Noche de cante jondo

This Night of the Singers joins two great flamenco vocalists, ‘El Torta’ and Arcángel, who mark two extremes in the flamenco spectrum. And they are accompanied by two almost equal masters of the guitar: Diego del Morao and Miguel Ángel Cortés.
‘El Torta’ is the epitome of the cante puro: raw through and through. For many years he was out of sight, suffering from too much life, but now Juan Moneo ‘El Torta’ is back in the limelight, and in the greatest form of his life. He sings as never before in the most demanding vocal tradition, which he absorbed in his habitat, the gypsy quarter of San Miguel. ‘When El Torta sings, it is an event, it is the art of a man who never treads the beaten track,’ the Spanish daily El País wrote upon his return to the stage. ‘To see El Torta is to see a singer in a ruthless struggle with himself.’

Arcángel is one of the leading lights of a new generation of vocalists who is making waves internationally with his creative renditions of the classical jondo repertoire. This singer from Huelva creates his own world with a voice that he himself classifies as unusual within flamenco. He likes to transcend flamenco borders. For example, he collaborated with the Orchestre Tetuan from Morocco and lent his voice to a number of contemporary pieces of the Spanish composer Mauricio Sotelo, with whom he will perform during the final gala performance Flamenco Sin Fin in the Muziekgebouw aan ‘t IJ.