The Fernán Gómez Centro Cultural de la Villa is organising the seventh edition of the Madrid Ancient Music Festival (MAM) which will take place from 23 to 28 June 2026 in the Jardiel Poncela Hall. This event will include extensive musical heritage with pieces from European Baroque music.
The latest edition of the festival will bring several concerts, in which most of its programme continues to focus on Spanish groups, prioritising national artists, all of which are first rate and internationally recognised.
The latest edition’s programme consists of six unique concerts by Spanish groups specialised in historic performance with original instruments.
All of the groups are specialised in recovering our rich musical heritage and they will be performing programmes devoted to Spanish vocal music, offering an insight into the origins of today’s Zarzuela. The programme includes songs in Spanish theatre of the Golden Age; arias from Spanish Baroque opera, profane compositions and soundtracks from the theatre and religious music written in Spain in the Baroque period and the première of a free version in the form of a dramatised recital of burlesque zarzuelas.
This year's pieces and authors will offer a unique and close experience in each concert, taking the audience to the courts, open-air theatres and 17th and 18th theatres, raising awareness of those repertoires that came before our well-known Zarzuela.
The first edition of this festival, which was held in 2019, included the participation of artists like the Lebanese singer and Maronite nun, Sister Marie Keyrouz and the French orchestra, Ensemble de la Paix. La Real Cámara, a group created in Madrid in 1992, the Spanish group, L’Apothéose, Barokksolistene, founded by Bjarte Eike from Norway, and groups like Delirivm Música, La Ritirata, La Hispaniola, Concerto 1700 and the band, La Spagna can also be seen on stage.
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