• Ainhoa ​​Arteta. "It is our duty to give life to our heritage"

The Royal Theater this Wednesday its 2019-2020 season with the presence of Felipe VI and Doña Letizia, monarchs of Spain, and with an opera that has a lot to do with them, with the crown and with the royal dynasty of our country. 'Don Carlo', the monumental score of Giuseppe Verdi, turned the Madrid Coliseum into a small monastery of El Escorial, whose mastodontic walls follow impossible love, betrayals and family conflicts.

The Queen (white tuxedo dress, with 'midi' cut-out lapel with draping, from the firm Lola Li) and Don Felipe occupied the Palco Real and the Marna Granadera sounded, directed by Nicola Luisotti, musical director of the assembly, where David McVicar takes care of the scenic part.

A show especially timely for several reasons. First, because of the debate about whether the personal is political, so active in our times. In Verdi's piece, the characters (the infant Don Carlo; his father, Felipe II; his wife and impossible love of the first, Elisabetta de Valois), live in their flesh the world of intimate feelings and that other world supposedly more 'elevated', that of the state reason. Elisabetta lives trapped and locked in court. His lament ("The happy days of my heart are over") made its way directly from the stage to the Palco Real . Would Letizia's tear of her distant predecessor feel on the throne?

And since the question was about ancestors, Philip VI's 'face to face' was equally interesting in front of the 'other', the II, at a time when the Black Legend was also spoken again. Without 'imperiophobia' or 'imperiophilia', the "owner of half the world" (excellent Dmitry Belosselskiy) is presented here as an executioner, but also a victim: a despotic creature, but who at the same time lives prey to his power and the power of Inquisition.

Among the politicians who attended the representation are the president of the Congress of Deputies, Meritxel Batet; the Minister of Culture and Sports, José Guirao; the Minister of Economy, Nadia Calviño; the mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida; the president of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso; the Councilor for Culture in the city hall of the capital, Andrea Levy; the Minister of Culture and Tourism of Madrid, Marta Rivera de la Cruz; the spokeswoman for Citizens in Congress, Inés Arrimadas; or the former Minister of Education and Culture, Íñigo Méndez de Vigo.

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