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Mónica Boixeda
Classical Music is for the few chosen. Composition and interpretation, technical ability and natural dexterity linked with this musical style, is, under my point of view becoming more separated and unreachable from daily routine. Even if the term “classical music” dates from 1800, Greeks and the Catholic church embraced this music which expanded and crossed frontiers and wrapped up colonies and countries, from the highest courts of old Europe to being popularized throughout the years in movies and festivals. The Mediterrani Festival in this fourth entree proposes a versatile walk thru famous operas as well as two concerts that will be unforgettable. The first representation will be the opera Tosca with music of Giacomo Puccini and libretos of Guiseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica which is divided in three acts. This opera was represented for the first time in 1900. Tosca is laden with violence, intrigue, passion and drama, along with Madame Butterfly and La Boheme it represents Puccini´s best work. Tosca will be performed by the well known soprano Oksana Dyka as the main character and by baritone Aldo Heo as Sciarrone. Fidelio will also presented, the only opera of the world´s most famous deaf person, Ludwig Van Beethoven. Pier Alli will be in charge of stage direction and the music will be performed by the Valencia Community Orchestra. Fidelio explains the story of how Leonora, the main protagonist dresses up as a guard called Fidelio to rescue her husband Florestan, sentenced to death due to political motives… very “rock and roll” Who said Girls couldn´t be super heroes? Zubin Mehta will conduct the Symphony in D minor of...
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Every Sunday from 9am, hundreds of stalls situate themselves around the Calle Ribera de Curtidores creating Rastro, one of the most famous markets in Madrid, where thousands of locals and foreigners go to buy all sorts of clothes, both first and second hand. To those who like to walk, going for a nice stroll and enjoying the culture of a place, you should visit Rastro because it is, undoubtedly, one of the busiest places frequented by locals. The market is situated in a triangular area in between the streets of Toledo, Embajadores and Ronda de Toledo and the most important part is situated in the centre of the Plaza de Cascorro. In the Calle Ribera de Curtidores you can find many handmade things such as clothes or antiques. The Calle San Cayetano is known for its painters who sell their works in the place. In the Plaza del General Vara del Rey you can find, mainly, furniture and second hand clothes and, finally, in Calle Rodas there are antiques. Without doubt, Rastro is an ideal place in Madrid to go for a walk with family and/or friends to buy things at a really affordable price. You can get accommodation in Madrid and not let the chance to get to know it escape you. Without doubt, Rastro is an ideal place in Madrid to go for a walk with family and/or friends to buy things at a really affordable price. You can get Madrid accommodation and not let the chance to get to know it escape...
Mónica Boixeda
Between the 18th-21st May, Barcelona will host the new edition of the Ciutat Vella Flamenco Festival, organised by dance school Taller de Musics. Now in its 18th year, this time round the festival has expanded, incorporating new spaces, including the Mercat de les Flores, and the theatre at CCCB. The various new creative strands to the event all come together under the title “Omega,” – the last letter of the Greek alphabet, signalling the end but also the hope for new starts, innovations and cycles. This is the ethos which ties the festival together, as it seeks to also involve the public in new ways. Flamenco, which is the beating heart of the four days of fiesta, is a genre of music and dance which originated in the Andalusia region in the middle of the 18th century, predominantly amongst the gypsy communities. Though, the music and dance of flamenco has evolved considerably since then, and the goal of the Ciutat Vella festival is to present new frontiers, with a varied, multi-disciplinary line up which incorporates theatre and performance, music and other forms of artistic exploration. All of the works demonstrate then new and progressive routes into the arts, and new hybrids of familiar ground – with a special attention to the techniques of improvisation in flamenco. In this respect, highly relevant is Flamenco Empírico, a cycle of dance hosted by Mercat de les Flors, and commissioned by Juan Carlos Lérida and Belén Maya which brings together over 50 artists in order to define, and identify the developments and new references of contemporary flamenco. The festival will be opened by...
Mónica Boixeda
The Barcelona Cathedral is situated in the heart of the city, in the Gothic district and it´s popularly known as “La Seu”, abbreviation of the patron saint of the city, Santa Eulàlia. Officially, the cathedral has the same name and even Santa Eulàlia´s sarcophagus is found inside the big church. This is a very old cathedral since its construction began in the 13th century, although recently finished in the 20th century, 700 years late and having gone through many stages and construction managers. The construction was slowed down by wars and each new architect that was in charge of its finishing remodelled it and transformed it according to his artistic or religious beliefs. That way, it went through the hands of the Romans, Arabs and Catholics. But the plans that were finally used to finish it were of the French architect Charles Galters. What´s new about this piece of religious culture is that its interior houses 28 chapels that surround the flanks of the building and which make it unique because of it´s grandeur and distribution. We can also find in the cathedral eccentric columns and altars of gothic-barroque styles that represent a key period in world architectural history. To visit the Cathedral you have to rent apartments in Barcelona and enjoy the history of...
Mónica Boixeda
The Cite de l´Architectura et du Patrimonine exhibits the decorative facility Suite Elle Decoración created by the prominent fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier in the old department of Jaques Carlu, architect of the Palais de Chaillor. This installation organized by Elle Magazine and the Cité de l’Architectura et du Patrimonine will be opened until October and can visited Saturdays and Sundays. This Gaultier installation corresponds to the third version of the Suite Elle Décoration that Elle y Cité de l’Architectura et du Patrimonine, organize to enhance the importance that design has in decoration and to situate it at the same level of the rest of other artistic creations. The last two versions were created by Christian Lacroix and Martin Margiela. Gaultier, as usual is provocative and breaks with all the habitual Paris schemes, He builds his creation using the classic blue and white nautical stripes even if the apartment is situated in front of the magnificent Eiffel Tower. The Designer, who´s main priority is to dress up bodies, focused on the project as if the walls and floors of the apartment was a motionless body and dresses them up, including the furniture, something that creates and interesting effect of forms, perspectives and light movements with anthropomorphic textures. His reputation as enfant terrible has taken his style to the highest fashion and design levels. Even if he doesn´t have a designer academic formation, Gaultier is one of the few fashion designers that has revolutionized the classic sexist aesthetic appearance in fashion, promoting the use of Kilts or masculine skirts in his collection “Hombre Objeto”(Man Object) Gaultier´s disrespect towards traditional fashion...
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