccionament, Closing the program of the Palau de les Arts, Narciso , by Domenico Scarlatti, which is performed on May 22, 28, 31, 2015, with a didactic performance on the 25th of that same month.
The production premiered last August at the Innsbruck Early Music Festival (Austria) with four singers from the Centre in the cast and the prestigious Fabio Biondi and the Europa Galante ensemble in the pit. Narcissus marks the Palau de les Arts' first collaboration with the prestigious Austrian festival, and features stage direction and set design by Davide Livermore, costumes by Mariana Fracasso, video design by D-WOK, and lighting by Antonio Castro.
Juan Luis Martínez marks his second collaboration with the Centre de Perfeccionament and the Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana this season, with this opera that won the favor of the demanding Austrian public this summer.
