The Ghost of the Tívoli – Revista Teatre Barcelona
After two decades of absence on the Spanish billboard, The ghost of the opera He returns to Barcelona with a renewed production that combines his original spirit with new effects, visual textures and a new staging.
Anna San Martín and Manu Pilas
Based on the novel of Gaston leroux, The ghost of the opera It tells the story of a disfigured musical genius hiding in the basement of the Paris Opera and is obsessed with a young soprano, Christine Daaé. An intense love triangle vertebrae this romantic drama with dark and operatic touches. Premiered in London in 1986 with music fromAndrew Lloyd Webberis the longest in Broadway history and one of the most watched in the world, with more than 145 million viewers. In Spain it was first seen in 2002 and now returns with a renewed, more alive and spectacular production.
The Tívoli Theater will host the musical from September 23, as part of its national tour, under the direction of Federico Bellonewith Daniel Diges at the top of the cast as a ghost, in alternation with Manu Pilasand Ana San Martín In the role of Christine Daaé.
Anna San Martín is Christine Daaé
The montage proposes an emotionally complex reading of the triangle between Christine, Raoul and the Ghost. For San Martín, this is one of the keys to the validity of the story: “ The musical tells us how society gives its back to the one who comes out of the aesthetic canons. There is also a constant negotiation between as far as you empathize with your oppressor and where you put the limit to preserve your own dignity. ” For the actress and singer, getting in Christine is much more than a professional milestone: “ For me, playing the role of Christine is a dream, an illusion, a gift. It is also a responsibility, but I am more with the joy of being able to do it after yearning for almost all my life, ” he says. San Martín emphasizes the vocal and physical requirement of a role that calls for a total delivery: “ The most difficult to interpret it is the mix of techniques that you have to master. Use lyric and modern techniques, and jumps from one to the other without being noticed. It is vocally very demanding, emotionally also, and you have to know how to dance ballet. It is a very complete combo. ”
With music fromAndrew Lloyd Webber and booklet of Charles Hart and Richard Stilgoe, The ghost of the opera It is the most represented musical in history, and in this new version they have not been spacked in the media. Director Federico Bellone, who also signs the scenery, defends a faithful but alive bet: “ We respect the original version and its tradition, but at the same time we have done a new and dynamic show, according to the present. We do not change the period or the place, but we do add new details such as the spider lamp that lights in flames with the ghost above ”.
Daniel Diges, will be the ghost
The production has a live orchestra of 16 musicians and a team of more than 35 people, a large -format production that, according to Daniel Digesis designed to excite. “One of the reasons why I started doing musicals was to interpret the ghost someday. When I saw this production for the first time, I couldn’t stop crying. It is spectacular. And I am really excited to wear it now,” says the protagonist. The actor, who has headed The miserable or The beautiful and the beastamong other musicals, explains that he feels ready to take on the challenge: “After fifteen musicals as the protagonist, I think I have the tables to take such a character. What I have are not nerves, but emotion and a lot of desire.”
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