Antonio Ruz’s Electra a sophisticated and poignant tragedy in Madrid

By Cristina de Lucas, 30 December 2019

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Reviewed at Teatro Real: Sala Principal, Madrid on 28 December 2019

Electra (Antonio Ruz)

Ballet Nacional de España

Manuel Coves, Conductor

Antonio Ruz, Director

Paco Azorín, Set Designer

Rosa García Andújar, Costume Designer

Sandra Carrasco, Flamenco singer

Orquesta Titular del Teatro Real

Olga García, Lighting Designer

Inmaculada Salomón, Dancer

Esther Jurado, Dancer

Antonio Correderas, Dancer

Albert Hernández, Dancer

Antonio Najarro, Dancer

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Sam Johnstone, 16th August

Although a British composer by birth, Rebecca Saunders is most respected in Germany, where she has spent much of her working life. Her latest project was an immersive choreographed programme with the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie based around her violin concerto still.

****1

Macbeth contra todos: segundo reparto en el Liceu

Maria Sánchez, 20th February

Una producción ideada y capitaneada por el escultor Jaume Plensa muestra un Macbeth conceptual y abstraído, que no acaba de casar con el espíritu de la obra.

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Juan José Freijo, 16th February

Jaume Plensa ha creado una ambiciosa curiosidad escénica con estampas de incuestionable valor estético y algunas graves carencias dramáticas, muy lejos de la obra de arte total renovada que se nos anunciaba.

****1

El fuego que nunca se vio: La nit de Sant Joan de Gerhard en el Liceu

Maria Sánchez, 10th October

Finalmente, la obra del compositor catalán, exiliada y olvidada por la Guerra Civil, ve la luz en el cincuentenario aniversario de su fallecimiento, recuperando su espíritu festivo.

****1

El barberillo de Lavapiés conquista Madrid

Jorge Baeza Stanicic, 30th March

El barberillo de Lavapiés es una zarzuela de sempiterna actualidad y esta producción promete estar a la altura de la calidad de su música y de su libreto.

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Una Electra como si de Lorca fuera

Eduardo López-Collazo, 9th December

Con Electra el Ballet Nacional de España vuelve reivindicar su lugar en la escena española. La coreografía de Antonio Ruz y Olga Pericet nos introduce en el mundo trágico que una vez se desarrolló en otros lares, y los bailarines Inmaculada Salomón, Sergio Bernal, Antonio Najarro y Esther Jurado dan vida a los protagonistas de la tremenda historia.

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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.