The Man with Umbrella, collage opera, opens the Festival ETC

Tarragona. Costa Dorada. 27th June 2012. The 2012 Summer Festival of Tarragona opens on 8 July with the opera collage "The Umbrella Men's" Joan Martinez Colas. The show features the participation of entities artistic, cultural and civic Tarragona and its surrounding area, reaching more than 500 performers. The Deputy Mayor Begoña Floria said: "This is a participatory art experience that is part of the minutes of the Capital of Catalan Culture and values ​​the potential of the city in the performing arts in a project high professional quality. "   The show is an initiative by a Catalan artist, Joan Martinez Colás the composer, based on a personality, also Catalan, Vincent Ferrer, who has become a true reference universal ethical. A proposed art and music, professional, whose uniqueness is participatory. Is constructed and defined in each place where it occurs through the participation of organizations and artistic, cultural and civic environment where they are performed. In Tarragona with the participation of twenty local organizations that added to the choir, the orchestra and soloists that are the basis and organizations from other cities of Catalonia, makes the show reaches more than 500 performers. The show debuted at the Gran Teatre del Liceu has toured several cities in Catalonia and on 1 December will be a special operation at the Palau Sant Jordi with the participation of all entities and agents that participated in each city .   The project months ago with meetings and walking tests and take a moment prior to the dissemination and visibility Parade to be held on Saturday 30 June from 19.15h, which will kick off the statue of the naked and the appeal downtown to Fountain Square.   "Man's Umbrella" gives the start of the Festival ETC will bring on stage the Field of Mars shows the first level national and international artists as Manolo Garcia, Serrat and Sabina, The Friends of the Arts, Pat Metheny , Buenavista Social Club with Omara Portuondo, etc..

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