Each Summer the FEX, International Music & Dance Festival is held at the Alhambra Palace. This prestigious festival is well known in Spain and further afield.
In fact as soon as the tickets go on sale they tend to sell out quickly.
The curtain goes up on 21st June 2019 for the 68th Festival Internacional de Música y Danza.
The festival lasts for 17 days right up until Friday 12 July 2019.
With artists, musicians and dancers coming from around the world to perform, this magical event takes place within the grounds of the Alhambra palace.
2019 Music & Dance Festival in Granada
Useful Information
- Dates: From Friday 21st June to Friday 12th July 2019.
- Venue: Alhambra Palace, Granada – Different locations around the grounds.
- Ticket sales are Online from Mid April> Granada Festival Tickets
- Ticket office at Corral del Carbon, off Calle Reyes Católicos (seen below)
Below are some of the concerts with Ticket availabilty:
Giselle
- Thursday 11th July 2019
- Genre: Classical Music
- Location: Generalife Theatre, Alhambra Palace Grounds.
- Description: This prestigious French Ballet from Toulouse perform the classic Ballet Giselle. Directed by French choreographer Kader Belarbi. Refreshments are served outside with views over Granada and the Alhambra in the interval.
Olga Pericet
- Thursday 4th July 2019
- Time: 10.30pm
- Genre: Flamenco
- Location: Teatro Isabel la Catolica, Puerta Real.
- Description: Olga Pericet, a flamenco dancer & choreographer from Cordoba won the National Dance Award last year 2018, one of the highest accolades in Spain. Her performance entitled ´an infinite body´ is inspired on Carmen Amaya.
Kristian Bezuidenhout
- Tuesday 9th July 2019
- Time: 10.30pm
- Genre: Piano
- Location: Auditorio Manuel de Falla (opposite Hotel Alhambra Palace)
A 60 minute piano recital (no interval) by Kristian Bezuidenhout, born in South Africa and trained in Australia.
Some of the classical pieces during the concert are:
- Clara Schumann – 4 Píèces fugitives, op. 15 & Romance en la menor
- Felix Mendelssohn – Preludio y Fuga en mi menor, WoO 13 & Tres fantasías o caprichos, op. 16
- Johannes Brahms – Intermezzo, op. 117 núm. 1
- Waltzes, op. 39 (selección) Intermezzo, op. 117 núm. 3
- Lieder ohne Worte (selección)
Please advise on best concerts at Alhambra Palace gardens in August to take my family
Hi Linda
I just wrote up most of them on this article
https://www.piccavey.com/flamenco-summer-granada/
The best option inside the Alhambra Palace is Flamencolorquiano which is on from now until 1st September in the generalife theatre
Hope this helps
Molly
I am very keen to go to one of the Alhambra Concerts during June or July 2019, and would like to know if there is a website I should look out for in order to be able to purchase tickets online!
This depends on the exact date. The International Festival
dates for this edition are from 21st June to 12th July 2019.
After then there is a Flamenco + Lorca show in the Generalife gardens for the rest of the summer season (End July until beginning of Sept)
Tickets for the festival dont go on sale until Mid April and the Flamenco in Generalife arent on sale until End of June.
Hope this helps
Molly
Hi Molly,
Thank you for responding to my enquiry so promptly!. I’ll be watching out for the website in April to buy tickets.
Your newsletter is brilliant – we always spend a few days in Granada when we visit Spain – it’s our favourite city in Andalusia!
Best……………..Gill
Happy that you enjoy the newsletter, the next one is due very soon.
The Summer festival at the Alhambra is fabulous. Hope you manage to get good tickets this season too.
Greetings
Molly
Could you help ? we will be there from October 2019 until March 2020 and would dearly love to see a concert of music and/or dance at the Alhambra any suggestion would be welcome
Hi Roberta
the FEX International dance festival in on at the beginning of each summer
and the Flamenco in the Generalife is in August and September
There are no concerts at the Alhambra itself from October to March
however there are other cultural things in the city such as Guitar music at Manuel de Falla
and other concerts at Teatro Isabel la Catolica
hope this helps
Molly