Teatro de la Zarzuela

Contemporary zarzuela Music by TOMÁS MARCO Libretto by Álvaro del Amo New production of the Teatro de la Zarzuela - WORLD PREMIERE - The zarzuela Policías y ladrones is the penultimate commission from the Teatro de la Zarzuela, although the list of contemporary lyrical works dates back to the eighties and ninety of the last century with a cycle for the old Olympia Room. In addition, this title joins a series of new productions by Spanish authors on the same stage of the Plazuela de Jovellanos. On this occasion, Marco returns with a zarzuela, almost half a century since the premiere of Fuenteovejuna, by Moreno Buendía, in order to update, in a certain way, the genre. For the composer, this new production is "an artistic adventure that I think was worth trying", since it is about facing a new creative project, bringing political corruption to the scene with the intention of showing it as "a peculiar farce, without the seriousness of a devastating criticism, with the self-confidence and lightness of a plot whose intrigue incorporates the tension of 'suspense' in a display of types, figures, hypothetical incidents and credible absurdities». This new zarzuela, with a tragicomic tone, leaning towards sarcastic skepticism, will be musically attractive; The person in charge of leading the orchestra will be José Ramón Encinar, a maestro who knows contemporary music in the country like few others. And, according to the show's stage director herself, Carme Portaceli, this will be "as a kind of expiation, we are going to see if, through irony, through stage language that allows us to represent the horror of this story, like a fire on the night of San Juan,,

Lecture Series of the Teatro de la Zarzuela In collaboration with the Association of Friends of the Madrid Opera Police and robbers, artistic adventure of a contemporary zarzuela Speaker Germán Gan Quesada November 2022,

Vídeo con toda la programación para la temporada 2022/23 del Teatro de la Zarzuela.,