The Palau de la Música de València will experience this Thursday, October 5, one of its most special days as it reopens to the public, after four years closed and without musical activity in its rooms. The mayor of València, María José Catalá, accompanied by the Councilor for Culture José Luis Moreno and the director of the Palau, Vicente Llimerá, will preside over the reopening concert, which will begin at 7:30 p.m. in the Sala Iturbi and will be starred by the Valencia Orchestra. Previously, starting at six in the afternoon, the reopening will be preceded by several musical and choreographic acts in various spaces of the Valencian auditorium, starring Valencian musicians and dancers.
The Valencia Orchestra, which returns to the Sala Iturbi after four years of traveling in other venues such as Les Arts, Teatro Principal, Almudín or Rambleta, will perform the traditional commemorative concert on the occasion of the Valencian Community Day, which will be conducted by the maestro Valencian Álvaro Albiach, and in which the figure of the maestro José Serrano will be remembered, on the 150th anniversary of his birth. The soprano Maite Alberola and the mezzo-soprano Sandra Ferrández will be the voices that interpret the various romances and songs that appear in the repertoire.
In this way, in this concert, dedicated to season ticket holders and Friends of the Palau, the public will be able to hear the Fantasy on Serrano motifs by Ricardo Lamote de Grignon; the romance Girls Who Sell Flowers from Francisco Asenjo Barbieri's The Diamonds of the Crown, as well as from Maestro Serrano, What Do You Care If It Doesn't Come from Los Clanches, Scene and Farruca from Alma de Dios, Venetian Song from The Car of the Sun and the recovery of the song La Valenciana, with arrangements by Ramón Ahulló.
In the second half you can hear a selection of arias from the famous opera Carmen by Georges Bizet and the rhythmic and folkloric Danzas de Galanta by Zoltan Kodály. The program will conclude with the Anthem of the Valencian Community composed by José Serrano, with lyrics by Maximiliano Thous and then, in the Palau Gardens, a fireworks display will take place.
In this way, the activity is restarted at the Palau de la Música, which will continue the next day, Friday, October 6, with the repetition of the same program as this Thursday, without the previous activities, and which will be dedicated to the citizenship.
Later, on Sunday the 8th, it will be the Municipal Symphony Band who will perform another commemorative concert of October 9, together with the natives Xavier Ricart and Cristina Martí, the tenor Vicente Ombuena and the Colla Mosaic of the Municipal Conservatory José Iturbi, under the direction by Miquel Rodrigo and Tamarit. The public will be able to listen to works by Pascual Villaplana, Ferrer Ferran, Asins Arbó and Murillo.
The expectation generated by the reopening of the Palau de la Música has been manifested in the fact that, in practically two days, the tickets for the first two concerts scheduled by the Valencia Orchestra, and one by the Municipal Symphonic Band, have been sold out. . Specifically, 5,350 people will attend these concerts that commemorate Valencian Community Day.
