El Gran Teatro del Mundo
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Chapel of Santa Àgata Plaça del Rei, 08002 Barcelona
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In this concert, El Gran Teatro del Mundo explores the parallels and differences between the literature of the Spanish Golden Age and the opera of the French Grand Siècle. To this end, the program offers us a reconstruction of a small French opera following the model of the tragédie lyrique.
The plot of the opera is based on Segismundo’s monologue at the end of the first act of La vida es sueño, by Calderón de la Barca, comparing his discourse with French themes and the exploration of the dream element of sleep. In each act of the opera we find different meanings that the Baroque found in sleep: from the simple state of rest to the mystical metaphor of the meeting of life with death, passing through dreams and nightmares. And, as an epilogue, the demi-god Orpheus descending into hell makes the listener reflect on awakening as the end of an illusion. Or, as Segismundo says: “All life is a dream, and dreams are dreams.”
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