The director of the Granada International Music and Dance Festival, Antonio Moral, assures that he will not renew his five-year contract and that this will be his last edition in office.
At a press conference to present the poster for the 73rd edition of the Festival, Moral explained that he already conveyed his decision yesterday, Wednesday, during the meeting of the Governing Council to approve this year's programming and budget.
His decision, he said, is not to renew his contract beyond July 31, when this edition of the Festival will conclude, at the head of which he has been for five years "not exempt from vicissitudes," he noted in reference to the difficulties it entailed. its celebration in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic.
He leaves with "the honor and the conviction of having tried to do a good job" in a city to which he will continue to be linked in one way or another. "There are stages in life that open and others that close," he said after asking that "further interpretations" not be made of his decision.
Moral says he has asked the institutions that make up the Governing Council that the transfer to his successor be done as quickly as possible because the 2025 edition must be scheduled, at the head of which he will no longer be.
After thanking the institutions and sponsors for their work, he said that the International Music and Dance Festival is the most important thing this city has and must therefore be "above personalisms."
It was on December 18, 2019 when Antonio Moral, with extensive experience both in festival management and in public management at the head of organizations with international projection, assumed the direction of the Granada Festival, replacing orchestra director Pablo Heras. -Married.
This Thursday, Moral presided over the presentation of the poster for this 73rd edition, the work of the artist María TeresaMartín-Vivaldi. This is a painting from one of his series about the Sierra Nevada, which the Festival wants to highlight as this year marks the 25th anniversary of the National Park.
The painting, titled 'Last Lights', is the memory of the fleeting moment of dusk when the snow turns pink and that light "gentle and delicate like a roe deer envelops the entire landscape of Granada", according to its author.
The Fex and Manuel de Falla Courses posters have also been presented, also works by Martín-Vivaldi and which reflect the varied changes in color and light of the Sierra Nevada.
During the event, the mayor of Granada, Marifrán Carazo, stated that the international festival should serve to consolidate this city's aspiration to be European cultural capital in 2031.
