The Festival de Cádiz celebrates 150 years of Falla: Perianes on the anniversary itself, Rodrigo Cuevas and 13 free concerts

Manuel de Falla was born in Cádiz on 23 November 1876 and died in Alta Gracia, Argentina, on 14 November 1946. The Festival de Cádiz - Música Española has been held every November since 2003, coinciding with those two dates, and its 24th edition, from 13 to 23 November 2026, places them at the heart of the programme: the 150th anniversary of the Cádiz-born composer's birth shapes the main events of a programme spread across nine venues in the city, from the Gran Teatro Falla to the Museo de Cádiz. Dates, venues and tickets are on the Festival de Cádiz page.

The Junta de Andalucía, which organises the festival through the Instituto Andaluz de las Artes Escénicas y de la Música, presented the programme on 20 October and put it at 35 concerts and 20 premieres. The concert listings on the official website include 27 events with date, time and price; the PDF programme adds school performances, a composition course and the gathering of the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía. Tickets are already on sale.

From David Palomar's Requiem to Javier Perianes's closing concert: Falla's two dates

On Saturday 14 November at 20:00, marking 80 years since Falla's death, Cádiz flamenco singer David Palomar premieres «Réquiem a D. Manuel de Falla» at the Gran Teatro Falla, with music by Juan Pablo Otero and the Orchestra and Choir of the Universidad de Cádiz, conducted by Juan Manuel Pérez Madueño, according to Diario de Cádiz. It is the most expensive event of the festival: €12 to €35, with €6 seats in the gods for Carné Joven holders.

The festival closes on Monday 23 November at 20:00, in the same theatre and on the exact day of the anniversary. Huelva-born pianist Javier Perianes will play a programme made up entirely of works by Falla. Despite the symbolism of the date, it is one of the cheapest concerts at the Gran Teatro Falla: €6 to €12.

Between the two dates, Falla features in much of the programme. Soprano Ruth Rosique, from Sanlúcar, and pianist Juan Carlos Garvayo give a recital with commentary on Monday 16, «Manuel de Falla, entre el cante y el canto», on the links between flamenco and lyric singing. The Trío Arbós premieres «Concertante» by Jesús Torres on Saturday 21, commissioned by the festival and the Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical for the anniversary. And the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía, conducted by Juan Pablo Valencia, performs «Constelación Falla» on Sunday 22, with works by Laura Vega, Luciano Berio, Falla and Igor Stravinsky. Even O Sister!, who open the festival on Friday 13 at 20:00 at La Tía Norica, take Falla as their starting point: «A otra galaxia», a festival commission, brings together his world and that of the European avant-garde with the jazz of the 1920s and 1930s. The anniversary has already made its mark on other series, such as the Festival de Música Española de León, which gave particular prominence to Falla and Arriaga in September.

Beyond classical music: Rodrigo Cuevas, María Rodés, flamenco and electronica

The anniversary pushes this edition towards the classical repertoire: Diario de Cádiz sees it as somewhat more classical than recent ones, although without the major Andalusian orchestras, which are already touring with Andalucía Sinfónica. The rest of the line-up still mixes styles, and those who are not classical fans have plenty to choose from:

• Rodrigo Cuevas brings «Al pie del llar» to the Gran Teatro Falla on Saturday 21 at 21:00.
• María Rodés presents «Lo que me pasa» at the Teatro del Títere La Tía Norica on Friday 20 at 19:00.
• The Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía and the Accademia del Piacere share «Origen. La semilla de los tiempos», directed by Patricia Guerrero and Fahmi Alqhai, which explores the relationship between flamenco and Spanish early music. It is on Tuesday 17 at 21:00, at the Gran Teatro Falla.
• Tito Ramírez y Los Verdaderos Reales (Friday 13) and Pinocho Detective (Saturday 14) play at 22:00 at the Edificio Constitución 1812, the former Aulario La Bomba, as part of the collaboration with the Universidad de Cádiz's Campus Rock.
• Microclima, the experimental electronic music event, takes over the Baluarte de la Candelaria on Saturday 14 from 18:00 to 22:00, with Suso Saiz, Cidrón, Dalila and Ëgg, among others. It is the same venue where the main week of JazzCádiz opened in July.
• Jazz has two more dates at La Tía Norica: Cuarteto Fuerte, on Sunday 15 at 19:00, and Lucía Rey Quartet, on Sunday 22 at 18:00.

Among the remaining classical events, the Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla plays Vivaldi's «Las cuatro estaciones» on Thursday 19 at 19:00 at La Tía Norica, and the Compañía Etcétera brings «Soñando el carnaval de los animales» to the Gran Teatro Falla on Friday 20 at 21:00. Visitors coming from elsewhere during those days can combine it with Monkey Week, which takes place from 19 to 21 November in El Puerto de Santa María, across the bay.

Thirteen free concerts, at midday and in the afternoon

Thirteen of the 27 concerts in the listings are free until capacity is reached. They are concentrated at midday and mid-afternoon and seats cannot be reserved, so it is wise to arrive before the start time:

• Saturday 14: Jácaras del Zéfiro, at 12:00 at the Casa de Iberoamérica; at 18:00, the Women Composers' Workshop with Around the Sound Ensemble, which premieres nine works at La Tía Norica, and Escuela del Sur at the Baluarte de la Candelaria; from 18:00 to 22:00, Microclima at the same bastion.
• Sunday 15: KamBrass Quintet, at 12:00 at the Casa de Iberoamérica.
• Monday 16: Ruth Rosique and Juan Carlos Garvayo, at 18:00 at the Centro Cultural Fundación Unicaja, and Taller Sonoro, with eight premieres from the Cátedra Manuel de Falla, at 19:00 at the Conservatorio Profesional Manuel de Falla.
• Tuesday 17: Cuarteto Seikilos, at 18:00 at the Palacio Provincial de la Diputación.
• Wednesday 18: soprano Patricia Rijnhout and pianist Julio Alexis Muñoz, at 18:00 at the Fundación Unicaja, and the Trío Ipse, at 19:00 at the Conservatorio.
• Thursday 19: countertenor Manuel Ruiz and Íliber Ensemble, at 18:00 at the Diputación.
• Saturday 21 and Sunday 22: two concerts at 13:00 at the Museo de Cádiz: Concerto 1700 and Laura Marchal with «Falla / Lorca: mestizajes barrocos», and Ariel Abramovich and Jonathan Alvarado with «Huehuetenango: músicas de un cancionero interrumpido».

Tickets: from €10 at La Tía Norica to €35 for Palomar's Requiem

Tickets for concerts at the Gran Teatro Falla and the Teatro del Títere La Tía Norica are sold on Bacantix, by phone on 910 966 864 (every day, from 10:00 to 19:00) and at the box offices of both theatres. Online and phone purchases carry booking fees. These are the prices listed on the festival website:

• Teatro del Títere La Tía Norica: €10 per concert (O Sister!, Cuarteto Fuerte, Orquesta Barroca de Sevilla, María Rodés, Trío Arbós and Lucía Rey Quartet). Bacantix also lists them at €8.50, the price with the 15% early-booking discount.
• Gran Teatro Falla: €20 for the Ballet Flamenco de Andalucía, the Compañía Etcétera and Rodrigo Cuevas; €12 for the Orquesta Joven de Andalucía; €12 to €35 for David Palomar, and €6 to €12 for Javier Perianes. Bacantix advertises some of these concerts from €6 or €8, so it is worth checking the seating areas before buying.
• Edificio Constitución 1812: €10, a single price for Tito Ramírez and Pinocho Detective, on sale through SacaTuEntrada.

At the Gran Teatro Falla and La Tía Norica there are three discounts: 25% for unemployed people, senior citizens and students; 15% for groups of ten or more and non-musical associations, and another 15% for tickets bought by 14 November. Exchanges and refunds are not permitted, children need a ticket from the age of three and, in the boxes and the gods at the Gran Teatro Falla, seats are unnumbered and allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. The Gran Teatro Falla box office is open Tuesday to Friday, from 10:30 to 13:30 and from 17:30 to 20:00, and on Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays with a performance, one hour beforehand.

The rest of November's events are in our guide to festivals in November 2026, and those in the province in festivals in Cádiz.

Sources: official website of the Festival de Cádiz - Música Española (Junta de Andalucía): concert listings, free activities, venues, tickets and offers, presentation of the edition and PDF programme, consulted on 22 October 2026; Bacantix and SacaTuEntrada, consulted on 22 October; Diario de Cádiz (20 October), EFE, Cádiz Directo and Onda Cádiz, on the festival's presentation.