Spanish Pocket Opera - Renaissance Full of Wit and Splendour

Renaissance you can touch: great beauty of 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 winking humour. An evening of wonder, smiles and immersion in the richness of Siglo de Oro.

This is how the musical theatre of the Spanish Renaissance sounds when Concierto Ibérico tells it vividly, sensually and pointedly. At the centre are 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 radiant one moment, exuberant, grooving and surprisingly direct the next. These are precisely the sources of the scenic impulses: 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. Those expecting "Early Music" to be distant will find the opposite here: Renaissance with heart, humour and sparkling virtuosity - ideal as an inspiring concert evening during Advent.