The Salamanca City Council has developed a cultural program for the month of October that includes opera, concerts, theater, exhibitions, literary meetings, presentations of publications and the screening of the documentary film “Miranda” by the Salamanca director Jon Cenzual.
The first appointment, in the scenic section, will be on Saturday, October 2 with “Peribáñez and the Commander of Ocaña”From the November Theater company. A work by Lope de Vega, directed by Eduardo Vasco and performed by Rafael Ortiz and Isabel Rodes, among others. Tickets are priced at 15, 20 and 25 euros and are on sale at the Liceo Theater box office and on the web www.ciudaddecultura.org
On Friday, October 15, Juanjo Artero, Patxi Freytez, Ana Villa and Miriam Cabeza perform “Between glasses”, A comedy that includes deep reflections on how to face the second half of life. Tickets are priced at 12, 16 and 20 euros and can be purchased from tomorrow at the Liceu Theater box office and on the web www.ciudaddecultura.org
Saturday October 23 is scheduled “Edward II, Eyes of Fog”A play that recreates the life of King Edward II of England, directed by Jaime Azpilicueta and performed by José Luis Gil, Ana Ruiz, Ricardo Joven, Carlos Heredia and Manuel Galiana. Tickets are priced at 15, 20 and 25 euros and will go on sale tomorrow.
And one day later, on October 24, the Lyceum will host the family theater play “Escape”By the Teatro Paraíso company, a show that aims to be a reflection of what jealousy over the birth of a sibling can cause in a child and his environment. Tickets are priced at 5 euros and will go on sale tomorrow.
Salamanca company premieres
The theater program for the month of October includes two absolute premieres by Salamanca companies.
The first will be on Sunday October 17 and it is a work for family audiences by the Carioca company, entitled “Hansel and Gretel (the story is not always the same …)”. A play directed by Fernando Saldaña and performed by Noelia González. Tickets are priced at 5 euros and will go on sale tomorrow.
On October 30, the Salamanca company Komo Teatro premieres “Caligula”, A play directed by Amalia de Prado and Félix Nieto that talks about the most bloodthirsty Roman emperor. Tickets are priced at 9, 12 and 15 euros and will go on sale tomorrow.
Opera “Los Comuneros”
The Center for Performing Arts and Music of Salamanca will host, on Saturday, October 2, the premiere of the opera “Comuneros”, a show produced by the Castilla y León Foundation and co-produced by Patrimonio Inteligente within the framework of the commemorative project «The time of freedom. Comuneros V centenario ».
‘Comuneros’ starts in 1517 centered on the figure of the old Cardinal Cisneros and the gestation of the revolt regarding the arrival of Carlos. The second act travels to Tordesillas, the town where the rebels arrive to meet with Queen Juana, who in isolation since 1509 has not even known the death of her father.
The opera stops in a special way in the development of the revolt, of which it provides all the keys before the beginning of the third act, set in Villalar, where the defeat and execution of the leaders of the movement took place. The two historical episodes take on special relevance in the score, which masterfully recreates the confrontation between the two armies and the subsequent execution.
Tickets are priced at 25 and 32 euros and are already on sale.
Musical programming
The 10th Cycle of Chamber Concerts and Soloists will begin on October 4 with the interpretation of the Mendelssohn Octet in charge of Seikilos Quartet, which on this occasion will collaborate with four guest musicians. This quartet has become in a very short time one of the most interesting Spanish chamber groups, with a presence in most of the main programming in the country.
On October 18 the project End of Time will present on the stage of the Lyceum one of the top works of music of the 20th century, the Quartet for the End of Time by O. Messiaen, of whom he presented his recording in 2020 and which has become a reference of the work.
The X Cycle includes twelve concerts, between October 4 and June 6. Tickets are on sale at the Liceo Theater box office, from 11 am to 2 pm. The ticket price in the stalls is 125 euros, in boxes 115 euros and in the 1st amphitheater the price is 110 euros. Currently they can renew old subscribers and from Tuesday 28 will be made new subscriptions. Single tickets for both concerts can be purchased from two days before the event.
Literary activities
On October 13 and 14, the XXIV Meeting of Ibero-American Poets at the Liceo Theater that this year will honor the poet Antonio Colinas. 125 poets from Spain, Portugal and Latin America participate in the anthology of this Encounter, directed by Alfredo Pérez Alencart and whose cover portrait is the work of Miguel Elías.
In addition, three publications will be presented in the Sala de la Palabra, a book of poetry “Destiny Dignity“By Juan Carlos López Encinas,”Crossroads”By Marcelo Noboa Fiallo and“Father Cámara, promoter and patron of art in Salamanca”By Margarita Ruiz Maldonado. This publication has been published by the Salamanca City of Culture and Knowledge Foundation under the Edifsa publishing label.
Screenings: “The Snow Queen” by Mariela Artiles and “Miranda” by Jon Cenzual
On Friday, October 1, the documentary “La Reina de las Nieves” will be screened at the Liceo Theater, dedicated to the writer from Salamanca, Carmen Martín Gaite. A documentary directed by Mariela Artiles, produced by Chema de la Peña from Salamanca and in collaboration with the Salamanca City Council, through the Salamanca City of Culture and Knowledge Foundation. It will be at eight in the afternoon and entry is by invitation.
Carmen Martín Gaite (1925) had parents who were open and ahead of their time, who always supported her unconditionally. The environment in which she grew up allowed her to transcend the reality of her native Salamanca and discover the vitality hidden behind the girls and women of her time, obscured by a time of rigid morality, female repression and the Civil War.
And on Thursday, October 21, at the Liceo, the documentary film “Miranda”From Salamanca director Jon Cenzual. It will be at eight in the afternoon and entry is by invitation.
Miranda is a work that straddles the fictional cinematographic narrative and the documentary that talks about depopulation and life in a town in the Sierra de Francia.
Its director, Jon Cenzual, from Salamanca, conceives abandonment as a metaphor but also as a physical object, a tangible creature that can be touched. The abandonment is so dense that it becomes a figure, because abandonment, like a low fog, permeates everything.
It is an initiatory journey and therefore a learning journey. We travel with the creature of abandonment through the Sierra de Francia and more specifically through Miranda del Castañar looking for abandoned places, houses damaged by the passage of time and abandoned lands, where the walls and olive groves are being swallowed by the forest. Miranda is synonymous with melancholy.
The film takes place in a place where time stands still, between the mythical and the fantastic, a place between progress and the traditional.
Exhibitions
In the exhibition section, Da2 will host, from October 1 to January 16, the exhibition “Griot songs”, With a selection of works from the Luciano Méndez Collection, which has been curated by Suset Sánchez. In this exhibition there will be works by José Bedia, Moisés Finalé, Santiago Rodríguez Olazabal, Eduardo Roca, Manuel Mendive, Carlos Quintana, Roberto Chile, Ricardo Elías and Roberto Diego.
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