Valencia

Francisco Bosch is a Spanish actor and dancer. He was born in Valencia. His interest in dance began when his grandmother took him to a meeting of... her flamenco group when he was five years old. He began his dance training at Conservatorio Professional de Danza in Valencia and continued study at the Conservatorio de Danza in Madrid then joined Nacho Duato's Compania Nacional de Danza. In 2002, he joined the English National Ballet. He played Bagoas opposite Colin Farrell in the 2004 Oliver Stone film Alexander. Their love scene was cut before distribution, as it was said to be too explicit. The dance scene shown in the movie has been detailed in Suzanne Gielgud's Dancing For Oliver documentary where Francisco is also interviewed. Francisco has also completed filming in the 2006 films Nina's Heavenly Delights and Russell Mulcahy The Curse of King Tut's Tomb TV series. Francisco will appear in the The Magic Flute 2006 adaptation of Mozart's opera by Kenneth Branagh. His next movie project is with Layke Anderson in House of Boys by Jean-Claude Schlim.
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Bebe is a known Spanish singer, songwriter and actress who win her fame with the singles Malo and Ella, best known for her songs full of powerful... emotions and feelings. Bebe was born María Nieves Rebolledo Vila in Valencia de Alcántara, Spain. Her parents were members of the Extremaduran folk group Surberina. Her breakthrough album in Spain was entitled Pafuera Telarañas though she gained international recognition after winning the Best New Artist award at the 2005 Latin Grammy Awards. She was nominated for five awards total. The first single from Pafuera Telarañas, "Malo" charted worldwide. Her song Se Fue was chosen as the Starbucks iTunes Pick of the Week for November 3, 2009. On 25 June 2006, Bebe announced that for now her album Pafuera Telarañas would be her debut and her farewell because she was retiring from the stage for a while. Bebe said that even if there is pressure to build up a discography, "I am not thinking of making another CD for quite some time. For a little more than two years I've promoted the same CD and I'm still not done." Nonetheless, she planned to continue touring the US and Mexico.
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Vicente Martín y Soler was a Spanish composer of opera and ballet. Although relatively obscure now, in his own day he was compared favorably... with his contemporary, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as a composer of opera buffa; in modern times, conversely, he has been called the Valencian Mozart. He was born in Valencia and studied music in Bologna under Giovanni Battista Martini. His first opera was Il tutore burlato , to an Italian libretto adapted from Giovanni Paisiello's La frascatana, which in turn was based on a play of the same title by Filippo Livigni. This was premiered in 1775 at the Teatro Real Coliseo in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, north of Madrid. In 1776 or 1777 the composer had the libretto translated into Spanish and put it into zarzuela form, adding spoken dialogue, as La madrileña, o El tutor burlado. This was performed in Madrid during 1778, by which time Martín y Soler was back in Italy. In 1777, he travelled to Naples, where he composed for the Teatro di San Carlo.
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Rosana Pastor is a Spanish actress, best known for her role as Blanca in Land and Freedom. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the 2002... Goya Awards for her role in Juana la Loca.
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Josu De Solaun is a Spanish classical music pianist and winner of both the First Prize at the I European Union Piano Competition held in Prague, and... the First Grand Prize at the XV José Iturbi International Piano Competition. He is the first pianist from Spain to have ever been awarded the coveted prize in the more than 30 years of its existence. He has resided in New York City since moving there in 1999, at the age of 17, and is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music, from which he holds a Bachelor of Music, Master of Music and Doctorate in Musical Arts. He has performed as a soloist with orchestras such as the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra , Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, RTVE Symphony Orchestra, Orquesta de Valencia, Orchestra Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari in Italy, Monterey Symphony Orchestra of California, American Ballet Theatre Orchestra, and under conductors such as Constantine Orbelian, Theodore Kuchar, Yaron Traub, Ormsby Wilkins, Francesco Angelico, Miguel Ángel Gómez Martínez, Ramón Tébar, Max Bragado-Darman, and Yuri Krasnapolsky.
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Juan Ignacio Duato Bárcia, also known as Nacho Duato is a Spanish modern ballet dancer and choreographer. After a long and successful career,... he was selected by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and Education as the artistic director of the National Spanish Dance Company in June 1990. In July 2010 Nacho Duato was appointed the artistic director of the ballet at the Mikhailovsky Theatre, effective from January 2011. Nacho Duato studied at the Rambert School of London, Maurice Béjart’s Mudra School in Brussels and Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York City alongside professional ballet dancer Shaylee Keith. He started his dancing career in Stockholm's Cullberg Ballet and one year later he joined , Nederlands Dans Theater, with artistic director Jiří Kilián and remained with the company for ten years. In 1983 he choreographed the Jardí tancat to music composed by Maria del Mar Bonet. They were awarded with the first prize in the Internationaler Choreographischer Wettbewerb, Köln. In 1988, Duato was appointed steady NDT choreographer together with Hans van Manen and Jiří Kilián.
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