John Elliot Gardiner will be in Donostia on Tuesday. The photo was taken in Granada, twenty days ago. /
We are in summer, but autumn is waiting for us. The Nibelungen have overcome the plague. The women of Almagro, on the other hand, are invincible
It is obvious that we are in summer. Both on the terraces and in the sand. We are in summer, although maybe it would be a little cooler in August… as the Spanish refrain says, agosto frío en el rostro. Almost the same thing in Basque: August fries your face during the day; cold face at night.
We are in summer. In the half-corrupted minds of people, it’s almost red summer, but if you ignore the proverbs, that’s where autumn comes from: on the day of the Virgin Mary in August, it’s already dark at seven o’clock. However, don’t cry or complain that if it rains you go to the bulls, the theater or musicals: when it rains in August, it makes honey and must.
Don’t be sorry. Today is San Ignatius Day. A big party in Azpeitia and, in the Loiola district of Donostia, a high-class wine fair from the Basque Country and the surrounding area.
We are in summer. It is obvious in our country. Also in theaters, squares and festivals. Not only in our neighbors. Not only because the Donostia Fortnight will offer us a unique concert on Tuesday, where John Eliot Gardiner will take part, where the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists will perform Carissimi, Scarlatti and Schützen’s ‘Historia di Jephte’, ‘Stabat Mater’ or ‘Nacket bin ich vom They will give us the gift of unparalleled baroque music like Mutterleib gekommen’.
We are in summer. But not only in the bullring of Azpeitia, the Basilica of Loyola and the concert halls of Donostia. no throughout Europe This continent, which is in a red crisis, is on vacation, even though autumn is coming from there.
Covid and the walkers
In the summer in Bayreuth, at the music festival dreamed up (and carried on) by Richard Wagner. Cosima’s husband, a fine musician, wanted his works created without any limits to appear on the boards without any hindrance or disturbance. The booming music played by Megalomania designed the theater itself. There his Nibelungen, his Tristan, his Isolde, his Parsifal, his dragons, and all the creatures that made up the mythology of Germania, could walk freely, driven by every passion.
Bayreuth, summer. In Bayreuth… the covid. The Finnish musician Pietari Inkinen, who was supposed to conduct the new production of the opera ‘The Ring of the Nibelungen’, has had to withdraw because the virus has seriously injured his heart. We are in summer. Even in the middle of a crisis. And even in the penultimate shocks of a pandemic. in the summer in august At the concerts But covid has overtaken the valkyries.
in the summer Also in the town of Almagro in Ciudad Real. This is the guest winery of the wine festival that will take place today in the Loiola district, the very special and extraordinary Encomienda de Cervera.
Summer. Almagro Tomorrow will be the 25th anniversary of his theatrical season. In the courtyards and in the square, there is cheers and applause, mockery and tickling, to what was written by Lope de Vega, Calderon and the like in the golden and silver ages of the past.
Among these similar ones mentioned, many women. Sister Juana Inés de la Cruz, Ana Caro de Mallén, María de Zayas… In England during the time of Queen Elizabeth of Tudor, women were forbidden to be on the stage. Even greater the inability to act as the director of these comedies. In the small homeland of Dulzine in Toboso, on the other hand, there was no prohibition. Centuries later, a company founded in Madrid, called ‘Lope en femenino’, bows down to this insidious feat performed by those aggressive girls. There they go, up Almagro, down Almagro with swords and verses. In fact, Almagro’s verse is vindicated day and night. As a theater maker/enthusiast, it’s the ideal tool for high-action shows. Those men and women in question used the verse to set a lively rhythm to their pretty dresses and not, as today’s frank people (erroneously) believe, to recite the devil seriously.
We are in summer. At the beginning of August. Autumn is lurking. The Nibelungen have overcome the plague. The women of Almagro, on the other hand, are invincible. And many people who came from Loyola Almagro in Donostia will tell us that there are llamas and fire mountains right there. And wine too.
You know what they say somewhere…
August is a party, good for the wallet. Bayreuth Azpeitian how.