said the other day I half-jokingly in the post on "Mefistofele" , which would have to go looking for alternative uses inaudible infamous Auditorium of the Palau de les Arts. But lo ! his illustrious Mayor Helga, which always likes to do everything big, has been to work and has not only sought new destinations to the Auditorium, but for the entire campus calatravil .
This week the mainstream media have collected news that Palau de les Arts has decided to rent their spaces for weddings. And it seems that the opening of this new activity will take place as early as next June 17, welcome the day when the wedding feast of football Real Madrid Valencia's Raul Albiol .
In principle, all that is profitable these cultural facilities, especially in times of crisis which we live that jeopardizes their very survival, I do not think evil, and this is not the only opera house it does. But we must recognize that the issue is a joke.
I know that not many months ago, the Valencia campus has refused to rent its rooms to similar activities of a private nature and even have multiple problems for the transfer of their rooms paid for performances musical, and now that the thing that squeezes all happens is to turn the opera house in the city in the Salons Kataoria . Which in itself is not bad, if after cleaning the rice and shreds of ties, but it would be desirable that their managers and ideologues pharaonic construction hiciesen monster show greater imagination to give an application cultural profitable a building designed for that purpose and that draws on public funds.
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long commenting is not understood how Les Arts management does not include some contributions that exist in any middling opera site and would allow better service to visitors and earn some extra income, however small, but directly related to their business, such as increasing the number of cafeteria and catering stalls or install a shop selling merchandise and his own productions released on CD or DVD and can be found in any business in Europe, but not in Casa Helga .
I would also emphasize that opts for this site to give feasts when there has always been consensus that one of the features of Les Arts is inhospitable and uninviting that are its spaces. Because I do not suppose they'll be put in the main room with a tray for each type aircraft with its menu, while following the letter of "La Conga de Jalisco" on screen for subtitles ... but anyway, that's something will need to assess the parties, as well be willing to drop $ 10,000 wing say they will charge for rent.
And eye, as "Section Weddings" de les Arts works with the same formality and precision that manages the opera performances, breaded van the couple, when instead of creamy foie give them a can of Apis and instead of Château Latour of 82 they get out a Don Simon picao .
In any case, I say it does not seem bad all that is generating income allow the survival of the opera in our city. Something different is what they think the hotel industry engaged in these activities on a cultural center financed with public money will make them competitive.
Of course, we hope that at least does not end the great Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana , or what remains of it after the season, entertain subsisting on the wedding, with Wellber in front, playing "Paquito Chocolatier" or "The Shark" .
"The magic garden of Klingsor has been found" . That was the phrase that Richard Wagner wrote on May 28, 1880 in the log book of illustrious visitors Villa Rufolo in Ravello, a small town the Campania region of Italy which had come together Paul von Joukowsky, a painter friend of a child Goethe, who had met the composer in Naples a few months before and which would be who would design the sets for the premiere of "Parsifal" .
There are different versions of the real influence that the view of the gardens of Villa Rufolo was in the final version of the great Wagnerian opera. Found from those who believe that beauty Instead of directly inspired the composer the very creation of the entire act II, which takes place at the castle and gardens Klingsor delighted, until he says that the work was nearly completed and that the written sentence did not exceed Wagner to be more than a polite example of how much he liked the location.
The truth is that Wagner began the composition "Parsifal" internal which had been ceded to Zurich by Otto von Wesendonck in April 1857 (the day Friday if we stick to what is written by the composer himself in his autobiography "Mein Leben" ). Wagner interrupt and resume the composition several times, until in 1877, and devoted himself to it until his release in 1882.
It appears that when Wagner came to Ravello design "Parsifal" differed little from the final version, at least in substance, so not very credible Act II's impressive is rewritten from the vision of Villa Rufolo . Not be ruled out that a particular element of the work could tweaked as a result of that visit, but most seem reasonable that the influence of the site be limited if the design of the scenery of this act II. In fact, it is said that it was the drawings of the gardens that made Paul von Joukowsky while visiting Villa Rufolo with Wagner, which led him to entrust the design of costumes and sets for the opera.
So I do not know what the real significance that Wagner had Ravello for the creation of "Parsifal" , but what is indisputable is the influence that history has had on the town: streets named after the composer's most colorful establishments (bars, bookstores, hotels, tourist agencies ) that are called Klingsor , Wagner Parsifal or a music festival held every year in the gardens of Villa Rufolo on a terrace on the cliff and check references to Wagner in any tourist brochure lovers.
131 years after the genius of Leipzig were to Ravello, I wanted to take my trip to the Amalfi Coast to be closer to me too Villa Rufolo . And the truth is that the visit was worth it, though no one ask me to sign a book of illustrious visitors and arose me the inspiration to dedicate to a miserable Helga pasodoble. But the experience of walking through the precinct at a time that was nearly empty, enjoying the incredible views of the coast which are from the gardens, with the vast sea in front, listening to my Ipod 's second act "Parsifal" , while a fina lluvia comenzaba a caer, fue una vivencia inolvidable y, con o sin la intervención de Klingsor , realmente mágica.
Para finalizar, como no podía ser de otra forma, os dejo con la escena de las muchachas-flor del segundo acto de “Parsifal” de Richard Wagner , en la interpretación de la Orquesta del Festival de Bayreuth dirigida por el legendario Hans Knappertsbusch en 1962, con el tenor americano Jess Thomas como Parsifal y unas Flower girls- luxury: Gundula Janowitz , Anja Silja , Else-Margrete Gardelli , Dorothea Siebert, Rita Bartos and Sona Cerveno :
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