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The 44th edition of the International Cervantino Festival will kick off tomorrow under the theme: “Cervantes 400; from madness to idealism”, and will include dance performances, plays, concerts, film and academic events, workshops for both adults and children, exhibitions and rap events around the life and work of the author of Don Quixote of La Mancha.
Spain and the state of Jalisco, México, are this year’s guests in a festival that will also feature controversial German play director Christoph Marthaler and visual artist Anna Viebrock, the Beethoven Project with the Emerson String Quartet and the American String Quartet, Australian dance company Circa, as well as the Scottish Dance Theatre, the Mexican Theatre Company “Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, the Spanish Dance Company, the return of tenor Francisco Araiza and the Dutch National Ballet.
The Philharmonic Orchestra of Jalisco, accompanied by the Mariachi Nuevo de Tecatitlán, will be in charge of inaugurating the Festival, which will last 22 days.
The XXVI International Cervantino Colloquium “Cervantes and the Arts” will also be celebrated for the first time in this edition of the Festival.
