Embrace the music!

Dear audience,

Putting together a theater season means choosing what we want to bring into your lives—the images and sounds with which we want to flood your senses and touch your hearts—it means striving to add a little extra life to your existence.

It is taking you in our arms for an evening and sending you back out into the world still a little shaken by our embrace.

For an embrace is not so much an expression of harmony as it is a gesture of love that allows opposites to coexist, a surge of warmth that makes contrasts resonate, and the acceptance of being swept away by otherness—of forms, languages, origins, and ideas.

In this sense, the 2026–27 season is resolutely Baroque. Not only because Baroque music is one of its primary themes, but above all because it shares its deepest spirit: proposing one thing while defending its opposite, making shadow and light coexist in a single gesture, accepting that what unites is constantly being transformed. It is from this tension that springs what makes us waver and pushes us to shift our center of balance.

It is within this space that the season’s performances unfold, where childhood is imbued with shadow, celebration becomes an act of resistance, the intertwining of bodies gives rise to clarity of mind, and tradition allows itself to be transformed by the impertinent friction of creation.

For the Baroque is also this: to know proportions deeply in order to better distort them. And as we work passionately toward knowledge and its transmission, we may discover that it is precisely youth that takes us by the hand on the path of transgression.

An embrace, then, that does not close in but welcomes, and draws us into its movement toward the celebration, where, together, we invent an art for our time.

An “abrazo.”

Leonardo García-Alarcón
General and Artistic Director