The season will begin in September with different baroc concerts. Between October and June, six operas will be shown: Richard Strauss’ The silent woman (3rd, 5th and 7th October) is a small piece that Pedro Halffter, the artist director, qualifies as a “jewel” and its presence in Seville will be its premiere in Spain; Franco Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac (9th, 12th, 15th and 18th November); Donizetti’s The Favourite (11th, 14th, 17th y 20th December); just one show of Leonardo Vinci’s Partenope (3rd February); Puccini’s Turandot (18th, 19th, 22th, 23rd, 25th and 26th March), and it could be compared with the opera in concert from the less known Busoni’s Turandot (6th February); and finally, Verdi’s La Traviatta will close the season (11th, 12th, 14th, 15th, 17th, 18th and 20th June).

The Spanish premiere of Strauss’ The silent woman, with musical direction by Pedro Halffter and scenic direction by Marco Arturo Marelli, will open the new season in Maestranza’s Theatre in Seville. It is also important the presence of the tenor Roberto Alagna, singing Franco Alfano’s Cyrano de Bergerac. Pedro Halffter tells about the shows of two Turandot: “Everybody knows Puccini’s Turandot, but Ferruccio Busoni composed another Turandot before with more references to the chinese world. The public will have a great experience comparing both”.

An exposition joins in Seville all the best of 18th century of the Italian city. Although it was under a deep political depression, Venice in 18th century knew how to sell its beauty in the different european countries and became in the main attention because of its special ambassadors: its painters.

Settecento veneziano, From Baroc to Neoclassicism is the exposition inaugurated yesterday in Seville’s Bellas Artes Museum. It is formed by 51 pictures of the best 18th century Venetian artists, like Sebastiano Ricci, Gian Antonio Pellegrini, Jacopo Amigoni, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, among others.

35 pictures had never been in Spain before and you could visit it until 13th September. “The selection has been made taking into account two conditions: the pictures must belong to Italian collections or Museums, and, in second place, the painters had to have any relationship with Spain” told Annalisa Scarpa, the organiser, yesterday in Seville.

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