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Broadway Star Patti LuPone Headlines Veranos del Taoro Festival

Broadway Legend to Headline Tenerife Festival

Under the slogan ‘Stars Under the Stars’, Broadway legend Patti LuPone headlines the bill for the fifth edition of the Veranos del Taoro festival. The event will take place in the Parque de la Sortija in Puerto de la Cruz from 18 to 20 June and will this time feature a line-up almost exclusively led by women. LuPone’s international show, ‘Songs from a Hat’, can be seen on 19 June. She is joined by performances from Anabel Alonso, with ‘La Mujer Rota’ (Thursday 18 June), and Lola Herrera, with ‘Camino a la Meca’ (Saturday 20 June).

Unique Outdoor Performances in a Historic Setting

All the headline acts will perform in the Espacio Laurel de Indias, where national and international theatre figures such as John Malkovich, Bill Murray, Isabella Rossellini, Hector Alterio, Alberto San Juan, and Toni Acosta have performed in previous years. The director of Encaro Factory, the festival organiser, Enrique Camacho, acknowledged that Patti LuPone is “a long-held dream for the festival, and we have finally been lucky enough to have her with us, alongside Lola Herrera, who is bidding farewell to her theatrical career with this show, and Anabel Alonso, who completes the main trio of guests for this fifth edition.”

Camacho recalled that this festival offers a “different vision” of the performing arts in the Canary Islands, as it does not feature street theatre pieces, but rather “we take indoor theatre outdoors, with unique performance spaces.” He added that the presence of Patti LuPone, alongside prominent names from the national scene performing in the Espacio Laurel de Indias, consolidates a first-rate programme that places the festival within the international orbit of major cultural events. “We wanted to be the only festival in Spain that opened its programme to artists who normally appear on the big screen,” said the festival director.

Island-Wide Performances and Expanded Programme

The great star of musical theatre, Patti LuPone, also arrives in the Canaries as an ambassador for Puerto de la Cruz, as she will headline a tour of Madrid, Bilbao, and Barcelona organised by Veranos del Taoro. Furthermore, there will be extensions across the rest of the Canaries, with performances in Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, and LuPone herself will also be in Gran Canaria after performing in Puerto de la Cruz.

However, the programme for this fifth edition of Veranos del Taoro goes further with the presentation of dancers Guadalupe Torres, Raquel Jara, and Emiliana Batista, three leading figures in contemporary dance, who will premiere the new ‘Raíz’ space. Meanwhile, the ‘Arboleda’ space will become the festival’s own cabaret, featuring performances by Yaneli Hernández, as well as Mariola Cubells and María Guerra with their feminist and participatory show ‘Señoras y Señoras’. Another novelty of this fifth edition will be the participatory show ‘Madonna a la Carta’, performed by who is considered the world’s best Madonna impersonator. “With proposals like this, we also try to attract the attention of tourists who are in Puerto de la Cruz on those days,” Camacho noted.

A Landmark All-Female Edition

“This fifth edition is the best line-up we have done so far because it covers all theatrical genres,” summarised Camacho, who noted that, naturally and without prior planning, this will be the first edition to be led entirely by women. “This fact allows us to expand the programme to include parallel activities focused on listening and reflection about the work being done in culture,” concluded the festival director.

Strategic Partnerships and Cultural Commitment

The director of the Hotel Taoro, Gustavo Escobar, highlighted that their collaboration with Veranos del Taoro arises naturally, not only because of the establishment’s privileged location in the Parque de la Sortija, but also due to its firm commitment to the cultural life of Puerto de la Cruz. For this edition, they join as a strategic ally, making their spaces available to host part of the programme, meetings with artists, and activities open to the public. In this way, the hotel will integrate into the very fabric of the festival, becoming a living part of it.

The Mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Leopoldo Afonso, reaffirmed the city’s role as the host venue for the festival and assured that this event “represents one of the greatest exponents of the cultural positioning of our municipality, a project that has grown with ambition, rigour, and a clear vocation for excellence.” For her part, the Councillor for Culture of Puerto de la Cruz, Desiré Díaz, focused on the importance of consolidating Puerto de la Cruz as a cultural reference point, noting that Veranos del Taoro “not only offers a first-rate international line-up but also brings culture closer to all citizens, creating unique experiences.”

The Deputy Minister of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands, Alfonso Cabello, highlighted the regional government’s firm commitment to cultural initiatives like this one, which respond to a real demand from society and reflect the Canary Islands’ interest in culture. He emphasised that Veranos del Taoro has achieved something very significant: turning a symbol so deeply rooted in the Islands like the laurel de Indias tree into the axis of a festival that opens the Canaries to the world. Finally, the Director of Institutional Relations for Turismo de Islas Canarias, Javier Prieto, stated that “investing in culture is investing in a more solid, diversified, and higher-quality tourism model, from which both residents and tourists benefit.”

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