Rodrigo Cuevas in concert will bring the 24th Malaga Festival to a close with his 'Trópico de Covadonga'

After the success of his previous tour around the country, Rodrigo Cuevas, the most unclassifiable artist of the moment, presents his new show, 'Trópico de Covadonga', on June 13th as the closing show of the 24th Malaga Festival. It will be at the Teatro Cervantes in Malaga at 19:00 and tickets go on sale tomorrow Tuesday (from 11:00) at the box office, by phone (902 360 295 - 952 076 262) and on the Internet (www.teatrocervantes.es, www.unientradas.es) at a single price of 20 euros.

Folk and electronic agitation, divism and humour, elegant eroticism, hedonism and celebration of non-negotiable rights. Beautiful contemporary choreographies, a staging that combines vintage elements with video projections and a wardrobe that, once again, will leave no one indifferent, combine in a formula that everyone would like to clone but that no one, except him, knows how.

Trópico de Covadonga' is Rodrigo Cuevas' third solo show after 'Electrocuplé' and 'El mundo por montera'. With the latter, he has toured countless stages in Spain and abroad (Lima, London, Rome, Frankfurt, Coimbra, Lisbon).

The premiere of this new project took place in June 2019 within the framework of the Fiestas de León and at the ZIP festival, organised by the Teatro Español, and was a sensational success with critics and audiences alike. After its premiere, 'Trópico de Covadonga' has obtained resounding triumphs in each of its performances at the Festival Castillo de Aínsa, at the Festival Poesía I + in BCN, in Seville, at the Fira de Tárrega, Merkatua in Pamplona, in Bilbao... The same sequence was repeated at the dawn of 2020 with the first performances of the year (LAVA in Valladolid, etc.) and a calendar of dates that were cut short by the pandemic. Some of the planned performances were recovered and others sprouted up with the arrival of summer. Since June 2020 and up to the present day, the band has performed an infinite number of shows, each one of which has been sold out: Teatro Fernán Gómez in Madrid, Teatro Colón in Coruña, two nights at the Palau de la Música in Barcelona, Rambleta in Valencia, etc.

The tour for the spring and summer of 2021 includes performances at the Palencia Sonora, La Mar de Músicas, Festival Grec, Teatro Victoria Eugenia de Donosti, Teatro Principal de Vitoria, etcetera.

Trópico de Covadonga' reveals a less cabaret-like Rodrigo Cuevas who focuses his energy on singing like nightingales (the songs from his acclaimed album Manual de Cortejo), dancing like starfish and putting together a show that eclipses us as much for its musical category as for its aesthetics and discursive imprint.

The technical and artistic team includes Raül Refree in the musical production; Constantino Menéndez (Made by Kös) in the costume design; Dana Raz in the choreography; Txus Plágaro in the lighting and video design; Jorge Irazábal in the live sound; Studio Llunik in the graphics; El Cohete Internacional in the production, management and contracting, and finally, Rodrigo Cuevas himself, who, as well as producing, directs and stars in the show. We cannot forget the leading role of the musicians who accompany the artist live in the different formats of 'Trópico de Covadonga'.

Trópico de Covadonga' is the parallel that passes through Covadonga, an invented tropic that crosses Asturias, but that goes around the world. This is the perspective that Cuevas chooses to look at it from a point far removed from ethnocentrism, which is why the show vindicates a good number of people from the rural and urban world: that peasantry that makes him look at the past in a romantic and idealised way.

Trópico de Covadonga' is a unique scenic concert, responding to as many certainties as unknowns of seduction it proposes.

Submitted by José Antonio Sierra, Hispanismo advisor.