The Teatro de la Maestranza has prepared special activities for the Day of The Opera.
LEISURE, ATTRACTION, MORE SEVILLA
A genre in love with Seville
The city of Seville is intimately linked to theworld of opera. You yourself will be able to walk through the real stages that inspired so many lyric authors.
More than 100 operas in Seville
Few places like Seville have inspired a greater number of works in the history of bel canto. Around a hundred or so operas are known to have Seville as the setting or inspiration for their stories.
Sevilla is the setting of the Bel canto.
Seville is like a great theater. The curtain rises and before you appear, one after another, thereal stages of those already legendary moments of opera. Feel yourself in the skin of its protagonists, capture the emotion that these corners and squares transmitted to so many composers.
Opera Nights
Seville has been the inspiration for more than 100 operas in which our city is present in one way or another. Among all the repertoire there are three names that stand out especially: Carmen, Don Juan and Figaro. The Association of Palace Houses of Seville (Casa Dueñas, Casa Salinas and La Santa Caridad) offers reduced opera performances in incomparable settings full of magic and Sevillian essence.
Nothing more and nothing less than the best
In the opera ‘Don Giovanni’, Mozart reinterprets the universal myth of Don Juan, originally from Seville. The action takes place in 17th century Seville.
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The ‘Barber of Seville’ is the great comic opera by Rossini. Popular tradition frames Rosina’s famous Balcón de Rosina in a beautiful house in Plaza Alfaro.
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The ‘Weddings of Figaro’, by Mozart, part of the same story. Some authors place Figaro’s house in Santo Tomás Street.
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In ‘Fidelio’, Beethoven performs the work in a prison near Seville, probably the Castle of San Jorge de Triana.
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‘Carmen’ by Bizetis rich in perfectly recognizable settings of Seville: the Tobacco Factory, the Callejón del Agua or La Maestranza, among others.
To keep in mind
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A statue pays tribute to the myth of Don Juan, in the Plaza de Refinadores.
A statue pays tribute to theMito de Don Juan, in the Plaza de Refinadores.
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The Real Alcázar is the main stage for operas by Donizetti La Favorita andMaría Padilla.
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Various streets in the Barrio de Santa Clara are named after these Seville–inspired operas.
See the name of the opera.
