Seville's 2004 Bienal extends its program with Tomatito,
Antonio Canales and Miguel Poveda
The
festival makes up for the postponement of the opera ‘Carmen’
in its first week
Flamenco-world.com, August 2004
The German company Opera on Original
Site's ambitious project to perform ‘Carmen’ at diverse
real settings in Seville has fallen through. If at first
it forced Seville's Bienal to redeploy, now it is the flamenco
festival that takes advantage of the gap to extend the first
week of its program. Now free are artists and stages originally
with commitments to the peculiar opera, which is postponed
to 2005 -according to the organization - due to the illness
of musician Lorin Maazel, who co-directs the show together
with filmmaker Carlos Saura.
Tomatito in concert
(Photo: Daniel Muñoz)
From September 2nd to 12th, 2004, the bill
of Seville's 13th Bienal de Flamenco is firmed up with the
shows ‘De la galera al arco’ on September 4th
at the Lope de Vega Theater; the ‘Lope de Vega Festival’
at the theater of the same name on September 5th; and ‘Sonanta
Suite’ by Tomatito
and Joan Albert Amargós on September 6th at the Maestranza
Theater. Also joining the program are ‘Carmen Amaya.
Evocaciones’ by Juana Amaya on September 8th at the
Lope de Vega; ‘Canta Jerez’ on September 9th
at the Hotel Triana; a dance performance as yet unnamed
by Antonio Canales on September 10th at the Maestranza Theater;
and ‘Poemas del exilio (Poems from Exile). Rafael
Alberti’ by Miguel
Poveda and Enric Palomar on September 11th at the Maestranza
Theater. Seville's Bienal de Flamenco holds its thirteenth
edition, which coincides with the festival's twenty-fifth
anniversary, from September 2nd to October 10th, 2004.
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