Maria Dolores Padilla Olbathe acting director of the Teatro Principal de Alicante, will be the herald of the Alicante Holy Week in 2023. A celebration that this year will also have the Teatro Principal as standard bearer on its 175th anniversary. Holy Week is celebrated in 2023 between April 2, with Palm Sunday and April 9, Easter Sunday, and the proclamation will take place on Saturday, February 25, at the Teatro Principal itself.
Padilla Olba has more than forty years of experience in culture and was also a councilor for the Alicante City Council with the Popular Party. The acting director of the Teatro Principal was standard-bearer of Holy Week in 2007 and has written articles for the official magazine, in addition to being the exaltator of numerous brotherhoods and brotherhoods and having participated as a jury in various events both during Holy Week and the Bonfires.
The President of the Holy Week Board, alfredo lopishas highlighted Padilla Olba that she is “from Alicante by adoption, but from Alicante to the last fiber of her bones” and has pointed out that she will “a wonderful tandem between herald and standard-bearer with the Teatro Principal“.
renowned musicians
The proclamation of Holy Week 2023 will have the participation of one of the greatest artists of Holy Week nationwide, the musician Abel Moreno. Author of hundreds of musical compositions, his most important work is “the early morning“, which “sounds in all the processions of all the towns”, as Llopis has recalled, who has also pointed out that it is the “Most recognized Holy Week composer in Spain“.
The composer Abel Moreno will perform six of his works at the Teatro Principal
The musician will attend the proclamation at the Teatro Principal where he will direct six of his best-known procession marches, including “La madrugá”. Besides, the band of the Carolinas Cultural and Sports Societydirected by Jaume Pascual Sirera, will be in charge of interpreting the other great block of musical compositions, among them the “Plegaria Alicantina”, original by Francisco Grau Vegara, the Official Hymn of Holy Week in Alicante. In addition, those of Alicante, the Valencian Community and Spain.
After the proclamation, the March 12will be carried out traditional tamborrada which will start from the Plaza de Santa María and in which hundreds of people from different musical groups will participate. The renowned artistJosé Espadero will be in charge of performing the touch of honor of the drumming
Alicante laughs at José Espadero
Alfredo Llopis and Felipe Sanchisdelegate of Music for Holy Week in Alicante, have highlighted their “deep satisfaction and honor” because “a historical personality, a living legend of Holy Week and of music in Spain, shares the proclamation in 2023”, in addition to the personalities of María Dolores Padilla and José Espadero.
The Councilor for Fiestas in Alicante, Manuel Jimenezrecalled that Holy Week in Alicante is classified as of national tourist interest and added that “the good gastronomy and the weather that accompany us also serve to deseasonalize tourism, where Easter is essential”.
Concerts
The Junta Mayor has also announced the programming of two concerts scheduled for March 10 and 17, both in the Co-Cathedral of San Nicolás. The first of them, “The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross”, will begin at 8:00 p.m. and will be performed by the Almus Quartet, made up of Vincent Anton y Francesc Navalquillo (violins); John Octavius (viola) and Francisco Pastor (cello).
“The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross” was composed by Joseph Haydn for the Cathedral of Cádiz in 1786. It was intended for the recitation of this prayer performed by the Brotherhood of the Holy Cave during Good Friday. It consists of an overture, seven sonatas, and a brief rapid finale that is interspersed with the last seven sentences that Jesus Christ pronounced before dying. “It is one of the great works of music of all time. that we people from Alicante will be able to enjoy again after many years without it having been played in this city”, explained Sanchís.
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The Municipal Symphonic Band will be the protagonist of the Concert organized by the Junta Mayor on Friday, March 17, at the Co-Cathedral, from 8:15 p.m.. Marches related to Alicante brotherhoods and brotherhoods will be interpreted. These will be: “Convocatoria” (José Aparicio), the premiere of “Miracle of Holy Tuesday” (José Fuentes), “Habanera de los Dolores” (César J. Gómez and Fernando Candela), “La chicotá” (Elías Ibáñez), “Virgen de la Alegría” (Miguel Ángel Ivorra), “In memory of an angel” (José Torregrosa), “Penas del Nazareno” (Rubén Jordán), “Ecce-Homo de Alicante” (Luis Molina), “Alicante Nazarena” (Francisco Grau) and “Plegaria a la Santa Faz” (Moisés Davia), which coincides with the 534th Anniversary of the Miracle of the Holy Face.
Way of the Cross
The president of the Junta Mayor has also explained that the presentation of the newsletter El Capuchino will take place on February 22 in Pozos de Garrigós. The official Via-crucis of Holy Week has been scheduled for March 3 and in it the image of the Christ of the Youthof the Brotherhood of the Santa Cena, and for March 5 the National Band Contest. The invited musical groups will be those of Santa Cruz de los Espejos (Archena), Santo Sepulcro (Oliva) and La Verónica (Tobarra). They will depart, respectively, from the squares of Spain, Luceros and Montañeta to converge in the one of the City Hall, where the concert will be held.
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