La Maestranza opens the season this Sunday with the return of Morante | Culture | EUROtoday

With the brand new summer season and if the climate doesn’t stop it (the climate forecast predicts a brand new wet day), this Easter Sunday the bullfighting season in Seville formally opens, and with it the April Fair of 2024. At six and half within the afternoon, as is conventional, the bugles will sound and the staff door will open in order that Morante de la Puebla, Sebastián Castella and Roca Rey will seem within the area, who will struggle bulls from the Hermanos García Jiménez ranch.

With all certainty, the strains of La Maestranza, with or with out solar, will seem filled with spectators (the 'no tickets' signal can be hung on the ticket places of work), desirous to examine the emotional state of Morante de la Puebla, who He was discharged on the seventeenth as a result of well being issues from which it appears he has fortunately recovered. Along with the Sevillian bullfighter would be the Frenchman Sebastián Castella and the Peruvian Roca Rey, two bullfighters who got here out on shoulders final yr by means of the Puerta del Príncipe.

After this celebration, the bulls will return the next Sunday, April 7, the date on which Lama de Góngora, Ruiz Muñoz and Calerito will face a bullfight by Fermín Bohórquez and can search for a victory that can enable them to get out of their present scenario, missing in contracts. And on Tuesday, the ninth, the continual cycle of bullfights will start till Sunday the twenty first, during which the Miura bulls will put the completion to the April Fair of 2024. In whole, 14 bullfights and a bullfighting present.

Before the doorways of the Sevillian plaza open, at twelve within the morning this Sunday the proclamation of the bullfighting truthful, which reaches its fortieth version, is introduced and can be held on the Maestranza theater, positioned a couple of meters from the ring. Sevillian. Invited by the Royal Maestranza de Caballería of Seville, proprietor of the plaza, the French anthropologist François Zumbiehl will take the stage to sing the April Fair, and can be introduced by the author and bullfighting critic Andrés Amorós.