The popular Argentine comedy and music group The luthiers present tomorrow Sunday at Porta Ferrada Festival from Sant Feliu de Guixols his show More setbacks from Mastropiero, which will be his last appearance on European stages. After Sant Feliu the assembly can be visited Bolivia, Argentina I Chile and then Les Luthiers will retire, huh started in 1967. “It was a difficult decision,” he admits Jorge Marona, the only founding member of Les Luthiers still active. In an interview with Girona newspaper (to be published tomorrow in the Sunday supplement) Maronna explains that he and the other most experienced member of the formation, Carlos Lopez Puccio (Guitar maker since 1969) «We became aware of that Nothing is forevernot even Les Luthiers, and that our age was gradually becoming an important reason to consider leaving».
This consideration was made at the end of last year when Les Luthiers was already wearing 55 years of experienceand when it was just released More setbacks from Mastropiero, the group’s first new show in fourteen years and the first that Maronna and López Puccio composed alone (the previous productions were joint creations of all their members): “We have always felt enormous pressure when writing a show, but in this case it was even bigger because a lot of time had passed since our last premiere and because it was the first one we did with Carlos, the two of us; “Even though we’ve worked together as a creative team for many years, it wasn’t the same as writing it with five of us, which was usual,” says Maronna.
The announcement of the withdrawal came shortly after Les Luthiers performed with the show at Girona’s Auditorium in October last year Les Luthiers Gran Reserva, an anthology of some of his most outstanding subjects. Just a month later, they premiered in Argentina More setbacks from Mastropiero (which actually should have seen the light of day earlier, but it was delayed due to the pandemic), and in early 2023 they announced the start of their farewell tour, precisely with this new show that arrives in Sant Feliu tomorrow at ten at night after he had performed in Barcelona and other Spanish cities for four days in the last few weeks.
It is Les Luthiers’ first new show in fourteen years and combines music and lyrics, always with humor
The great protagonist of More setbacks from Mastropiero it is precisely Johann Sebastian Mastropiero, the fictional composer “author” of the vast majority of music performed by Les Luthiers throughout its history. On this occasion, Mastropiero is personally present on stage and is interviewed in a cultural program that also revisits his musical career through the interpretation of various pieces: all the pieces are new creations by Jorge Maronna and Carlos López Puccio, with the exception of two rediscovered of the best moments in the history of Les Luthiers, Aria Agraria and Pasión Bucólica, with the collective authorship of all the members of the group at the time: in addition to Maronna and López Puccio, also Marcos Mundstock, Carlos Núñez Cortés and Daniel Rabinovich. Gerardo Masana, who is believed to have founded the group in 1967, was missing at the time.
As usual with Les Luthiers, the humor is on pointjokes I puns I absurd situationsand the mix of classical and popular music with humorous lyrics are consistently a more setbacks…, where allusions are made to topical issues, from politics to inclusive language. There are also some of the quirky instruments that also characterized Les Luthiers, such as a quirky one keyboard made with plastic ballsAnd piston organ oh one bidet transformed into an ancient medieval stringed instrument.
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