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The National Company of Dance with 'Carmen', Lolita Flores in 'I prefer that we be friends', Mariano Peña in' Obra de Dios', the pianist James Rhodes and Silvia Marsó in '24 hours in the life of a woman 'are the five Spectacles that this year make up the summer schedule of the cartagenero auditorium, in what are known as The Summers of El Batel.
In addition, the terrace of El Batel, run by Eszencia restaurant, will perform a musical program during the nights of the weekends in August and a special summer tapas menu.
The program was presented this morning, Tuesday 25 April, by the Councilor for Culture of the City of Cartagena, David Martínez Noguera and the manager of the Auditorium El Batel, Luis Gutiérrez.
All the information and ticket sales can be found both at the auditorium and on the website www.auditorioelbatel.es
Martinez has highlighted the great start to this year's program which is the premiere in Cartagena de 'Carmen' of the National Dance Company (CND), led by the Cartagena Jose Carlos Martinez, with two dates: Saturday 8 July and On Sunday, July 9.
"Having a figure so important in the world of dance" nationally as it is José Carlos, "who less than put on the boards his works in his hometown," said the councilman.
When the choreographer Johan Inger was commissioned by the CND to mount a new version of Carmen, he being Swedish and Carmen a work with a marked Spanish character, was faced with a huge challenge, but also in front of a great opportunity.
His approach to this universal myth would have to bring something new.
This Carmen is a feminist heroine whose sexual freedom is continually threatened by possessive men.
Johan Inger is today one of the most considered choreographers, before this Carmen for the CND, has delivered works for the Nederlands Dans Theater 2 or the Royal Swedish Ballet.
The patterns marked by the director of the piece have been sobriety, timelessness, contemporaneity and a subtle approach to the decade of the 60. All this seen from the symbology and the metaphor.
The wardrobe is designed by David Delfín.
For this choreography Johan Inger was awarded the Benois de la Danse 2016, the Oscar de la Danza.
The music taken from the opera Carmen was arranged and modified for the great Maya Plisetskaya by her husband the composer Rodion Schedrin.
At last the comedy that has triumphed in New York for several seasons, 'Obra de Dios', has arrived in Spain;
A hilarious show by popular American writer David Javerbaum, with 13 EMMY awards in his career, starring television actor Mariano Peña, who will be in Los Veranos de El Batel on August 5th.
The Lord of the Universe, creator of Heaven and Earth will visit the Cartagena auditorium to rewrite his ten commandments, where the answers to all those questions that humanity will ask from the beginning of our era: Why did God create Adam ?
Was Eve really a sinner?
How many animals did Noah put in the ark?
The true story never told of the protagonists of the Bible: Jesus, Abraham, Moses and Steve Jobs.
The direction of the work is in charge of Tamzin Townsend, considered the queen Midas of the Spanish theater, due to the great success of its works.
Thursday August 10 will be the turn for Lolita Flores and Luis Mottola in 'I prefer to be friends', an endearing French comedy of the famous humorist Laurent Ruquier on two friends, so close and so comfortable in each other's company that when one of They want to change the rules of friendship, the other is totally blinded and is unable to see beyond.
Here comedy is served.
One looks for something more passionate than the sofa, the movie and a pizza in the company of his friend chatting and exchanging stories of conquests.
Lolita Flores and Luis Mottola are also directed by theater director Tamzin Townsend.
Three days later, on August 13, it will be the turn of El Batel to welcome pianist James Rhodes, author of the autobiographical book that everyone has been talking about since last year, 'Instrumental'.
Memories of music, medicine and madness.
"In my concerts I speak of the pieces that I play, I tell why I have chosen them, what importance they have for me and in what context they were composed."
This explains James Rhodes how his recitals are in the prologue of his book, with which he has achieved a huge and unexpected success worldwide.
Rhodes wants classical music to lose the rigidity that is keeping him away from the public, or, as he says in his book "Free Music from Tyranny of Imbeciles."
He is not a pianist to use, as shown in his concerts.
In addition to playing and contextualizing the works he performs, the British pianist also tells the stage between pieces by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Schubert and Beethoven, the story of his life and how music has helped him to overcome the many obstacles Has been found along the way.
The Summers of El Batel will finish on August 18 with the musical play '24 hours in the life of a woman ', which tells the sentimental and sexual becoming of a woman distressed by life and by the events that inevitably touched her live.
A masterful story full of lyricism and passion where the reflections on life and death, and on the human passions in prewar Europe, are habitual.
The author, Stefan Zweig is undoubtedly one of the great writers of the twentieth century, and his work has been translated into more than 50 languages.
The work will be starring Silvia Marsó, accompanied by Marc Parejo and Victor Massán.
The restaurant Eszencia has prepared for the summers of El Batel a complementary program for some August nights on the terrace, with performances Stolen, the duo Fire Fly, Red duo, Saxo Chill, Karpen Diem Plus and Sweet Sally.
After the performances of the program of Los Veranos de El Batel there will be DJ sessions on the terrace and the restaurant will prepare a summer tapas menu for ten euros.
Tickets can be purchased at the ticket offices of the Auditorio El Batel and the Nuevo Teatro Circo and on the web: www.auditorioelbatel.es.
In addition to the usual discounts for Los Amigos de El Batel, tickets for 45 euros are on sale to see the three plays, and discounts for groups of more than ten people.
More information on the phone 968 123827.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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