Real Coliseo Carlos III - Programming history - Year 2025
Programming - January
Christmas stories
DATE: Sunday, January 5, 2025
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Celia Pérez, Ana Veganzones, Gonzalo Lasso and Luciano García Lorenzo (interpretation) and Helena Fernández (live music)
Our monthly event of words and music invites us to say goodbye to Christmas in a different way. Christmas stories It is a tribute to the tradition, poetry and lyrics that surround the Christmas spirit. A unique experience in which the great stories of universal literature come to life on stage, inviting us to enjoy and reflect as a family.
The tip of my nose
DATE: Saturday, January 11, 2025
ADDRESS: Francisca Lissia
ABOUT US: Konika Collective
INTERPRETATION: Candela Casas, Elisa Strabioli, Greta Marì, Michela Fiorani and Naikel Blazquez
Kolektivo Konika are Candela, Elisa, Greta, Michela and Hannah. Five acrobats, five bodies, five worlds returning to their origins to build a common memory through acrobatic moves and singing as an opportunity to deform everything and invite us to get to know our peculiarities up close.
Sourdough, by Cia. Caí and Raül García
DATE: Sunday, January 12, 2025
ADDRESS: Raul Garcia
ABOUT US: Company I fell
INTERPRETATION: Sabrina Catalán (trapeze) and Elia Pérez (ropes)
From the personal need to talk about the woman's body, the physical and social decision of whether or not to be a mother and the acceptance of the passage of time, this contemporary circus show was born, combining aerial techniques, text and movement in an expressive, direct and real way.
Moonless, by Mirna Vilasís and Xavi Múrcia
DATE: Friday, January 17, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Anna Ros
ABOUT US: Samfaina of Colors
INTERPRETATION: Mirna Vilasis
Games of light and shadow, voice and live music, performed with little-known instruments such as the psaltery or the handpan, among others. Moonless It is a text-less show that invites us to delve into the beauty and magic of the night. An evocative journey to explain that darkness can have beauty and that wonderful elements cohabit at night.
Appointment with your sexologist
DATE: Saturday, January 18, 2025
INTERPRETATION: Silvia Perez
Sexologist and stand-up comedian Silvia Pérez takes advantage of her current experience as a professional sexologist, looking at consultations with humour and making fun of her own experience when it comes to flirting as a sexologist, to bring to the stage, in a humorous way, the basic sexual education that we never had.
Manolete's sisters, by Alicia Montesquiu
DATE: Sunday, January 19, 2025
ADDRESS: Gabriel Olivares
ABOUT US: The Clock
INTERPRETATION: Alicia Montesquiu, Alicia Cabrera and Ana Turpin
Manolete's sisters It is a fictional story based on the real characters surrounding the death of the bullfighter Manolete in 1947. A portrait of the society of those years, a little story of love, blood and bull's tails with a touch of black humour.
Borges and I, memory of a future friend, by Hanna Schygulla
DATE: Friday, January 24, 2025
ADDRESS: Hanna Schygulla
ABOUT US: Eursocene
INTERPRETATION: Andrea Bonelli (interpretation), Peter Ludwig (piano) and Peter Wöpke (cello)
Based on texts by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges, the German actress Hanna Schygulla creates this show in which small stories are woven together with popular tangos such as Back, One, Downhill o The last drunk, among others, with the voice of the Argentinean interpreter Andrea Bonelli. A journey into Borges' particular world through the poetry of tango and its music.
For the love of singing
DATE: Saturday, January 25, 2025
ABOUT US: Oscar Herrero Co.
INTERPRETATION: Óscar Herrero and Mario Herrero (flamenco guitars), Pedro Esparza (flute and saxophone) and Odei Lizaso (percussions)
The guitarist and composer Oscar Herrero wants to pay tribute to the songs of great masters such as Antonio Chacón, Manuel Torre, Enrique Morente, La Niña de los Peines or Camarón de la Isla, among others, turning the songs into music, recreating the purest essence of a voice through the instruments.
Programming - February
What are women?by Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
DATE: Saturday, February 1, 2025
ADDRESS: Eve of the Palace
ABOUT US: Morboria Theater
INTERPRETATION: Fernando Aguado, Marina Andina, Virginia Sanchez, Luna Aguado, Paul Hernandez, Kevin de la Rosa, Ana Belen Serrano, Vicente Aguado and Trajan del Palacio (interpretation) and Miguel Baron (piano)
Morboria has been making its mark on the stage for 40 years, and to celebrate this event in style they have decided to rescue from oblivion this comedy by Rojas Zorrilla that has not been performed for more than 150 years and which, however, delighted audiences in Corrales and Coliseos in the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries.
Voices from two worlds
DATE: Thursday, February 6, 2025
ADDRESS: Pablo Ortiz and Miriam Caparotta
ABOUT US: Spanish Stadium Choir
INTERPRETATION: Isabel Anaya, Carmina Blanco, Carolina Becerra, Nilda Ihl, Irene Aveggio, Javier Moscheira, Loreto Sanchez, Veronica Santamaria, Paulina Valdes, Paola Villalba, Guillermo Arancibia, Andres Herrera, Alejandro Barrientos, Miriam Caparotta and Pablo Ortiz Romero
This year, 2025, the year in which the Estadio Español de Las Condes will commemorate its 75th anniversary, and as part of this celebration, some members of the Choir will tour Spain, stopping at the Real Coliseo, with the aim of bringing part of Latin American musical culture to the land of their ancestors. A musical encounter with songs from here and there.
Illustrated winds
DATE: Saturday, February 8, 2025
ADDRESS: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: José Manuel Cuadrado and Elena Calderón (oboes), Carolina Guiducci and Sergio Sánchez Martín (clarinets), Marta Calvo and Francisco Mas (bassoons), Vicent Serra and Miguel Olivares (horns), Javier Alcaraz and José Padilla (trumpets), Onofre Serer (timpani) and Ramón Mascarós (double bass)
Performed on period instruments and set in the period of the Enlightenment, the repertoire that the Camerata Antonio Soler presents to us in this concert is made up of a selection of works for wind ensemble from the second half of the 18th century, mostly related to Spanish themes and composers or those who resided in Spain, which will allow us to enjoy the soundscape of eighteenth-century Europe.
punishment without revenge by Lope de Vega
DATE: Sunday, February 9, 2025
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Jesus Blanco, Enare Martin, Gonzalo Lasso, Ainhoa Ducar and Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
We raise the curtain on our monthly Word and Music event to welcome punishment without revenge, by Lope de Vega (1562-1635). Written in 1631 and considered Lope's artistic testament, in this masterpiece of the eternal Phoenix of Wits, the playwright unfolds a profound and captivating tragedy that explores the limits of honor, passion and human destiny.
A certain Oudrid
DATE: Saturday, February 15, 2025
ABOUT US: Concerto XXI Nvivo
INTERPRETATION: Carolina Moncada (soprano), Juan de Dios Mateo (tenor), César San Martín (baritone), Carlos Diez (concert master), Carlos Crooke (waiter) and Francisco Matilla (stage director)
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of composer Cristóbal Oudrid (1825 - 1877). With this concert, A certain Oudrid, we begin a cycle of three concerts, which have the collaboration of the Teatro de la Zarzuela and the company Concerto XXI Nvivo. In them we will approach the work of this renovator of zarzuela with titles such as The miller of Subiza, The postilion of La Rioja o The siege of Zaragoza.
Prague, 1941, by Paco Gámez
DATE: Friday, February 21, 2025
ADDRESS: Ruben Simo
ABOUT US: Handel's Camerata
INTERPRETATION: Fernando Sainz de la Maza
Based on texts from the diaries of Petr Ginz (1928 - Auschwitz, 1944), a young Czech of Jewish origin whose drawing of the Earth seen from the Moon became a symbol of the Holocaust, Paco Gámez constructs this text in which the boundaries between the present and the past seem increasingly blurred. What does this boy from the past have to teach the young people of today?
Stage music by José de Nebra (1702-1768)
DATE: Saturday, February 22, 2025
ADDRESS: Ruben Simo
ABOUT US: Handel's Camerata
INTERPRETATION: Rafael Quirant (sopranist), Francesca Sales (mezzo-soprano), Victor Yusà, Xavi Carrau and Sergi Gil (first violins), Enric Llorens, Joan Cervera and Miguel A. Lopez (second violins), Lola Fernandez and Isabel Juarez (violas), Anna Pitarch (cello), Perfecto Osca (double bass), Paula Brieba (guitar), Ignasi Jordà (harpsichord) and Jose Vicente Espí (percussion)
The Camerata Händel brings us closer to the origin of the zarzuela with a programme that includes some of the zarzuelas that are still preserved by the Spanish composer José de Nebra (1702 - 1768): a prestigious organist, acclaimed theatre composer and vice-master of the Royal Chapel, he is considered the most important Spanish composer of the central decades of the XNUMXth century.
Donkey, by Alvaro Tato
DATE: Sunday, February 23, 2025
ADDRESS: Yayo Caceres
ABOUT US: Oh Theater
INTERPRETATION: Carlos Hipólito (interpretation), Fran García (interpretation and music), Iballa Rodríguez (interpretation and music) and Manuel Lavandera (guitar)
The actor Carlos Hipólito stars in this tragicomedy, with live music, which explores the great classic texts about the donkey and the intense relationship between the animal and the human being. A funny, tender, poetic and profound work that will leave a mark on us… with a hoof.
Programming - March
Interludes, by Giuseppe Ponzo
DATE: Saturday March 1, 2025
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
MUSIC DIRECTION: Gustavo Sanchez
STAGE DIRECTION: Ignacio García
INTERPRETATION: Pilar Alva-Martín (soprano); Víctor Cruz (baritone); Iván Vigara (actor); David Santacecilia (concertmaster), Manuel Urios and Kevin Merchán (first violins); Miguel Muñoz and Lidia Fernández (second violins); Helena Reguera (viola); Ángela Lobato (cello); Ramón Mascarós (double bass); José Manuel Cuadrado and Elena Calderón (oboes); David Francés and Paula Gómez (horns); and Paula García (harpsichord)
The Camerata Antonio Soler presents two unknowns interludes by Giuseppe Ponzo (before 1759-after 1791): The Birdcage y The Fantesca (The Servant), probably composed in 1783"for fun"of His Highness Prince Charles. A comic evening to enjoy this genre of short Italian lyrical theatre in the line of commedia dell'arte and of the Neapolitan comic opera.
Lagoons and fog, by Paco Gámez
DATE: Friday, March 7, 2025
ABOUT US: TheYoung
ADDRESS: José Luis Arellano García
INTERPRETATION: María Ramos, Paula Feror, Elisa Hipólito, Fernando Sainz de la Maza and Raúl Martín
This work is born from a process of research, interviews and workshops within the international project Landscapes of devastation Led by LaJoven. A kaleidoscopic look at the Spanish Civil War through the voices of five young people, through memories they don't have, of a war they haven't experienced. A yellowish map of the peninsula filled with gaps and fog, where the boundaries between present and past, reality and fiction, and the political and the intimate blur.
Ada Byron. The Weaver of Dreams, by César Alonso
DATE: Saturday March 8, 2025
ABOUT US: The Westia Productions
ADDRESS: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATION: Ici Díaz, Francisco Pardo, Isabel Marcos and César Alonso
This unpublished text presents the life of mathematician Ada Lovelace. Daughter of Lord Byron, one of history's most famous, mysterious, and controversial poets, she was a visionary woman ahead of her time; considered the first programmer in history and dubbed by many as "the mother of modern computing." A work where poetry and mathematics go hand in hand, showcasing the hypnotic power of both universes.
In the burning dark, by Antonio Buero Vallejo
DATE: Sunday March 9, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATION: Olalla Macaya, Juan de Vera, Mario Valdes, María Reyes Arias and Luciano García Lorenzo
Our appointment with the Word and Music series immerses us fully in the first work written by Antonio Buero Vallejo. A story about physical blindness. A profound reflection on the existential blindness that we all experience at some point.
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DATE: Saturday March 15, 2025
ABOUT US: Spanish Brass
INTERPRETATION: Carlos Benetó Grau and Juanjo Salvador Serna (trumpets), Manolo Pérez Ortega (horn), Inda Bonet Manrique (trombone) and Sergio Finca Quirós (tuba)
35 This is the new artistic offering with which Spanish Brass will celebrate its 35th anniversary, returning to its purest beginnings as a brass quintet. A program that will intertwine some of the most significant works of its career with works by composers such as Leonard Bernstein, Carles Pellicer, and Jordi Griso; and carefully curated adaptations, created especially for them, of Isaac Albéniz, Manuel de Falla, Astor Piazzolla, and Joan Manuel Serrat.
La ragazza dei lupi (The Girl with the Wolves), by Marco Ferro and Valeria Sacco
DATE: Sunday March 16, 2025
ABOUT USGioco Vita Theatre
ADDRESS: Marco Ferro
INTERPRETATION: Valeria Barreca and Tiziano Ferari
Using objects and silhouettes projected onto fabrics and screens that transform the stage into snowy forests or frozen plains, the Italian company Gioco Vita brings this show to the stage that speaks to us of courage, friendship, trust, and challenging authority, just as wolves do, trying to change things.
The Spirit of Brando
DATE: Saturday March 22, 2025
ABOUT US: The Ritirata
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Josetxu Obregón
INTERPRETATION: Tamar Lalo (flutes), Nacho Laguna (tiorna) and Josetxu Obregón (cello)
Thanks to an interpretation carried out with rigorous historical criteria, this exciting journey through the court music of Italy and Spain during the transition between the Renaissance and Baroque periods will immerse us, guided by La Ritirata, in the atmosphere of those dances that were performed in the Kingdom of Naples, the Spanish viceroyalty, and in other courts of Spain and Italy during the last decades of the Renaissance and in the Baroque period.
Of daring crazy love
DATE: Saturday March 29, 2025
ABOUT US: Harmony of Parnas
STAGE DIRECTION: Ignacio García
MUSIC DIRECTION: Marian Rosa Montagut
INTERPRETATION: Ángel Figols, Ignacio García and Alba Martínez (vocals), Calia Álvarez (viola de gamba), Justo Sanz (recorders) and Marian Rosa Montagut (clavist)
Based on Gaspar Aguilar's version of the Greek myth of Endymion and Semele, Harmonia del Parnàs unites music, theater, and literature in a hymn to love that transports us through space and time to a magical setting to demonstrate that, at least in the imagination of art and literature, love conquers all.
In a corner of the world, by Julia Ruiz Carazo
DATE: Sunday March 30, 2025
ABOUT US: LaSal Theater
ADDRESS: Julia Ruiz Carazo
MUSIC DIRECTION: Mariano P. Lozano
INTERPRETATION: Marisa Refoyo, Pepa Gil and Javi Parra
In a corner of the world It's an unreal story, filled with words, actions, and thoughts. A timeless tale without heroes or heroines, starring three children, which aims to give voice to childhood thoughts and their explanations of the world. Because childhood needs words, we cannot deny them.
Programming - April
The Theater of the World. A sacramental play by Calderón de la Barca
DATE: Thursday, April 3 and Friday, April 4, 2025
ABOUT US: For the fun of it
ADDRESS: Antonio Castillo Algarra
MUSIC DIRECTION: Mariví Blasco, Nicolás Casas and Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen
INTERPRETATION: Mariví Blasco, Antonio Castillo Algarra, Ignacio Rodulfo Hazen, Pilar González Barquero, Alejandra R. Montemayor, Javier Turrientes Pedraza, Miguel Álvarez Valdillo, Jaime Rodríguez Alonso, Néstor Rubio, Blanca Gutiérrez-Solar, Asís Márquez (organ positive) and Nicholas Houses (sackbut)
At the request of the FIAS, the Madrid company For the fun of it premieres the auto sacramental on the stage of the Real Coliseo The theater of the world, by Calderón de la Barca, in its original form. A treasure that takes us back to the origins of theater in Spain.
The eighties are ours, by Ana Diosdado
DATE: Sunday April 6, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATION: Oscar Fervaz, Sam Arribas, Blanca Tamarit, Jaime Fernandez, Sasha Kuzina and Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
The cycle Sunday Matinees. Words and Music invites us to reflect on the challenges and aspirations that mark the transition from youth to maturity with one of the most emblematic works of Ana Diosdado (1938-2015), one of the key figures of Spanish theatre in the second half of the XNUMXth century and the beginning of the XNUMXst century.
Music in the time of Cervantes and Don Quixote in the Baroque
DATE: Saturday April 12, 2025
ABOUT US: The Iubilate
INTERPRETATION: Gonzalo Calle, Pepa Megina, M. Ángel Moreno and David Sanz (recorders)
With a long history and extensive professional experience, the El Iubilate recorder quartet invites us to enjoy the music heard in Cervantes' time, along with the instruments on which it was played. A collection of more than twenty recorders will give voice to this Cervantine universe.
The outbreak, by Emiliano Dionisi
DATE: Saturday April 19, 2025
ABOUT US: Creole Company
ADDRESS: Emiliano Dionisi
INTERPRETATION: Roberto Peloni
Since its 2023 premiere in Buenos Aires, the play, which sharply portrays contemporary obsessions and neuroses, has become a box office phenomenon. The multi-award-winning show stands out for its powerful text and the titanic performance of its lead actor, Roberto Peloni, a rising star of the Buenos Aires stage.
Programming - May
The king on the hunt
DATE: Friday, May 2, 2025
STAGE DIRECTION: Francisco García Vicente
MUSIC DIRECTION: Gustavo Sanchez
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
INTERPRETATION: Victor Cruz (baritone); Rebeca Cardiel, Elvira Padrino and Teresa Villena (sopranos); Fran Diaz-Carrillo and Carlos Silva (tenors); Jose Manuel Arias and Vicente Vida (actors); Ivan Vigara, Eduardo Martin Rodriguez and Guillermo Gomez Cecilia (extras); Roi Perez (concertmaster), Kevin Merchant, Manuel Urios, Sonia Benavent and Alvany Guedez Ceballos (violins); Clara de Benito (viola); Angela Lobato (cello); Ramon Mascaros (double bass); Guillermo Beltran and Elena Calderon (oboes); and Miguel Olivares and Vincent Serra (horns)
For the first time in modern times, the Antonio Soler Camerata has revived and staged this unknown work by Giuseppe Ponzo. Written in 1774, this two-act zarzuela will be performed, always with historicist criteria and period instruments, by seven singers and two actors, accompanied in the pit by a small classical orchestra.
Euria (Rain)
DATE: 3 May 2025 Saturday
ADDRESS: Markeliñe
ABOUT US: Markeliñe
INTERPRETATION: Fernando Barado, Itziar Fragua and Nerea Martínez
Winner of the FETEN Best Show Award 2017 and the FITC Bucharest Award 2018, Euria (Rain) It talks about what happens to us and what we feel when we want something and lose it, about that necessary time during which sadness accompanies us to soothe what hurts us. Losses, big or small, are a natural occurrence. And this circumstance of life should also be explained in childhood.
ad libitum
DATE: Sunday May 4, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Lapso Productions (Rafael Rivera, Antonio J. Campos and Rafa Campos)
DIRECTION OF MOVEMENT: Raquel Madrid
ABOUT US: Lapso Productions
INTERPRETATION: Rafael Rivera, Antonio J. Campos and Rafa Campos
A show starring three eccentric artists who combine theatricality, comedy, and live music. A universal and highly educational program, performed through humor, surprise, and the visual and aural appeal of unconventional instruments. A concert that breaks with convention and reinterprets great works of classical music with complete creative freedom. Who said classical music was boring?
essences
DATE: 10 May 2025 Saturday
ABOUT US: Harrison Herman & Ingartze Astuy
INTERPRETATION: Harrison Herman (piano) and Ingartze Astuy (vocals)
Internationally award-winning pianist Harrison Herman and Ingartze Astuy, renowned for her versatility and her expertise in operatic repertoire, combine their talents to create a show that captivates with both its virtuosity and its poignancy. A program that fuses tradition and contemporary sensibility, with a repertoire ranging from Prokofiev and Rachmaninov to original compositions by Tito Avendaño Salas.
Picnic, by Fernando Arrabal
DATE: Sunday May 11, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATION: Oscar Fervaz, Gonzalo Lasso, Jesus Blanco, Carmen Bécares and Luciano García Lorenzo
The cycle Sunday Matinees. Words and Music presents Picnic, one of Fernando Arrabal's most iconic plays, in which the Spanish playwright constructs a biting and deeply human satire on the absurdity of war. Comedy and tragedy intertwine, exposing with irony and humor the absurd normalization of violence.
Gaetano Brunetti: Quartets at the Court of Charles III
DATE: 17 May 2025 Saturday
ABOUT US: Concerto 1700
INTERPRETATION: Daniel Pinteño and Fumiko Morie (violins), Isabel Juárez (viola) and Ester Domingo (cello)
Concerto 1700 revives the string quartets of Gaetano Brunetti, one of the most prominent figures in XNUMXth-century chamber music in Spain, and Luigi Boccherini, highlighting the richness and diversity of the Spanish chamber music repertoire. This essential part of our musical heritage continues to amaze with its beauty and depth, centuries later.
Miles Gloriosus, by Plautus
DATE: Wednesday, May 21, 2025
ABOUT US: Muxicas
ADDRESS: Sara Rey
INTERPRETATION: Aída Saíz, José Ramón Fernández, Francisco Gómez, Eva Estévez, Ricardo Gómez, Mercedes Mena, Eva Hervella, Severino Pérez, Luis Pequeno and María Pérez
With a performance of one of the most famous works by the Latin playwright Plautus, the 19th edition of the ONCE Theatre Biennial comes to Madrid and the Real Coliseo to once again demonstrate the capabilities of ONCE actors and actresses and their talents in developing themselves through an activity they are passionate about, overcoming any theoretical barriers that may exist.
Cristóbal Oudrid and his last monkey
DATE: Sunday May 25, 2025
ABOUT US: Atlantic Chamber Orchestra
ADDRESS: Manuel Tevar
INTERPRETATION: Javiera Saavedra (soprano), Quintín Bueno (tenor), Enrique Torres and Alberto Camón (baritones), Emilio Sánchez Vázquez and Carlos García Berlinches (violins), Paloma Pérez (viola), Claudia Vicente (cello), Jhorjan Bolivar (double bass), Claudia Schilling (flute), Juan Carlos Martín (oboe), Irene Ces (clarinet), Cristina Ventoso (bassoon), Alejandro Morán (horn), David Cuenca (trumpet) and Sergio García Berlinches (piano)
The program of this second concert in the series that pays tribute to Cristóbal Oudrid on the 200th anniversary of his birth seeks to rescue him through a selection that includes his most famous zarzuelas, such as The miller of Subiza o The postilion of La Rioja, to the one-act titles that make him one of the greatest exponents of the short genre, such as The last monkey.
Fragments of the Night
DATE: 31 May 2025 Saturday
ABOUT US: Sara Jiménez in Company
ADDRESS: Sara Jiménez
MUSIC DIRECTION: Teresa Hernández
CO-STAGE DIRECTION: Juan Kruz Díaz de Garaio Esnaola
INTERPRETATION: Sara Jiménez (dance), Teresa Hernández (singing) and José Manuel Muñoz "El Peli" (guitar)
Fragments of the Night is a project by Sara Jiménez in which the dancer —as in Silver bird o Goodbye— explores mythological imagery through flamenco and contemporary dance. In this intersection, the body explores new forms of expression and thought, uncovering intimate reflections on the artist's role as an actor in a theater where spectacle and reality are blurred.
Little Red Riding Hood
DATE: Sunday May 26, 2024
ADDRESS: Elvira Pineda
ABOUT US: La Cómica Theatre Company
INTERPRETATION: Andrea Díez, Salva Gallego, Victoria Fernández, Jesús Orenes, Álvaro González Pineda, Chus Florenciano and Lucía Jiménez Ruiz (Pineda)
What can be said about Little Red Riding Hood that we don't know? The La Cómica Theatre Company invites us to enjoy and have fun with a version of this classic tale that emphasizes values such as obedience, friendship, affection and respect for the environment and animals.
Programming - June
Verses from my four corners
DATE: Saturday June 7, 2025
ABOUT US: Varela Productions & Co. of Blanca Marsillach's theater
ADDRESS: José Luis Sixto
INTERPRETATION: Adolfo Marsillach, Blanca Marsillach and Edgar López
Father and daughter share the stage again. Adolfo and Blanca take the stage to perform Verses from my four cornersHe will do so through overhead projections, while she will be on stage as his guide. A family-friendly, elegant, and exciting show, where the audience will fall in love with the connection that remains between them.
All wound and one kills, by Alvaro Tato
DATE: Sunday June 8, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATION: Sheila Niño, Paco Flores, Oscar Fervaz, Sasha Kuzina and Luciano García Lorenzo
The cycle Sunday Matinees. Words and Music presents All wound and one kills, by writer, actor, and playwright Álvaro Tato. A verse comedy that travels between the 17th and 21st centuries to reflect, in a baroque tone, on the passage of time, the peaks and valleys of love and desire, and the price of achieving women's freedom. A tribute to classical theater and a reflection on our culture, because time is like Cupid's arrow: "All wound, but one kills."
The lost art of improvisation
DATE: Saturday June 14, 2025
ABOUT US: PIu Mosso Foundation
INTERPRETATION: Francisco Fierro (piano)
In this piano recital, renowned Spanish pianist Francisco Fierro honors that great lost tradition of improvisation. A completely improvised repertoire emulates those who, from the very beginning of musical history, dedicated themselves to this art and created melodies, harmonies, and musical forms, expressing themselves spontaneously and naturally through improvisation.
From that immense endless sea (Music about the Iberian circumnavigation routes)
DATE: Saturday June 21, 2025
ABOUT US: The Folía
ADDRESS: Pedro Bonet
INTERPRETATION: Celia Alcedo (soprano), Pedro Bonet and Ignacio Zaragoza (recorders), Ignacio Zaragoza (percussion), Calia Álvarez (viola da gamba) and Ramiro Morales (baroque guitar and archilaud)
On the occasion of European Music Day, the Baroque music group La Folía presents a fascinating musical journey through historic compositions that emerged along the paths forged by the first circumnavigation of the globe. From Seville to America, Asia, Africa, and back to Europe, the concert evokes the spirit of exploration and cultural fusion that marked that feat.
Tango portraits with a woman's voice
DATE: Sunday June 22, 2025
ABOUT US: Beloved Tango Trio
ADDRESS: Jorge Bosso
INTERPRETATION: Helena Amado (vocals), Leandro Bosso (guitar), Camilo Bosso (double bass), Giovanni Bosso (acting collaboration) and Jorge Bosso (recitals and voice-over)
Written and directed by Jorge Bosso, in collaboration with his sons—Leandro, Camilo, and Giovanni—and with contributions from Helena Amado, this show fuses live music, theater, and visual poetry to pay tribute to women in the history of tango from a perspective that is sometimes comical, sometimes critical, or overwhelmingly romantic, but always deeply human.
Final Concert of the 12th International Course for Orchestra Conductors "Escorial"
DATE: Friday, June 2025
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
This concert is the culmination of a week of work by the students of the 12th "Escorial" International Course for Orchestra Conductors, together with the eminent Finnish maestro Atso Almila, in which each student will conduct a work or fragment, offering the audience an interesting and varied sample of the different ways of conducting and interpreting the selected music.
Gardel's farewell
DATE: Saturday June 28, 2025
ABOUT US: Jorge Bosso
ADDRESS: Jorge Bosso and Miguel Ángel Giella
INTERPRETATION: Jorge Bosso
Jorge Bosso, Argentine actor, playwright, and director, adapts and stars in this moving monologue that pays tribute to the memory of Carlos Gardel on the ninetieth anniversary of his death. A work that, beyond the myth, speaks to the passage of time, artistic legacy, collective memory, and the inevitable goodbye.
The elf lady, Calderon de la Barca
DATE: Sunday June 23, 2024
ABOUT US: scene
INTERPRETATION: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo, Sheila Niño, Jose Juan Sevilla, Ana Veganzones and Oscar Fervaz
The morning event of words and music for the month of June takes to the stage of the Real Coliseo The goblin lady, by Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600-1681). One of the best of the so-called cape and sword or intrigue comedies of the Golden Age, which revolves around love and freedom as the fundamental motives of its dramatic development.
Programming - September
University Theatre Festival
DATE: Wednesday, September 10 to Sunday, September 14, 2025
COMPANIES: Colacteral (Complutense University), Zínico Teatro (Polytechnic University), Caín Teatro (Polytechnic University), Teatro por necesidad (Complutense University) and ArrojoScénico (Rey Juan Carlos University)
The Ministry of Culture, Tourism, and Sport of the Community of Madrid is joining this edition by opening the doors of the Royal Coliseum to university performing arts. Five productions, from three public universities in Madrid—the Complutense University, the Rey Juan Carlos University, and the Polytechnic University—will showcase the vitality and diversity of current university theater. FESTEU 2025 promises to be a meeting point for universities, art, and society, celebrating theater as an educational, cultural, and transformative tool.
The horns of Don Friolera, by Ramon Maria del Valle-Inclán
DATE: Saturday, September 20, 2025
ABOUT US: Summer Productions
ADDRESS: Ainhoa Amestoy
INTERPRETATION: Roberto Enriquez, Armando del Rio, Lidia Oton, Ester Bellver, Pablo Rivero Madriñán, Miguel Cubero, Jose Bustos and Iballa Rodriguez
One hundred years ago, Ramón María del Valle-Inclán (1866-1936) conceived, at a time of literary plenitude, the trilogy Tuesday of Carnival. It contains the work The horns of Don Friolera, in which the protagonist, a soldier, spirals into madness after receiving an anonymous text containing unfounded information about his wife. From here, we ride alongside Valle-Inclán in his aesthetic and ethical venture and join the game of the grotesque to, ultimately, understand ourselves and our contradictory reality better.
Maestro Francisco Alonso: tribute to America
DATE: Friday, September 26, 2025
ABOUT US: Atlantida Chamber Orchestra
ADDRESS: Manuel Tevar
The Association of Owners and Friends of Pinar de Abantos, in collaboration with the Community of Madrid, which is providing the Royal Coliseum for this special occasion, presents an extraordinary concert that invites you to rediscover the great Francisco Alonso (1887–1948) from an unusual perspective. Widely remembered for his popular zarzuelas, this musical tribute captures the most unexpected side of this master of the Spanish music scene.
Marcela (A song by Cervantes), by María Folguera
DATE: Saturday, September 27, 2025
ABOUT US: Cervantine Society
ADDRESS: Leticia Dolera
INTERPRETATION: Celia Freijeiro
From Chapter XIV of Don Quijote de la Mancha, by Miguel de Cervantes, whose full text is included in this performance, three current creators—Leticia Dolera, Celia Freijeiro and María Folguera—bring to the stage one of the most fascinating and revolutionary female characters in the Cervantine universe and reveal to us the many fires that illuminate this myth.
Programming - October
Federico. There is no forgetting, no dreaming, only living flesh.by María San Miguel
DATE: Friday, October 3, 2025
ABOUT USProject 43-2
ADDRESS: María San Miguel
INTERPRETATIONAlba Muñoz, Pablo Rodríguez/Luis Heras and María San Miguel
The Royal Coliseum hosts, in the third edition of the 7 Villas Festival, a stage production that will not leave the spectator indifferent. Federico. There is no forgetting, no dreaming: raw fleshThis is not another work of fiction about Federico García Lorca. It is a place of poetic speculation, a document poised between memory, desire, and imagination that journeys to the depths of the earth, to the realm of the disappeared. A journey to the heart of memory with Federico García Lorca.
Baroque by Them
DATE: Saturday, October 4, 2025
ABOUT US: Speculum
ADDRESSErnesto Schmied
INTERPRETATIONMariví Blasco (soprano), Ramiro Morales (theorbo), María A. Saturno (viola da gamba) and Ernesto Schmied (flutes)
speculumDirected by Ernesto Schmied, and featuring the voice of soprano Mariví Blasco, the orchestra breaks a historic silence by dedicating this concert program to female composers of the 17th and 18th centuries. A carefully curated selection of works by composers of diverse backgrounds and styles intertwines to create an innovative performance.
The yes of the girlsby Leandro Fernández de Moratín
DATE: Sunday, October 5, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATIONLuciano García Lorenzo, Vicenta González, Pablo Piera, Carmen Bécares and Carlos Pinedo
The cycle Sunday Matinees. Words and Music It recovers another of the great masterpieces in the history of theatre, one of the most influential and courageous pieces of Spanish Enlightenment theatre: The yes of the girlsBy Leandro Fernández de Moratín (1760-1828). Through a dramatic triangle that is both tender and tense, Moratín denounces with irony and lucidity the imposition of arranged marriages and the moral hypocrisy of his time. An opportunity to listen to Moratín again... and say yes to good theater.
Concerto delle donne
DATE: Saturday, October 11, 2025
ABOUT US: Hippocampus
MUSIC DIRECTIONAlberto Martínez Molina
STAGE DIRECTION: Gonzala Martin Scherman
INTERPRETATION: Manon Chauvin and Agnieszka Grzywacz (sopranos), Gonzala Martín Scherman (actress), Sara Águeda (double harp), Ramiro Morales and Alberto Martínez Molina (harpsichord)
The Madrid-based team hippocampus gives life to Concerto delle donneThe Orestes, a professional group of female singers who gave concerts at the court of Ferrara (Italy) during the late Renaissance, revolutionized the role of women in professional music. Their fame spread to other Italian courts, and numerous composers wrote music for female vocal ensembles, including Luzzasco Luzzaschi, Sigismondo D'India, and Claudio Monteverdi, authors of the pieces that will be performed in this concert.
Cuna
DATE: Friday, October 17, 2025
ABOUT USPaloma Fantova
MUSIC DIRECTION: Antonio Fernández and Paloma Fantova
INTERPRETATION: Paloma Fantova (dance), Antonio Fernández and Pepe de Pura (singing), Joni Cortés (handclapping), Juan Campallo (guitar) and Paco Vega (percussion)
The flamenco dancer from Cádiz, Paloma Fantova, opens the XX Suma Flamenca at the Real Coliseo, presenting CunaHer most intimate and personal show: a journey into memory and the very roots of who we are. Internationally recognized as one of the leading figures in contemporary flamenco, Fantova presents a dance born from the soul, cementing her status as the heir to an eternal tradition.
From Madrid to the sky
DATE: Saturday, October 18, 2025
ABOUT USThe Amir Flamenco Sextet
INTERPRETATION: El Amir (guitar in concert), Rafel de Utrera and Sabrina Romero (vocals), Sabrina Romero and Rafael Peral (dance), Sabrina Romero (percussion), Rafael Peral (cajón), Jesús Bachiller "Bachi" (electric bass) and Diego Villegas (winds)
The Amir premieres From Madrid to the sky As part of the 20th Suma Flamenca festival: a sonic journey that transcends borders. A master of flamenco guitar and world-class multi-instrumentalist, he has shared stages with legends such as Hans Zimmer, Diego el Cigala, and Joaquín Sabina, taking his art to more than 50 countries. In this show, El Amir gifts us a flamenco that is born from its roots, embraces the future, and vibrates with a unique force: that of an extraordinary creator who plays with emotion, truth… and soul.
The Harpichousingby Camille Leveque
DATE: Sunday, October 19, 2025
ABOUT USCamille Levécque
ADDRESSCamille Levecque and Agustín Arrazola
INTERPRETATIONCamille Levécque
Three delightful characters—a concert pianist, an adventurer, and a student—guide us, with humor and tenderness, into the magical world of the harp and lyre. Through theater, music, and a vibrant stage production, Camille Levécque It succeeds in bringing these unusual instruments closer to all audiences, awakening emotions and complicity in young and old alike.
Counterpoint
DATE: Friday, October 24, 2025
ABOUT US: Karime Amaya
STAGE DIRECTION: Karime Amaya
MUSIC DIRECTIONLuis Santiago "Tati Amaya"
INTERPRETATION: Karime Amaya (dance), Ezequiel Montoya and David Sánchez "El Galli" (vocals), Luis Santiago "Tati Amaya" (guitar), Barnabas Hangonyi "Batio" (cello), José Córdoba (percussion) and Miguel Ángel Ramos "El Rubio" (guest dancer)
Within the XX Flamenco Festival comes CounterpointA show that transforms guitar, song, and dance into voices of a single conversation. Inspired by the power of improvisation, each performance becomes a unique moment, where tradition and spontaneous creation meet to showcase flamenco in its purest form. With the strength and elegance of Karime Amaya and the musical mastery of Luis Santiago "Tati Amaya", Counterpoint It celebrates the excitement of a living art that never stops transforming.
The power of the subtle
DATE: Saturday, October 25, 2025
ABOUT USDaniel Casares Sextet
INTERPRETATION: Daniel Casares (guitar), Julián Bedman (second guitar), Manuel Peralta (vocals), Manuel Montes (dance), Manuel Peralta and Manuel Montes (handclapping), Miguel Ortiz "El Nene" (cajón) and José Manuel Posada "Popo" (bass)
Daniel Casares premieres in the Community of Madrid The power of the subtle As part of the 20th Suma Flamenca festival: a show where the musical discourse takes center stage. The guitar becomes an invisible thread with which Casares weaves a repertoire born from his experiences, his family, and his place in the world. With a flamenco soul and a sensitivity that transcends genres and borders, this versatile guitarist—renowned for numerous international awards—invites us to discover the power of intimacy, of what moves us.
Programming - November
The Return of the Muses
DATE: Saturday, November 1, 2025
ABOUT US: Ars Atlantica
INTERPRETATIONVanesa Muela (vocals and percussion) and Manuel Vilas (double-strung harp)
Vanesa Muela—one of the great voices of traditional Castilian music—and Manuel Vilas—an internationally renowned harpist and specialist in historical repertoire—invite us on a journey between oral and written tradition, in a dialogue where folk music and the Spanish Baroque intertwine naturally. With a program encompassing romances, jácaras, seguidillas, and folías, along with historical reconstructions of 16th- and 17th-century manuscripts and songbooks, The Return of the Muses It revives the strength and magnetism of those Golden Age performers who were much more than singers: women who combined music, theater, dance and percussion.
The boat without a fishermanby Alejandro Casona
DATE: Sunday, November 2, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATIONCelia Pérez, Alfredo Noval, Sheila Niño, JM Romero and Luciano García Lorenzo
The cycle Sunday matinees. Word and music It continues its journey through the great works of the universal theatrical repertoire with one of the most emblematic pieces of 20th-century Spanish theater: The boat without a fishermanBy Alejandro Casona (1903-1965). An ethical fable in which realism and fantasy are masterfully interwoven. An opportunity to rediscover one of the most representative authors of the Spanish post-war period.
Don Juan Tenorioby José Zorrilla
DATE: Saturday, November 8, 2025
ABOUT US: Amigos del Tenorio Theater Company
ADDRESS: Elvira Pineda
INTERPRETATION: Chus Florenciano, Alba Martínez, Victoria E. Fernández, Belén Luengo, Ilu Vera-Meseguer, Lucía Jiménez Ruiz (Pineda), Jesús García, Roberto Aguilera, Jesús Martínez Orenes, Javier Fernández, José Mª Hidalgo, Álvaro González (Pineda), Joaquín Eduardo Jiménez, José Mayor, Fran Lajara and Elvira Pineda
Sixteen actors will bring to life the characters of José Zorrilla's (1817-1893) work under the direction of Elvira Pineda, a veteran in the direction of classics and, especially, in the direction of Don Juan TenorioA unique set design, period costumes, and carefully selected music are the other ingredients that make this show possible. The Amigos del Tenorio Theatre Company has been performing it for over fifteen years, and it will leave an excellent impression on everyone who enjoys it.
250th Anniversary of the Signing of the Charter of Creation of the Royal Economic Society of Madrid, Friends of the Country
DATE: Sunday, November 9, 2025
The Royal Coliseum of Charles III hosts the celebration of the 250th anniversary of the Royal Economic Society of Madrid, Friends of the Country, with a commemorative event that revives the artistic and humanist spirit of the 18th century. A unique occasion that unites history, art, and memory in homage to two and a half centuries of culture and progress.
The king who was, by Albert Boadella and Ramon Fontserè
DATEFriday, November 14 and Saturday, November 15, 2025
ABOUT US: The Joglars
ARTISTIC DIRECTION: Albert Boadella
INTERPRETATION: Ramon Fontserè, Pilar Sáenz, Dolors Tuneu, Martí Salvat, Javier Villena and Bruno López-Linares
Following the success achieved in September of last year, The king who was The company Els Joglars returns to the Royal Coliseum with a double feature, closing the tour of what has been Boadella and Fontserè's last collaboration after The Colloquium of the dogsIncisive, biting, and always elegant, with The king who wasEls Joglars revives the figure of the comedian who puts his finger on the wound, placing the spectator in front of the political and social evolution of his country and reflecting on the nature and existential condition of Juan Carlos I.
Humanity and Lucifer
DATE: Friday, November 21, 2025
ABOUT US: Camera Antonio Soler
MUSIC DIRECTION: Gustavo Sanchez
INTERPRETATIONManon Chauvin (soprano); Francisco Díaz-Carrillo (tenor); Roi Pérez (concertmaster violin); Manuel Urios, Kevin Merchán and Belén Sancho (violins); Helena Reguera (viola); Ángela Lobato (cello); Ramón Mascarós (double bass); Paula García (harpsichord); Javier Alcaraz (trumpet); and Rita Rogar (flute)
For the first time in Spain, the Camerata Antonio Soler presents this captivating oratorio by Alessandro Scarlatti (1660-1725), as part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of his death. The work features two characters, humanity (Manon Chauvin, soprano) and Lucifer (Fran Díaz Carrillo, tenor), accompanied by a simple orchestra, in which the solo trumpet (which always appears with Lucifero) plays a special role, honoring the interpretation with historicist criteria and period instruments that are a hallmark of the Madrid-based group.
Against Annaby Alma García
DATE: Saturday, November 21, 2025
ABOUT USThe Opposite
ADDRESSPaco Montes
INTERPRETATIONCarmen Climent, Alma García, León Molina and Beatriz Justamante (performance) and Cristian Olarte (musician)
Against Anna It is an autofictional work that portrays anorexia from the real-life experience of the author, Alma García. The book focuses particularly on the year she spent in a clinic and reflects on identity and what this concept has meant for her, delving into the search for the reasons why and the responsibility that society has in the development (or maintenance) of an eating disorder.
DooooDePechos
DATE: Sunday, November 22, 2025
ABOUT US: Violet Territory
ADDRESSEugenia Manzanera
MUSIC DIRECTIONIrene Shams
INTERPRETATIONIrene Shams, Marina Mateo, Marta del Pozo and Niurka López
DoooDePechos It's a journey through classic songs where we'll sing, tell stories, and play, inviting the audience to reflect and laugh at the weight of the lyrics and music of these melodies that touch our hearts when we hear them, overlooking the meaning of the words... A show where the playlist is revisited through comedy.
Oudrid and his contemporaries
DATE: Saturday, November 29, 2025
ABOUT US: Madrid Ensemble
ARTISTIC COORDINATION: Fernando Poblete
INTERPRETATION: Roberto Mendoza (first violin), Esperanza Velasco (second violin), Fátima Poblete (viola), Paul Friedhoff (cello), Fernando Poblete (double bass), Ángel Huidobro (piano) and Enrique Mejías García (presenter-musicologist)
The program for this new concert in the series honoring Cristóbal Oudrid (1825-1877) on the 200th anniversary of his birth brings us closer to his works and those of his contemporaries. A journey through the works of some of the composers who shared the century with Oudrid—Rafael Hernando, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Joaquín Gaztambide, and Emilio Arrieta—is presented by musicologist Enrique Mejías García and performed by the prestigious Madrid Ensemble.
Programming - December
Six characters in search of an author, by Luigi Pirandello
DATE: Saturday, December 6, 2025
ABOUT USFaraute Theatre Productions
ADDRESS: Pepa Gamboa and Antonio Álamo
INTERPRETATION: Aiden Botia, Eva Egido, Ruth Gabriel, Nuria Gallardo, Chema León, Juan Carlos Martín, Paula Muñoz, Didier Otaola, Montse Peidro, Fernando Ramallo, Jorge Torres and Lena Vega
Antonio Álamo adapts and directs, together with Pepa Gamboa, one of the most emblematic texts of universal theater, in a contemporary and vibrant version that mixes humor, drama and reflection to immerse the spectator in the disconcerting Pirandellian universe, where the boundary between reality and fiction fades and the theater becomes a mirror of human truth.
The tobacconist of Vallecas, by José Luis Alonso de Santos
DATE: Sunday, December 7, 2025
ABOUT US: scene
ADDRESS: Luciano Garcia Lorenzo
STAGE DIRECTION: Ernesto Arias
INTERPRETATIONLuciano García Lorenzo, Carmen Bécares, Ricardo Reguera, Óscar Fervaz, Iciar Ventepan and Gonzalo Lasso
The cycle Sunday matinees. Word and music It continues its journey through the great works of the universal theatrical repertoire with one of the most celebrated texts by playwright and stage director José Luis Alonso de Santos. Heir to the best of the traditional farce genre—with its sharp humor, its rich and distinctive language, and its popular characters—the power of local customs and the truthfulness of its characters have made it The tobacconist of Vallecas in a benchmark of the best contemporary popular theatre.
In the airby Rafael Amargo
DATEMonday, December 8, 2025
ABOUT USRafael Amargo Company
ADDRESSRafael Amargo
INTERPRETATIONRafael Amargo, Hamza Bakkach, Tomás Sandoval, María Arranz, Luciana Bonn, Rubinel Ortiz Mayedo, Kim Chazalon, Noemí García and Andy Díaz Ramírez
Choreographer and dancer Rafael Amargo brings to the stage of the Real Coliseo this performance in which flamenco engages in dialogue with contemporary, Spanish, and urban dance. Through a carefully crafted soundtrack and a visually striking audiovisual production, Amargo offers a choreographic and aesthetic journey that solidifies his creative signature and his unmistakable vision of dance.
Tactus
DATE: Friday, December 12, 2025
ABOUT USMelania Olcina Yuguero
ARTISTIC DIRECTIONMelania Olcina Yuguero
INTERPRETATION: Melania Olcina Yuguero (dance) and Sara Águeda Martín (harp)
Dancer and choreographer Melania Olcina, winner of the 2023 National Dance Prize, and harpist Sara Águeda, one of Spain's most internationally acclaimed performers, join forces in a unique multisensory experience that fuses contemporary dance and live harp music in an intimate dialogue between body and sound, blurring the boundaries between the physical and the sonic. An invitation to feel with your skin and listen with your body.
The virtuososby Inmaculada Alvear, Luis Miguel González and Daniel Martos
DATE: Saturday, December 13, 2025
ABOUT US: Shipyard Theater
ADDRESS: Luis Miguel Gonzalez Cruz
INTERPRETATIONÁngel Solo, Chema Ruiz and Daniel Martos
Thirty years after its founding, Teatro del Astillero commemorates its anniversary with a theatrical celebration that combines humor, irony and critical thinking: The virtuososA metaphor for the end of an era—that of the human creator versus the machine—and a celebration of theater as a space of resistance, imagination, and memory.
Of my own free willby Javier Manzanera and Celia Nadal
DATE: Saturday, December 20, 2025
ABOUT USPerigallo Theatre
ADDRESSLuis Felpeto
INTERPRETATIONCelia Nadal and Javier Manzanera
Once again, the Perigallo Teatro company surprises us with this dramatic comedy, seeking to connect with the audience in an extraordinary way. They invite us to look beyond appearances, delve into our essence, and discover ourselves in others. All of this serves to explore the right to exercise one's own will and the responsibility to do so if one wishes to improve the world in any way.