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Over 850,000 people have enjoyed the exhibition
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa opens Nights in the Sistine
August 12, 2016Over 850,000 people have enjoyed so far Mexico’s Sistine Chapel replica, a cultural initiative that joins today a scenic tour to visualize the challenges, creative processes and historical moments that Michelangelo Buonarroti lived during the creation of his masterpiece.
Secretary of Culture, Rafael Tovar y de Teresa, opened on Thursday August 11th at Plaza de la República, Nights in the Sistine, an effort, he said, that will reveal to the public from the first stage where Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo the task of painting the walls of the chapel, until the moment when Pope Clement VII asked him to capture with his genius scenes of The Judgement on the main wall.
Rafael Tovar y de Teresa said that this remarkable effort, that thanks to technology brings one of the great buildings of Rome to the public of Mexico City, will probably close with over one million visitors as a result of one of the most successful cultural initiatives of recent years, which has brought us to enjoy a 500-year-old masterpiece of enriching the meaning of art in humanity.
Antonio Berumen, promoter of the Sistine Chapel project in Mexico, thanked the Secretary of Culture the support given to this initiative that has enabled hundreds of thousands of Mexicans to appreciate the splendid work carried out by Michelangelo Buonarroti in the Vatican.
This project has been possible thanks to the combined efforts of the Department of Culture, the Government of Mexico City, the Vatican and the Vatican Nunciature in Mexico.
During the first performance of Nights in the Sistine, actor Jordi Rosh, who plays the character of Miguel Angel, offers a histrionic mosaic of doubts and inner conflicts that Michelangelo lived when he conceived the first lines of this magnificent work, the same that are enhanced by a play of lights that illuminates part of the great work in sync with the dialogue.
Raúl Tirado and Óscar Piñeiro are also involved in this brief play, on the characters of Popes Julius II and Paul III, the two great patrons of Michelangelo; Carlos Cravioto as the Renaissance painter Francesco Granacci; Franco Martins, as the artist Sebastiano Ricci, and Enrique Montaño as the narrator.
The Nights in the Sistine play will be presented until August 31st in the building at Mexico City’s monumento a la Revolución, Plaza de la República s/n, Colonia Tabacalera, Delegación Cuauhtémoc. Friday and Saturday 20:00 h, Sundays 21:00 h.
Mexico,Distrito Federal
