The Metropolitan Opera and The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Wednesday, November 6, 2024 @ 7:30pm – 9:00pm (EST)
Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY, United States
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$33-$360
Angel Blue, soprano (Margarita Xirgu)
Elena Villalón, soprano (Nuria)
Daniela Mack, mezzo-soprano (Federico García Lorca)
Alfredo Tejada, flamenco vocalist (Ramón Ruiz Alonso)
Miguel-Harth Bedoya, conductor
Osvaldo Golijov — Ainadamar: An Opera in Three Images
Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov's Grammy Award–winning first opera dramatizes the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by Fascist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War for his socialist politics and homosexuality. His story emerges through the memories of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, Lorca's muse—sopranos Angel Blue and Gabriella Reyes—who reminisces to her student Nuria, portrayed by soprano Elena Villalón. Lorca himself makes a dreamlike appearance, sung as a trouser role by mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack, and flamenco singer Alfredo Tejada completes the principal cast as the Falangist politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso, who arranged Lorca's execution. Combining features of both an opera and a passion, Ainadamar, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya in his Met debut, crackles with the energy and rhythms of flamenco and rumba, as well as the violent backdrop of civil war, all of which springs forth on the Met stage in a vivid company-debut production by Brazilian director and choreographer Deborah Colker, renowned for her work with Cirque du Soleil.
Runs Oct. 15-Nov. 9.
About The Metropolitan Opera
About Angel Blue, soprano (Margarita Xirgu)
About Elena Villalón, soprano (Nuria)
About Daniela Mack, mezzo-soprano (Federico García Lorca)
About Alfredo Tejada, flamenco vocalist (Ramón Ruiz Alonso)
About Miguel-Harth Bedoya, conductor
Miguel Alberto Harth-Bedoya is a Peruvian conductor. He was formerly music director of the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra from 2000 to 2020 and chief conductor of the Norwegian Radio Orchestra from 2013 to 2020. He is currently Director of Orchestral Studies at Baylor University.
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