Production
Opera
Aliento Colectivo: Grandes Coros De La Ópera – Esplanade of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas, Guanajuato City
- Date
- Sunday, 11 October 2026
- Time
- 19:00
- Duration
- 01:10
- Venue
- Esplanade of the Alhóndiga de Granaditas
- Address
- Explanada de la Alhondiga, Zona Centro, Guanajuato, Mexico
- City
- Guanajuato City
- Organisation
- Festival Internacional Cervantino
- Price range
- 170 €
About this event
This is a joint concert presentation by the Guanajuato State Music Band and the Saltillo Opera Company. The official description centers on large opera choruses and treats the collective voice as the dramatic focus and as a means of expressing human emotion. The musical concept combines symphonic-band arrangements with chorus. Rather than presenting a complete staged opera, the event places selected choral and operatic moments from Verdi, Mascagni, and Puccini in one concert sequence. The named artistic responsibilities are the direction of the Guanajuato band by Adalberto Tovar and the direction of the Saltillo company by Alejandro Reyes-Valdés.
Cast & creative
- A
Stage director
Adalberto Tovar - A
Stage director
Adalberto Tovar - A
Stage director
Adalberto Tovar - A
Stage director
Adalberto Tovar - A
Stage director
Alejandro Reyes-Valdés - A
Stage director
Alejandro Reyes-Valdés - A
Stage director
Alejandro Reyes-Valdés - A
Stage director
Alejandro Reyes-Valdés - G
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi - T
Librettist
Temistocle Solera - P
Composer
Pietro Mascagni - G
Librettist
Giovanni Targioni-Tozzetti - G
Librettist
Guido Menasci - G
Librettist
Giovanni Verga - G
Composer
Giuseppe Verdi - G
Composer
Giacomo Puccini