PINOCCHIO

Praised for his profound musical talent and inspiring temperament, Helmuth Reichel Silva is fast emerging as one of South America’s leading conductors. His success as a finalist at the prestigious Besançon International Competition brought him to the attention of the international artistic world, receiving invitations to work with orchestras in Europe, South America and Asia.

Reichel Silva won the Chilean Art Critics Circle Award for his concerts with the Chilean National Symphony Orchestra. He was also granted the second prize of the Sixth German Conducting Competition in Stuttgart and the Orchestra Prize of Jeunesses Musicales Conducting Competition in Bucharest.

Among the soloists he has worked with are Olli Mustonen, Tobias Feldmann, Rafael Aguirre, Alice Sara Ott, Christoph Eß, Jonian Ilias Kadesha and Alexander Markov. He has collaborated with composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Peteris Vasks, Marco Stroppa and Guillaume Connesson, and works regularly with leading Chilean composers, including Tomás Brantmayer, Miguel Farías and Esteban Correa. Reichel Silva has collaborated with orchestras such as the Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, SWR Sinfonieorchester, Sinfonieorchester Basel, Orchestra Ensemble Kanazawa, Stuttgarter Philharmoniker, Stuttgarter Kammerorchester, Württembergische Philharmonie Reutlingen, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto and the George Enescu Philharmonic, among others. Committed to supporting the younger generation of conductors, Reichel Silva regularly performs in Chile as a guest teacher at the Fundación de Orquestas Juveniles e Infantiles. Since 2015, he has also served as an instructor and conductor at the Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, assisting conductors such as Jonathan Nott, Dennis Russell Davies and Ingo Metzmacher.

La Llave Maestra

Is a Spanish-Chilean company that combines elements of object theatre, masks, clowning and movement to create poetic and playful shows.  These performances unfold in imaginary and surreal universes on stage, taking the audience on a creative journey to connect with their own dreams and delusions.

La Llave Maestra has developed a surprising and suggestive language around materiality, objects and their scenic relationship with the body and gesture. They have created the shows: Bestiario, Delirios de Papel, Nómadas, [email protected] Niñ@s del Winnipeg and Pareidolia; works of visual and object theatre that have captivated diverse audiences in theatres and festivals in Spain, Turkey, Bosnia, Holland, Brazil, Argentina, Taiwan, Costa Rica, United States, Belgium, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay, Mexico, Panama and Chile.

It has become one of the leading companies in Chile, as its careful scenic language is constantly developing, and its particular artistic universe allows its shows to be enjoyed by all audiences.

Es una compañía hispano-chilena que combina elementos del teatro de objetos, máscaras, clown y movimiento, para crear espectáculos poéticos y lúdicos que desarrollan en escena universos imaginarios y surrealistas que hacen viajar creativamente al espectador y lo conectan con sus propios sueños y delirios.

La Llave Maestra ha desarrollado un lenguaje sorprendente y sugerente en torno a la materialidad, los objetos y su relación escénica con el cuerpo y el gesto. Ha creado los espectáculos: Bestiario, Delirios de Papel, Nómadas, [email protected] Niñ@s del Winnipeg y Pareidolia, obras de teatro visual y de objetos que han cautivado a diversas audiencias en teatros y festivales de España, Turquía, Bosnia, Holanda, Brasil, Argentina, Taiwán, Costa Rica, Estados Unidos, Bélgica, Bolivia, Venezuela, Colombia, Uruguay, México, Panamá y Chile. 

Se ha convertido en una de las compañías referentes en Chile, gracias a su cuidado lenguaje escénico en constante desarrollo y a su particular universo artístico, que permite que sus espectáculos sean disfrutados por todo tipo de públicos.

This Chilean soprano has performed a variety of operatic roles and has been a soloist in concerts and international competitions. In recent years she performed Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Marianne in The Knight of the Rose, Despina in Cosi fan tutte, Elvira in Italiana in Algiers, and Siebel in Faust as part of the international cast of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago. At the Teatro Municipal de Las Condes she played Violetta Valery in La Traviata, a role that earned her the National Opera Prize awarded by the Chilean Circle of Art Critics.

In 2022 she was soloist in the world premiere of the Chilean opera Patagonia, directed and composed by Sebastián Errázuriz, premiered at Teatro del Lago and presented at Teatro Biobío in Concepción, and at Teatro Municipal de Las Condes. She was also a soloist in the opera Manon, at Teatro Municipal de Santiago.

A mezzo-soprano with a degree from the Universidad de Chile, she studied singing with the Chilean teacher Lucía Gana and opera performance with the Chilean mezzo-soprano Graciela Araya. She has been a member of prestigious Chilean vocal ensembles and is currently a member of the Santiago Municipal Choir, where she has performed as a soloist in various tours and concerts.

Throughout her career she has performed a variety of roles in national opera productions such as Mrs. Nolan in Gian Carlo Menotti’s La Médium; Third Lady in Mozart’s The Magic Flute; Lucretia, in Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia; Hansel by Humperdinck; Zelatrice in Puccini’s Sor Angelica.

This mezzo-soprano lyric singer began her music studies at the age of 6. She has performed Principito and Romero (Papelucho en la Ópera), Cat (Puss in Boots), a Fairy (A Midsummer Night’s Dream), Zulma (Italiana en Argel) in Pequeño Municipal of Teatro Municipal de Santiago. She also sang Carmen with the Ópera Clásica de Santiago and Badessa (Suor Angélica) with AmoreArte Creaciones. She was a soloist in Misatango, directed by Néstor Zadoff and in the Gala Lírica para Jóvenes Voces (Teatro Universidad de Concepción). In 2018, she joined the Choir of the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, where she remains to this day.

Venezuelan baritone, graduated from the Escuela de Música Pedro Nolasco Colón, under the tutelage of Elio Malfatti, with whom he obtained the title of performer with mentions in lyrical song. He has interpreted the main roles of Rigoletto, Germont, Don Giovanni, Sharpless, Belcore, Roque, Colón, Danilo, Marcello, Conde Mario, Conde Gil, Silvio, Guglielmo, Slook, Alfio, Scarpia, Juan El Indiano, Francisco de Miranda by Luis Ochoa and the Devil of the Cantata Criolla by the Venezuelan composer Antonio Estévez.

He has been conducted by the Venezuelan maestros: Carlos Riazuelo, Alfredo Rugeles, Gustavo Dudamel, Rodolfo Saglimbeni, Pablo Castellanos, Felipe Izcaray, Isabel Palacios, among others.

He began his studies at the Universidad Católica with Professor Sergio Gómez, and perfected his studies with maestros Patricio Méndez, Ricardo Kistler, Bruno Pola and Rodrigo Navarrete.

Some of the opera roles he has performed include: Enrico (Lucia di Lamermoore), Alfonso X (La Favorita), Don Pasquale (Don Pasquale), Giorgio Germont (La Traviata), Ford (Falstaff), Sharpless (Madame Butterfly), Marcelo (Bohème), Signo Bruschino (Bruschino Padre), Slook (La Cambiale di Matrimonio), Count of Almaviva (Le Nozze di Figaro), Papageno (Magic Flute), Guglielmo (Cosi fan tutte), Leoporello (Don Giovanni), among others.

He is currently a member of the Camerata Vocal at the Universidad de Chile.

This Chilean soprano is also a guitarist and music teacher. She began her instruction in lyrical singing with Florencia Centurión, at the Universidad Metropolitana de Ciencias de la Educación. Her vocal training has been developed under the guidance of renowned national teachers such as Pedro Pablo Prudencio, Viviana Hernández, Mariana Ossandón, and international teachers such as Margreet Hönig and the Dutch Paul Triepels. Currently, she continues her vocal training with the outstanding Venezuelan soprano Margot Parés-Reyna, internationally renowned and teacher at the Teatro del Lago School of the Arts.

As a singer, she has been part of prestigious professional singing groups in Chile, such as the Chamber Choir of the UAH under the direction of Guido Minoletti and Paula Torres, the Madrigalist Choir of the USACH, directed by Rodrigo Díaz and the Ensemble Vocal Concerto Vocale, directed by Víctor Alarcón.

As a soprano soloist, she has performed roles in the operas The Magic Flute (Mozart), Dido and Aeneas (Purcell), The Rape of Lucretia (Britten), Madame Butterfly (Puccini) and La Traviata (Verdi), presenting at the Teatro Municipal de Santiago, Teatro Municipal de Las Condes, among others. She has also performed in works such as Requiem (Mozart), Klopstocks Morgengesang am Schöpgungsfeste (C.P.E. Bach) and Passio (Arvo Pärt).

She currently teaches at the Teatro del Lago School of the Arts, where she has also performed as a soloist in various productions, such as Música de Películas with the Teatro del Lago Ensemble, Eduvida Voz and Cantata de los Oficios, by the national conductor and composer Sebastián Errázuriz, as part of the final concert of the programme Puedes Cantar, Chamber Choir of Teatro del Lago.