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Alfred Brendel En El Ciclo De Scherzo A AÑO XXI - Nº 212 - Octubre 2006 - 6,30 € 2 OPINIÓN SCHERZO DISCOS Sumario 65 CON NOMBRE PROPIO DOSIER 8 Benjun Mehta Temporadas de ópera Pablo J. Vayón 2006-2007 113 10 Arcadi Volodos Rafael Ortega Basagoiti ENCUENTROS Susanna Mälkki 12 AGENDA Bruno Serrou 144 20 EDUCACIÓN ACTUALIDAD Pedro Sarmiento 150 NACIONAL 42 JAZZ ACTUALIDAD Pablo Sanz 152 INTERNACIONAL LIBROS 154 60 ENTREVISTA Gustavo Dudamel LA GUÍA 156 Juan Antonio Llorente CONTRAPUNTO 64 Discos del mes Norman Lebrecht 160 Colaboran en este número: Javier Alfaya, Julio Andrade Malde, Iñigo Arbiza, Rafael Banús Irusta, Emili Blasco, Alfredo Brotons Muñoz, José Antonio Cantón, Rodrigo Carrizo Couto, Rafael Díaz Gómez, Pedro Elías Mamou, José Luis Fernández, Fernando Fraga, José Antonio García y García, Manuel García Franco, Mario Gerteis, Herbert Glossner, Franz Gratl, Boris Michael Gruhl, José Guerrero Martín, Fernando Herrero, Leopoldo Hontañón, Bernd Hoppe, Norman Lebrecht, Juan Antonio Llorente, Fiona Maddocks, Santiago Martín Bermúdez, Enrique Martínez Miura, Aurelio Mar- tínez Seco, Blas Matamoro, Marco Antonio Molín Ruiz, Miguel Morate, Juan Carlos Moreno, Antonio Muñoz Molina, Manuel Navarro Martí- nez, Miguel Ángel Nepomuceno, Rafael Ortega Basagoiti, Josep Pascual, Enrique Pérez Adrián, Paolo Petazzi, Francisco Ramos, Arturo Reverter, Barbara Röder, Stefano Russomanno, Pablo Sanz, Pedro Sarmiento, Bruno Serrou, Franco Soda, José Luis Téllez, Asier Vallejo Ugarte, Claire Vaquero Williams, Pablo J. Vayón, Juan Manuel Viana, Albert Vilardell, Carlos Vílchez Negrín. Redacta el dosier Fernando Fraga Traducciones: Rafael Banús Irusta (alemán) - Fernando Fraga (italiano) - Barbara McShane (inglés) - Juan Manuel Viana (francés) Impreso en papel 100% libre de cloro PRECIO DE LA SUSCRIPCIÓN: Esta revista es miembro SCHERZO es una publicación de carácter plu- por un año (11 Números) de ARCE, Asociación de ral y no pertenece ni está adscrita a ningún España (incluido Canarias) 63 €. Revistas Culturales de organismo público ni privado. La dirección respeta la libertad de expresión de sus colabo- Europa: 98 €. España, y de CEDRO, radores. Los textos firmados son de exclusiva EE.UU y Canadá 112 €. Publicación Centro Español de responsabilidad de los firmantes, no siendo Méjico, América Central y del Sur 118 €. subvencionada por: Derechos Reprográficos. por tanto opinión oficial de la revista. 1 OPINIÓN EDITORIAL SIEMPRE LA ÓPERA N ue un arte tan aparentemente fuera de la realidad como es la ópera siga suscitando pasiones en terrenos tan distintos — pero tan ligados— como el puramente musical o el estricta- mente económico dice mucho de su vitalidad. Siempre en Ó Q crisis pero siempre vivo, el teatro lírico forma parte esencial de la cul- tura moderna, con sus propuestas, sus cambios, sus aciertos y sus fra- I casos a la búsqueda de una nueva forma de ser. El dosier que dedicamos este mes a las programaciones de las más importantes temporadas de ópera revela, aunque sólo sea por su extensión, la evidencia de esa vitalidad sostenida muchas veces tanto N en la permanencia de sus valores más tradicionales como en la lucha, en ocasiones violenta, por ponerlos al día. Y esa es la pregunta clave I que se hacen muchos aficionados a la ópera y no digamos los respon- sables de complacerles: ¿es realmente posible cambiar las cosas haciendo de aquélla un espectáculo capaz de evolucionar en lo escé- P nico paralelamente a como lo va haciendo en lo musical? Ese es el gran debate por no llamarlo la gran polémica. Es verdad que muchas veces los directores de escena parecieran estar por encima del propio compositor —ni que decir tiene con respecto al libretista—, llegando a O generar, incluso, un nuevo manierismo de lo que quiere ser moderno a toda costa que acaba por hacer que sus propuestas sean recibidas bajo una etiqueta demasiado homologadora. Pero también lo es que los mejores de entre ellos han aportado un componente crítico, una especie de dialéctica casi permanente que sirve para mantener alerta el interés por un arte que no puede ser —ni siquiera parecer— una antigualla a los ojos de las jóvenes generaciones. La ópera es a veces muy poco creíble, requiere en ocasiones una distancia demasiado conmiserativa como para convencer a un joven aspirante a aficionado. Tengámoslo en cuenta a la hora de revisar dónde estamos, no sea que en poco tiempo nos encontremos con que seguimos siendo los mis- mos —pero mayores y más fríos— viendo las mismas cosas, juzgando con el escrúpulo de siempre el agudo de toda la vida en un patio de butacas que nos tiene demasiado vistos. Nuestro dosier presenta también, en su suma de propuestas, la rea- lidad de las nuevas generaciones de cantantes —entre ellos algunos españoles que son ya una realidad espléndida. Otra eterna polémica en esto de la ópera, donde, como es sabido y aunque no siempre sea cierto, cualquier tiempo pasado fue mejor. Este verano nos dejaron nada menos que Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Léopold Simoneau y Astrid Varnay y al recordar a cada uno de ellos todo un mundo parece cerrarse con su muerte. Incluyendo, desde lue- go, a la más joven, a Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, maravillosa haendeliana que representaba en gran medida los intereses de una generación rigurosa en lo técnico, creíble en la presencia escénica, de una muy buena formación estrictamente musical y que se empeñó en la recu- peración de una parte demasiado olvidada de un repertorio que hoy, no tan curiosamente, ocupa una parte de primera importancia en la programación de muchos grandes y pequeños teatros. No falta, por supuesto, el repaso a las temporadas españolas o, lo que es lo mismo, la constatación de que estamos en un presente esti- mulante y, a la vez, retador. Porque la ópera está viva y sigue apasio- nando a sus fieles. Y lo hará, qué duda cabe, por mucho tiempo más. Se acabaron los tres tenores y el absurdo de que, cual desinteresados promotores de la cultura, atraían nuevos aficionados a los teatros. Son estos y sus gestores quienes deben luchar con las armas de la inteli- gencia para que la ópera no muera un día víctima de la misma mano que hoy le da de comer. 2 OPINIÓN La música extremada ÓPERA CHICA Diseño de portada Argonauta Foto portada: n el agosto algo espectral de Mathias Bothor. Madrid —zanjas, calor, turistas, DG mugre, emigrantes ilegales— reco- braban su plena ciudadanía los Edita: SCHERZO EDITORIAL S.L. Eespectros de Adiós a la bohemia, la zar- C/Cartagena, 10. 1º C 28028 MADRID zuela desgarrada a la que Pablo Sorozá- Teléfono: 913 567 622 bal y Pío Baroja llamaron ópera chica, FAX: 917 261 864 Internet: www.scherzo.es aunque también podrían haberla llama- E mail: do con más exactitud esperpento sono- Redacción: [email protected] ro. Escuchando en el Teatro Español la Administración: [email protected] música de Sorozábal, el libreto prodigio- Presidente so de Baroja, uno reconocía la estética Santiago Martín Bermúdez rigurosa del esperpento, según la enun- ció Valle-Inclán, y comprendía algo en lo que no había reparado antes, que los chafarrinones de barata litografía popu- REVISTA DE MÚSICA lar del género chico habían sido ingre- dientes cruciales en los orígenes del Director Luis Suñén invento dramático de don Ramón. Baro- ja era poco amigo de reconocer influen- Redactor Jefe Enrique Martínez Miura cias, pero el Madrid de su libreto es el Edición mismo Madrid “absurdo, brillante y Arantza Quintanilla hambriento” de Luces de bohemia, y en Maquetación ese café siniestro en el que se despiden Iván Pascual el pintor fracasado y la mujer perdida, Fotografía contra un fondo de espejos turbios y Rafa Martín figuras estáticas bajo la luz de gas, nos Secciones parece que en cualquier momento pue- leñas, componiendo una fuga para un Discos: den irrumpir el ciego errante Max Estre- coro de haraganes de café y convirtien- Juan Manuel Viana lla y su perro o lazarillo infame, don do la aparición cruenta de un chulo de Educación: Pedro Sarmiento Latino de Hispalis. Valle-Inclán había putas en paseíllo amenizado por un Jazz: descubierto que la degradación de la tachunda de pasodoble torero. Estética Pablo Sanz vida española sólo podía reflejarse y ética, burla y desgarro, se yuxtaponen Libros: mediante unas formas verbales igual- en el relato de un crimen comprimido Enrique Martínez Miura mente degradadas y en sí mismas cari- en los compases del chotis: despojados Página Web caturescas, la retórica de la mala políti- de dignidad por la miseria, los infortu- Iván Pascual ca, del periodismo venal, del modernis- nios de los pobres se vuelven tan paró- Consejo de Dirección mo encanallado, de un lenguaje popular dicos como las formas musicales que Javier Alfaya, Manuel García Franco, Santiago Martín Bermúdez, contaminado por la ignorancia y por el animan sus ocasiones de diversión, Enrique Pérez Adrián, populismo zarzuelero y taurino, por las igual que la tragedia de don Friolera se Pablo Queipo de Llano Ocaña y Arturo Reverter exageraciones sanguinarias de las cróni- volvía esperpento en un teatrillo de títe- Departamento Económico cas de asesinatos de los periódicos y de res de cachiporra. Incluso la melodía José Antonio Andújar los romances de ciegos. El censo de más noble cobra un reverso de escar- Departamento de publicidad personajes de los esperpentos es el mis- nio, porque el coro de mujeres que can- Cristina García-Ramos (coordinación) mo que el de La Gran Vía o La verbena tan a la Luna no es el de las ninfas de [email protected] Magdalena Manzanares de la Paloma: la gente pobre y fantásti- un bosque o de un río sagrado, sino un [email protected] ca que baila viajas danzas centroeurope- grupo de prostitutas que salen de noche DOBLE ESPACIO S.A. [email protected] as descoyuntadas en el tránsito del a rondar las esquinas.
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