Name: El sueño de una noche de verano
Start: 2019-01-25T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2019-02-10T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Teatro de la Zarzuela

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Raquel Lojendio

Reina Isabel

María Rey-Joly

Luis Cansino

Falstaff

Valeriano Lanchas

Beatriz Díaz

Olivia

Sandra Ferrández

Santiago Ballerini

Shakespeare

Antoni Lliteres

Javier Franco

Arturo Latimer

Toni Marsol

Pablo López

Tobías

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Miguel A. Gomez-Martinez

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Marco Carniti

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Nicolás Boni

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Jesús Ruiz

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Albert Faura

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Lara Diloy

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El sueño de una noche de verano

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𝗘𝗹 𝘀𝘂𝗲ñ𝗼 𝗱𝗲 𝘂𝗻𝗮 𝗻𝗼𝗰𝗵𝗲 𝗱𝗲 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗼 Issued live from the Teatro de la Zarzuela on February 10, 2019. Music of Joaquín Gaztambide Patricio book of El Escosura, in an adaptation of Raúl Asenjo New production of the Teatro de la Zarzuela the dream of A Summer Night, by Joaquín Gaztambide, was premiered in February 1852 at the Teatro del Circo in Madrid. We find music of great quality and melodic delicacy that, in its day, was very popular with the public. Participating in this recovery of comic opera are a veteran musical director of this stage, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, who considers Gaztambide "interesting, amusing and possessing extraordinary musical quality", and a stage director, Marco Carniti —who works for the first time on this stage—, who wants to make us enjoy the beauty of a work that happily passes between dream and reality. 𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗛𝗔 𝗔𝗥𝗧Í𝗦𝗧𝗜𝗖𝗔 Musical direction: Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez Stage direction: Marco Carniti Scenography: Nicolás Boni Costumes: Jesús Ruiz Lighting: Albert Faura Assistant musical director: Lara Diloy Assistant stage manager: Ricardo Campelo Assistant costumer: Ana Llena Assistant lighting: David Hortelano 𝗥𝗘𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢 Queen Elizabeth: Raquel Lojendio Fálstaf: Luis Cansino Olivia: Beatriz Díaz Shakespeare: Santiago Ballerini Arturo Latimer: Javier Franco Tobías: Pablo López With Sandro Cordero, Jorge Merino, Ana Goya, Pablo Vázquez and Miguel Ángel Blanco. Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, head of the Teatro de la Zarzuela. Main Choir of the Teatro de la Zarzuela. Director: Antonio Fauró Figuration: Andrea Arranz, Rafael Delgado, Iván Nieto-Balboa, Sylvia Mollá, Joseba Pinela and Álex G. Robles Don Liborio and the General Director partner to produce a film adaptation of the zarzuela A Midsummer Night's Dream . They have obtained the sponsorship of Princess Isabella Tortellini, but they need Orson Welles and Guillermo del Moro - a renowned Spanish screenwriter in exile - to collaborate on the project, so that Universal Pictures shows interest in its international distribution. To convince the screenwriter, they enlist the help of Juan Sabadete, a friend of Guillermo's and an opera singer in decline who runs a restaurant in Rome together with two Galician partners —Maruxa and Mighello— whom he exploits. Sabadete thinks that by helping don Liborio he will obtain the patronage of Princess Tortellini to return to the stage representing Falstaff, by Verdi, on the stage of the Teatro Regio, which has fallen into bankruptcy. Guillermo does not give in to the interests of the producers, nor does he pay attention to the amorous compliments of a strange woman incognito —who is none other than Isabella— and doubts that Orson Welles participates in an operation that benefits the Spanish dictatorship. The Director General hires a double who pretends to be Orson Welles and, in order for such a deception to come to fruition, Don Liborio drugs Guillermo, taking advantage of the drunken state of the artist who is celebrating his latest premiere at the restaurant. of Sabadete. In the middle of the celebration, Juan intercepts a love letter from Isabella. Believing that the message is addressed to him, He decides to end the party when the Carabineros guard appears. 𝗦𝗘𝗚𝗨𝗡𝗗𝗔 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗘 The General Manager arrives at the restaurant with Orson Welles' double. Mr. Random appears next, a director of Universal Pictures, for whom an audition has been organized so that the American distributor approves Tortellini as the protagonist of the film. On the other hand, the effects of the drug begin to become visible in Guillermo and his friend, the heartthrob Arturo Látimer —secretly in love with Olivia, Isabella's friend—. Both wear Elizabethan costumes; Don Liborio pretends in this way that the scriptwriter believes that he is Shakespeare. After several entanglements and frustrated deceptions, Guillermo and Olivia discover the true intentions of the producers. The Princess is Don Liborio's lover and figurehead and the General Director is a corrupt politician who takes advantage of the occasion to make a cut. When Guillermo is willing to reveal the truth in front of everyone, we discover that the actor hired by the General Director is actually Orson Welles himself, posing as an impersonator of himself and that Mr. Random is Mighello, who wants revenge on the lies of Juan Sabadete. Guillermo and Orson Welles agree to play along with the producers, agreeing to sign the contract to shoot A Midsummer Night's Dream, intending to tease them later. More information: we discover that the actor hired by the Director General is actually Orson Welles himself, posing as an impersonator of himself and that Mr. Random is Mighello, who wants revenge for Juan Sabadete's lies. Guillermo and Orson Welles agree to play along with the producers, agreeing to sign the contract to shoot A Midsummer Night's Dream, intending to tease them later. More information: we discover that the actor hired by the Director General is actually Orson Welles himself, posing as an impersonator of himself and that Mr. Random is Mighello, who wants revenge for Juan Sabadete's lies. Guillermo and Orson Welles agree to play along with the producers, agreeing to sign the contract to shoot A Midsummer Night's Dream, intending to tease them later. More information:http://teatrodelazarzuela.mcu.es/es/t...

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EL SUEÑO DE UNA NOCHE DE VERANO / Falstaff / Teatro de La Zarzuela

The dream of a nigth of summer
Comic opera in three acts
Approximate duration: 2 hours and 20 minutes (with an interval)

Music by JOAQUÍN GAZTAMBIDE
Libretto by Patricio de la Escosura , in an adaptation by Raúl Asenjo
New production by the Teatro de la Zarzuela

A Midsummer Night's Dream , by Joaquín Gaztambide, was premiered in February 1852 at the Teatro del Circo in Madrid. We find music of great quality and melodic delicacy that, in its day, was very popular with the public.
Participating in this recovery of comic opera are a veteran musical director of this stage, Miguel Ángel Gómez-Martínez, who considers Gaztambide "interesting, amusing and possessing extraordinary musical quality", and a stage director, Marco Carniti —who works for the first time on this stage—, which wants us to enjoy the beauty of a play that happily passes between dream and reality. The libretto has been completely revised and the action moves to the city of Rome in the 1950s. The plot introduces us to an aristocratic Italian lady who decides to subsidize the filming of the first zarzuela for the big screen in order to bring this genre to the whole world through cinema.

English

El sueño de una noche de verano by Gaztambide, Wed 06 Feb 2019, From (2019/2019), Directed by Marco Carniti,, Conductor Miguel A. Gomez-Martinez, Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid, Spain

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