During the coming months, from October to February, we can enjoy the new season of the Oviedo Opera, this year marking its 78th edition. We've got all the details, schedules, performers, and more.
Romeo and Juliet
Charles Gounod
Roméo et Juliette premiered at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris on April 27, 1867. Heir to the grand opera style of Meyerbeer, it possesses moments of great lyricism. Gounod wrote a delicate score with a completely bel canto style of singing. The libretto by Jules Barbier and Michel Carré was inspired by William Shakespeare's famous tragedy Romeo and Juliet (1597). In this drama, we find the important themes of fate and misfortune, as well as the true nature of love, personified in the young pair of lovers whose tragic end is a consequence of the hatred between the two ruling families of Verona, mortally opposed to each other. Gounod's opera, full of tenderness and elegance, breaks new ground, creating a pompous and grandiloquent musical language that would influence musicians such as Massenet and Debussy.
Campoamor Theater
October 10, 19:30 p.m.
October 12, 19:00 p.m.
October 15, 19:30 p.m.
October 17, 19:30 p.m.
October 18, 19:00 p.m.
Orlando furious
Antonio Vivaldi
Orlando furioso by Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) premiered at the Teatro Sant'Angelo in Venice in 1727. This dramma per música, with a libretto by Grazio Braccioli, is inspired by the masterpiece of chivalric literature rooted in the Middle Ages, Orlando furioso (1532) by Ludovico Ariosto. The libretto, set on an island at an unspecified time, tells of the obstacles that the sorceress Alcina places between the love of Ruggiero and Bradamante, as well as Orlando's madness caused by the love of Medoro and Angelica, with whom Orlando is in love. This opera is considered Vivaldi's masterpiece for its musical power and dramatic rigor. The story of love, jealousy, magic, and madness it tells has inspired countless operas, from Lully to Handel and Haydn.
Campoamor Theater
November 14, 19:30 p.m.
November 16, 19:00 p.m.
November 19, 19:30 p.m.
November 22, 19:00 p.m.
Rigoletto
Giuseppe Verdi
Verdi described Victor Hugo's Le roi s'amuse, on which the libretto of Rigoletto is based, as "the greatest drama of modern times... Triboulet is a creation worthy of Shakespeare." In his tragedy, the French playwright addresses the theme of power versus the powerless. With the premiere at La Fenice in 1851, Verdi took a risk with this somber story, whose protagonist is a marginal being, a hunchback whose feelings are conflicted between his hatred for corrupt power and his boundless love for his daughter, the victim of a plot he himself has concocted. This work serves the composer to unify and consolidate his dramatic discourse.
Campoamor Theater
December 12, 19:30 p.m.
December 14, 19:00 p.m.
December 17, 19:30 p.m.
December 19, 19:30 p.m.
December 20, 19:00 p.m.
Carmen
Georges Bizet
The story of the Sevillian cigarette girl elevates Bizet's Carmen to the pinnacle of French opera and one of the greatest masterpieces of sung theater of all time. It is perhaps the opera with the greatest number of melodies in the public domain. The excellent libretto by Halévy and Meilhac, inspired by Merimée's Carmen, tells the story of a nomadic and hedonistic woman who, above all else, loves her freedom and independence. Her fateful love story ends in tragedy. True to herself, she rejects the slavery that Joseph proposes to her. With this exquisite and luminous score, we bid farewell to the humid north, to all the vapors of the Wagnerian ideal, for in it we find everything characteristic of warm regions: the dryness, the clarity of the air.
Campoamor Theater
January 30, 19:30 p.m.
February 01st, 19:00 PM.
February 04st, 19:30 PM.
February 06st, 19:30 PM.
February 07st, 19:00 PM.
