The National Theater Museum restarts one other life | Culture | EUROtoday

After two years of transforming and enlargement, the National Theater Museum reopens its doorways within the city of Almagro (Ciudad Real) with the title of the National Museum of Performing Arts (MNAE). This heart was based in 1919 and has been reopened on a number of events. The final one, this Thursday to match World Theater Day. On this event it’s offered with a distinct identification, after a deep architectural reform and with a brand new museum plan.

The new heart belongs to the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM), Autonomous Agency of the Ministry of Culture, whose director, Paz Santa Cecilia, attended the occasion, along with different professionals in entrance of manufacturing items of this division equivalent to Alfredo Sanzol (of the CDN), Muriel Romero (additionally of the CND), Laila Ripoll (of the CNTC), Isamay Benavente (of the Teatro de la Teatro de la Zarzuela) Marina Bollaín (from CDAEM).

The opening ceremony was chaired by the King, along with the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, the president of the Community Board of Castilla-La Mancha, Emiliano García-Page, quite a few authorities from numerous fields and lots of representatives of the cultural discipline. After a go to for all of the items, the actors Ana Belén and Pedro Casablanc opened the act with the studying of the official discourse of World Theater Day written by the Greek Theodoros Terzopoulos. Together with them, many different acquainted faces, equivalent to Humberto Cornejo, Irene Pardo (director of the Almagro Festival), the director Helena Pimenta, the illuminator Juan Gómez Cornejo, the playwrights Lola Blasco and Jesús Campos, the producer Jesús Cimarro, the theatrologist Cristina Santolaria … and with a notable absence of Catalan actors.

All of them have traveled the house, guided by the director of the museum, Beatriz Patiño, and Commissioner Ángel Roger, who’ve proven a few of their most distinguished items, together with collectible figurines, fashions, sketches, images, posters, theatrical equipment and costumes of various eras. The new Museum of the Ministry of Culture arises after a restructuring of the previous National Theater Museum (which opened the dad and mom of the present king in 2004). It is a middle that stood the scenic researcher Andrés Peláez, who managed to turn into the years not solely within the director of a European State Museum that remained in workplace for extra years, but in addition in one of the vital prestigious professionals within the scenic world.

The adaptation works have allowed to extend by greater than 400 linear meters (it’s understood that of exhibition partitions) which has allowed 300 objects associated to the theater, dance, circus and lyric, from the 16 More than 17,500 objects which are jealously saved. In truth, it may well solely be uncovered fairly lower than 1% of what’s the deposit of this theater.

In this renewal, 28 acquisitions of the final two years have been added, together with purchases and deposits, and 4 items belonging to their funds that he exposes for the primary time. Although some objects that take pleasure in fame on this museum have additionally been eliminated. Among them a number of belonging to the part that was popularly referred to as “La Casquería”. In it was the center of the nice tenor Giuseppe Anselmi (one of many first sponsors of the museum) and the trachea of ​​tenor Julián Gayarre, who remained collectively by want of each. The museum has the mortuary masks of Antonio Buero Vallejo and Jacinto Benavente, in addition to the ashes of Andrés Mejuto and the occasional actor. The director of the museum, Beatriz Patiño, stated that they may not be uncovered because of the letter of dedication for the moral therapy of human stays in state museums, which impacts the 16 facilities that rely on the Ministry of Culture. That letter was printed by the Ministry on February 23 and it’s set as “general principle the public non -human remains.”

In precept, the go to is raised as an inverse chronology that begins within the twenty first century and goes again, to the Greco -Roman scenic world, but in addition teams numerous rooms by theme of various eras. Although it’s an ephemeral artwork, it’s tough to indicate materials previous to the nineteenth century that isn’t pictorial work, posters and costumes. “We also see intertwined territories that have been shared from Greece to the present day,” stated Ángel Roger, who remembers that round Euripides have converged many Spanish Medeas equivalent to Margarita Xirgu, Núria Espert (on a number of events), Ana Belén, Blanca Portillo, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón …

The new museographic conception invests the temporal order within the tour, which begins within the twenty first century, to go, on its floor flooring to the transition, with prominence for nationwide theaters and festivals of Spain, along with the impartial theater, the Republic, the Civil War and the postwar interval, within the room The Silver Age: Lorca, Luna and Blood. Valle-Inclán, Mirrors and Hold.

The tour continues with the primary a long time of the 20 th century, wherein it travels the cuplés, varieties, frivolins and southpants, and continues on the primary flooring of the constructing for the nineteenth century, which opens the room Naturalisms, historicisms and realisms. This house offers approach to romanticism, illustration and the wealthy seventeenth century. The second flooring proposes to the customer a take a look at numerous phenomena that cowl for the reason that tenth century, with the Auto of the Magi, to the XIII, with The seven video games of Alfonso X, and bounce a La Celestina, Tirant the White o The Book of Good Love, to achieve the seventeenth -century sacramental automobile. Finally, the tour proposes in its final rooms a research of nature put on the service of the performing arts by way of the 4 components.

Dramaturgy with photographs

15 movies have been included, one for every room, made by Álvaro Luna, identified specialist in these scenic lides, in order that there usually are not solely numerous supplies, but in addition generate a dramaturgy with the photographs that permits us to triple the content material of the uncovered work. In addition, Luz designer Juan Gómez Cornejo has created a sculptural and lightweight piece wherein he displays on his work for the lacking Slovenian stage director takes Pandur, a few years primarily based in Spain. Seeing this renewed house lets you be loved by specialists, researchers, students and followers, whereas having a extra accessible and simple studying for these unique discoverers of scenic artwork in essentially the most diverse features.

The everlasting MNAE assortment is constituted by the present one of many outdated museum, which has been reordered in accordance with the proposed route, and consists of items equivalent to a LOA belonging to the Sacramental Auto Andromeda and Perseo, from Calderón de la Barca (18th century), the editions of the Encylopédie, The well-known Diderot and D’Alembert dictionary, completely different works by the workshop of Giorgio Busato (1885-1895), the sketches of Salvador Dalí for Don Juan Tenorio (1949), or a mannequin of the Misteri d’Alx (1946).

The MNAE has additionally reinstated to the funds of the museum items such because the portrait of actress María Guerrero, painted by Vázquez Díaz (1933). Some new items within the everlasting assortment, which have been acquired, deposited or uncovered for the primary time within the museum, are the dance shirt and canopy booties of Miguel de Molina (between 1930 and 1960); a brief repertoire go well with Vicente Escudero (1955); the Victorina Durán portray assortment; or the portray The jester of the king, by Germán Álvarez Algeciras (1876), which brings to the gathering the one instance of courtesan theater.