Cultural Agenda


VALESA CULTURAL´S RECOMMENDED CULTURAL AGENDA
   
   
MADRID
PRADO:
View and map of Toledo by El Greco   
Until Oct 31 2010
Turner and the Masters June – September 2010
Bibliotheca Artis: Treasures from the Prado’s Library  October 2010 – January 2011 
MUSEO REINA SOFIA:
Miralda. De gustibus non disputandum  June – October 2010 
Hans Peter Feldmann September 2010 – February 2011 
Atlas November 2010 – March 2011 
THYSSEN:
Ghirlandaio and the Renaissance in Florence June – October 2010 
Impressionist Gardens  November 2010 – February 2011 
ARCO, Intl Contemporary Art Fair (Annual) February 16-20, 2011
Following Carlos Urroz’s appointment as the new director of ARCOmadrid, the 30th Anniversary Edition of ARCO will feature fewer galleries covering just two exhibition halls.  A new feature of the project is that the successive editions of the Solo Project section will be centred exclusively on Latin America. Another noteworthy introduction is that ARCOmadrid will also be lending a special focus to young galleries from emerging European countries for which it will set aside a separate space at the fair.  
   
TEATRO REAL:  OPERA
La constancia veraz / La vera costanza October 2010
Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
Lulu September – October 2010
Alban Berg (1885-1935)
Theodora October 7th 2010
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
La italiana en Argel / L’italiana in Algeri November 2010 
Gioachino Rossini (1792-1868)
Agrippina November 2 & 5, 2010 
Georg Friedrich Händel (1685-1759)
Jenufa December 2010 
Leos Janácek (1854 – 1928)
El holandés errante / Der Fliegende Holländer January 2011
Richard Wagner (1813-1883)
Andrea Chénier February 2011
Umberto Giordano (1867 – 1948)
El árbol de Diana / L’arbore di Diana March 2011
Vicente Martín y Soler (1754 – 1806)
BARCELONA
MUSEO PICASSO:
The exhibition Picasso vs. Rusiñol May – September 2010
rganized by: Museu Picasso de Barcelona and the Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges (Cau Ferrat).  Picasso expert Pierre Daix has written that the Catalan artist Santiago Rusiñol exercised a crucial influence on the young Picasso. This exhibition aims to explore this claim in depth and establish the elements of influence and confluence between the two artists by way of a comparative reading, both biographical and iconographic. Organized jointly by the Museu Picasso and Cau Ferrat in Sitges, Rusiñol-Picasso will put on show for the first time the strong links between the two artists on the basis of the thesis developed by its curator, Eduard Vallès, in his recent book Picasso i Rusiñol. La cruïlla de la modernitat (Consorci del Patrimoni de Sitges, Barcelona 2008).   
The paths of the two artists crossed at a time when their respective careers were in transition: Picasso was emerging from the academic tutelage of his father and the art schools he had attended and Rusiñol, though a highly acclaimed artist, was no longer the paradigm of modernity he had once been. When Picasso first arrived in Barcelona Rusiñol was one of the city’s most renowned artists. It is worth noting that a number of the themes the young Picasso tackled had their origin in pioneering works by Rusiñol. Picasso even painted his own versions of some of Rusiñol’s pictures, an indication the works that made of how closely he followed the older man’s work. The great attraction that Picasso was to feel for the work of El Greco throughout his life first manifested itself precisely at the time when Rusiñol was championing him. Rusiñol was also one of the first collectors of Picasso’s work and thus one of the first to perceive their value. A number of these Rusiñol Picassos are in Cau Ferrat in Sitges, the private museum founded by Rusiñol which Picasso visited on several occasions, both as a young man and in his mature years.  
   
Picasso looks at Degas  October 2010 – January 2011
MUSEO NATIONAL DE ARTE DE CATALALUNYA (MNAC):  
   
False Coinage: from Antiquity to the Euro May 2010 – May 2011 
LICEU:
Iphigenie auf Tauris  September 2010
by Christoph Willibald Gluck
Carmen Sept – Octubre 2010
by Georges Bizet
Lulu  November 2010 
Alban Berg
Into the Little Hill December 2010
George Benjamin
Falstaff December 2010
Giuseppe Verdi
Anna Bolena January, February and March 2011
Gaetano Donizetti
Parsifal February and March 2011
Richard Wagner
BILBAO:
GUGGENHEIM:  
   
Robert Rauschenberg: Gluts  February to 12 September 2010
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) had the ability to find new and often improved uses for what others tossed aside, reinvigorating detritus with a revealing second life. In Gluts (1986-95), his last sculpture series, the artist assembled metal objects such as traffic signs, exhaust pipes, radiator grilles or blinds to create complete units in which the whole becomes more than the sum of the parts.  
   
Anish Kapoor  16 March to 12 October 2010
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents a monographic exhibition on Anish Kapoor, one of the most influential sculptors on the contemporary international scene. The show was tremendously successful at the Royal Academy of Arts in London and has been organized in close collaboration with the artist.   
   
Henri Rousseau  May 25 to September 12, 2010 
One hundred years after the death of Henri Rousseau in 1910, the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, in collaboration with the Fondation Beyeler of Basel, dedicates an exhibition to the extraordinary French painter. Approximately forty masterpieces provide a sweeping review of the tremendous breadth of his artistic career and underscore Rousseau’s importance as one of the main forerunners of modern art, whose influence was destined to belie early descriptions of him as “charming, though rather odd and naïve.”   
   
BELLAS ARTES BILBAO  (Fine Arts Museum):
   
Schommer. A Retrospective Exhibition 1952-2009 February to 16 May 2010
The exhibition looks at the figure and trajectory of Alberto Schommer (Vitoria-Gasteiz, 1928), one of the most outstanding photographers.  
    
Balenciaga. Designing the limits May to September 2010
Cristóbal Balenciaga (Guetaria, Guipúzcoa, 1895–Valencia, 1972) was one of the most outstanding creative talents in fashion.  
   
LISBON
GULBENKIAN:
Larger than life by Vasco Araújo and Javier Téllez May  -  September 2010
Art Lisbon at Lisbon Congress Centre 24 – 28 Nov 2010 (annual)
Portugal’s premier contemporary art show, Art Lisbon (Arte Lisboa), attracts 60 galleries to the Lisbon Congress Centre. Join collectors, critics and art-lovers, who come to the fair to survey the latest up-and-coming talent.  Modern art aficionados are offered a glimpse into the world-renowned galleries and the artists they represent.  
 
 
 
 
   
Gulbenkian Choir October 2010 – May 2011 (annual)
The Gulbenkian Choir presents its 2009/2010 season in the Large Auditorium at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s headquarters in Lisbon. The Gulbenkian Orchestra accompanies them and many concerts feature internationally renowned conductors and soloists.  The choir was founded in 1964 and today boasts around 100 members, with a repertoire that ranges from a few people singing a cappella to larger collaborations with the Gulbenkian Orchestra. Michel Corboz has been the choral director since 1969 and is assisted by Fernando Eldoro and Jorge Matta.  
Concerts usually take place on Thursday, Friday or Saturday. For a full programme, please visit the foundation website.  
 
 
   
VALENCIA
Las Fallas Festival Mid March
Without doubt the highlight of Valencia’s calendar of events, Las Fallas is a famous festival, known throughout Spain. Literally hundreds of large models of major landmarks and buildings are paraded through the streets of the Old Quarter, and then finally burnt on huge bonfires, together with thousands of fireworks, outdoor concerts, food stalls, dancing and music. Las Fallas is a week-long festivals with plenty of things to see every day.   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
   
SEVILLE
Certamen Internacional de Guitarra Clasica Andres Segovia
First week of January
 This classical guitar competition is a popular event