THE MEXICAN MINSTREL

Teatro de la Zarzuela newsletter

October 2017

The operetta Le chanteur de Mexico (The Mexican Minstrel) was composed by Francis Lopez for Luis Mariano, the widely famous renowned Basque singer, and it premièred, to resounding acclaim, on December 15th, 1951 in the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris. The show we are offering has a fantastic stage set, kitsch through and through, where a tropical, sophisticated technicolour world is recreated, as befits the type of cinema which pursues grand spectacle, and which is precisely the universe where all the layers of the story take place. A scene packed with comic situations in the midst of elements of Mexican folklore; full of huge flowers and pieces of fruit, of necessarily bright colours and, above all, full of good music.
With Emilio Sagi as stage manager, the show offers its audience the gift of great visual strength. Behind the magic is that same artistic team which Jean-Luc Choplin called on in 2006 to revive Lopez’s work with enormous success (a run of two months) on the very Paris stage which fifty five years previously had seen it first performed. Now the work is being presented for the first time in Madrid, and in a new version in Spanish by Emilio Sagi himself.
Also during the month of October we will be able to enjoy the voices of Ainhoa Arteta, Ann Hallenberg, Anna Caterina Antonacci and Carmen Romeu.

	EL CANTOR DE MÉXICO From 6 till 29, October 2017.
	AINHOA ARTETA in concert - La voz y el poeta. Homenaje a Lorca Monday, October 9, 2017.
	Recital ANN HALLENBERG Tuesday, October 10, 2017.
	Recital ANNA CATERINA ANTONACCI Tuesday, October 24, 2017.
	Ambigú notes - UNA TARDE FRANCESA Monday, October 30, 2017.

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