AGENDA
EVENTS CALENDAR 2012
The exhibition offer, musical and sporting Madrid is one of the most comprehensive in the world. Check the selection you have made esMADRID.com of the most important events taking place in our city throughout 2012.
Exhibitions
Spectra of Antonin Artaud. Language and art in the fifties (September 18 to December 17. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia): French artist-creator Antonin Artaud's theater of cruelty-stars in this show about his influence on poetry performing arts and the years following his death.
Imogen Cunningham (September 18 to 20 January. Mapfre Foundation. Hall Azca): a 70-year tour career pioneering modernist photography.
Pictures. Art Centre Pompidou (September 25 to January 6. Fundación Mapfre. Sala Recoletos): sample of 80 portraits of great artists from the Collection Centre Pompidou / Musée National d'Art Moderne.
Jean Paul Gaultier. Fashion Universe: From the Street to the Stars (October 6 to January 6. Fundación Mapfre): retrospective of the work of French designer through a selection of 140 haute couture dresses and pieces ready-to-wear made from 70s.
Gauguin and the trip to the exotic (from 9 October to 13 January 2013. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza): works by Gauguin, Kandinsky, Matisse, Klee and Macke to narrate the reconquest of exotic primitivism through between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Maria Blanchard (October 16 to February 25, 2013. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia): shows around the Spanish avant-garde painter linked to Cubism, which reached in Paris in the 20s its highest award.
The Art of Cartier (from 23 October to 15 February 2013. Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza): jewelry that belonged to Grace Kelly, Elizabeth Taylor and Coco Chanel are presented in this exhibition of more than 300 pieces from the collection of historic famous jewelry.
The young Van Dyck (November 20 to March 3, 2013. Museo del Prado): displays the works around the Flemish artist painted before leaving for London in 1620, during which the young Van Dyck worked in the service Rubens teacher.
Legacy House of Alba. Patronage in the service of art (from 30 November to 31 March. CentroCentro): the most complete private collection of the Fundación Casa de Alba will include more than 150 works, including paintings by Goya, Titian and Rubens, or a first edition of Don Quixote.
Concerts and Festivals
XXIX Madrid Jazz Festival (November 4 to December 5): three main venues, the Teatro Fernan Gomez, Teatro Circo Price and Conde Duque hosting a total of 46 concerts in which Patti Smith, Michel Camilo with Tomatito, Martyrdom and Chick Corea Trio performances are the main highlight.
Mika (November 23. Sala La Riviera): The Origin of Love is the name of the new album that the British artist presented to her fans in Madrid.
The Black Keys (November 28. Palacio de Deportes): rock band lives up to the title of his latest album, The Road, and hit the road to showcase new topics.
The Hives (1 December. Sala La Riviera): Swedish band will be in the room in Madrid to present the themes of his latest work, Lex Hives.
Rufus Wainwright (December 8. La Riviera): American singer-songwriter returns to pop-rock with their new album, Out of the Game.
Cecilia Bartoli (December 13. Auditorio Nacional): Crusader is the name of the program that presents the extraordinary Italian mezzo-soprano.
Sport
San Silvestre Vallecana (December 31): City says goodbye to this year's popular 10-kilometer race, one of the highest participation rates in the world.
Sabadell Banco Madrid Horse Week 2012 (from 20 to 23 December. Feria de Madrid): a multidisciplinary horse event that includes sports competitions and horse shows for all ages.
Scenarios
The Lion King (Teatro Lope de Vega): Madrid hosts exclusively in the hit Disney musical version and Castilian. More than 50 million people have already seen this play on Broadway was born and tells the story of Simba, a little lion trying to defend his inheritance to the throne with the help of his friends Timon and Pumbaa.
More than 100 lies (Movistar Rialto Theatre. Since 28 September): The second season begins this musical that features songs as Joaquín Sabina thread of a story whose characters, criminals and middling poets are also inspired in the stories created by the singer of Ubeda.
The Sound of Music. The musical (since 27 September. Arteria Coliseum) welcome the Madrid stage in musical key, history of the novice Maria and her relationship with the family Von Trapp.
Leviathan (November 23 to December 2. Units of Spanish. Slaughterhouse Madrid): world premiere of this play based on the novel Moby Dick, Herman Melllville. A co-production of the Spanish Theater, Living Structures and Old Vic Tunnels.
Macbeth (from December 2 to 23. Teatro Real): tragedy about power signed by Verdi, under the musical direction of Teodor Currentzis.
Cirque du Soleil, Michael Jackson. The Immortal World Tour (from 26 to 30 December. Palacio de Deportes in): the world's most famous circus returns to Madrid to present a show of homage to the King of Pop will feature 64 dancers, musicians and acrobats different countries.
ADVANCE 2013
Gastrofestival (from 19 January to 3 February): restaurants, museums, shops and various areas of the city hosting the fourth edition of this great culinary and cultural event.
Handball World (11 to 27 January. Madrid Arena): Madrid is one of six venues of the Handball World Championship Male and host the opening match he will face the teams of Spain and Algeria. .
The Perfect American (January 22 to February 4. Teatro Real): world premiere of this opera composed by Philip Glass from the life of Walt Disney.
Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (from 23 January to 16 September. Reina Sofia National Museum CA): This collection, part of the Cisneros Foundation of Caracas, is one of the most prestigious in Latin America and provides a major art exhibition contemporary and edgy.
ARCOmadrid (from 13 to 17 February. Feria de Madrid): the 32nd edition of the International Contemporary Art Fair, a major industry events worldwide-will to Turkey as the guest of honor.
Kooza (from on 1 March. Scenario Puerta del Angel): Cirque du Soleil returns to Madrid with his new production of 'Grand Chapiteau', which recreates an exotic visual world full of surprises and great boldness numbers.
Real Madrid-Barcelona (March 3. Estadio Santiago Bernabeu): This meeting between the two biggest rivals in the Spanish League football is followed each year by millions of viewers around the world.
Roberto Devereux (3 and 7 March. Teatro Real): the soprano Edita Gruberova plays Elisabetta in Donizetti's work in concert, with Andriy Yurkevych at.
Dalí: all suggestions and all possibilities poetic plastic (April 23 to September 2. Museo de Arte Reina Sofía NC): one of the most important exhibitions of recent years made about the artist, bringing together around 200 arrivals works three repositories of legacy Dalí: Fundació Gala-Salvador Dalí (Figueres), Salvador Dali Museum in St. Petersburg (Florida) and the Reina Sofía own.
