The Teatro Real plays host to the 10th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards Gala Concert
This evening at 19:30, Madrid’s Teatro Real will play host to the 10th BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards Gala Concert, a prelude to the formal ceremony that will take place tomorrow at 19:00 in the Marqués de Salamanca Palace, Madrid headquarters of the BBVA Foundation. The concert is a tribute to the laureates in this 10th edition of the awards: Omar Yaghi in Basic Sciences; Shafi Goldwasser, Silvio Micali, Ronald L. Rivest and Adi Shamir in Information and Communication Technologies; James P. Allison in Biomedicine; William Nordhaus in Climate Change; Rosemary and Peter Grant in Ecology and Conservation Biology; Timothy Bresnahan, Ariel Pakes and Robert Porter in Economics, Finance and Management; Nubia Muñoz in Development Cooperation; and Kaija Saariaho in Contemporary Music. The music will be performed by the Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid, the resident orchestra at the Teatro Real, led on this occasion by Pedro Halffter.
13 June, 2018
The program will open with the Overture to Fidelio, Ludwig van Beethoven’s only opera. Next will come Laterna Magica, by Kaija Saariaho, this year’s winner of the Frontiers Award in Contemporary Music, a composition exploring the shared ground between music and film, which draws its inspiration from Ingmar Bergman’s autobiography of the same name. After the interval, part two will begin with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 in D major, a work that perfectly illustrates the depth and breadth of the German composer’s musical cosmos, and end with Tiento del primer tono y batalla imperial, by Cristóbal Halffter, the first composer to win the Frontiers of Knowledge Award.
