The MUN presents its January-May 2025 season with the premiere of its second young opera and a varied program, inviting new audiences on its tenth anniversary.
The spectator will be able to see on stage great names of dance, interpretation and theatrical and musical direction; with an attractive repertoire that will be the ideal opportunity for those who dare to attend the MUN Theater for the first time. As a novelty, this year there are two types of season tickets for the Cartographies of Music series
PhotoCopyby Christophe Bernard/The Aterballetto company, Italy's national choreographic center and the country's best contemporary dance company, will close the MUN's performing arts season.
The Museo Universidad de Navarra presents its January - May 2025 season, with a program of music, theater and dance aimed at the general public, which includes the premiere of its second young opera, Falstaff, by Verdi, and an exhibition by Muybridge linked to the origins of cinema. Tickets for the shows are already available at the box office and on the web, including season tickets for the Cartografías de la Música series: the option of two shows for 25 euros or all four events for 45.
For lovers of the performing arts, the Museum has planned a varied program: with dance, theater and music. The Spanish dance show Legado, with artistic direction by Tania Martín and Carlos Romero, and produced by Nexus Company, is a journey through the world of flamenco, the bolero school, stylized dance and folklore, showing the origins and modernity of the disciplines. A perfect opportunity for all audiences to enjoy the beauty and diversity of Spanish dance.
Los clásicos hoydedicated to classical theater made today, offers on February 21 a renewed and updated version of Electra, by Sophocles, with Pílades Teatro; and with adaptation and direction by Fernanda Orazi, winner of the Godot Award for Best Direction 2023. The play has also won two Max Awards 2024: Best Newcomer Show and Best Version or Adaptation of a Play. A round table with the director herself on the current relevance of classical Greek tragedy completes the program.
Cartographies of music brings in its XI edition four concerts that cover choral, chamber, symphonic and soloist music with great works of the twentieth and twenty-first century. "A proposal to interest classical music fans, but also those who do not usually listen to it -explains the artistic director of the MUN, Teresa Lasheras. -This year's edition is distinguished by the great beauty of the programs chosen and by the innovation of some formats, such as choral music".
Halfway between music and performative, the vocal performance work A Beginning #16161D (February 28), with Aurora Bauzá and Pere Bou, is a composition for five singers that plays with the relationship between voice, movement and a surprising and poetic use of light.
Chamber music will come to the MUN on March 7 with the MSKN Master Ensemble 3, a group made up of Musikene master students, with a program featuring works by Stravinsky, Sánchez Verdú and Villa-Lobos.
On March 14 it will be the turn of symphonic music with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Navarra (OSN), which will perform pieces by Villa-Lobos, Piazzola and the American composer Gabriela Frank at the Elegías del Nuevo Mundo event. At the baton, Beatriz Fernández Aucejo (Paiporta, Valencia), the only Spanish winner of the important contest for female conductors La maestra.
Cartografías de la música will conclude on March 21 with an appointment with two great instrumentalists, Cyprien Katsaris and Pablo Galdo, who will offer a repertoire with two pianos and a solo piano, including works by Mozart/Busoni, Liszt, Milhaud, Ravel (his emblematic Bolero) and Bizet (with the popular Carmen Suite). The performers will offer a masterclass for piano students on Saturday, March 22.
Finally, Aterballetto, Italy's national choreographic center and the country's best contemporary dance company, will close the MUN's performing arts season on April 30, with the choreographies Solo Echo by Crystal Pite with music by Brahms; Rhapsody in Blue by Iratxe Ansa & Igor Bacovich, with music by Gershwin; and Glory Hall by Diego Tortelli (premiere in Spain).
The second young opera of the MUN
As for the activities involving young people, the premiere ofVerdi's opera Falstaff , which will be performed on April 2 and 3, and tickets for which will be on sale soon, stands out. Young singers, instrumentalists and performers (members of the Choir and Symphony Orchestra of the University of Navarra, and of the Theatrical Training Plan), design students who will participate in the development of the scenography, and students of the Performing Arts Production program will share the stage with professional soloists with an international career. "This opera buffa is the last opera Verdi composed, a very funny work. On this occasion, it will be set in the 1950s. We will work with a team of almost 150 students from different faculties and countries in a proposal that consolidates the transversal projects that the MUN has been developing for years, and that brings together students from different backgrounds and origins in a common artistic project," explains Carlos Bernar, head of the area Campus Creativo, which brings together the MUN's activities aimed at students.
In addition, several workshops, cycles and competitions are planned for students of the University of Navarra: the human figure drawing initiation workshop (from January 24), the solidarity concert in collaboration with Alumni College Voices for Hope (February 7), the University Theater Exhibition (February 14 and 15) and the XXVII University Theater Fortnight (March 3 to 13), the IX singing contest La Voz de tu Facultad (whose final will be held on March 12) and an Arabic calligraphy workshop.
The cinema at the center of Muybridge's exhibition
The Eadweard Muybridge exhibition will open at the MUN in April.
The antecedents of cinema, of the moving image, can be found in works such as those of the photographer Eadweard Muybridge, whose work will be exhibited at the MUN's Torre Hall from April 2 to August 24. Among his photographic production, his research on the movement of the body, both animal and human, stands out, which for the first time in history shows its development and manages to capture its different phases, which the human eye is not able to individualize.
On February 19, the film Cristales rotos (broken glass), by Victor Erice, will be screened, preceded by a guided tour of the series of portraits of miners De laboris, by photographer Pierre Gonnord (which are part of the exhibition Collection Museo Universidad de Navarra. Four decades), and accompanied by a conference with Jorge Latorre, an expert on Erice's films. On February 26, ¡Qué verde era mi valle! will be shown, with a subsequent colloquium with the critic and writer Eduardo Torres-Dulce.
In addition, the MUN will be present at the ARCOmadrid fair (scheduled for March 5-9), where the catalogs of the exhibitions Rafael Levenfeld. Fotógrafo ( on view through March 16) and the large exhibition Colección MUN. Four Decades (available until August 24).
Proposals for the whole family
For the youngest children, the MUN Educational Area offers various children's workshops (RotulaMUN, January 18; Playtronica, February 15; Primavera MUN, March 15; Mi lenguaje no verbal, April 12; and Preparados, listos, atención, May 17). Also, family workshops such as World Environment Day (June 7), and the Easter Musical urban camp (with the leitmotiv of music for peace).