21 Lágrimas

Cancelled performances

TICKET REFUND

To recover the cost of tickets purchased for cancelled shows, the procedure will be as follows:

If the tickets were purchased via Internet, the price will automatically be refunded, by crediting the credit card with which payment was made. Due to the large volume of tickets, we would ask you to please be patient.

If the tickets were purchased at the theatre, the price will be refunded once the confinement period is over, at Arriaga Theatre box office during normal working hours.

MORE INFORMATION

You can contact Arriaga Theatre Information Office. Monday to Fridays: 11:00-14:00 hours and 17:00-20:00 hours.

• Telephone: 94 479 20 36
• E-mail: informacion@teatroarriaga.eus

 
 
A project at the Arriaga Theatre carried out by countertenor Carlos Mena that will have its climax in a concert featuring 21 musical laments bringing together feeling, virtuosity and numerology. A journey through Lagrime di San Pietro (St Peter’s Tears) by Orlando di Lasso – a masterpiece of European Renaissance music, comprised of 20 madrigals (poems by Luigi Tansillo, 1510-1568) and a concluding motet. Dedicated to Pope Clement VIII on 24 May 1594, the Lagrime were published in Munich in 1595. Curiously enough, Lasso finished this work 21 days before his death, on 14 June 1594.

Divided into seven modes, the Lagrime are set for seven voices that go through seven chants or reciting tones – an explosion of musical feeling to reflect St Peter’s grief after his denial of Christ. Seven, the number associated with abundance, is multiplied by three (the members of the Holy Trinity) to make the 21 tears.

Dramatised concert

A new production by the Arriaga Theatre

Master Class – Carlos Mena

A one-week educational project in November 2019 for singers (students selected by audition). The students, along with Carlos Mena, will perform in 21 lágrimas, the show staging Orlando di Lasso’s Lagrime di San Pietro.