¡Viva la Zarzuela!

Students star in a bi-lingual, musical theater production of a Spanish zarzuela. All workshop participants will learn to sing, dance and act. At the end of the week, students will have the opportunity to perform for their peers in a final showcase of singing, dancing and script readings, taken from the zarzuela LA GRAN VÍA.

What is Zarzuela?

Zarzuela (pronounced  zaarz.weh.luh) is the most well known musical theater genre from Spain; it alternates between spoken and sung scenes. It incorporates operatic and popular songs as well as dance. It is analogous to American operetta and musical theater. The word zarzuela may have derived from the name of a Royal hunting lodge known as the Palacio de la Zarzuela, near Madrid, where allegedly this type of entertainment was first presented at their royal court.