Spanish Pocket Opera - Renaissance Full of Wit and Splendour

Renaissance you can touch: magnificent sound - artful, witty, surprising. An opera experience in pocket format: Concierto Ibérico brings the colourful "Ensaladas" of the Spanish Renaissance to the stage. Polyphonic vocal music meets folk Villancicos, language shifts encounter rhythmic surprises - between devotion and playful humour. An evening of wonder, smiles and immersion in the richness of Siglo de Oro sound.

This is how the musical theatre of the Spanish Renaissance sounds when Concierto Ibérico tells it vividly, sensually and pointedly. At the centre stand Mateo Flecha's legendary "Ensaladas" - artful "mixed forms" in which sacred and secular texts, Latin and vernacular language, solemn polyphony and driving rhythm meet directly. This music is full of contrasts: intimate and luminous one moment, exuberant, grooving and strikingly direct the next. The scenic impulses emerge precisely from this: from language shifts, sonic colours, small dramaturgical turning points - music that transforms itself into theatre.

The performance brings singers and instrumentalists together in a compact, unified experience equally at home in church spaces and modern concert halls. If you expect "Early Music" to be distant, you'll find the opposite here: Renaissance with heart, humour and sparkling virtuosity - ideal as an inspiring concert evening during Advent.