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Mexico: The Cervantes Festival

1982; University of Toronto Press; Volume: 36; Linguagem: Inglês

10.3138/ctr.36.017

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Jennifer Merin,

Theater, Performance, and Music History

For three weeks from April 21 to May 15, the International Cervantes Festival brought to the charming and relatively isolated colonial city of Guanajuato, Mexico, a dazzling roster of some of the world’s most accomplished performing artists and ensembles in a program of theatre, dance, opera, music and folkloric performances. West Berlin’s Schaubuhne Theatre, Poland’s Cricot 2 Theatre, Britain’s National Theatre, Spain’s Nuria Espert Company, Rudolph Nureyev with the Boston Ballet, Merce Cunningham and Company, Maurice Bejart’s XXth Century Ballet with Jorge Donn and Marcia Haydee, Leonard Bernstein conducting the Israel Philharmonic, Erich Leinsdorf conducting the Royal Philharmonic of London, Jean-Pierre Rampal, Marilyn Horne, Vladimir Ashkenazy were among those who performed in Teatro Juarez, an ornate turn-of-the-century opera house seating 1200; Teatro Principal, a modern proscenium theatre seating 500, the Templo de la Compania, a beautiful Baroque church seating about 900 and at outdoor locations such as the Alhondiga de Gramaditas, an ancient granary (now an historical museum), converted during the festival to an arena seating about 3,000.