On 10 and 11 July, at 7 p.m., the Museo del Prado auditorium will host a performance entitled El socorro de Cádiz: aires de carnaval, the result of the project The hall of kingdoms staged in the Museo del Prado, with the collaboration of the Fundación Carlos de Amberes, the Instituto del Teatro de Madrid (UCM) and the Museo del Prado.
The play recounts the unfortunate Anglo-Dutch attack on Cadiz, where foreign troops were drunk at the gates of the city. With a unique staging, the representation merges two seemingly distant areas: the epic and warlike character of classical works and the chirigota and carnival of Cádiz, which reveal the tension and irony of this satire.
Tickets already for sale at the ticket offices and on the website of the Prado Museum. From the ticket sales page you select the days 10 or 11 of July and in the option “More tickets” you can find the tickets.
By 1625, the war between the Spanish monarchy and those of Holland and England had spread throughout the globe: the Valtellina valley, Genoa, San Salvador de Bahía in Brazil and Cadiz, where the Dutch and English tried to take over the city. The luck was cast and it seemed that the highest chance that saw the times… only that practically no Cádiz heard because this sort of “invincible armada” got drunk at the gates of the city. The golden epic was dissolved in a baroque chirigota.
The staging of El socorro de Cádiz: aires de carnaval part of the painting La Defensa de Cádiz contra los ingleses, by Francisco de Zurbarán (1634), in the photo, and of the works El socorro de Cádiz, by Juan Pérez Montalbán, and La fe no ha pedir armas y venida del inglés a Cádiz, of Rodrigo de Herrera, in a kind of baroque chirigota with many doses of comparsa, carnival and fun. Tickets can be purchased at this link.