The Cáceres Classical Theater Festival brings Molière and the music of Corelli and Händel on Sunday

Molière’s ‘El avaro’ returns to the Cáceres Classical Theater Festival. It will be performed this Sunday at half past ten in the Plaza de Las Veletas. The company that brings him to Cáceres is Morboria, who points out that ‘El avaro’ talks about the disease that money can produce: greed, blindness, paranoia, anguish, the impossibility of living quietly and being happy, mixed with laughter and reflection. “Molière – explains the company -, a meticulous observer of his time, has left us portraits of his century that have passed through time and roam freely in our cities and villages.” Remember that next year will be 400 years since the birth of the genius.

This Sunday there will also be another show, at eight thirty in the afternoon, in the courtyard of the Tatiana Pérez de Guzmán el Bueno Foundation.

The Badajoz Baroque Orchestra will perform the Opus 6 concerts number 1 and number 8, by Arcangelo Corelli, and the Opus 6 concerts number 1 and number 12, by Georg Friedrich Händel.

The Baroque Orchestra of Badajoz was founded in 2018, under the direction of the harpsichordist Santiago Pereira, a professor at the Bonifacio Gil conservatory in the Badajoz capital, and emphasizes the influence of the Italian composer’s concerts in Europe, where he served as a model for others authors like Händel.

Corelli was one of the most famous and influential musicians of his time and spent most of his career in Rome, composing exclusively instrumental music. He was honored by Händel, who although of German origin developed a large part of his career in London, and traveled to Italy to learn the new style that was developing in that territory.

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The weekend is intense in activities within the Classical Theater Festival. On Friday, in the Plaza de Las Veletas, the public was able to enjoy an updated feminist version of Tirso de Molina’s work ‘Marta the pious’, with two sisters confronted by the same man.

On Saturday morning, in the Gloria Fuertes park, there were activities for children, mask workshops, shadow and puppet theater; and at night ‘Peribáñez and the Commander of Ocaña’ by Lope de Vega was performed.

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