Since 1952, the Festival has been one of the most emblematic and attractive cultural events in Granada, held between June and July, in the Alhambra palaces and the main monuments and corners of the city. This edition once again has the support of Acción Cultural Española.
This edition opens on the night of June 17 with a visual concert at the Palacio de Carlos V, conceived by the Granada-born filmmaker José Sánchez-Montes, with the enigmatic "Night transfigured" by Arnold Schoenberg on the lecterns, followed by the popular page by Felix Mendelssohn, based on the original text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", both performed by the City of Granada Orchestra and Choir under the direction of the renowned British conductor Paul McCreesh. This same music, sprinkled with pages of electronic music by Daniel Teruggi and Bertrand Maillot, will be replicated at the Teatro del Generalife by one of the best companies in Europe, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, directed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, reference of current dance, with his elegant and groundbreaking Le Songe (2005), on the work "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Henry Purcell's operatic version on this same Shakespearean theme, "The Fairy Queen" will be a very special musical and scenic project of the Baroque Academy of the Granada Festival, born last year in the of the Manuel de Falla Courses. It is aimed at young musicians, singers and dancers under the musical tutelage of Aarón Zapico, vocal of Carlos Mena and stage performer by Rita Cosentino. The theme of the night will also be present in other works such as Night Music, Night of the Four Moons, Sea-Nocturne by Vox Balenae or The Yellow Moon of Andalusia, by George Crumb (Contemporary Atlantic Workshop); Nights in the gardens of Spain and El amor brujo de Falla (National Orchestra of Spain); the Christmas cantata Obscura noche by the baroque composer Francisco Hernández Illana (Concerto 1700) or the Nocte program directed by Carlos Mena at the head of the Festival's Baroque Academy.
This edition opens on the night of June 17 with a visual concert at the Palacio de Carlos V, conceived by the Granada-born filmmaker José Sánchez-Montes, with the enigmatic "Night transfigured" by Arnold Schoenberg on the lecterns, followed by the popular page by Felix Mendelssohn, based on the original text of "A Midsummer Night's Dream", both performed by the City of Granada Orchestra and Choir under the direction of the renowned British conductor Paul McCreesh. This same music, sprinkled with pages of electronic music by Daniel Teruggi and Bertrand Maillot, will be replicated at the Teatro del Generalife by one of the best companies in Europe, Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo, directed by Jean-Christophe Maillot, reference of current dance, with his elegant and groundbreaking Le Songe (2005), on the work "A Midsummer Night's Dream". Henry Purcell's operatic version on this same Shakespearean theme, "The Fairy Queen" will be a very special musical and scenic project of the Baroque Academy of the Granada Festival, born last year in the of the Manuel de Falla Courses. It is aimed at young musicians, singers and dancers under the musical tutelage of Aarón Zapico, vocal of Carlos Mena and stage performer by Rita Cosentino. The theme of the night will also be present in other works such as Night Music, Night of the Four Moons, Sea-Nocturne by Vox Balenae or The Yellow Moon of Andalusia, by George Crumb (Contemporary Atlantic Workshop); Nights in the gardens of Spain and El amor brujo de Falla (National Orchestra of Spain); the Christmas cantata Obscura noche by the baroque composer Francisco Hernández Illana (Concerto 1700) or the Nocte program directed by Carlos Mena at the head of the Festival's Baroque Academy.