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,,