Peter Sellars’ “Beatrice di Tenda”: Freedom, Defiance, and Tyranny
Vincenzo Bellini’s penultimate opera, Beatrice di Tenda, rests between two more frequently...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 15th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Alberto Conejero’s trajectory as a playwright has been rooted in telling the stories that have...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 8th Feb 2024 | Review, Spain
Shakespeare’s King Lear has defied composers who refused invitations to render this bleakest...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 28th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain
There is something beguiling, provocative and timely in Andrés Lima’s staging of Antonio San...
Read MorePosted by Maria Delgado | 27th Oct 2023 | Review, Spain
Agrupación Señor Serrano go where other theatre-makers fear to tread. They are always one step...
Read MorePosted 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’...
Read MorePosted 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)...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted 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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