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Start the festival La Mar de Musicas, 2012, edition is dedicated to Africa, New Sounds, and you're almost ready for inauguration in style, which this year will be the Municipal Auditorium as The Batel stage.
It will be the punk opera Serbian filmmaker Emir Kusturica's Time of the Gypsies, the protagonist of the opening on Thursday 19 July at 22.00 hours, starting in Cartagena world tour with this play based on his famous eponymous film by the which won the Best Director award at the Festival de Cannes in 1989.
With the participation of over 40 performers on stage, in addition to its Balkan rock band The No Smoking Orchestra, performers usual the soundtracks of his films. This morning, checked the assembly of the opera at the Auditorium.
Over more than two hours, the play follows the misadventures of young Perhan, son of a soldier and a gypsy, madly in love with his neighbor Azra, whose mother wants to marry a rich man.
While dreams of becoming a millionaire to be able to return his beloved, the young man lives with his grandmother, his sister, disabled, and an uncle also womanizer who woos the young Azra.
Balkan punk to folk, from rock to classical music or Central European gypsy folk song, musical styles are diverse and merge seamlessly like fireworks on stage, that immerse the viewer in a colorful opera world, where people dance and drink, kids play soccer or go squawking geese.
But where there is room for a counterpoint to the seriousness and melancholy.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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