Silvia Moreno
Updated Saturday, March 2, 2024-00:06
XL Visions of Holy Week
C/ De la Fuente, 10. Exhibition Hall of the Tomares City Council.
In Seville, vespers are lived with fervor and cover almost 365 days of the year.
Because you are always waiting for the arrival of something: the April Fair, the Rocío pilgrimage or Holy Week.
And this weekend is within the key period of the year of Vespers: Lent, which is
the forty days of preparation for the Passion of Christ
, which takes place during Holy Week.
There is no better way to face the third weekend of Lent than by visiting the photographic exhibition XL Visiones de la Semana Santa de Sevilla at the Tomares Town Hall.
Forty renowned Andalusian photographers show their particular vision and the cultural and religious wealth that surrounds Holy Week in the capital.
There are more traditional looks, others that are more innovative, devout or that show the contemporary visual aesthetics of a religious quote that also moves atheists.
The exhibition is coordinated by the painter and sculptor
Ricardo Suárez
and the photographer
José Antonio Zamora
.
XLI Festival of Ancient Music (FeMÀS)
Teatro de la Maestranza, Espacio Turina and Real Alcázar.
The musician
Fahmi Alqhai
, considered one of the best viola da gamba performers in the world, has been leading the Seville Early Music Festival (FeMÀS) since 2009, which starts this Friday in the capital of Seville.
And what a poster it has displayed when the festival turns 41, a true achievement for an event like this.
One of the star concerts is
Mozart's Requiem,
which will be performed by
MusicAeterna, the orchestra and choir made up of virtuosos
subjected to fierce discipline.
Directed by maestro
Teodor Currentzis
, born in Greece, but nationalized as Russian by
Putin
's decree in 2014. This enfant terrible of the baton is today an artist in question, not because of his musical vision, which few dispute, but because of his ties to the Kremlin. .
And he still has not commented on the war in Ukraine.
Will he do it in Seville? While Currentzis and his
Requiem
of Him arrives (March 12), the opening of the festival this weekend is carried out by La Fonte Musica, with a program focused on Monteverdi.
There will also be, at the Casa de la Moneda, a free concert this Sunday at 1:00 p.m.
Proposals for all tastes and budgets until March 24, when
Handel
's
Messiah
with Collegium 1704 closes the festival.
Container
C/ San Luis, 50.
To taste an
exquisite rice with duck, it is not mandatory to leave the capital and enter rice-growing lands along the route of towns nestled on the banks of the Guadalquivir River, which the Sevillian film director
Alberto Rodríguez
portrayed so well.
in his film
The Minimal Island
.
It is impossible to miss out on their "crispy rice with duck confit, mushroom sauce, curry and mustard" from the menu at the Container restaurant.
It is one of the most requested dishes, along with salmon tartare, ceviche and Iberian pork.
At the restaurant you will enjoy, without rushing, tapas and market cuisine with products from local gardens.
Paintings by local artists hang on the walls of the establishment, and
every Tuesday there is live music during dinner
.
And if you sit next to the glass window, you can contemplate the imposing façade of
the church of San Luis de los Franceses
, a jewel of 18th century baroque architecture.
Caliphate 3/4
C/ Leonardo da Vinci, 73. Cartuja Center.
Where music rooted in Andalusian popular tradition truly coexists in perfect harmony with advanced electronics is in Califato 3/4, one of the spearhead groups of the musical renaissance that has been taking place in Andalusia for a few years.
The group released their new album
Êcclabô de Libertá
-
slave of freedom
written with Andalusian phonetics - on February 29, which they have declared as the day of the "new Andalusia" that is "proud, rebellious, with memory and solidarity."
Among the ingredients they have mixed in their latest work are "electronics, flamenco, guasa, Latin and even baroque", as they themselves explain.
The new album will be played live this Saturday,
March 2, at the Cartuja Center
.
It will be the first concert of the tour and the group announces that there will be surprises.
The soccer players Borja Iglesias
and
Héctor Bellerín
, and the actors
Alba Flores
,
Paco León
and
Almudena Amor
have participated in the video clips
.
Will they go on stage?
After a year locked up preparing the album, they are looking forward to giving everything live.
And in Andalusian.