From today until next 16 February, the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid (calle de Jovellanos, 4) presents the fun and famous work La corte del faraón, with the adaptation of Emilio Sagi and maestro Carlos Aragón to the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid. Foto: ©Elena del Real.
This zarzuela, fun, transgressive and at the same time essential, marked a transition from the boy genre to the musical to the Spanish. The montage that now comes to the stage of the plazuela of Teresa Berganza is the same one from 2012 signed by Emilio Sagi and co-produced by the theatres Arriaga de Bilbao, Campoamor de Oviedo and Canal de Madrid, which since that premiere has not ceased to achieve successes and parabienes.
The cast will be made up of authentic figures of the Spanish lyric as María Rey-Joly, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton or Luis Cansino, among others.
The Franco censorship banned the performance of the work for four decades. The excellent score by Vicente Lleó -with many musical numbers installed in the collective memory- and the libretto signed by Guillermo Perrín and Miguel de Palacios, described in his day as “sicalyptic”, and presented in version of the same Emilio Sagi and Enrique Viana, is a combination of zarzuela, operetta and magazine that has achieved great fame over the 115 years since its premiere at Madrid’s Teatro Eslava on 21 January 2010. Tickets (almost all sold) can be purchased at this link.
