Opera

El Público

Mauricio Sotelo

24 Feb, 15 - 13 Mar, 15

Musical conductor: Pablo Heras-Casado

Stage Director: Robert Castro

El Público is Lorca’s most difficult and mysterious play, and one of the great classics of modern Spanish theatre. Lorca wrote it in Cuba, just after his trip to New York, at a time of intense experimentation in art and life. Homosexuality is addressed openly in El Público. The play is a cry of defiance against bourgeois hypocrisy and a plea for sexual and artistic freedom. Two ways of understanding art are dealt with in the play: the Teatro al Aire Libre (Theatre in the Open Air), commercial and wishing to please the audience, and the Teatro Bajo la Arena (Theatre beneath the Sand), which aims to reveal that which is hidden and question established values.
The play also addresses the issue of the mask in the theatre, which arrives at the heart of the piece and defines a reality in a perpetual state of change, a kind of dream in which characters and identities constantly change their roles. El Público explores consciousness itself and questions the notion of individuality and free will. We are not one, but many.
El Público also considers the theme of art as an instrument for transforming reality, not in a merely political sense, but totally. Lorca was convinced, along with the surrealists, that art had the ability to transform human beings. In the same spirit, composer Mauricio Sotelo and librettist Andrés Ibañez, along with sculptor and set designer Alexander Polzin, have taken up the challenge of transforming El Público into a twenty-first-century opera.

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Subtitles in

Spanish, English

Opera in five scenes with a prologue
Music by Mauricio Sotelo
Libretto by Andrés Ibáñez, based on Federico García Lorca´s play El Público

World premiere
New production of Teatro Real

Klangforum Wien

Chorus of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intemezzo)

Artistic information

Artistic team

Musical conductor Pablo Heras-Casado

Stage Director Robert Castro

Escenografía Alexander Polzin

Iluminación Urs Schönebaum

Chorus Conductor Andrés Máspero

Figurines Wojciech Dziedzic

Coreografía Darrel Grand Moultrie

Dirección de sonido Peter Böhm

Asistente de dirección de sonido Florian Bogner

Cast

Director José Antonio López

First horse Arcángel

Second man Josep Miquel Ramón

Third man Antonio Lozano

Elena Gun-Brit Barkmin

Emperor / Magician Erin Caves

Juliet Isabella Gaudí

Third horse Rubén Olmo

Second horse Jesús Méndez

First man Thomas Tatzl

Soloist guitar Cañizares

Percussionist Agustín Diassera

Servant José San Antonio

Releases

Patron friends

04 October

2014

Subscribers friend

09 October

2014

Tickets on sale

14 October

2014

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24 February 2015