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IV Lanzarote Opera Festival | Recital de Zarzuela
The IV Festival de Ópera de Lanzarote opens its doors with a Zarzuela Gala that turns the Teatro Municipal de Tías into the epicentre of the Spanish lyric genre on Saturday 25th October 2025 at 19:00.
The event brings together the energy of a living tradition with the pulse of an island that celebrates culture as a place of encounter, shared joy and authentic emotion. On stage, the Alicante soprano Carmen Mateo, one of the most promising voices on the Spanish scene, the Colombian mezzo-soprano Andrea Niño and the Valencian baritone Manuel Mas, one of the most sought-after lyric professionals by the main festivals and seasons in Spain, will dialogue with the piano of the Lanzarote-born Ernesto Alemán to trace a vibrant journey through essential pages of our scene.
The evening offers the theatrical flavour of the sainete lírico La revoltosa by Ruperto Chapí, along with such beloved titles as El dúo de La africana by Manuel Fernández Caballero, El barberillo de Lavapiés by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri and Luisa Fernanda de Federico Moreno Torroba, works that have accompanied generations of audiences and which, each time they are played again, reaffirm their capacity to move, to make people laugh and to bring together families, friends and music lovers in the same collective breath. All under the artistic direction of the Lanzarote-born Pancho Corujo.
This Gala de Zarzuela, which opens the IV Festival de Ópera de Lanzarote with the support of the Government of the Canary Islands, Área de Cultura del Cabildo de Lanzarote and the Ayuntamiento de Tías, is a direct invitation to live the whole experience: the proximity of the voices, the dramatic intensity of each number, the nobility of the piano in a hall that favours attentive listening and full enjoyment. It is not just a matter of remembering well-known melodies, but of rediscovering them in the present, with performers in their artistic prime capable of illuminating each melodic twist and each scenic gesture, and of transforming a concert night into a shared celebration of our cultural identity.
In this encounter, zarzuela beats naturally: it sparkles in the dialogue, touches in its intimate moments and bursts forth in ensembles that leave the applause resounding beyond the curtain, like an echo that accompanies the audience back home.
Those who love opera and those who wish to approach this universe for the first time will find in Tías an open door to a repertoire that combines humour, lyricism and closeness, a programme designed for all ages and for all tastes, with the artistic quality that characterises the Fundación Nino Díaz and with the warmth of an audience that already recognises the festival as an essential date on the island’s cultural calendar.
Tickets are available from Ecoentradas, and the recommendation is clear: secure your place as soon as possible so as not to miss a phenomenal evening, one of those that remain in the memory for the perfect sum of music, emotion and community. Because the Gala de Zarzuela of the IV Festival de Ópera de Lanzarote is not just a concert: it’s a celebration of the art that unites us, a celebration of the Spanish lyric genre that renews tradition and projects it into the future with the unmistakable brilliance of great occasions.
