Important information
We would like to inform you that due to the forecast of bad weather, Plácido Domingo’s concert on 31 August at 8.30 p.m. is moved from Križanke Summer Theater to Cankarjev dom. The time of the event remains the same.
Exchange of tickets is required. You can make the exchange at the Križank box office on the day of the event between 10.00 and 5.30 pm, and after 6.00 pm at the info desk in the First Foyer of Cankarjev dom. Please bring the purchased ticket and purchase receipt with you.
- The zarzuela originated in Baroque era Spain, and experienced a romantic transformation in the 19th century. As a result of its great popularity, it rapidly spread far and wide – to Catalonia, Cuba, Mexico and the Philippines – and everywhere it took on the characteristics of the new cultural environments
- The Spanish baritone Plácido Domingo brought the best operatic works to a wide audience of music lovers with the Three Tenors (Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti)
- The soprano María José Siri trained her singing voice at the Paris Conservatory and in Vienna. Her lyric and emotional voice, her authentic acting and her all-round artistic presence, are what brought her onto the world’s most famous stages
Programme:
G. Giménez: Intermezzo from the zarzuela La boda de Luis Alonso
R. Soutullo, J. Vert: »Quiero desterrar« from the zarzuela La del soto del parral
J. Serrano: »Qué te importa que no venga« from the zarzuela Los Claveles
R. Soutullo, J. Vert: »Ten pena de mis amores« from the zarzuela La del soto del parral
E. Granados: Intermezzo from the opera Goyescas
J. Guerrero: »Mi aldea« from the zarzuela Los gavilanes
R. Chapí: Preludio to the zarzuela La revoltosa
P. Sorozábal: »No puede ser« from the zarzuela La tabernera del puerto
F. Moreno Torroba: »Luche la fe por el triunfo« from the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda
M. de Falla: Farruca from the ballet El sombrero de tres picos
P. Sorozábal: »No corté más que una rosa« from the zarzuela La del manojo de rosas
M. Penella: »Me llamabas, Rafaeliyo?« from opera El Gato Montés
R. Soutullo, J. Vert: Intermezzo from the zarzuela La leyenda del beso
F. Moreno Torroba: »En mi tierra extremeña« from the zarzuela Luisa Fernanda
A. Vives: Fandango from the zarzuela Doña Francisquita
P. Sorozábal: »Hace tiempo que vengo al taller« from the zarzuela La del manojo de rosas
The Spanish baritone, the one and only Plácido Domingo, whom we know as a member of the legendary Three Tenors (Domingo, Carreras, Pavarotti), whose best-selling classical music albums brought the best operatic works to a wide audience of music lovers, and whose long career has also seen him play more than 150 roles in musical theatre. He will be joined on stage by the soprano of Uruguayan origin María José Siri, who was born in Italy and trained her singing voice at the Paris Conservatory and in Vienna. Siri is known for her lyric and emotional voice, her authentic acting and her all-round artistic presence, as was characteristic of singers in the past. Together with the Slovenian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Spanish conductor Jordi Bernàcer, who studied conducting in Valencia and Vienna, and perfected his skills as assistant to Lorin Maazel, they will present fragments from zarzuelas – the Spanish lyric dramatic genre with musical highlights (overtures, instrumental intermezzi, arias, ensembles etc.) that is not often performed in Slovenia – written by the Spanish composers Moreno Torroba and Ruperto Chapí.
