Café del Mundo

In the organizer's words:

This production is a perfect German-Spanish symbiosis in which the two guitar virtuosos Jan Pascal and Alexander Kilian, together with the equally brilliant dancer Mercedes Pizarro, pay homage to the unbridled passion and energy of flamenco. Without a frilly shirt, but of course with plenty of Iberian color in the typical Café del Mundo style: impulsive, mysterious, full of contrasts, powerful, touching and graceful.

Born in Seville, flamenco has long since developed an international life of its own and unfolded freely in a global context. And so the crossover of Café del Mundo and Mercedes Pizarro oscillates between tradition and modernity, finely nuanced and with plenty of innovative power.

"Flamenco is the art of breathing fire with the mouth and stamping it out with the feet," Jean Cocteau once said. And when you experience this trio, you believe him at his word. Café del Mundo's intense, explosive playing, Pizarro's popping heels and their swirling rock - three world-class artists create something unique, something magical that lingers long after the lights on stage have gone out.

Café del Mundo is probably Germany's most successful guitar export. The two Franconians Jan Pascal and Alexander Kilian have been impressively proving for more than ten years that handmade music can still be successful today: ten studio albums, one live album, 40,000 records sold, over 1000 concerts in more than 15 countries, numerous awards and a growing fan base. They have had their own streaming app since 2021, their "Talking Guitars" podcast has cult status and their latest album "Symphonic" is already the second recording at the legendary Abbey Road Studios in London, this time together with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

Mercedes Pizarro was born in Germany and has Spanish roots. She began flamenco at the age of ten and refined her technique in various master classes with Roaquin Ruiz in Madrid, Juana Amaya and Miguel Vargas in Seville, Leonor Moro and Juan Ramirez in Alicante. Her style is powerful, her stage presence extraordinary. She has toured Europe with various flamenco groups and artists, thrilled audiences in Bizet's "Carmen" at the Theater Pforzheim and is also frequently engaged for television appearances. Since 2002, Pizarro has been teaching at Studio Renate Wagner in Mannheim, the only teaching institute in Germany recognized by the Cátedra de Flamenco Mariquilla, the Universidad Granada.

Organizer: Capitol Betriebs GmbH