Teatro Real y ópera contemporánea españolapolíticas y estéticas de una renovación escénica desde las ruinas (1997-2017)

Abstract

In 1997, after a seventy-two-year period of absence from the lyric theater, the Teatro Real, the principal institution for the performing arts in Spain, reopened its doors as an opera house. This doctoral thesis studies the contemporary Spanish opera productions in the Teatro Real from its reopening until the bicentennial celebrations of 2017. The commitment of the institution to contemporary Spanish opera was initially highlighted with the commissioning and premiere of three operatic projects. Since then, the Teatro Real has presented five more premieres in its main hall, in addition to another two premieres in collaboration with cultural entities and other theaters in Madrid in recent years. However, this contribution to the renewal of the operatic scene in Spain has not generated parallel studies in the critical arena that analyze and question the conditions of possibility of the genre, the actuality and diversity of its artistic practices, and the involvement of the Teatro Real in recent Spanish operatic creation...