Posted by: MadridMan
C(H)OEURS Ballet-Opera in Teatro Real Madrid - 03/15/12 01:48 PM
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(pssst! One of the below photos contains full rear male nudity. if you're sensitive to such things, read no further - but you don't really see anything apart from their rears. Speaking of rear-ends, this blog entry has an ending which you might - or might not - expect. What happened at the curtain-call surprised me! Also, see a couple YouTube videos at the conclusion of this blog entry)
"CHOEURS", in French, means "choirs" in English. "COEURS", in French, means "hearts". Overlap the two French words and you get "C(H)OEURS", which means something like "Choirs of Hearts" or "Heart Choirs". "C(H)OEURS" is the name of the new Alain Platel performance and is being performed at Madrid's Teatro Real - or Royal Theater or Opera House - and I witnessed it last night with my own eyes.
The tickets for our second-level up, front row seats were 80 Euros each and part of a multi-performance "bono", a specific collection of performances at Madrid's Teatro Real for this season. The cheap seats went for as little as 70 Euros while the best seats sold for 172 Euros. C(H)OEURS was listed as a ballet as the genre of the performance, but some websites call it an Opera. Hmmm.... This wasn't like any ballet or opera I've ever seen. It certainly wasn't classical ballet. And I would go so far as to say it was contemporary ballet, either, not like the Contemporary Cuban Dance ballet I saw in the Teatro Real last month, anyway. As for being an opera, well, I've seen half a dozen in my life and, while there were a couple moments of Opera-style singing, it wasn't the focus of THIS performance.
(Read on, McDuff...)
Saludos, MadridMan
(pssst! One of the below photos contains full rear male nudity. if you're sensitive to such things, read no further - but you don't really see anything apart from their rears. Speaking of rear-ends, this blog entry has an ending which you might - or might not - expect. What happened at the curtain-call surprised me! Also, see a couple YouTube videos at the conclusion of this blog entry)
"CHOEURS", in French, means "choirs" in English. "COEURS", in French, means "hearts". Overlap the two French words and you get "C(H)OEURS", which means something like "Choirs of Hearts" or "Heart Choirs". "C(H)OEURS" is the name of the new Alain Platel performance and is being performed at Madrid's Teatro Real - or Royal Theater or Opera House - and I witnessed it last night with my own eyes.
The tickets for our second-level up, front row seats were 80 Euros each and part of a multi-performance "bono", a specific collection of performances at Madrid's Teatro Real for this season. The cheap seats went for as little as 70 Euros while the best seats sold for 172 Euros. C(H)OEURS was listed as a ballet as the genre of the performance, but some websites call it an Opera. Hmmm.... This wasn't like any ballet or opera I've ever seen. It certainly wasn't classical ballet. And I would go so far as to say it was contemporary ballet, either, not like the Contemporary Cuban Dance ballet I saw in the Teatro Real last month, anyway. As for being an opera, well, I've seen half a dozen in my life and, while there were a couple moments of Opera-style singing, it wasn't the focus of THIS performance.
(Read on, McDuff...)
Saludos, MadridMan