Aarón Zapico: Los Celos Hacen Estrellas 🌟 Tomorrow, Aarón Zapico conducts the world premiere staging of Los Celos Hacen Estrellas y el Amor Hace Prodigios at the Teatro Leal in La Laguna, Tenerife. It’s the first Spanish zarzuela preserved with both complete libretto and score. Written in 1673 for the birthday of Queen Mariana of Austria at the court of Carlos II, this Baroque zarzuela has never been staged since its recovery. Musicologists Álvaro Torrente and Carmelo Caballero spent years reconstructing the score from incomplete manuscripts at the Biblioteca Nacional de España and other sources. This week, that work finally reaches the stage. Aarón leads an ensemble of period musicians and has prepared his own version of the score, bringing to life a work that nearly disappeared in the fire that destroyed the Alcázar of Madrid in 1734. A landmark moment for Spanish Baroque heritage 🇪🇸 Musical direction & harpsichord: Aarón Zapico Stage direction: Ricardo Campelo Ópera de Tenerife 📅 15 May — Teatro Leal, La Laguna, 19:30 📅 16 May — Teatro Leal, La Laguna, 19:30 📅 17 May — Teatro Leal, La Laguna, 19:30 Toi toi toi, Aarón! ✨

👶 Beyond the Score: Parenthood and the performing career Nobody talks about this enough. And when they do, it’s usually framed as a problem. A singer announces a pregnancy. A conductor takes parental leave. And behind the curtains, the industry holds its breath, wondering what it means for availability, for bookings, for the years ahead. At Tiben Artists, we have supported artists through pregnancy, birth, and the early years of parenthood. What we have seen, every single time, is that it does not diminish a career. It changes it. And in the most important ways, it deepens it. You cannot spend years singing about love, loss, sacrifice, and all kinds of emotions, and then tell me that becoming a parent doesn’t add something to that. But the practical side is real, and it deserves to be spoken about openly. 💬 Communicate early and clearly. With your agent, your promoters, your colleagues. Your availability will change, but nobody benefits from uncertainty. The earlier the conversation happens, the more solutions are possible. 🤝 Build your support network before you need it. Childcare, partners, family, fellow artists who understand the schedule. This is not a luxury. It is infrastructure. 🔓 Normalise the conversation. The more artists and managers speak openly about parenthood, the less exceptional it becomes, and the more the industry is pushed to accommodate it as standard practice rather than exception. This applies to fathers and co-parents too. The conversation cannot only happen when a soprano is visibly pregnant. It has to include every artist, every voice type, every family structure. They are raising the next generation of opera lovers, after all. 💕 How has your experience been navigating parenthood and a performing career? We would love to hear from you in the comments. 👇

Marianne Beate Kielland: Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde 🌍 Tonight in Oulu, Finland, Marianne Beate Kielland performs Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with the Oulu Sinfonia and the European Union Youth Orchestra under Rumon Gamba — on Europe Day, in Oulu’s year as European Capital of Culture. Mahler gave this work a title instead of a number, wary of composing his ninth symphony. What he wrote instead was something between a symphony and a song cycle, six movements for mezzo-soprano and tenor. The final movement, Der Abschied, belongs almost entirely to the mezzo-soprano. Few singers bring the same freshness and authority to Mahler’s orchestral songs as Marianne Beate Kielland. The programme also includes Dvořák’s Carnival Overture and the world premiere of a new orchestral work by Finnish composer Lara Poe, commissioned for this occasion. Mezzo-soprano: Marianne Beate Kielland Tenor: Tuomas Katajala Conductor: Rumon Gamba Oulu Sinfonia & European Union Youth Orchestra 📅 Today, 9 May — 16:00 📍 Madetoja Hall, Oulu Toi toi toi, Marianne Beate! 🌹

Aarón Zapico & Pablo García-López: Negroni Sbagliato 🍸 Tonight at the Gran Teatro in Córdoba, conductor Aarón Zapico joins forces with tenor Pablo García-López and the Orquesta de Córdoba for a programme they built together from scratch. Negroni Sbagliato: a musical toast to the Baroque. Vivaldi dominates, with arias from L’incoronazione di Dario, Armida al campo d’Egitto, Farnace and more. Boccherini’s La casa del diavolo opens and closes the evening. Monteverdi’s Lamento d’Arianna sits at the heart of it. The kind of programme that only happens when two artists know exactly what they want to say together. Tenor: Pablo García-López Harpsichord & direction: Aarón Zapico Orquesta de Córdoba Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Boccherini 📅 Tonight, 7 May — 20:00 📍 Gran Teatro, Córdoba Toi toi toi, Pablo & Aarón! ✨