The show GI 631 was announced as the stage of Herri Opera or Arte. More than an opera, the creators wanted to have a cultural asset, and they appreciated it. In the introduction, there have been more cited creators as well as authors. The spectacular GI 631 has been made up of 600 countrymen.

Several traits have differentiated the GI 631 that connects Urretxu-Zumarraga with the sea, in the river Urola that separates Urretxu-Zumarraga. The joint action of both peoples is the flow of the GI 631 opera. Paradoxically, although these two peoples are in Urola Garaia, they are from Goierri when it comes to Euskera.

The GI 631 is an unusual result from the future (since 2383): it mixes theatre, dance, ballet, music, photography, painting and video. Join the future with the past to ensure the present. It introduces us through theatrical representations (h)istori, offering a futuristic view of the world: actors who speak from the stage or from the public move each other. Taking as the main symbol the cross of Irimo or Beloki, they speak of God: Roban Carta puebla or Carta Puebla... The great nations (NH) have taken control of small nations or resistance (R). The numbered resistors facing the Apocalypse face the established order harshly. Despite being held hostage and blackmailed, they strongly refuse to be fed with numbers of creatures and pills. They don't want to be just a number on the road. Moreover, Antzuola, despite being so close, has been further away in the past than Zumaia de los urretxuar-zumarraga. It was significant that Bardos Iparragirre considered the resilient nº 2014 and 281 coming from the future as sterile.

Meanwhile, artists show the desire of a people who have come from an old world to another, century after century, full of people. The results of the past Arabaolaza, Iparragirre, Belaustegi, Search for Sagastizabal or Esnaola as streams have been cast into the River Urola by current singers, musicians, dancers and illustrators (by the way, Hermosa hid very well on the stage of Ederra).

Beautiful, Plazaola, Maia, Iturbe, Rivas, Goenaga, Azkarate, Sudupe, Agirrebaltzategi, Maroto, Aranguren, Apaolaza, Benitez, Aparicio or Escudero. Not all the names of the participants, not much less. It's not just the result of about 600 people, it's not the result of a group of people. The involvement of citizens is broad. It is significant to see dance groups Irrintzi and Lurra in the same initiative, as well as to create classical music, pop, technique or popular rock opera.

The GI 631 was announced in the Gernika Tree Square, but the storm threat made it change the Ederrena Fronton at the last moment. And here, instead of a single act, the authors gave two.

A remembrance at last: in the past the fronton Ederrena was in the Gernika Tree Square. On the eve of the festivities of San Juan and Santa Isabel in 2014, the name of a road that links the mountain and the sea unites both things: “We’ve gone a long way, we’ve come a long way, but the heart says so,” the new motto says. What is more, it says: “Go to the village and come live!”

GI 631 Urretxu-Zumarraga Popular Opera

Creators: Gorka Hermosa, Jon Plazaola, Edurne Iturbe, Jon Maia.

Where: Fronton Ederrena de Urretxu (Gipuzkoa)

When: 21/06/2014

After the article, I got a note through a colleague: (Arrival of Zumarraga-Urretxu)

NOTE 1: "Over the past year, impressive work has been done to push the Herri Opera forward. The dance group Irrintzi has participated very gladly in it and we all agree that the result has been unbeatable. Since I cannot start listing all the participants, congratulations to everyone! You have done a great

job! However, we cannot fail to mention the importance of the events organized by all the cultural groups of both peoples. It is not an easy task to maintain a beautiful and attractive cultural offer throughout the year, with the few resources that tenemos.En this sense, we have read in several comments that it has

been very significant that Irrintzi and Lurra danced in the same act. We would like to point out that it is not the only one. Each year we hold several sessions at once. For example, the scares of Zumarraga and Urretxu's txistu (in both there are many cultural groups from the town), or the event that we will celebrate together this Saturday at the Zumarraga festivities.

Let us continue to work together to consolidate all cultural events."

NOTE 2: As I wrote, I realized that that mention ("Irrintzi" and "Lurra" dancing in the same act,...) was out of place, it was nothing more than a regret of an elderly man, today inadequate...
Thank you, therefore, for Antton, who is believed to have given that warning. And excuse me. A hug!

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