Cartografías de la música" closed its second edition with a contemporary opera and a Holy Week concert with the "auroros de Navarra" (Navarre's Auroros).
It was performed at the Tres desechos theater in the form of an opera, written by the critic of El País Jorge Fernández Guerra, and on Thursday, traditional music flooded the campus and the Museum.
Tres desechos en forma de ópera reflects on the role of this musical genre and breaks the barriers of elitism that characterize it so much, to bring it closer to the general public. "The work flees from the grandiloquence of classical operas to relate everyday events that take place in a street and with which we can identify", details the coordinator of "Cartografías de la música", Joseba Torre. The opera is written by Jorge Fernández Guerra, music critic of El País, and directed by Vanessa Montfort, novelist, playwright and journalist, invited twice to the Royal Court Theatre in London. The performers are Ruth González, soprano, Enrique Sánchez-Ramos, baritone, Mónica Campillo, clarinet, Gala Pérez Iñesta, violin and Miguel Rodrigáñez, double bass.
Near Easter, the Museum recovered for the day of Musicae Artis -dedicated to sacred music- a tradition that dates back to the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and is still alive in regions such as Navarra and Murcia. On Thursday, 120 auroros from Pamplona, Peralta and Olite toured the campus with their songs passing through different points such as the Shrine of Our Lady of Fair Love, the Wayside Cross del Camino de Santiago and the Patio del Central Building, among others, to collect the public until they reached the Museum. Once there, they sang several auroras in the exhibition rooms and ended their concert in the Museum's theater.
Likewise, Musicae Artis celebrated the 50th anniversary of the installation and blessing by Pope Paul VI of the Virgin of the Beautiful Love at Shrine of Our Lady of Fair Love of Campus with the premiere of an aurora dedicated to her. "We want to bring this musical, popular and religious phenomenon closer to the city. It has the attraction that the public will be able to see live a custom that has taken root and that constitutes a tradition, it is in the genes of our society," explained Jesús Tanco, curator of Musicae Artis and former professional of the University of Navarra.
The demonstration was completed with a more academic part that took place at 12h with the roundtable and colloquium later "Auroras: tradition and art", which analyzed the evolution of the letters and the current state of the auroras. Moderated by José Manuel Garrido, from the committee of Artistic Direction of the Museum, Julio Antomás, auroro of Pamplona, Javier Leoz, parish priest of Peralta and Delegate of Popular Religiosity of the Archbishopric, and José Julio Eraso, auroro of Olite, participated.