Between Madrid and Berlin, between the kitchen garden and the cabaret, between the traditional and the cosmopolitan, Barbiàn proposes an unorthodox journey through a genre that is no less unorthodox. The zarzuela, a form of Spanish musical theatre, takes its name from a royal residence but soon links its history to the streets, theatres and popular characters.
Ever morphing, playwright Fernando Carmena and his team take a further step in the metamorphosis of the genre by contrasting the music of Penella, Chueca and Sorozábal with a liberating contemporary sensibility. The result is a repertoire brimming with popular and suggestive essences, performed by Rodrigo Cuevas, who builds bridges between tradition and the underground, discovers links where others insist on creating divisions, and travels gracefully through the communicating vessels that form the dramaturgy of Barbiàn, halfway between history, legend, anecdote and social commentary
Cast
Performance: Rodrigo Cuevas
Artistic Direction and Dramaturgy: Fernando Carmena
Performance and Arrangements: Frank Merfort y Richard Veenstra
Costumes: Constantino Menéndez (Made by Kös)
Photography: Lukasz Michalak @EstudioPerplejo
