La divina Filotea & El diablo mudo
In September 2025, we presented in Basel, for the first time in their complete form, José de Nebra’s autos sacramentales La divina Filotea and El diablo mudo. These works bring together two of the greatest figures of the Spanish Baroque: José de Nebra and Pedro Calderón de la Barca. They combine tradition with innovation, sacred music with folklore, and the Italian style with the Spanish one.
They will be released on CD in February 2027 by the prestigious record label Aparté.
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Venus y Adonis
It is one of the two operas by José de Nebra that have survived to the present day. This one-act melodrama, with a text by José Cañizares, is a gem from the early period of Nebra’s compositional career. We made the first CD recording in 2025 and will perform it at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, in a stage production directed by Amelia Ochandiano.
https://teatrodelazarzuela.inaem.gob.es/es/temporada/lirica-2026-2027/venus-y-adonis
Donde hay violencia, no hay culpa
Zarzuela in two acts by José de Nebra. Recorded in 2021 for the Glossa label, it narrates the legend of the rape of Lucretia, taken from the texts of Tito Livio. Premiered in 1744 at the Coliseo del Duque de Medinaceli, it shows us a Nebra in his mature period, already very close to pre-classicism, demanding great virtuosity from both voices and instruments. He would later perform it in public theatres to great acclaim.
After 268 years in obscurity, we have revived this zarzuela in October 2021, performing it in its complete version in Riehen, a project recorded on CD, and available at the following link:
https://www.amazon.es/Donde-hay-violencia-culpa/dp/B0BBK3CMFD
In March 2023 Ensemble Los Elementos with Alberto Miguélez Rouco performed it at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, directed by Rafael Villalobos.
https://teatrodelazarzuela.mcu.es/es/temporada/lirica-2022-2023/la-violacion-de-lucrecia-2022-2023
Vendado es Amor, no es ciego
Zarzuela written in 1744 by José de Nebra that narrates the love story of Venus and Anchises. It is José de Nebra's most monumental zarzuela, both in terms of length and musical difficulty, and also contains some of the most famous pages of the Spanish Baroque repertoire: the well-known aria di tempesta "El bajel que no recela" and the famous fandango "Tempestad grande, amigo".
In 2018 we gave the first performance of the work with original instruments in Basel in front of the Spanish Embassy, which was the occasion of the founding of Los Elementos. In 2019 we recorded it on CD for the Glossa label in collaboration with the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, the institution to which most of the ensemble's musicians are linked. It can be purchased at this link:
https://www.amazon.es/Jose-Nebra-Vendado-Amor-Ciego/dp/B087CQ43X5
In 2020 we had the opportunity to perform it in concert version at the Festival de Amigos de la Ópera de La Coruña and in 2022 at the Auditorio Nacional de Música de Madrid as part of the CNDM programme.
