A Spanish Cultural Experience Through Music

The Embassy of Spain in Jakarta brought their most renowned classical music talents to Indonesia for a one night only concert titled: Spanish Songs and Zarzuela. As part of the embassy objective to promote Spanish culture and music in Indonesia, they invited the famous and award-winning soprano Maria Bayo with award-winning pianist Julio Alexis to present some of the Spanish classical composers’ famous songs as well as Zarzuela. Known as a Spanish unique operatic form, Zarzuela brings a mixture of opera and theatre, with both singing and spoken dialogue, often with a comic theme.

Taking place at the beautiful grand ballroom of the Four Seasons Hotel Jakarta, this concert was organised in partnership with the Indonesia Opera Society and sponsored by ROCA. Attended by 200 guests from all members of Jakarta’s society, this concert was really a great testament to Spanish classical music culture.