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Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny

Posted by Maria Delgado | 27th Feb 2024 | France, Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera

Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...

Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins

Posted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...

Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid

Posted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...

“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile

Posted by Maria Delgado | 6th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain

There is a lot to admire in Denise Despeyroux’s newest play produced by the Centro Dramático...

“El Lector Por Horas/Reader By The Hours.” A Successful Spanish Play That Also Deserves To Be A Global Hit

Posted by Antonio Hernández Nieto | 23rd Jan 2024 | Playwriting, Review, Spain

Sanchis Sinisterra is a Spanish playwright with a long career and many successes who is in the...

Miguel del Arco’s “Rigoletto” at Madrid’s Teatro Real: In-Yer-Face Opera for In-Yer-Face Times

Posted by Maria Delgado | 6th Jan 2024 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Opera

I am going to be honest. I didn’t see Verdi’s Rigoletto at the Real. I had wanted and planned to...

The Opening of Barcelona’s Newest Theatre: Àlex Rigola Stages Thomas Bernhard’s “L’home De Teatre”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 21st Dec 2023 | Management, Review, Spain, Theatre and Politics

The relationship between theatre and life has been pervaded the work of dramatists from...

“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain

Posted by Antonio Hernández Nieto | 20th Dec 2023 | Review, Spain, Theatre and Gender

There is nothing like going to a world premiere. Being one of the first to see something brand...

Coronada and the Bull Return to the Stage

Posted by María Bastianes and Duncan Wheeler | 18th Dec 2023 | Playwriting, Review, Spain

Francisco Nieva (1924-2016) ranks amongst the most respected Spanish playwrights of the second...

“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse

Posted by Maria Delgado | 30th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain

It is not an easy prospect to adapt into opera one of the most acclaimed social realist novels of...

The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero

Posted by Maria Delgado | 28th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain

There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...

Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid

Posted by Maria Delgado | 27th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain, Theatre and AI

Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...

Easy Reading (or not): Cristina Morales’s “Lectura fácil” on the Stage

Posted by Maria Delgado | 21st Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain, Theatre and Disability

There is nothing easy about Alberto San Juan’s Lectura fácil. His adaptation of Cristina Morales’...

The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 18th Apr 2023 | Adaptation, Review, Spain

Alejandro Palomas has transformed his acclaimed 2005 novel La isla del aire (The Island of Air)...

Remembering A Silenced Teacher: Xavier Bobés And Alberto Conejero’s “El Mar. Visión De Unos Niños Que No Lo Han Visto Nunca”/”The Sea. Vision Of Some Children Who Have Never Seen It”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 8th Mar 2023 | Education, Review, Spain, Theatre and Politics

Xavier Bobés is one of those remarkable artists able to conjure a world through a few objects that...

Breaking Down Barriers through Cultural Policies: A Conversation with Artistic Director and Producer Jesús Cimarro

Posted by Natalia García-Casarrubios | 5th Mar 2023 | Festivals, Interview, Producing, Spain

Jesús Cimarro is the current President of the Spanish Academy of Performing Arts (Academia de las...

Friendship And Its Discontents: Juan Mayorga’s “Amistad”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 1st Mar 2023 | Playwriting, Review, Spain

Juan Mayorga, one of Spain’s most decorated dramatists — a member of Spain’s Spanish Royal Academy...

Josep Maria Pou Excels In a Minimalist Catalan-language Production of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2023 | Directing, Review, Spain

Florian Zeller’s The Father, first produced in 2012, remains a timely play for various reasons. It...

Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”

Posted by Maria Delgado | 14th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, Design, Directing, Review, Spain

Catalan director Àlex Rigola, the former artistic director of the Venice Biennale’s theatre...

Barcelona Art Scene: “Next to Normal Immersive” at Grec 2022 Festival

Posted by Alexander Fatouros | 13th Jul 2022 | Design, Directing, Interview, Musical Theatre, Spain

Set at Barcelona’s IDEAL Digital Arts Center and crafted by British director Simon Pittman, “Next...

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Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny

Alberto Conejero’s “En Mitad de Tanto Fuego” (In the Midst of So Much Fire): Addressing the Gaps from the Margins

Rage and Fury: Calixto Bieito Stages Aribert Reimann’s “Lear” at the Teatro Real Madrid

“Misericordia” (Mercy) at Madrid’s Teatro Valle Inclán: Families, (Auto)fiction and Exile

“El Lector Por Horas/Reader By The Hours.” A Successful Spanish Play That Also Deserves To Be A Global Hit

Miguel del Arco’s “Rigoletto” at Madrid’s Teatro Real: In-Yer-Face Opera for In-Yer-Face Times

The Opening of Barcelona’s Newest Theatre: Àlex Rigola Stages Thomas Bernhard’s “L’home De Teatre”

“Vudú (3318) Blixen” or a Complex Naïve Way to Exorcise Pain

Coronada and the Bull Return to the Stage

“La Regenta” as Opera: a Coruscating Portrait of Smalltown Community Abuse

The Danger Within: “Asesinato y adolescencia” / “Assassination and Adolescence” Opens the Español’s Season at Madrid’s Matadero

Floating Islands of AI: Agrupación Señor Serrano’s “La isla/The Island” in Madrid

Easy Reading (or not): Cristina Morales’s “Lectura fácil” on the Stage

The Brilliance of Nuria Espert: Secrets, Lies and “La Isla Del Aire”

Remembering A Silenced Teacher: Xavier Bobés And Alberto Conejero’s “El Mar. Visión De Unos Niños Que No Lo Han Visto Nunca”/”The Sea. Vision Of Some Children Who Have Never Seen It”

Breaking Down Barriers through Cultural Policies: A Conversation with Artistic Director and Producer Jesús Cimarro

Friendship And Its Discontents: Juan Mayorga’s “Amistad”

Josep Maria Pou Excels In a Minimalist Catalan-language Production of Florian Zeller’s “The Father”

Àlex Rigola’s Lean, Mean Riff on “Hedda Gabler”

Barcelona Art Scene: “Next to Normal Immersive” at Grec 2022 Festival

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