Ballet Nacional de España presents a vibrant 40th anniversary gala

By Cristina de Lucas, 10 December 2018

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“the future of the company looks bright”

Reviewed at Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid on 8 December 2018

Sorolla (Selección) (Arantxa Carmona, Miguel Fuente, Manuel Liñán, Antonio Najarro)

Zapateado de Sarasate (Antonio Ruiz Soler)

Ritmos (Alberto Lorca)

Ballet Nacional de España

Antonio Najarro, Director

On storytelling: Gerhaher and Huber perform Mahler

Laura Furones, 21st December

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber make of an evening devoted to the songs of Maher an experience hard to do justice to in words.

*****

Lost in translation: A Spanish Carmen in Madrid

Fernando Remiro, 19th October

The opening night of Paolo Pinamonti's second season as director of the Teatro de la Zarzuela had, in principle, its fair share of artistic incentives but unfortunately turned out to be a dismal season start.

**111

Black il Pagliaccio: A Night of Verismo and Zarzuela in Madrid

Fernando Remiro, 4th April

An attractive double bill of opera and zarzuela paves the way to a new way of performing this fascinating Spanish genre.

***11

Souls spreading their wings: Gerhaher and Huber marvel with Schumann in Madrid

Laura Furones, 11th March

Christian Gerhaher and Gerold Huber leave the audience speechless in Madrid with an all-Schumann recital in an evening that will not easily be forgotten.

*****

Nathalie Stutzmann sings Schubert in Madrid

Laura Furones, 27th January

Nathalie Stutzmann sings Winterreise in Madrid, in a collaboration that showed them together, if not quite as one.

***11

Puértolas domina la feliz recuperación de El gitano por amor

Aaron Vincent, 22nd April

El Teatro de la Zarzuela recupera una ópera bufa de Manuel García en la que la gitanilla de Sabina Puértolas enamora.

***11

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Cristina de Lucas

After a career in the legal field where she combined her job as an Attorney at Law with collaborative roles in various local and international cultural enterprises, Cristina de Lucas turned to dance research and criticism in 2009, when she moved to London. She obtained her doctorate from the Department of Dance at the University of Roehampton (London). Her fully-funded thesis focused on the confluence between dance and narrative in the repertory of the British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan. Her research has received several awards, such a full Vice-Chancellor scholarship and the 2014 SDHS Graduate Student Travel Grant. She also reviews dance and cinema, contributing regularly to several publications in Spain and UK.