Juventus Lyrica returns to the Avenida Theater with an opera party

“The idea is to meet the public, try restarting the engines. And, little by little, we will see where we are forming. Juventus Lyrica has always been an organization that has reoriented and reshaped itself in what it does, “says María Jaunarena.

Jaunarena is the executive director of Juventus Lyrica, the body promoted by Ana D’Anna, who he’s recovering face to face after two years dedicated to training through virtuality.

During the pandemic, Juventus Lyrica has also included, through the scholarship system and the Centro d’Arte Solidale Argentina, vulnerable neighborhoods. Some of the fellows who participated decided to continue their education at the Teatro Colón or the Universidad Nacional de Arte.

New theater and big party

With the renovated Avenida TheaterJuventus is about to get back on track this Friday 1 July with Great opera party! And it promises “a real opera marathon”.

-I guess there must be a lot of adrenaline around the meeting with the audience after two years. What are your expectations for this reopening?

– We are happy to return after two years of complete closure. We come with a lot of joy and adrenaline; and also with the pain following. The pandemic has taken Antonio Russo, he was the musical director of Juventus Lyrica and the one who gave the association its name.

The Gala is in charge of Hernán Sánchez Arteaga, Antonio’s student, and Hernán Schwartzman, also Antonio’s student and currently residing in the Netherlands, will be the guest conductor. All the solo singers who will participate were also trained with Antonio. This reopening is a tribute dedicated to him.

-How would you define Juventus’ mission today?

-Juventus Lyrica still has the starting guide, which he has to do with train and give professional performance opportunities to young artists. and public form, which is the other stage of everything we do, with children and with schools. To train spectators but in the broadest sense of spectator, not for the fact of spreading the taste for classical music, but for a more complete training.

-What would it consist of?

-The theater, I would say, also plays a role as a citizen as a mirror of humanity, as William Shakespeare said. Y has the ability to present millions of conflicts to the viewer that authors and composers raised three and four hundred years ago, and are the same ones that pass through us. In this sense, it makes us feel part of a larger group.

– What will the grand opening party consist of?

-El reencuentro is a mega potpourri of thirty numbers of different works and repertoires, joined in a random way. They are not linked by periods nor do they have an educational purpose. None of this. Simply we wanted to share and celebrate with the public many of the fragments that we have liked the most in these twenty years.

There is an orchestra with twenty musicians, plus a piano, and there are 15 soloists and around 18 or 20 choir members. It’s a great show in the sense that it’s not a gala with four singers, but It is a show that has a very varied repertoire and with very different artists to deal with this whole repertoire.

No season 2022

-As for the assembly of the season this year, what happened?

This year there will be no season. The pandemic has also brought some stability to organizations and it is now difficult for us to plan a three-game season like we did before. We intend to do an opera in the second halfbut this year there won’t be a three-title season, as everyone has known for many, many years.

-Do you notice that there is a greed of the public to reconnect with the artistic proposals?

Yes. I notice. We got a lot of answers as soon as we said we would be back. There was a lot of movement. It reminded me a little of the year 2002, which was a year of tremendous crisis. Argentina was really ironic, yet everyone went to the theater. There is a need for catharsis, to get in touch with another reality. The role of art, right? It has that ability to shoot a different mirror.

– Do you think the prejudice that opera is an art for an elite is still valid?

-I get the feeling that, more than that, prejudice has to do with other things, like not knowing the dress code or when to clap. It seems to me that the prejudice to be overcome is another and it has more to do with “I’ll be bored; I’m not going to understand … how long the work lasts “. It seems to me that it is more on that side than due to a class problem.

-The problem of impatience for the duration of things runs through all classes.

-Of course. We can’t even tolerate listening to an audio message on WhatsApp at speed one. Whenever I invite someone who has never been to the opera, the question “how long” is “the” question. And I understand, sitting suddenly for two or three hours in a show with our speed and our inability to reflect is difficult.

The depth is somewhat reduced. Opera takes time to develop content and they are very deep content that takes some time. In this sense, I like to devote myself to a genre that takes it upon itself to revisit the past over and over again, because I’m not so sure the present has progressed in all aspects of life.

Information

Juventus Lyrica presents The great opera festivala show with arias from famous titles by Verdi, Mozart, Puccini, Bizet, Donizetti and Offenbach, among others.

He has the musical direction of Hernán Sánchez Arteaga, the direction of Ana D’Anna and María Jaunarena and the guest musical director is Hernán Schvartzman.

The singers Monserrat Maldonado, Constanza Díaz Falú, Marcelo Gómez, Carolina Gómez, Darío Sayegh, Pablo Urban, Laura Penchi, Juan Salvador Trupia, Juan Font, Rocío Arbizu, Gabriel Carasso, Ivana Ledesma, Ernesto Bauer and Eugenia Fuente will participate.

The shows are on Friday 1st July and Saturday 2nd July at 8.00pm and Sunday 3rd July at 5.30pm. At the Avenida Theater (Av. De Mayo 1222). Tickets: 800 to 5200 pesos, cash and Visa and Amex cards. From Monday to Friday, from 12 to 16 Av. Callao 1016, 4 ° A 4812-4777 / 5051

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