Colombia is the guest of honor of the Classic Theater Festival of Almagro

To this day, the performing arts Colombians will be the highlight in Spain as the country is the guest of honor of the Clbadic Theater Festival of Almagro which runs until the 29th of this month.

According to the Ministry of Culture, this event is considered the most important of its category in the world, since it is an opportunity they make samples of the scenic arts of 39 "a panoramic view in the theater and music of the Golden Age and the Viceroyalty."

Ignacio García, director of the festival, said that "the Almagro Festival is the largest center in the world, the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in the Hispanic world, what we have come to call our age of The Renaissance and the Baroque were a fertile period for Spanish culture and the Spanish language, and built a worldview, aesthetics and rich rhetoric, unique in the world. "

L & # 39; Local art exhibition stands in the work between the Teatro Colón de Bogotá and the Ministry of Culture who promoted the local sample in Spain, under the name of "Barroco de Ida y Vuelta", composed of works by Macbeth, co-produced with Pedro Salazar, director of Teatro Colón; Don Quixote, mirror of the man, who comes from Tropa Teatro; El Carnero, by the Institute Caro y Cuervo, which is a dramatized reading, and by the concerts of Betty Garcés, soprano performer, Alejandro Roca, pianists and the group Música Ficta.

The first presentation is July 7
Under the title, Siglo de Oro on both sides – Songs on the poems of the golden age, the next 7 will be the first presentation of the Colombian delegation to the Festival of Almagro. The musical director is the pianist Alejandro Roca who will be accompanied by the soprano Betty Garcés. The concert will have the participation of the Teatro Colón commission which will make compositions for the poems of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. The next job to be presented will be Quixote, Mirror of the Man, between July 17 and 29, while Macbeth will be on display between the 19th and the 21st of this month. The Ram will have a presentation and like Ficta Music.