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| Teatro de la Zarzuela newsletter November 2017 HOME | SEASON | SUBSCRIPTIONS AND TICKETS | DIDACTIC PROJECTS | AUDITIONS | GALLERY | WHAT'S NEW | ABOUT US | INFO | JOIN US | ||||||||
| I t’s the 100th anniversary of The Wild Cat! An ambitious work showing Penella putting his weight behind popular Spanish opera. Its universally renowned pasodoble, which so many bullfighters use as a signature tune for their opening procession into the bullring, almost obscures the existence of what is not an operetta, nor a zarzuela, nor an opera in zarzuela style as those who do not know the work well often call it (or describe it in writing), but instead the maestro’s masterpiece. This production of The Wild Cat is a dramatic and aesthetic synthesis, which pitches itself within the style known as Spanish Tenebrism, and which takes the dramatic text to its logical conclusion. The drama takes root in the work from the moment of the very first celebration, anticipating the tragic final. The music, inspired and stylish, weaves soaring melodies throughout the three acts and five scenes. Close to the preciosity of Italian opera, but with a swagger that is very Hispanic, Andalusian to be more precise, The Wild Cat is a popular opera in the grand spectacle style. For the musical director, Ramón Tebar, “we are talking about a masterpiece of lyric opera: a stunning score with its exuberance of colours, harmonies and contrasts. And, despite all this, there is still time for everyday details and for humour”. There is a need to return to our classics, as Tebar explains: “love, passion and death are present throughout the work, in order to heighten a Spanishstyle “Verism”. The text relates the fatal rivalry between a highly successful bullfighter, the “Macarena Dreamboat”, and a brigand on the run from the law, the “Wild Cat”, over a gipsy girl, Soleá. She loves the brigand she has grown up with, but also feels very close to the bullfighter who has taken her in. This most Spanish of lyric works, now cleansed of any nineteenth century gipsy stereotyping, has great emotional impact. Here then is our Spanish fantasy, clad in great melodic opulence. | ||||||||
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