MADRID, September 29 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The first complete season, the “The Real Junior” will celebrate Royal Retiro Theater will bring the performing arts together and Opera for children, young people and families with a children’s program starting next October 5th with a total of 211 performances, 143 family members and 68 students as well as 9 workshops. The program, designed for different age groups, includes opera, dance, theater, concerts, puppets and cinema.
The President of the Madrid Colosseum, Gregorio Marañón, attended the presentation ceremony of the new season; its general director, Ignacio García-Belenguer; the artistic director of the Teatro Real, Joan Matabosch and the artistic director of the Real Teatro del Retiro, Rita Consentino, together with the cultural delegate of the Madrid City Council, María José Barrero.
“This collaboration will allow four times more functions to be held by creating an exclusive area for children and young people.“said García-Belenguer about the agreement signed with the Madrid City Council to transfer the functions of the Real Junior to the Daoiz y Velarde Cultural Center.
For his part, Marañón recalled that last April six children’s works premiered “a kind of seasonal rehearsal” with 12,000 spectators, so this will be the first full season of Real Junior.
Meanwhile, the General Coordinator of Culture of the Madrid City Council, Maria José Barrero, expressed her satisfaction “to participate and be part of this collaboration agreement between two public institutions aimed at a new audience.”
The new season”will entertain, inspire and educate“, as highlights Marañón, who emphasizes that several of the performances planned are classics adapted to the youngest so that they feel identified.
4 operas and one operetta will be premiered in different formats: “The Barber of Seville”by Gioachino Rossini (opera studio) and “Amahl and the Night Guests”by Gian Carlo Menotti (semi-staged version) – both with singers and pianists from the Crescendo project; ‘Hansel and Gretel’, by Humperdinck; and the comic operetta ‘The idea’by Gustav Holst, on his 150th birthday.
‘The ugly Duckling’“, by Hans Christian Andersen, will be the first work of the season for children aged 3 and over on October 5th and “whose main lines are acceptance, the search for generosity and beauty,” said the president of the Royal Theater.
In addition to this puppet work from the Etcétera company, there will be others “Where the stories go”, from the company Claroscvro Teatro, ages 8 and up. There will also be a circus “The circus sounds!‘ (from 5 years) and two pieces will be premiered.
Concrete, “Rebellion on the Farm”based on the work of George Orwell, will be an absolute premiere of the LaJoven Company and the Fundación Teatro Joven, which will also premiere “Peter and Wendy on the way to Neverland”For people over 8 years old.
Dance will have its space with the shows – Vivo Vivaldi (6 years), Va de Bach (4 years) – and, for the first time, Emerging Flamenco, with young artists who won awards at the Spanish Dance and Flamenco Choreography Competition in Madrid became. 2023 for everyone aged 10 and over.
The cinema will be present within the “Silent film series” with live music for the Buster Keaton films “The Modern Sherlock Holmes” and “The Adventures of Prince Achmed”, produced by Cafe Kino and the Casperverk Group. “HE It’s a discovery that children don’t know aboutConsentino explained.
Two musical events are offered on specific dates: the Christmas and summer concerts with the Youth Orchestra of the Community of Madrid, its String Camerata and the Choir of Little Singers of the ORCAM, both conducted by Lara Diloy.
The artistic offer of El Real Junior is completed by initiatives such as the LÓVA project (The Opera, a learning tool) in collaboration with schools throughout Spain, Aprendanza 23 (education and reflection workshop through movement), workshops for the public school, etc. on a weekly basis Rehearsals with young people of different sensibilities who play together in the Inclusive Musical Group (AMI).
The “El Real in Your Class” program also brings the performing and musical arts closer to schools through two channels: with school sessions of the El Real Junior program or by streaming the children’s and youth shows that are part of the catalog. by MyOperaPlayer.
For each children’s performance, Teatro Real has developed teaching guides, accessible free of charge through the website, containing detailed information, games, exercises and audiovisual support, very useful to deepen the artistic experience.
