The MUN presents its January-May 2025 season with the premiere of its second young opera and a varied program, inviting new audiences on its tenth anniversary.

The Museo Universidad de Navarra presents its January - May 2025 season, with a program of music, theater and dance aimed at the general public, which includes the premiere of its second young opera, Falstaff, by Verdi, and a exhibition by Muybridge linked to the origins of cinema. Tickets for the shows are already available at locker and on the web, including season tickets for the Cartografías de la Música series: the option of two shows for 25 euros or all four events for 45 euros.

For lovers of the performing arts, the Museum has planned a varied program: with dance, theater and music. The Spanish dance show bequest, with artistic direction by Tania Martín and Carlos Romero, and produced by Nexus Company, is a journey through the world of flamenco, the bolero school, stylized dance and folklore, which sample the origins and modernity of the disciplines. A perfect opportunity for all audiences to enjoy the beauty and diversity of Spanish dance.

Classics Today, dedicated to classical theater made today, offers on February 21 a renewed and updated version of Electra, by Sophocles, with Pílades Teatro; and with adaptation and direction by Fernanda Orazi, winner of the award Godot for Best Direction 2023. The play has also won two Max Awards 2024: Best Newcomer Show and Best Version or Adaptation of a Play. A roundtable with the director herself on the current relevance of classical Greek tragedy completes the program.

Cartographies of music brings in its XI edition four concerts that cover choral, chamber, symphonic and soloist music with great works of the twentieth and twenty-first century. "A proposal to interest classical music fans, but also those who do not usually listen to it -explains the artistic director of the MUN, Teresa Lasheras. -This year's edition is distinguished by the great beauty of the programs chosen and by the innovation of some formats, such as choral music".

Halfway between music and performative, the play board member scenic A Beginning #16161D (February 28), with Aurora Bauzá and Pere Bou, is a composition for five singers that plays with the relationship between voice, movement and a surprising and poetic use of light.

Chamber music will come to the MUN on March 7 with MSKN Master Ensemble 3, a group formed by students of Master's Degree from Musikene, with a program featuring works by Stravinsky, Sánchez Verdú and Villa-Lobos.

On March 14 it will be the turn of symphonic music with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (OSN), which in the quotation Elegías del Nuevo Mundo will perform pieces by Villa-Lobos, Piazzola and the American composer Gabriela Frank. At the baton, Beatriz Fernández Aucejo (Paiporta, Valencia), the only Spanish winner of the important competition for female conductors La maestra.

Cartografías de la música will conclude on March 21 with a quotation with two great instrumentalists, Cyprien Katsaris and Pablo Galdo, who will offer a repertoire with two pianos and solo piano, including works by Mozart/Busoni, Liszt, Milhaud, Ravel (his emblematic Bolero) and Bizet (with the popular Carmen Suite). The performers will offer a masterclass for piano students on Saturday, March 22.

Finally, Aterballetto, Italy's national choreographic center and the country's best contemporary dance company, will close the MUN's performing arts season on April 30, with the choreographies Solo Echo by Crystal Pite with music by Brahms; Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, with music by Gershwin; and Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli (premiere in Spain).

The second young opera of the MUN

As for activities involving young people, the premiere ofVerdi's opera Falstaff , which will be performed on April 2 and 3, and whose tickets will soon be on sale, stands out. Young singers, instrumentalists and performers (members of the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the University of Navarra, and of the Plan de training Teatral), students of design who will participate in the elaboration of the scenography, and students of the Performing Arts Production program will share the stage with professional soloists of degree program international. "This opera buffa is the last opera Verdi composed, a very funny work. On this occasion, it will be set in the 1950s. We will work with a team of almost 150 students from different Schools and countries in a proposal that consolidates the transversal projects that the MUN has been developing for years, and that puts students from training and diverse origins to collaborate in a common artistic project ", explains Carlos Bernar, manager of area Campus Creativo, which brings together the activities of the MUN aimed at students.

In addition, various workshops, cycles and competitions are planned for students of the University of Navarra: the Initiation to Drawing the Human Figure workshop (starting January 24), the solidarity concert at partnership with Alumni College Voices for Hope (February 7), the sample University Theater (February 14 and 15) and the XXVII University Theater Fortnight (March 3-13), the IX singing contest La Voz de tu School (whose final will be held on March 12) and an Arabic calligraphy workshop.

The cinema is the protagonist of Muybridge's exhibition

_{Eadweard Muybridge's exhibition will open at MUN in April.}

The antecedents of cinema, of the moving image, can be found in works such as those of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose work will be exhibited at conference room Torre del MUN from April 2 to August 24. Among his photographic production, his research on the movement of the body, both animal and human, stand out, and for the first time in history, they collect his development and manage to capture its different phases, which the human eye is not able to individualize.

visit On February 19, the film Cristales rotos (broken glass), by Víctor Erice, will be screened, preceded by a guided tour of the series of portraits of miners De laboris, by photographer Pierre Gonnord (which are part of the University of Navarra Museum Collection). exhibition University of Navarra Museum Collection. Four decades), and accompanied by a lecture with Jorge Latorre, an expert on Erice's films. On February 26, ¡Qué verde era mi valle! will be shown, with a subsequent colloquium with the critic and writer Eduardo Torres-Dulce.

In addition, the MUN will be present at the ARCOmadrid fair (scheduled for March 5-9), where the catalogs of the exhibitions Rafael Levenfeld. Fotógrafo ( which can be visited until March 16) and the large sample Colección MUN. Four Decades (available until August 24).

Proposals for the whole family

For younger children, the MUN'sarea Educativa offers various children's workshops (RotulaMUN, January 18; Playtronica, February 15; Primavera MUN, March 15; Mi lenguaje no verbal, April 12; and Preparados, listos, atención, May 17). Also, family workshops such as World Environment Day (June 7), and the Easter Musical urban camp (with the leitmotiv of music for peace).