Daroca The 47th edition of its course and ancient music festival celebrates from August 3 to 10. With an author programming and faithful to the identity of the event, the churches of San Miguel and Santo Domingo will host eight concerts starring consecrated artists and emerging young talent.
This year’s edition pays tribute to three great ephemeris of the history of music: 500 years of the birth of Palestrina, 300 years of the death of Alessandro Scarlatti and 275 years of the death of Johann Sebastian Bach. Four of the concerts will be dedicated to these figures.
The festival simultaneously develops to a course that attracts 110 musicians arriving from such varied places as Brazil, Taiwan, USA or Cuba to the capital of the Daroca Camp. Some students who have the opportunity to share knowledge with prestigious teachers such as the Italian singer Furio Zanasi, one of the great vocal music specialists of the first Italian Baroque.
Visitors who feel at home
The element that makes these courses unique is “what what they tell you in class then you see on stage,” explains the director of the festival, Javier Artigas. Many of the 20 teachers who are in the classrooms in the morning are the protagonists of the free concerts that take place at 8:00 p.m. every day of the festival.
The expectation for these classes is such that it overflows Daroca’s accommodation capacity. In the shelter only 50 people can spend which many of those who move to the town “share housing with Darocenses because they have been coming for so many years that they feel at home,” says the mayor, Michel García.
Daroca’s International Music Festival Program
Sunday, August 3
Il Gradino d’A Amore. Mediterrània Consort.
Monday, August 4
Wind salad. Mateo Soler Academy.
Tuesday, August 5
Madrigali, Toccate, Arie, Passacagli, Cantate e Partiti Diverse. Fuerio Zanasi (tenor), Juan Carlos de Mulder (Archilaus) and Javier Artigas (organ and key).
Wednesday, August 6
Follow some prenestin, honor and crown music of the musicians of Italy. The big chapelle.
Thursday, August 7
Canzoni Ovvero Sonate Concertant. Enrico Gatti (violin) and Luca Scandali (organ).
Friday, August 8
German music for Viola da Braccio. The Royal Chamber.
Saturday, August 9
Cavalieri, give me e sparvieri. The Reverdie.
*23.00 hours: Traditional procession of ministriles.
Sunday, August 10
Per Aspera ad astram. Alfonso Sebastián (key).
