Simfonova he returns to the Auditori de Girona on February 20 (19.00) with his formula for bringing the great titles of opera to all audiencess. In this case, he will do so with Opera is medecina, a proposal that emerged at the peak of the pandemic and that wants to a tribute to the health sector reviewing how gender has addressed the figure of the doctor and the concept of salut.
“We wanted to make a nod to a sector that has suffered a lot. We tied the operatic pieces with professions linked to the health field and how he had to face the pandemic”, explains Marcel Gorgori, creator of the show, as well as conductor of a concert that “was born when people applauded on the balconies”.
Thus, for example, the show recalls how the nurse had to take on jobs that did not belong to her and related it with Il barbiere di Siviglia, when barbers did bleeding to try to cure people, or linked pharmacists, who with antigen tests have become a first barrier to avoid col· health system, with L’elisir d’amore and the potions that people turned to when they were looking for a quick solution.
“In general, throughout the history of opera the figure of the doctor has been ridiculedbecause he was a figure of power”, explains Gorgori, who points out that they have also sought to show how a facultative overwhelmed by the situation has felt.
“It is an humoristic concertbut there are times when it touches the fiber. We have tried to put ourselves in the place of an isolated covid patient in the hospital and their families, for example with an aria from Le nozze di Figaro he sings, ” Where are the good times?”
Unlike Symphonova’s other shows, which included a symphony orchestra-and sometimes a choir-for the obvious difficulties of putting more than a hundred people on stage in rehearsals and concerts., Opera is medicine is a piano recital with three solo voices. These are the tenor Carles Cosias, the soprano Laura del Rio and the baritone Josep Ramon Olive, who sing accompanied by The Pianist Josep Buforn.
The interpretations of some of the best known fragments of the great operas of history are combined with film screenings references to the series are included. The Black Viper and also to Joan Capri,”who was always in the hands of doctors and spoke badly on stage and on stage, but will always be remembered by Dr. Caparros”.