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VALENCIA IN AUGUST

FIESTA TIME IN VALENCIA'S TOWNS AND VILLAGES - IT'S NOT JUST ABOUT LA TOMATINA!
August is traditionally the time for local fiestas around Valencia's towns and villages (there are over 600 annual fiestas in the Valencia Community alone!)- look in the local papers for 'Fiestas Patronales' or 'Pueblos en Fiestas' - there are Moors and Christians parades and mock battles, Paella cookouts, day-time fireworks(mascletàs, fireworks at 2pm mainly for noise! the mother of which has to be seen-and heard- along the streets of Godella, just a few stops on the metro from Valencia city centre on Tuesday 24th August) huge night- time firework displays, dances, carnival parades, fun runs and cycle races, food fights (La Tomatina is the most famous, but there are win and water fights , cologne fights and La Raima, a grape fight) - and best of all, most of these activities are absolutely free!

NEW REGATTA FOR VALENCIA! ON NOW

Russell Coutts, head honcho at BMW Oracle the team that won the Americas Cup in Valencia in their giant multihull on the waters off Valencia earlier this year, has announced a new RC44 circuit regatta for Valencia between July 26 and August 1. Russell also announced that James Spithill, Paul Cayard, Terry Hutchinson, Ray Davies and his boss at BMW Oracle Larry Ellison, will compete for the week. MORE

Ryanair to reopen base in Valencia!

Budget airline Ryanair has revealed that next November it will re-open its base in Valencia, two years after it was closed due to disagreements with with the then Conselleria for Tourism. Vice President, Michael Cawley announced the reopening after signing a co-marketing agreement with Belen Juste to promote various destinations in the Valencian Community in its main markets of Britain, Italy and Germany. The 1.6m € agreement, the cost of which is being shared by the Valencian and national tourist boards and Ryanair will mean that when this the seventh Spanish, base re-opens, ten new routes will be launched by the airline, five national: Fuerteventura, Palma de Mallorca, Ibiza, Santiago de Compostela and Seville, and the remainder foreign, to Marrakech, Munich/West, Paris/Beauvais and Trieste. It is expected to bring as many as a million passengers through Valencia airport annually.

NEW EXHIBITION AT IVAM

Welsh Artist Julian Opie brings his cut-outs, paintings and LED pictures to Valencia in a major new show for the gallery - MORE

Arenal Sound

Burriana

27 July-01 August

The Cranberries, Simple Minds and Miguel Bosé head the line up at this new festival in Burriana, a beach resort just up the coast from Valencia - tickets from 110€ the whole event

Sunsplash 2010 European Reggae Festival

Benicassim

21-28 August - STARTS THIS WEEKEND!

7 days of the best Reggae and world music, art, and debate.

Rototom Sunsplash Festival is open to everyone - from all races, cultures, genders and ages. The organisers are offering free entry to both old and young. Children under 12 years and adults over 65 will not have to pay entrance to the festival… and the same goes for people with disabilities who will enter for free together with an accompanying person. The line up includes:
08/21/2010

Glen Washington + Anthony B + Elijah + Morodo

08/22/2010

Bob Andy + Romain Virgo + Jah Mason + Big Youth

08/23/2010

Bushman + Africa Unite + Morcheeba

08/24/2010

Ginjah + Alborosie ftI.Eye + Khaled + Ras Charmer

08/25/2010

Alpha Blondy + Fantan Mojah + House Of Riddim

08/26/2010

Pablo Moses + Tony Rebel + Queen Ifrica + Busy Signal

08/27/2010

Mighty Diamonds + Wayne Wonder + Chuck Fender

08/28/2010

Aswad + Etana + Marcia Griffith + Abyssinians -
8 day ticket inc. camping 160€

VALENCIA IN JUNE

PALAU DE LES ARTS
III Festival del Mediterrani
29 MAY - 30 June

ÓPERA

Salome
Richard Strauss
Drama musical en un acto
Libreto de Richard Strauss, basado en la obra homónima de Oscar Wilde
Director Musical
Zubin Mehta
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Nueva producción
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía
10, 16, 19, 22, 25 June Sala Principal

Carmen
Georges Bizet
Ópera en cuatro actos
ibreto de Ludovic Halévy y Henri Meilhac, basado en la obra homónima de Prosper Mérimée
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Francesc Perales, director
Escolania de la Mare de Déu dels Desemparats
Luis Garrido, director
Producción
Palau de les Arts Reina Sofía Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
18 *, 20, 21, 24, 27, 30 de June Sala Principal
* Live broadcasting of this performance at the Auditori, La Plaza de la Virgen in Valencia and in several European cities 2010 European Year for Combating Poverty and Social Exclusion - we have confirmation MOST CITIES NOW - SEE HERE..

CONCERTS
Concierto sinfónico
29 may Auditori
Robert Schumann: Concierto para piano y orquesta, en la menor, opus 54 *
José María Sánchez Verdú: Qualia-Jardí Blau (Estreno absoluto. Obra encargo Palau de les Arts) **
Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana
Francesc Perales, director
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Zubin Mehta, director musical

Concierto sinfónico
28 June Auditori
Richard Strauss: Don Quijote, opus 35 *
Richard Strauss: Una vida de héroe, opus 40 **
Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
ubin Mehta, director musical

Música de Cámara
Albéniz. Iberia x 12

2 & 3 June
Interpretación comentada de Iberia, de Isaac Albéniz

2 June
Cuaderno
‘Evocación’ (Pablo Martínez)
‘El Puerto’ (Rubén Sánchez)
‘El Corpus en Sevilla-’ (Claudio Carbó)
II Cuaderno
‘Rondeña’ (Xavier Torres)
‘Almería’ (Antonio Galera)
‘Triana’ (Juan Lago)

3 June
III Cuaderno
‘El Albaicín’ (Jordi Nogués)
El polo’ (Jorge Giménez)
‘Lavapiés’ (Carlos Apellániz)

IV Cuaderno
Málaga’ (Ricardo Descalzo)
Jerez’ (Santiago Casero)
Eritaña’ (Carles Marín)
Justo Romero, presentación y comentarios
Teatre Martín i Soler 20.00 h

Bicentenario Chopin
26 June
Fryderyk Chopin
Concierto para piano y orquesta número 1, en mi menor, opus 11 * (versión original de Chopin para piano y cuarteto de cuerda)
Concierto para piano y orquesta número 2, en fa menor, opus 21 ** (versión original de Chopin para piano y cuarteto de cuerda)
Carlos Apellániz, piano * Carles Marín, piano **
e cuerda de Orquestra de la Comunitat Valenciana
Teatre Martín i Soler 20.00 h

Recitals
José Manuel Zapata y conjunto de tangueros
Tangos para Ella
30 may Teatre Martín i Soler 20.00 h

Olga Peretiatko
Voz en Ella
12 June Teatre Martín i Soler 20.00 h

Exhibition
Femmes fatales. Carmen y Salomé
9 mayo- 30 June Vestíbulo Sala principal

Dramatised Lecture
Oscar Wilde's Salomé
Lecture dramatised in Castellano by Escuela del Actor de Valencia
Andrés Poveda, director
5, 7, 9 June · 20.00h Aula Magistral

CINEMA
FEMMES FATALES IN CINEMA
Aula Magistral
Version Original w/subtitles in Castellano

Gilda (1946) Charles Vidor 31 mayo 2010 · 20.00 h
La condesa descalza (1954) Joseph L. Mankiewicz 1 June · 20.00 h
El ángel azul (1930) Josef von Sternberg 2 June · 20.00 h
Carmen (1983)Carlos Saura 11 June · 20.00 h
Mata Hari (1931) George Fitzmaurice 14 June · 20.00 h
Fedra (1956) Manuel Mur Oti15 June · 20.00 h
Salome (1953) William Dieterle 16 June · 20.00 h
Salomé (2002) Carlos Saura 21 June · 20.00 h
Medea (1969) Pier Paolo Pasolini 23 June · 20.00 h
Lolita (1962) Stanley Kubrick 25 June · 20.00 h

IVAM
Welsh Artist Julian Opie brings his cut-outs, paintings and LED pictures to Valencia in a major new show for the gallery.

Opie is considered one of the most significant artists of his generation. Opie has developed his own reductive formal language which seeks to reflect, not reality itself, but rather the way in which reality is represented.

Drawing from influences as diverse as billboard signs, classical portraiture and sculpture, to classical Japanese woodblock prints, Opie 'paints' using a variety of media and technologies which enable him to make three-dimensional explorations of his subjects.

"Half the reason for making an exhibition is simply to get a chance to see your own work properly. I’m always very grateful for this opportunity. When asked to make an exhibition I always travel to the town to see the space and begin the process of envisaging works in place. I am good at this. I can easily look at a blank wall, an empty room, and imagine my works in there. So I make a kind of mental slide show of all the works I have and works I am intending to make and jot down ideas on a scrap of paper.

Back in the studio I draw out the floor plan of the gallery on the computer and start to drop images of my work onto the plan. I try to make a kind of story, a narrative, using the accidents of the architecture. Sometimes I need to make new works, sometimes the opportunities give me the chance to try out entirely new things. Some works I would have made anyway, others are adapted and expanded for the space.

Where possible I try to push out from the actual showing space. The entrance lobby, the façade, the windows, the invite card and catalogue are all spaces to be used, places to extend the narrative."
Julian Opie, speaking at his Press Conference 01 June 2010

PALAU DE LA MÚSICA
Another packed calendar for the Palau de la Música, Of particular interest are the concerts in the gardens this month (and they're free!) also Rufus Wainwright on the 29th and Chris Isaak on 28th.

Until 18 July, Sunday ATRIO DE LOS BAMBÚES y SALA EXPO
Antonio de Felipe “POPSPORT”

2 June, Wednesday. 20.15h SALA ITURBI 6/9/12 €
ORFEÓN UNIVERSITARIO DE VALENCIA Constantino Martínez Orts, director
L’Orfeó a capella”

3 June, Thursday. 20.15h JARDINES DEL PALAU Free entry
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE VALENCIA Pablo Sánchez Torrella, director - -- I -CLAVARIS DEL FOC (Pasodoble) Pablo Sánchez - GUILLERMO TELL (Obertura) Gioacchino Rossini - IMPRESIONES FESTERAS Bernardo Adam - -- II -LA REVOLTOSA (Fantasía) Ruperto Chapí - EL PRÍNCIPE IGOR (Danzas Guerreras) Aleksandr Borodin

3 June, Thursday. 20.15h SALA RODRIGO 15 €
Concierto a beneficio de Cooperación Internacional
WORLD UNIVERSITY CHAMBER ORCHESTRA & CHAIR

4 June, Friday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI ABONO 16 - 20/15/10 €
CAPELLA SAETABIS Rodrigo Madrid, director
Joan Baptista Cabanilles-Tiento y batalla - -Juan Bautista Comes-Endechas-Oh pan, abismo de amor - -Ambrosio de Cotes-Pieza de música para ministriles - Juan Bautista Comes-Turulú, turulá, galeguiña-Danzas del Corpus

6 June, Sunday. 11.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
Concierto de Primavera PEQUEÑOS CANTORES DE VALENCIA

6 June, Sunday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
Presentación del Himno Comarcal de la Marina Alta

6 June, Sunday. 19.30h SALA RODRIGO 15 €
Serie de Cámara - AMORES, grup de percussió “Callejón sin salida”

8 June, Tuesday. 20.15h SALA RODRIGO Free entry (limited places)
Hui, hui música VII CONCURSO DE COMPOSICIÓN PARA JÓVENES COMPOSITORES

9 June, Wednesday. 20.15h SALA ITURBI 12 €
Concierto a beneficio del Rotary Internacional “Pongamos fin a la polio”

10 June, Thursday. 20.15h JARDINES DEL PALAU Free entry
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE VALENCIA Pablo Sánchez Torrella, director
- I - INTERPRETACIÓN DE LOS PASODOBLES FINALISTAS DEL CONCURSO ORGANIZADO POR LA JUNTA CENTRAL FALLERA. LA VIEJECITA Manuel Fernández Caballero - II - INVITACIÓN AL VALS (Rondó brillante) Carl Mª von Weber GAYANEH (Suite del Ballet) Aram Khachaturian I.- Danza del Sable - II.- Lullaby (Canción de Cuna) III.- Lézghinka

10 June, Thursday, 20.15h SALA ITURBI ABONO 17 40/30/20 €
Waltraud Meier, mezzosoprano/Kundry Simon O’Neill, tenor/Parsifal Roman Trekel, barítono/Klingsor CORAL CATEDRALICIA DE VALENCIA ORQUESTA DE VALENCIA Yaron Traub, director
Richard Wagner Parsifal, Acto II (versión concierto)

11 June, Friday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI ABONO 18 20/15/10 €
ORQUESTRA SIMFÒNICA DE BARCELONA I NACIONAL DE CATALUNYA Eiji Oue, director
Joan Guinjoan-Pantonal Richard Strauss-Don Juan, poema sinfónico, op. 20
Modest Musorgski-Cuadros de una exposición

12 June, Saturday. 11.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
Estreno de un poema sinfónico dedicado a Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
ASOCIACIÓN BLASCO IBÁÑEZ

12 June, Saturday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI 40/30/20 €
Ciclo X6 Orquesta de Valencia Concierto 6 “Wagner-Parsifal”
Waltraud Meier, mezzosoprano/Kundry Simon O’Neill, tenor/Parsifal Roman Trekel, barítono/Klingsor CORAL CATEDRALICIA DE VALENCIA ORQUESTA DE VALENCIA Yaron Traub, director
Richard Wagner- Parsifal, Acto II

13 June, Sunday. 11.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE ALBUIXECH

13 June, Sunday. 17.00h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
Concierto de Primavera CORAL UNIVERSITARIA DE VALENCIA

13 June, Sunday. 20.00h SALA RODRIGO 15 €
Otras Músicas FATHI BEN YAKOUB/MATTHIEU SAGLIO “Ocho cuerdas por encima del Mediterráneo”

14 June, Monday.20.30h SALA ITURBI 12€
oncierto a beneficio de la Fundación Pequeño Deseo organizado por la Fundación Albéniz ORQUESTA DE CÁMARA SONY

15 June, Tuesday. 20.15h SALA RODRIGO 15 €
Serie de Cámara RAFAEL AGUIRRE, guitarra Ganador del Concurso Tárrega
Obras de: E. Pujol, F. Tárrega. J. Rodrigo, M. Giuliani, G. Gershwin, M de Falla

Del 16 al 25 June SALA LUCRECIA BORI
Exposición “Homenaje a Lucrecia Bori en el 50 aniversario de su fallecimiento” Con la colaboración gráfica de: Víctor Balaguer

16 June, Wednesday. 20.15h SALA RODRIGO 15 €
Serie de Cámara LILA HOROVITZ “Contrabajeando”

17 June, Tuesday. 19.00h SALA RODRIGO Free entry (limited seats)
“Homenaje a Lucrecia Bori en el 50 aniversario de su fallecimiento”
Conferencia de José Doménech Part

17 June, Thursday. 20.15h JARDINES DEL PALAU Free entry
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE VALENCIA Pablo Sánchez Torrella, director
- I - Ernest Chausson-Sinfonía en si bemol mayor, op. 20. Gabriel Fauré-Pelleas et Melisande, op. 80 (suite) Maurice Ravel -Daphnis et Chloé, suite nº 2, SAN ANTONIO DE LA FLORIDA (Pasodoble)- Juan Cano CAPRICHO ESPAÑOL (Suite) - Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakow I.- Alborada II.- Variaciones III.- Alborada IV.-Escena y Canto Gitano V.-Fandango Asturiano -EL TRUST DE LOS TENORIOS (Selección) -José Serrano
- II –VARIACIONS IRÒNIQUES-Francisco Bort-I.- Preludi II.-Jocs d’Ànecs III.-Tango IV.-Interludi V.-Coral VI.-Irònica VII.-Postludi. Coda
TANNHAUSER (Obertura) Richard Wagner

18 June, Friday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI ABONO 19 20/15/10 €
ORQUESTA DE VALENCIA Michel Plasson, director
Ernest Chausson-Sinfonía en si bemol mayor, op. 20. Gabriel Fauré-Pelleas et Melisande, op. 80 (suite). Maurice Ravel-Daphnis et Chloé, suite nº 2

19 June, Saturday. 11.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
CORAL DE PALAMÓS - BANDA DE ALGEMESÍ - ORFEÓN GREGORIO GEA

19 June, Saturday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
CANTORIA HIPPONENSIS

20 June, Sunday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
CENTRO ARTÍSTICO MUSICAL DE MONCADA

21 June, Monday. 20.15h SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
AGRUPACIÓN MUSICAL “ELS MAJORS DE L’HORTA NORD”

24 June, Thursday. 16.30h SALA RODRIGO Free entry (limited places)
Concierto de Coro FEDERACIÓN DE ASOCIACIONES DE VECINOS DE VALENCIA

24 June, Thursday. 20.15h JARDINES DEL PALAU Free entry
BANDA MUNICIPAL DE VALENCIA Pablo Sánchez Torrella, director
- I - EL MOTETE (Pasodoble)-José Serrano-EL RABAJOL Rafael Talens- I.-Dansa-II.-Cançó de bressol-III.-Jota DIEGO DE ACEVEDO (Suite)-Miguel Asins Arbó- I.-Introducción y Marcha-II.-Nocturno-III.- Seguidilla- IV.-Intermedio- V.-Bolero- VI.-Bailén-- II –-UNA NOCHE EN GRANADA (Poema lírico)-Emilio Cebrián- I.-Meditación en la Alhambra (Nocturno)-II.-Mujer Granadina (Serenata-Canción)III.-Fiesta Gitana en el Sacro Monte (Bailable andaluz)-OBERTURA SOLEMNE 1812- Piotr I. Tschaikowsky

25 June, Friday. 19.30h SALA ITURBI 15/11/8 €
Homenaje a Lucrecia Bori en el 50 aniversario de su nacimiento
Ana Mª Sánchez, soprano ORQUESTA DE VALENCIA Miguel A. Gómez-Martínez, director Arias de óperas de Mozart, Massenet, Verdi, Mascagni, Dvorák y Puccini

28 June, Monday. 20.00h SALA ITURBI 45/34 €
Otras Músicas CHRIS ISAAK

29 June, Monday. 20.00h SALA ITURBI 45/34 €
Otras Músicas RUFUS WAINWRIGHT

30 June y 1 de julio SALA ITURBI Free entry (limited places)
CERTAMEN DE BANDAS DEL AYUNTAMIENTO DE VALENCIA

NEW REGATTA FOR VALENCIA!
RC44 CLASS
Russell Coutts, head honcho at BMW Oracle the team that won the Americas Cup in Valencia in their giant multihull on the waters off Valencia earlier this year, has announced a new RC44 circuit regatta for Valencia between July 26 and August 1. Russell also announced that James Spithill, Paul Cayard, Terry Hutchinson, Ray Davies and his boss at BMW Oracle Larry Ellison, will compete for the week.

These regattas are a real spectator sport, the 13.75 metre yachts (designed by Russel, incidentally) race close to the shore line to make sure that the maximum number of people can watch and enjoy the spectacle. Valencia 2007 Consortium's Jorge Gisbert said that the staging of these races had cost nothing to the city. Coutts wants the regatta to become a regular event in Vallencia's sporting calendar. This may be the closest we get to another America's Cup!

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ADVANCE NOTICE
 

JUNE
Formula One Gran Premio 2010 Valencia
Fri 25 June

Practice 1 10:00 - 11:30

Practice 2 14:00 - 15:30

Sat 26 June 2

Practice 3 11:00 - 12:00

Qualifying 14:00

Sun 27 June
Race 14:00

ADVANCE NOTICE
JULY

FERIA DE JULIO 01-31JULY

Ferio de Julio concerts under the moon and stars in Viveros Park are usually star-studded! As soon as we know the line up we'll let you know. tickets sell out fast so be ready!

ADVANCE NOTICE
JULY

RC44 CIRCUIT REGATTAS MARINA JUAN CARLOS I 26JULY-01AUGUST

See left

ADVANCE NOTICE
JULY

XIII FESTIVAL DE JAZZ DEL PALAU DE LA MÚSICA DE VALENCIA.

Two glorious weeks of the best of the world's Jazz, with a host of the biggest names in the industry. More as we get it

JULY

HEINEKEN FIB
FESTIVL INTERNATIONAL DE BENICASSÍM 15-18 JULY

Four days of great music just north of Valencia - the line up this year is shaping up nicely - MORE

ADVANCE NOTICE

AUGUST
Iron Maiden will be rounding off the first leg of their “Final Frontier World Tour” with an exclusive show at the Valencia Auditorio Marina Sur in SATURDAY AUGUST 21, 2010. This new venue is in the Marina.

A Special Guest will be announced soon.

ADVANCE NOTICE

SEPTEMBER
28 SEPTEMBER-02 OCTOBER
HABITAT VALENCIA 2010
Spain’s leading iinterior design fair, Hábitat Valencia, takes places from 28 September until 02 October.
 

ADVANCE NOTICE
OCTOBER
TENNIS OPEN 500 Valencia

30 October-7 November 2010 in the beautiful Ágora, Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias