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Tenerife-based dancer completes residency undertaken in La Salita

On Thursday (7th) at 7.30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife proudly offers a sample of the work The Voices by the dancer Carlota Mantecón. The show culminates in a process of onstage creation and research that began on 30 October as part of her artistic residency. Entry is free until total capacity is reached.

"In The Voices, I engage with the vibration of the voice as a catalyst for movement. This experience relates to a tactile perception of contact, which leads to a unique form of knowledge and experience through touch." Mantecón explains.

Dancer and choreographer Carlota Mantecón is active in dance, choreography, and performativity. She performs onstage, although she also has experience in curation and teaching. She has performed in Norway, Slovenia, and Spain.

The dancer focuses on the relationship between matter, sound, and touch in her unique artistic endeavours. In her performances, she cultivates somatic or perceptive sensitivities that enable her to explore alternative modes of coexistence. Simultaneously, this process brings forth collective practices that defy the individualistic mindset beyond normativity.

The tickets for tomorrow's talk of the music disseminator are already sold out.

Tomorrow (Tuesday 5th), at 7.30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife will host a new musical lecture performance by musical educator Ramón Gener. Tickets for this event are sold out. During this performance, he will provide insights into Giacomo Puccini's opera, Madama Butterfly, which will be staged on November 19, 21, and 23 at the Symphonic Hall. All three performances of the opera are also sold out.

Gener will discuss one of the world’s most frequently performed operas, which tells the tragic story of Cio-Cio-San, a geisha who dedicates herself to her marriage with Pinkerton, an American soldier. However, Pinkerton views her more as a curiosity during his time in Japan rather than a genuine partner. The three acts of this heart-wrenching tale intertwine themes of love, betrayal, and sacrifice. Puccini's drama has captivated audiences for 120 years, and the performances in Tenerife coincide with celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Italian composer’s death.

Ramón Gener will return to the island on November 20 to explore La Bella Susona by Alberto Carretero. His final lecture as the ambassador of Ópera de Tenerife, focusing on Giuseppe Verdi's Giovanna d'Arco, is scheduled for March 14, 2025. For these presentations, Gener enhances his explanations with live piano accompaniment. Tickets for the general public are priced at €8, while those under 30 can purchase tickets for €5. Opera subscription holders will receive a 50% discount, bringing their ticket price down to €4.

Born in Barcelona, Ramón Gener has a degree in humanities and business studies. He began his musical education at the Higher Conservatoire of Music of the Liceu at the age of six. After several years of performing as a baritone, he transitioned to a new role as a music educator. He offers lectures on opera, classical music, and art, which have been featured on radio and television, both locally and internationally. Gener has published four books: Si Beethoven pudiera escucharme (2013), El amor te hará inmortal (2016), Beethoven, un músico sobre un mar de nubes (2020) and Historia de un piano (2024), with which he won the Ramon Llull Award.

The maestro Antony Hermus and the soloist mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj will debut on the island, accompanied by the Sinfónica de Tenerife

The Dutch director Antony Hermus makes his debut directing the Sinfónica de Tenerife at the concert this Friday (1st) at 7.30 p.m. in the Auditorio de Tenerife, with a programme featuring the performance of Bruckner's monumental Sixth.

Antony Hermus, the current principal conductor of the Belgian National Orchestra and guest conductor of Opera North, is a leading figure in the musical life of the Netherlands. He has conducted all the major Dutch orchestras, such as the Royal Concertgebouw, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, The Hague Philharmonic and the Rotterdam Philharmonic.

In Tenerife, the conductor will share the stage with mezzo-soprano Barbara Kozelj, who also debuts with the Sinfónica de Tenerife performing Respighi's Il Tramonto. Kozelj, acclaimed on prestigious stages such as Carnegie Hall and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, is known for her charisma and versatility. For these qualities, she has been praised by international critics as one of the best voices.

The first part of this concert includes Olivier Messiaen's Les offrandes oubliées, a reflection on sin and redemption. It is followed by Respighi's Il Tramonto, a highly emotive work for voice and orchestra. Bruckner's Symphony No. 6, known for its majesty and emotional depth and as a representative work of the composer's late-period style, concludes the evening's performances.

As in every Symphonic recital, the Tenerife Association of Music Friends -ATADEM will present a talk about the works to be performed, hosted by Leandro Martín, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at the Sala Avenida (in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife).

Tickets for this concert can be purchased until the day of the event on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Audience members may use the Lanzadera Sinfónica, a free bus service taking passengers from the north and south of the island to the Auditorio.  To access this service, you must collect a free bus ticket. Even if you already have a ticket for the concert, you will have to make a reservation for the free transport, as seating will be limited. The bus tickets may be reserved through the same channels used to purchase event tickets until the day before the concert, until 11 p.m.

The trilogy created by the Austrian composer two months before his death will be performed on Tuesday

As part of its piano concerts, the Auditorio de Tenerife programmed the last concert by pianist Paul Lewis dedicated to the complete sonatas of Franz Schubert. The English musician will return to the Chamber Hall next Tuesday (29th) at 7.30 p.m. The tickets are on sale for €15, €5 for those under 30. Check the special discounts for students; several discounts are available.

In this fourth and final programme, Sonata No. 19 in C minor opens the trilogy Schubert composed just two months before his death. He wanted to dedicate it to composer and pianist Hummel. Of great renown, Schubert was aware that he had taken up the baton from Beethoven, who had died a year earlier.

These three sonatas complement one another. The D958 is the most turbulent and impassioned of the three pieces, exhibiting an intimate lyricism characteristic of the composer, especially in its slow movements. Its first movement is of colossal power, contrasted with the almost mythical calmness of its adagio.

On the contrary, the sonata in A Major D959 seems to detail the composer's circumstances in a biographical manner, conveying a bucolic and superhuman peace that is sometimes transformed into drama and despair. Of large proportions, its second movement is the most moving, with a melancholic barcarolle in which the composer seems to bid farewell to the earthly realm with absolute serenity.

Lastly, Sonata D960 in B-flat major is the most subdued of all. Endlessly serene and full of contrasts, it constitutes a very mature work of great compositional expansiveness that provided the definitive finale to his repertoire of pieces created for piano.

The complete piano sonatas by Schubert take us on a unique and heart-breaking journey through the last 12 years of his life, from the charming lyricism of the early sonatas to the transcendent creativity of the last masterpieces and the harrowing moments of despair when his health began to decline.

Schubert's sonatas express some of the most essential elements of human experience with frankness and sincerity: longing, consolation, despair, joy, loss, nostalgia, and hope.

Paul Lewis is a renowned performer of the Central European piano repertoire. His performances and recordings of Beethoven and Schubert have received unanimous positive acclaim worldwide. Lewis was awarded a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his services to music, and his musical approach has earned him followers worldwide.

He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Philharmonic Orchestras Berlin, the Bavarian Radio Orchestra, the Philharmonic Orchestras of New York and Los Angeles, the Symphony Orchestras of Chicago and London, the NHK Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Concertgebouw, and the Leipzig Gewandhaus. His close relationship with the Boston Symphony Orchestra led to his appointment as a Koussevitzky Artist 2020 at Tanglewood.

He has received awards such as Instrumentalist of the Year of the Royal Philharmonic Society, two Edison, three Gramophone, Diapason d'Or de l'Annee, the South Bank Show Classical Music Award, and honorary degrees from the universities of Liverpool, Edge Hill and Southampton.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families.

The proposal by the Spanish Pablo Márquez and the Japanese Atsuko Takano includes works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel and Debussy.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a four-hand organ concert with Pablo Márquez and Atsuko Takano this Sunday (27th) at noon. The Symphony Hall stages the proposal "The art of transcription", with works by Bach, Beethoven, Ravel, Debussy and Pablo Márquez himself.

The programme to be performed this Sunday is based on Pablo Márquez's original transcriptions of German and French orchestral repertoire. The concert begins with the Ouverture and Air from Johann Sebastian Bach's Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D Major, followed by the first movement of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

The second half of the programme centres on French works from the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with the performance of Le Tombeau de Couperin by Maurice Ravel and Nuages, a part of Nocturnes, by Claude Debussy.

Lastly, the concert includes a Japanese Miniature composed by Pablo Márquez for the Iberian organ for four hands. It is based on the traditional Japanese song Sakura Sakura (Cherry Blossoms, Cherry Blossoms). The composition features the musical forms most often used in the repertoire of Iberian Baroque music: variations, tientos (ricercars) characterised by dramatic dissonance, right- and left-hand solo lines and battaglia). The Japanese melody is modal and runs through the work as a common thread.

Pablo Márquez is an organist at Valencia Cathedral and teaches harpsichord at the Higher Conservatory of Castellón. Atsuko Takano is the Musical Director and titular organist of the San Nicolás Church of Valencia.

The organ of Auditorio de Tenerife was built in the 20^th century by the prestigious organ builder Albert Blancafort and his team. It is considered a unique instrument not only for its design but also for its sound and musical ranges. The sounds are produced by 3,835 pipes housed in the walls of the emblematic Symphony Hall. The organist controls them from onstage through the console and the four keyboards that he can play.

The tickets for the concert can be purchased at a single price of €15 and 5 euros for the audience under 30 years of age on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. There are discounts for students, unemployed and large families.

The ensemble presents its ‘quimeras musicalesˊ (The Musical Chimaeras) from the 17^th and 18^th Centuries this Thursday in the Chamber Hall.

The Auditorio de Tenerife offers a concert by the ensemble El Afecto Ilustrado this Thursday (24 October) at 7.30 p.m. The Chamber Hall welcomes the musicians with their new programme: Borondonaria. Between Mirage and Truth: Musical Chimaeras from the 17^th and 18^th Centuries. The tickets are on sale for a single price of €15 and €5 for audiences under 30 and with the usual discounts.

Inspired by the various storytelling of San Borondón, from that of the navigator Pedro Vello in 1570 to the Scottish scientist and naturalist Edward Harvey in 1862, this programme is an expedition to the enticing land of the legend. The concert draws on authors' works from diverse periods and locations but uses the common imagery and desire of the surreal and fantastic. The concert programme includes pieces by Antonio Draghi, Giovanni Valentini, Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber, Carlo Farina, Johann Heinrich Schmelzer, Antonio Bertali and Georg Philipp Telemann.

According to its director, violinist Adrián Linares, Borondonaria is 'a whispered account of fantastic creatures, impossible natural phenomena, exotic harmonies and, above all, a world of illusion in which nothing is what it seems, a space for the freedom of imagination amid a society forced to move in machine-like lockstep'.

The ensemble is made up of the violinist Adrián Linares, who conducts it, the violinist Pablo Gutiérrez, the viola players Alejandro Marías and Lixsania Fernández, Diego Pérez on the cello, Francisco Aguiló on the violone, Carlos Oramas on the theorbo, and Raquel García on the organ.

Established in 2012, El Afecto Ilustrado is a Spanish chamber-music ensemble that specialises in historically informed interpretations of the repertoire composed between the early Baroque and Romantic periods. It performs in a proximate and tangible manner.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Check the special discounts for the audience under 30 years of age, students, unemployed people, and large families.

The German maestro Felix Mildenberger will conduct the musicians Antonio Jesús Lasheras, José Llácer, Salvador Alcover and Eugenio Pérez as soloists.

Felix Mildenberger, winner of the prestigious 2021 'Masters of Tomorrow' award, will be the guest conductor at the next concert of the Sinfónica de Tenerife, Mendelssohn y las trompas (Mendelssohn and the Horns), scheduled for Friday, 25 October, at 7.30 p.m. at the Auditorio de Tenerife. The orchestra's hornists, Antonio Jesús Lasheras, José Llácer, Salvador Alcover and Eugenio Pérez, will be the featured soloists at this event, underscoring the talent and artistic quality of the ensemble's musicians. The hornists have stated that they look forward to performing with their colleagues, all sharing a profound camaraderie. 'This unique opportunity is going to be a lot of fun, and we think the concert will be memorable', said the soloists. The performance will be conducted by Felix Mildenberger, who led the orchestra in a concert last year and has one of the most distinguished careers on the international scene.

The first part of the programme will include Mendelssohn's famous overture, The Hebrides, in which the sound of the horns will evoke an atmosphere of magic, heroism and fantasy closely associated with the Romantic spirit of the period. This performance will be followed by an interpretation of Robert Schumann's Konzertstück for Four Horns. This concerto is among the first major works to harness the potential of the valved horn. It reflects the instrument's popularity in Germany at the time. The second part of the programme will continue with Mendelssohn. The composer's Symphony No. 1 in C minor is representative of his fascination with wind instruments during the initial stages of his career when he became well known for his precociousness.

The Tenerife Association for Friends ATADEM, as in every Symphonic recital, will offer a talk about the works that will be performed, given by Lourdes Bonnet Fernández-Trujillo, on Friday, 25 October 2024, from 6:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., at the Sala Avenida (in the hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife).

Tickets for this concert can be purchased until the day of the event on the website www.sinfonicadetenerife.es, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. In addition, those wishing to attend the concert may use the Lanzadera Sinfónica, a free bus service taking passengers from the north and south of the island to the auditorium. To access this service, you must collect a free bus ticket. Even if you already have a ticket for the concert, you will have to make a reservation for the free transport, as seating will be limited. The bus tickets may be reserved through the same channels used to purchase event tickets until the day before the concert, at 11 p.m.

During the 2023-24 season, he debuted with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra at Christmas concerts and conducted a performance of George Benjamin's "Written on Skin" at the Deutsche Oper Berlin. During the following season, he will conduct "'The Damnation of Faust"' at the Slovene National Opera and return to Tenerife, Belgrade, and Zurich.

His musical education began with violin, viola and piano. He studied conducting in Freiburg and Vienna and was a fellow conducting member of the Aspen Music Festival. His mentors include Lutz Köhler, Gerhard Markson, Mark Stringer and Scott Sandmeier. He also attended lectures by David Zinman, Paavo Järvi, Bernard Haitink, Markus Stenz, and others. Between 2015 and 2017, he taught conducting at the Hochschule für Musik Freiburg. He gave lectures for young conductors at the University Mozarteum Salzburg during Mozart Week 2020. A continued scholarship holder of the Dirigentenforum, in 2021, he was added by the Deutscher Musikrat organisation to the list' Maestros of Tomorrow', which recognises artists with long-standing artistic quality.

Felix Mildenberger worked with notable orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the DSO Berlin, the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover, the Konzerthausorchester Berlin, the hr-Symphony Orchestra, the Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, the Staatskapelle Weimar, the Bremer Philharmoniker, the Camerata Salzburg, the Ensemble Modern, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Bremer Philharmoniker, the Camerata Salzburg, the Ensemble Modern, the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse, the Orchestre National de Lille, and with soloists such as Julia Fischer, Lucas and Arthur Jussen, Sabine Meyer, Nils Mönkemeyer, Daniel Lozakovich, James Ehnes and Alexej Gerassimez.

This in-house production of Auditorio de Tenerife will also be staged on Thursday and Saturday.

Tomorrow (Tuesday 15th), at 7.30 p.m., the Auditorio de Tenerife will host the premiere of Ariadne Auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss. This in-house production marks the beginning of the subscription season of Ópera de Tenerife. The other two performances have the same starting times on Thursday and Saturday at the Symphony Hall.

This opera consists of a prologue and one act. It is based on the mythological story of Ariadne, abandoned by her lover, Theseus, on the Greek island of Naxos shortly after she helped him defeat the Minotaur. Commedia dell'arte characters led by Zerbinette, played by the soprano Serena Sáenz, will encourage the princess, the leading role played here by the soprano Irina Churilova, who ends up meeting the god Bacchus, who will be brought to life here by the tenor Michal König. The mezzo-soprano Na'ama Goldman will play the role of composer.

The rest of the singers participating in this production are the soprano Marie Lombard as Najade, a water nymph; mezzo-soprano Claire Gascoin as Dryade, an earth nymph; soprano María Miró as Echo, an air nymph; baritone Nikolay Borchev as Harlequin and a music teacher, tenor Emmanuel Faraldo as Scaramuccio and an officer, bass Francesco Leone as Truffaldin and a footman, tenor Paul Schweinester as Brighella and a dancing master, actor Giulio Cervi as the butler, and bass Aleksandr Utkin as the hairdresser. The cast also features actors Joan Carlos Expósito, Daniel Marrero, Jonatan Fernández, and Saulo Trujillo, as well as the children Jorge Hernández and Raúl Aladrén.

The music is provided by the Sinfónica de Tenerife, conducted by Diego Martin-Etxebarria. The stage director of this production, Nicola Berloffa, points out the ‘difficulty of making two operas in one’, and he has designed a proposal that ‘begins in a Viennese palace during the First World War and continues in a mythical time, invading the first stage with the sand of the desert’. The lighting is by Valerio Tiberi, while the set design by Andrea Belli is 8 metres high and 18 metres long. There are 120 handcrafted mouldings.

For the new season, the subscription for Tuesday and Thursday is 100 euros, and Saturday is 150 euros. Those aged under 30 still have the option to get a subscription for 20 euros. The offer has discounts for large families, wheelchair users, and the person accompanying them. Single tickets for this opera can be purchased for €30 for the Tuesday and Thursday performances, and €50 for the Saturday performance. For the audience under 30 years of age, a single ticket costs 10 euros.

In addition to Ariadne auf Naxos, the titles that make up the subscription are Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (November), a production of the Teatro Comunale di Modena; La Bella Susona by Alberto Carretero (December), a contemporary proposal co-produced by Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville, Giovanna d'Arco, by Giuseppe Verdi (March), co-produced by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, and Parsifal, symphonic-choral synthesis in three acts by Pedro Halfter (June), an adaptation of the work by Wagner for choir and orchestra.

The Island Council has set up an Opera Shuttle to facilitate access to these performances, offering free transport on Saturdays. Two TITSA buses will depart at 5:15 p.m. from the south (Adeje) and the north (Buenavista), with the Auditorio de Tenerife as their destination. Once the event is over, there will be a 15-minute gap until the buses drive the route in the opposite direction.

To access this service, you must collect a bus ticket purchased as a show; instead of choosing a fare, select the name of the stop where you will join the journey. Whether you have a ticket for the show or have yet to buy one, you must collect this invitation to board the Shuttle. Places for the Opera Shuttle are limited and will be available until the day before the show at 3 p.m.

The Ópera de Tenerife is an initiative organised by the Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the ICDC (Regional Institute of Cultural Development) and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music).

The proposal of the Argentinian director Guillermo Cacace takes place using an intimate and immersive format.

The Auditorio de Tenerife opens La Salita, the new theatre programme, with three performances of Gaviota. This work is an adaptation of Anton Chekhov's play by the Argentinian director Guillermo Cacace. The sessions will take place tomorrow (Friday 11th), Saturday (12th) and Sunday (13th) at 7:30 p.m. The proposal, starring five actresses, will offer an intimate and immersive experience.

In Gaviota, life is portrayed as the abandoned and worm-eaten stage of Chekhov's play beside a lake, whose curtain waves in the wind like the sobbing of the defeated. Masha attempts to assemble the threads of this story of unrequited loves, dreams that shatter upon coming true, and pain that accumulates over the years.

Juan Ignacio Fernández, who wrote this version and the dramaturgy, explains that "understanding Chekhov as the author who can unite the everyday with the sublime, a practically impossible act. I tried to identify in the extensive original work (The Seagull) the tragic part in each of the characters, to concentrate the essential in the scenes and for the passage of time to be incorporated into the cadence and rhythm of the dialogues". As for the process, he continues explaining that "for a play initiated in the pandemic, the virtual rehearsals also affected the playwriting work, during which I finished constructing the version that we are presenting today".

Guillermo Cacace assures that in his latest productions, he has gone through processes that "have to do with a search linked to the fact that the rehearsal never dies, that the premiere does not kill it". "The rehearsal has something of the order of the unresolved, of imperfection, of the everlasting test, of the permitted error, of the unfinished, of giving place to the accident that I understand brings to the making a vital condition that sometimes the performance and its confrontation with the audience try to control", reflects Cacace, for whom this "aesthetic of the rehearsal" in terms of its openness to the audience is also "an ethics of the rehearsal militated in socio-affective alliances".

The actresses leading this proposal (recommended for children over 14) are Clarisa Korovsky, Marcela Guerty, Paula Fernandez MBarak, Muriel Sago and Romina Padoan.

La Salita's programme for high school students continues next week with Don Quixote. Walking Stories, produced by the Mexican theatre companies Teatro de la Rendija and Silkateatro Andante. This text-based work, written for an actress and a world of objects, is based on a selection of texts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote that Roberto Azcorra, Silvia Káter, and Raquel Araujo have adapted.

On 15 and 16 November, La Salita will offer El vendedor de humo (The Smoke Vendor), a one-person show directed and performed by Joan Font, the founder of the theatre company Comediants. The show reviews Mr Font’s personal life and career and marks the company’s 50 years of professional experience.

On 28 and 29 November, the Mexican theatrical troupe Los Colochos will perform their new show Tuta, based on the Shakespearean tragedy Titus Andronicus and interpreted in the setting of a Mexican prison. The staging of the troupe’s new adaptation provides a new and different context for exploring ideas such as territory, violence, cruelty, and vengeance.

La Salita is a newly inaugurated space for interpreting local, national and international performing arts. This new initiative is chiefly focused on text-based theatre. In addition to entertainment for people of all ages, including families and children, La Salita will be used for activities such as artist residencies, training programmes, in-house productions, commissioned works, theatrical readings and drama-research workshops.

Tickets for the shows at La Salita, at a general price of 8 euros, can be purchased at the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 00 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The group Cuarteto Federal, Christian Cabrera's quintet and the proposal Jazz & Dance will perform at the Chamber Hall

The Auditorio de Tenerife hosts two days of the Canarias Jazz Showroom in the Chamber Hall at 7.30 p.m. The event starts on Friday (11th) with the group Cuarteto Federal and continues on Saturday (12th) with Christian Cabrera's quintet, preceded by the performance of Jazz & Dance. Tickets for each concert can be purchased at a general price of €15, €5 for audiences under 30.

The group performing on Friday, Cuarteto Federal, is a contemporary jazz quartet of veteran artists from different parts of Spain, including Xacobe Martínez Antelo, who hails from Santiago de Compostela and is known for being the bassist of the group Sumrrá, Kike Perdomo on the sax, from the Canary Islands, Javier Galiana on the piano, from Andalusia, and Guillem Arnedo on the drums, from Catalonia. After touring stages in Galicia and Madrid, they present their most recent work, which was recently released on the Canarian label 96kMusic.

As part of the second day of the event, the Canarias Jazz Showroom Awards will be given to the year's best projects and artists. The Jazz & Dance concert starts with a new dance proposal for the festival that combines the most contemporary style with the most traditional. The dancers Raquel Lucille and Jep Meléndez, with Fernando Angúlo on drums and Manuel Hernández on bass and a horn section, will show how well the two disciplines can be combined.

Next to perform is the young guitarist and composer Christian Cabrera from La Palma. He will offer us Ethereal Vibes, his first project as a composer, in which he seeks to break free of dogmas by uniting urban sounds with an avant-garde approach, including singable melodies, improvisations, breakbeat, rap and much more. Cabrera's style draws on jazz artists from the 1960s (Shorter, Trane) and contemporary avant-garde influences (Tigran Hamasyan, Rafiq Bathia). The guitarist from La Palma is joined by Nelson Hernández López on the drums, Pablo Díaz Ramos on the piano and keyboards, Ana Ayala Vidaurrázaga on the flute and voice, and Alba Gil Aceytuno on the sax.

The tickets are available on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 05 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 02 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people and large families.

Ópera de Tenerife takes on a historical record with 1,150 subscription holders just eleven days before the season starts.

The Tenerife Island Council presents Ariadne auf Naxos, by Richard Strauss, or a return to the house opera productions with a large format at the Auditorio de Tenerife.

This first subscription title takes place on the 15, 17 and 19 October at 7:30 p.m. in the Symphonic Hall. José Carlos Acha gave the show details; the regional minister of Culture of the Tenerife Island Council, the General Director of Cultural Innovation and Creative Industries, Cristóbal de la Rosa, José Luis Rivero, the Artistic Director of the Auditorio de Tenerife; the musical director, Diego Martin-Etxeberria, the stage director, Nicola Berloffa, and the soprano Irina Churilova in representation of the cast.

The island minister for Culture took the opportunity to announce that "with 11 days to go until the season kicks off, the number of subscriptions for Ópera de Tenerife has reached 1,150, which is a record for the Tenerife opera season". "With this show, we return to our large-format production, similar to the size of Lucrezia Borgia in 2020. The set design is 8 metres high and 18 metres long, which has been in the works since May in the training and scenic creation workshop of the Auditorio de Tenerife", explained José Carlos Acha.

Cristóbal de la Rosa recalled that "from the Canary Islands Government, we support Ópera de Tenerife and the opera productions in Gran Canaria, Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. We are convinced of how valuable opera is, not only as a total performance but also as one of the best ways to get the population closer to the necessary reflections of today". The general director wanted to end his intervention by congratulating "the entire Auditorio de Tenerife team for maintaining this lyrical programme and for putting on their productions like this one, which generates extraordinary value in our society".

José Luis Rivero acknowledged that "we begin the subscription season with Richard Strauss, one of the greats, and are very happy with the team we have to carry it out". Without everyone's teamwork, making a production of this kind come true would be impossible. We feel very proud of the great team we have", said the artistic director, who reminded the audience that "at the Auditorio de Tenerife, we create culture for all citizens, so we hope that they like it very much and enjoy it as much as we do make it".

Diego Martin-Etxebarria has lived in Germany for 17 years. He is "very grateful that they have thought of me for this production, a German Strauss repertoire with which I feel very comfortable". The conductor, who will take the baton of the Sinfónica de Tenerife, pointed out "the good atmosphere that exists in the production, both on the part of the exceptional cast and the rest of the team". "I love music, but more than that, I love being happy. In this production in Tenerife, both things are happening, where everyone is rowing for us to be successful," he declared.

For Nicola Berloffa, "It is a pleasure to return after Lucia de Lammermoor (2018). I am grateful that they have allowed an Italian director to do this German title". He also had thankful words to all his artistic team and the cast, "who have lent themselves to this journey, a new project with a frenetic pace". The maestro pointed out the "difficulty of making two operas in one, which apparently have nothing in common: a prologue in a palace, which we have set in Vienna during the First World War, and an opera that takes place in a mythical time, invading the first stage with the sand of the desert in a dreamlike atmosphere, like an escape from reality".

Irina Churilova, the soprano who plays Ariadne, said she was "pleased to be in Tenerife in this theatre where I dreamed of singing one day". "Many amazing colleagues with powerful and enchanting voices have come together on this magical island for this production, something that rarely happens," said the singer. "We are in the hands of two wonderful maestros and with an orchestra that is everything to us", declared the artist, who emphasised that "we are all part of the opera, and we are making it for the public so that they can be as happy as we are performing it".

This opera consists of a prologue and one act and is based on the mythological story of Ariadne, abandoned by her lover Theseus on the Greek island of Naxos shortly after she helped him defeat the Minotaur. Commedia dell'arte characters led by Zerbinette, played by the soprano Serena Sáenz, will encourage the princess, the leading role played here by the soprano Irina Churilova, who ends up meeting the god Bacchus, who will be brought to life here by the tenor Michal König. The mezzo-soprano Na'ama Goldman will play the role of composer.

The rest of the cast includes soprano Marie Lombard as Najade, a water nymph; mezzo-soprano Claire Gascoin as Dryade, an earth nymph; soprano María Miró as Echo, an air nymph; baritone Nikolay Borchev as Harlequin and a music teacher, tenor Emmanuel Faraldo as Scaramuccio and an officer, bass Francesco Leone as Truffaldin and a footman, tenor Paul Schweinester as Brighella and a dancing master, actor Giulio Cervi as the butler, and bass Aleksandr Utkin as the hairdresser. The cast also features actors Joan Carlos Expósito, Daniel Marrero, Jonatan Fernández, and Saulo Trujillo, as well as the children Jorge Hernández and Raúl Aladrén.

The artistic team is led by Nicola Berloffa, the stage director and costume designer. Valerio Tiberi's lighting and Andrea Belli's set design complete the team. The scene is inspired by one of the rooms in Schönbrunn Palace, and the costumes are reminiscent of the House of Austria, the name given in Spain to the Habsburg dynasty.

For the new season, the subscription for Tuesday and Thursday is 100 euros, and Saturday is 150 euros. Those aged under 30 still have the option to get a subscription for 20 euros. The offer has discounts for large families, wheelchair users, and the person accompanying them.

In addition to Ariadne auf Naxos, the titles that make up the subscription are Giacomo Puccini's Madama Butterfly (November), a production of the Teatro Comunale di Modena; La Bella Susona, by Alberto Carretero (December), a contemporary proposal co-produced by Auditorio de Tenerife and the Teatro de la Maestranza of Seville, Giovanna d'Arco, by Giuseppe Verdi (March), co-produced by the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and the Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía, and Parsifal, symphonic-choral synthesis in three acts by Pedro Halfter (June), an adaptation of the work by Wagner for choir and orchestra.

To facilitate access to these performances, the Island Council has set up an Opera Shuttle, offering free transport on Saturdays. Two TITSA buses will depart at 5:15 p.m. from the south (Adeje) and the north (Buenavista), with the Auditorio de Tenerife as their destination. Once the event is over, there will be a 15-minute gap until the buses drive the route in the opposite direction.

To access this service, you must collect a bus ticket, which is purchased as a show; instead of choosing a fare, select the name of the stop where you will join the journey. Whether you have a ticket for the show or have not yet bought one, you must collect this invitation to board the Shuttle. Places for the Opera Shuttle are limited and will be available until the day before the show at 3:00 p.m.

The Ópera de Tenerife is an initiative organised by the Island Council through the Auditorio de Tenerife with the collaboration of the ICDC (Regional Institute of Cultural Development) and the INAEM (National Institute of Performing Arts and Music).

The tickets and subscriptions can be purchased on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., Saturdays from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Check the special discounts for students, unemployed people, and large families, and a special price for the audience under 30 years of age.

It will host local, national and international proposals

The Auditorio de Tenerife launches its theatrical programming with  La Salita, a newly inaugurated space for interpreting local, national and international performing arts. This new activity is chiefly focused on text-based theatre. Councillor for Cultural Affairs José Carlos Acha and Tenerife Auditorium’s Artistic Director José Luis Rivero announced the details on 2 October.

Mr Acha said, “Our new hall, La Salita, constitutes an area of freedom for interpreting performing arts. This singular space, formerly Castillo Hall, was already used as a site for artistic residencies, theatre workshops, and some shows. But now, thanks to the staff of the Auditorio de Tenerife, it will have its own regularly scheduled programming, with more events and a greater focus on the public”. The councillor added that “the Auditorium had projected this space for text-based theatre, and now we have taken that step”.

José Luis Rivero described this initiative as “part of the Auditorio de Tenerife’s vision of innovation and renewal”. In collaboration with local authorities, the revision concluded that “we needed to do something to create a space dedicated to text-based theatre. We saw a need for theatre that deals with real issues and acts as a mirror that is placed before society and reflects our reality”. The auditorium’s artistic director went on to say, “For this reason, we intend to use La Salita for political theatre, with contemporary interpretations and social commentary. The idea is to provide entertainment with transcendence, to make audiences feel they’ve experienced something when the curtain falls”.

In addition to providing entertainment for people of all ages, including families and children, La Salita will be used for activities such as artist residencies, training programmes, in-house productions, commissioned works, theatrical readings, drama-research workshops, and research works. These performances and activities constitute another step forward in the Auditorium's full-spectrum approach over the last two decades and its involvement throughout the value chain of live performances.

This initiative kicks off on the 11, 12 and 13 October at 7:3 p.m. with the Argentinian proposal Gaviota (Seagull), by Antón Chéjov, directed by Guillermo Cacace. In Gaviota, life is portrayed as the abandoned and worm-eaten stage of the play beside a lake, whose curtain waves in the wind like the sobbing of the defeated. Masha attempts to assemble the threads of this story of unrequited loves, dreams that shatter upon coming true, and pain that accumulates over the years.

Next week's programming will be dedicated entirely to upper-secondary schoolchildren, featuring Don Quixote. Walking Stories, a production by the Mexican theatre companies Teatro de la Rendija and Silkateatro Andante. This text-based work, written for an actress and a world of objects, is based on a selection of texts from Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote that have been adapted by Roberto Azcorra, Silvia Káter, and Raquel Araujo.

On 15 and 16 November, La Salita will offer “El vendedor de humo” (The Smoke Vendor), a one-person show directed and performed by Joan Font, the founder of the theatre company Comediants. The show reviews Mr Font’s personal life and career and marks the company’s 50 years of professional experience.

On 28 and 29 November, the Mexican theatrical troupe Los Colochos will perform their new show Tuta, based on the Shakespearean tragedy Titus Andronicus and interpreted in the setting of a Mexican prison. The staging of the troupe’s new adaptation provides a new and different context for the exploration of ideas such as territory, violence, cruelty, and vengeance.

In the coming weeks, the auditorium’s website will be updated with details on other shows and the artistic residencies comprising the basis for the regular programming of performing arts in La Salita.

The tickets can be purchased at a single price of €8 on the website www.auditoriodetenerife.com, at the auditorium's box office, or by dialling the phone number 902 317 327 from Monday to Friday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.