«I am very happy to have been able to work this season. It has been thanks to the contracts I had in Spain because it is the only place where it has been possible to sing. It has also been done with a great public result and without any case of covid ». Since last September Rubén Amoretti has participated in three operatic productions, half a year without a pandemic, and has been able to perform the occasional concert. It is, without a doubt, the year that has had the most work in Spain, given that international projects have been postponed or canceled.
The latest project is El rey que rabió, which premiered in Madrid on Thursday and with which the Teatro de la Zarzuela closes the season. The bass from Burgos will sing in ten of the fourteen performances of this great work of the Spanish lyrical repertoire with music by Ruperto Chapí that will be on the bill until the 20th.
In this zarzuela Amoretti plays the General, a “very nice and funny role” that requires great acting skills because it has almost more spoken text than sung. «It is a timeless montage, a fable that takes place in an imaginary country, a comic and entertaining farce that will surprise the viewer. The staging is marvelous and I am sure it will be a success », sums up the singer from Burgos, mentioning that the stage direction is in charge of Bárbara Lluch. I’ve decided to set it somewhere out of nowhere. Yesterday, today or the day after tomorrow. History repeats itself as we all know, and few things we have not seen already, “he warns in the program.
The story is that of a monarch who is tired of living in the palace and wants to know what is happening abroad, so he decides to dress as a peasant to travel incognito. The General, the role that Amoretti plays, will be his companion, a kind of faithful squire and witness to events.
In October, at the Cathedral. Besides the zarzuela, Rubén Amoretti prepares a recital for after the summer in the Gothic temple on the occasion of the VIIICentenary. He will do it with the singer Esther Roma with a repertoire “different from the usual sacred”.
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