The imminent premiere in mid-March in Seville of the opera La Bella Susona offers us the opportunity to hold a special session of our project Cátedra al-Andalus.
Thus, on 6 March, in the Salón del Almirante of the Reales Alcázares, we will organise a conference in which we will discuss the keys to understanding the opera La Bella Susona. The play is set in a context, that of the late 15th century, in which society was in the process of transformation, in the final years of an era of coexistence and just before the establishment of a new socio-economic order that was about to change everything. The late medieval fabric that Muslims, Jews and Christians had established, in which trade with the East and relations established centuries earlier were respected, was already showing signs that the balance was becoming increasingly unstable.
The story that the authors have put in the form of an opera contains the reflection of their time and of Seville itself at a crucial moment, without options for reflection as it is almost a time of war in which love arises between two young people who are supposedly enemies, representatives of two worlds that no longer understand each other.
The conference will be attended by the authors of the opera themselves, Alberto Carretero y Rafael Puerto (composer and librettist respectively), and the historian Rafael PérezD. in History from the University of Seville and a specialist in the period of the work.
The session will take place on Wednesday 6 March 2024 at 18.00 h. in the Salón del Almirante of the Reales Alcázares.
Free admission with prior registration at THIS LINK.
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This activity is subsidised by the Junta de Andalucía, within the framework of the subsidy granted by the Consejería de la Presidencia, Interior, Diálogo Social y Simplificación Administrativa (Regional Ministry of the Presidency, Interior, Social Dialogue and Administrative Simplification).
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