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Thursday, July 19, 2007
Harry Potter Magic at Tenerife Carnaval 2008
Harry Potter star, Daniel Radcliffe, is to be one of the panel of judges to select the Carnaval Queen in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in next January's Carnaval Gala.
Meanwhile, David Copperfield - the American magician and illusionist, that is, not the David Copperfield that actor, Daniel Radcliffe, played in 1999 - will be providing the actual magic.
The theme of the 2008 Carnaval in Santa Cruz, Tenerife, in case it wasn't obvious by now is, "La Magia" (Magic) and, Santa Cruz seems to be very keen to put some of it back into Tenerife's Carnaval, by every means with this prestigious, all-magic cast for the most visible of Carnaval events, given that the spectacular Gala is televised, both nationally and internationally.
At the Gala for the Selection of the Carnaval Queen in Santa Cruz, on January 30th, 2008, Copperfield will make last year's outgoing Carnaval Queen, Elizabeth García, appear and disappear, costume included.
The 2008 Gala, which will be directed by Jaime Azpilicueta - who is also directing a musical on the life of Celia Cruz to open in New York in September - is to be held outside again, (as it used to be, previously, in the Plaza de España), this time in the car park of the Parque Marítimo which is alongside the Auditorio de Tenerife, rather than the Centro Internacional de Ferias y Congresos where it has been held in recent years.
An interview with the new Councillor for Fiestas in Santa Cruz, Maribel Oñate, gives the reason for the move outside again (they've been studying various sites on the port) as being that there was not enough time to organize it in the Recinto Ferial. Just my opinion here, but since there are still over 6 months to go and, I'm sure that Carnaval organization is very high on everybody's agendas year round, I wonder if the real reason might have been to make a clear contrast (if not total disassociation), with the venue that was the scene of last year's disastrous gala directed by Rafael Amargo.
So while Las Palmas in Gran Canaria will be going to Ancient Greece next year, the town hall in Santa Cruz has already started meetings with the murga groups. They are looking into the possibility (depending on the football fixture calendar) of holding the finals of their contest in the Heliodoro Rodríguez López stadium: home ground to CD Tenerife.
Santa Cruz town hall have also announced that they are planning a future Museo del Carnaval (Carnival Museum) in the city too.
Carnaval is early in 2008: Shrove Tuesday (Carnaval Tuesday), the day of the Main Carnaval Parade in Santa Cruz, will be February 5th, if you're planning to attend. We'll publish more carnival dates in due course.
David Copperfield, actuación estelar de la gala de la reina del próximo Carnaval
Labels: Carnaval 2008
