Azar Teatro - Barrocco Roll

Following the enormous success in the Malta Arts Festival last year with Spanish Blood, Azar Teatro from Spain are back with another street theatre performance: Barroco-Roll.

Barroco-roll is a grimacing bloomer, a stinging amusement, a satirical madhouse, a court game, a Court ready to play with everyone. A spectacular staging, suitable for everyone.

A court in the style of Versailles goes out into the town in order to meet the people; The Duke of Lamarcop, in charge of the military, the vigorous royal doctor, Count Von Vaskenstein, Amadeus Alfonsus, the scatterbrained court musician, and two unusual Maids of Honour, the spectacular Meninin Monroe and the intriguing widow, LaVenenoSA, are the retinue who accompany the lavish Royal Carriage, in which H.R.H King Rey Distintus I is seated.

During the visit, it becomes very obvious that the monarch suffers from horrendous stomach problems with all the foreseeable results that affect everyone who is nearby and ...

As his Majesty says: “let the people come to me”.

Is the kingdom going badly?
Nooooooo. The kingdom is going smoothly…


TEATRO DEL AZAR, S.L. started performing professionally as a theatre company in 1990, covering almost every style and proposal, and making use of classic and contemporary authors, not looking down on any language or space, as proved by the productions and tours performed along these years all around Spain and abroad, in countries such as Portugal, France, United Kingdom, Italy, Malta, Cuba, United Arab Emirates, Germany, Ireland, Uruguay, Poland, Sweden, USA ... etc...

AZAR TEATRO perform both room and street theatre, always seeking different ways of communication with the audience. In their room productions, the text and the body are equally important and are fostered the same, in an attempt to offer the spectator a show both gripping and appealing for its content and its visual aspect.
In their street shows, participation and complicity with the spectator are indispensable and the ludic element always takes part of the scenic game. The aesthetic aspect and the music have had an essential role for the company throughout all their career.

http://www.azar-teatro.com/

BARROCO-ROLL
Street Theatre Performance by Azar Teatro
Venue: Republic Street – Valletta
Dates: 3rd & 4th July
Time: 10:30am
Admission: Free

Arditti Quartet in Concert

The Malta Arts Festival is proud to welcome on its concert platform The Arditti Quartet, undoubtedly one of the most important chamber ensembles of all times. The Arditti Quartet enjoys a worldwide reputation for their spirited and technically refined interpretations of contemporary and earlier 20th century music. Several hundred string quartets and other chamber works have been written for the ensemble since its foundation by first violinist Irvine Arditti in 1974. These works have left a permanent mark on 20th century repertoire and have given the Arditti Quartet a firm place in music history. World premieres of quartets by composers such as Birtwistle, Cage, Carter, Dillon, Ferneyhough, Gubaidulina, Harvey, Hosokawa, Kagel, Kurtag, Lachenmann, Ligeti, Nancarrow, Reynolds, Rihm, Scelsi, Stockhausen and Xenakis show the wide range of music in the Arditti Quartet repertoire.

During the Malta Arts Festival The Arditti Quartet will be performing Beethoven’s notoriously difficult Große Fugue and Bartok’s 4th String Quartet. The programme also includes works by Mediterranean contemporary composers Luis de Pablo, Pascal Dusapin and Iannis Xenakis

The Arditti Quartet:
Irvine Arditti, Ashot Sarkissjan - Violins, Ralf Ehlers - Viola , Lucas Fels - Cello
www.ownvoice.com/ardittiquartet/

Arditti Quartet in Concert

Saturday 11th July
President’s Palace Courtyard, Valletta
Time: 21:30
Admission: €15

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Photo: Philippe Gontier

Triana 41010 – Puerto Flamenco

PUERTO FLAMENCO are back on the stage of the Malta Arts Festival with a brand new production Triana 41010, after a busy year of touring Europe, Australia and New Zealand. Their most ambitious creative adventure to date, Triana 41010 draws a vital spark from the legendary bohemian suburb of Seville (and the company’s postal address). Triana, the cradle of flamenco, toreros and all things Andalusian, has also been a home for the company directors Francesca Grima and Andrej Vujicic for the past 10 years, and now they wish to pay it a tribute. A feast for the senses, the production swings madly from relentless artful merrymaking to awe-inspiring solemnity, abstracting the colourful feasts, incense-laden religious pilgrimages and a day-to-day vitality so particular to this enchanting corner of the world.


The cast includes the members of the award winning EDUARDO TRASSIERRA TRIO, which is touring Spain and Europe with its unique new-tendencies-blend of contemporary flamenco, together with Malta’s international flamenco personality FRANCESCA GRIMA and JESUS HERRERA winner of the highest flamenco awards “la Perla de Cadiz” and “la Union”.

The event, supported by the Spanish Embassy, will take place over two nights, 5thand 6th of July 2009 at the attractive venue of the ARGOTTI GARDENS in Floriana as part of the Malta Arts Festival.

Dates: 5th, 6th July
Venue: Argotti Gardens – Floriana, Malta

Time 21:00

Admission: €15

Photo: Jeremy de Maria

Photo: Jeremy de Maria