- Thousands of people enjoy a show in which more than 240 artists have been involved.
Thousands of people enjoyed this Saturday the show “Around Beethoven’s Ninth: Rebuilding Humanity”, organized by Cáceres 2031 and which took place in the monumental city, turning it into a great stage.
Specifically, the traveling show has toured the churches of San Juan, San Mateo, Santo Domingo and Santiago, in a musical tour involving more than 240 artists and volunteers.
The event is conceived as a contemporary reading of the Ninth Symphony, inviting citizens to reflect on the human condition and the meaning of Europe in an international context marked by uncertainty and conflicts at the continent’s borders. The show has articulated the symphony by movements, distributing them on the different stages mentioned above and sharing them with Évora as a gesture of cross-border cultural collaboration. This dialogue between the two cities reinforces the European dimension of the project and symbolizes a desire for cooperation based on culture as a bridge between peoples.
With this show, Cáceres 2031 continues on its path to place culture at the center of public life, using music, European cooperation and collective work as engines to rethink the present and project a shared future.
Scottish-born Simon Sharkey, director of The Necessary Space, has been in charge of the dramaturgy. Meanwhile, the four movements have counted with:
– First Movement (San Juan Church)
Arrangement for fourteen wind instruments with musicians from the University of Évora, conducted by Jorge García Cuenllas.
– Second Movement (San Mateo Church)
Dance show under the direction and choreography of Pablo Muñoz Vizcaíno, with the collaboration of Federico Corrales Martín, teachers of the Professional Dance Conservatory “Sagrario Ruiz-Piñero” of Cáceres.
– Third Movement (Santo Domingo Church)
Artistic direction by Laura García Cáceres, with artists from Cáceres in a proposal that fuses music, acting and singing.
– Fourth Movement (Santiago Church)
Conducted by Beatriz Fernández Aucejo, with the Orquesta del Romanticismo, the Coro de Cámara de Extremadura and the Coro Contrapunto de la Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca.
