Gustavo Gimeno turns into an event the irrelevant staging that Christoph Loy invents about Béla Bartók

Program: The marvelous mandarin (ballet-pantomime)
Performers: Gorka Culebras (the mandarin), Carla Pérez Mora (the girl), Nicky van Cleef, David Vento and Joni Österlund (vagrants), Mário Branco (a libertine), Nicolas Franciscus (the poet)
Musical direction: Gustavo Gimeno
Stage direction: Christof Loy Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real
Libretto Béla Balázs
Performers Christoph Fischesser (Duke Bluebeard), Evelyn Herlitzius (Judith), Nicolas Franciscus (the prologue)
Place: Royal Theatre
Date: 12/11/2025.

Libretto Béla Balázs
Performers Christoph Fischesser (Duke Bluebeard), Evelyn Herlitzius (Judith), Nicolas Franciscus (the prologue)

You enter the Teatro Real for the Béla Bartók performance that premiered yesterday and you leave uneasy, uncomfortable, oppressed... Transformed, as they said a century ago when people believed in the rehabilitative power of the theatrical stage and debated the essence of theater ...

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