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The Festival of New and Pocket Opera is a space for:
• the promotion of new, small and medium sized, operas
• research (new sounds, creative concepts, design etc.)
• creation (composers, librettists, stage directors)
• training (composers, librettists, singers)
• communication between cultural agencies and creators
• promotion of work by emerging creators
• international meeting and exchange |
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| After the closure of the Malic theatre, seat
of the Festival until 2002, the Festival of New and Pocket Opera
has assumed a new structure. Toni Rumbau is artistic
director and Dietrich Grosse has joined him on
the side of management and international relations.
In this new phase we intend, above all, to establish the Festival
as a central hub for the promotion, investigation and creation of
new opera in small and medium format. We wish to create, on the
one hand, strong contacts between the creators (librettists, composers,
designers, stage directors), and, on the other, theatres and institutions
related to theatre, music and opera, both in the city of Barcelona
and in the country as a whole.
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of Operas from the repertory: |
| · La Serva Padrona, by
Giovanni Paisiello (one of the Festival´s great
successes)
· Prima la Musica e poi le Parole, by
Antonio Salieri
· El Barbero de Sevilla , by
Giovanni Paisielloi
· Mozart i Salieri, by Rimski
Korsakov
· El Empresario Teatral, by Mozart
· Il Maestro di Capella, by D. Cimarosa
· Il Maestro di Capella, by Ferdinand
Paër
· To whom it may concern, by
Leonard Bernstein
· La Historia del Soldado, by
Igor Stravinsky
· Venus and Adonis, by John
Blow
· Il Geloso Schernito, atributed to
Pergolesi
· Il Segreto di Susanna, by
Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari
· Don Quijote o las Bodas de Camacho,
by Georg Philipp Telemann |
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| Productions of new operas: |
· Violeta, by Manuel García
Morante and text by Josep Maria Carandell
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La Petita Bufa, music by Jordi Rossinyol and
libretto by Albert Mestre
· Y un tablero, Cásting, Cecilio In Memoriam,
Omar el Impotente, and Esquizofrenia by Eduardo
Diago
· Resaca, music
by Fran Pérez and libretto by Pepe Sendón
· La Llet del Paradís, conducted
by Jordi Rossinyol
· A Rutina
é o deber de todas as criaturas, music
by Xavier Abraldes and Fran Përez, libretto by Manues
Cortés
· Ruleta, music
by Enric Palomar and libretto by Ana María Moix
and Rafael Sender
· Puppet versions of
Il Rigoletto, by Verdi and Der
fliegende Holländer, by Wagner; and a free
adaptation, also using puppetry, of Mozart’s Don
Giovannni, all three productions created and
performed by Pepe Otal
· Macbeth
o Macbetto, by Xavier Albertí
· Annus Horribilis, by Pepe Sendón
and Fran Pérez
· Macbeth
Sempre, by Claudio Zuilán
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La Luna i la Bruna, by Victòria Palma
and Cristina García Prats
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Els Contes de Sade, music by enric Ferrer and
libretto by Pau Guix. |
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| European
Productions: |
· Extraordinary Women
with Susannah Self (UK)
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Orfeo Védovo, by Alberto Savinio (Italy)
· Hin und Zurük, by Paul Hindemith
(Italian production)
· En Landsoldats
Dagbog, by Jakob Draminsky (Denmark)
· “aN eEmpty Space”, by Jakob
Draminsky (Denmark)
· " <MR.X>_
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(Denmark) |
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| Until 2002 the Festival was organised by the Malic Theatre.
From the ninth edition this year, (2004), the Festival is organised
by Toni Rumbau (Artistic Director) and Dietrich
Grosse (Management and International Relations), through
CITART (Centre d’Iniciatives del Teatre de les Arts –
Centre for Initiatives in Arts Theatre). |
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The Festival (originally called the Barcelona Pocket Opera Festival)
has played an important role in various Spanish cities and beyond,
with the celebration of various pocket opera festivals and performances:
in Madrid (Festival de Otoño), Bilbao (Sala la Fundición),
Santiago (La Nasa), and in Alessandria in Italy (Scatola Sonora).
The Festival is mainly financed by the Spanish Ministry of Culture
(INAEM), the Generalitat of Catalonia, the Barcelona City Council
(ICUB), and the Barcelona Regional Council (Diputación de
Barcelona). Other income is generated by box office and private
sponsorship. |
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The Festival of New
and Pocket Opera - NewOp 2004 |
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