SCENE: Despite being an atypical Christmas in which traditions such as starting the year at the theater cannot be celebrated, the Madrid billboard resists with several essential works.
An atypical Christmas is presented, where traditions such as, for example, going to the theater on the last day of the year and
drinking the grapes together with actors and technicians
cannot be celebrated in the desired way.
But the Madrid billboard continues to offer a series of shows capable of making the fateful 2020 forget for a time.
Antoine (EDP Gran Vía Theater)
After the good results achieved at the Cofidis Alcázar Theater last November, the "poetic autobiography" by
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
, author of
The Little Prince
, arrives at Madrid's Gran Vía, where it will be on the bill until January 10.
The complex humanity of the French aviator and writer joins the personality of his most relevant creation in
a musical that invites us to reflect and understand the most relevant aspects of life
, even if they are not visible to the naked eye.
Camino Family (Lara Theater)
César Camino
returns to the Lara Theater, as author and director of
Familia Canino
, a show with autobiographical touches that is offered as a "manual to overcome our selfishness and give the best of us" to our elders, who "can no longer reward us with more than a simple look of thanks. "
Tina Sainz, Eloy Arenas, Carmen Flores
and César himself support a tragicomic work that asks: "
Can one laugh with old age, illness and the terrible relationship between a father and a son?
" And at the same time he answers: " Yes, if it is within your own family. "
Don Giovanni (Royal Theater)
Don Giovanni
, by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
, arrives at the Royal Theater in the production of the Berlin Staatsoper, with musical direction by
Ivor Bolton
and stage direction by
Claus Guth
.
Big words.
As is the complexity of determining the place that Don Juan's feminine conquests really occupy:
accomplices?
Victims?
Redemptive?
.
Premiered at the Salzburg Festival in 2008, this opera sets the action in a dark forest where the action unfolds as if it were a dark dream.
Los asquerosos (Spanish Theater)
Based on the successful novel by
Santiago Lorenzo
, it arrives at the Spanish Theater starring
Miguel Rellán
and
Secun de la Rosa
under the direction of
David Serrano
.
Manuel and his uncle live together the different stages through which the life of the first passes.
Although they are separated by distance, they remain united on stage as if they were in the same place and facing the same troubles: the fear of losing freedom,
the discovery of the happiness of a lonely
and precarious
life
or the path where the search for absolute freedom.
Giselle (Zarzuela Theater)
The Teatro de la Zarzuela has been hosting for a few days the world premiere of a Giselle seen through the Spanish romanticism of
Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
.
"For this new version presented by the National Dance Company we have been inspired by the poetry of Bécquer: we will dance
the story of that girl in love with the handsome foreign traveler
whom she will love beyond death, without abandoning the elements that have made this it is one of the heights of classical ballet ", explain
Joaquín de Luz
and
Borja Ortiz de Gondra
, authors of the libretto based on the original by
Jules Henry Vernoy
and
Theóphile Gautier
.
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?
(EDP Gran Vía Theater)
Written during the quarantine period by the composer
Iván Macías
and the librettist
Félix Amador
(creators of the musicals
El Médico
and
Los pilares de la tierra
),
Who Killed Sherlock Holmes?
aims not to leave Gran Vía orphaned by musicals in the purest Broadway style.
Arthur Conan Doyle
, creator of the legendary detective from 221 B Baker Street, has been the inspiration for a show in which Holmes, played by
Daniel Diges
, discovers that "
there are secrets that it is better not to reveal
".
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