Organization

Conductor

Rolando Salazar

Stage director

Dennis Whitehead Darling

Lighting designer

Marcella Barbeau

Singer

Tenor

Paul La Rosa

Porteno Gorrion con Sueno

The voice of a payador

Ladron Antiguo Mayor

Analista

A voice of Ese Domingo

Mezzo-soprano

Monica Danilov

The shadow of Maria

Maria

Set designer

Julia Noulin-Mérat

Anabella Petronsi

ensemble

KatieAnn Bonavita

Billy Edwards

Stephanie Durant

Ryan Patrick Jones

Austin Wood

Spoken

José Gabriel Garcia

El Duende

Costume designer

Gerardo Encinas

Opera Columbus

Orchestra

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra

Spanish

María de Buenos Aires -  (Maria de Buenos Aires)

Columbus

United States

Southern Theatre

María de Buenos Aires

Public

Maria de Buenos Aires

English

Approved

María de Buenos Aires Piazzolla

Director Of Advancement & Cooper-bing Associate Producer

The sensual rhythms of tango combine with operatic passions in Maria de Buenos Aires. Astor Piazzolla‘s revolutionary nuevo tango score and Horacio Ferrer‘s mesmerizing poetry unite the ethereal realm with the physical world to portray the spiritual journey of the opera’s heroine with costumes by Gerardo Encinas and choreography by Jeffrey Goltiao

Born in the outskirts of Buenos Aires, Argentina “on a day that God was drunk,” Maria heads to the center of town on her quest for freedom. She is quickly seduced by the music of the tango, and her world devolves into darkness, with the gritty streets claiming her as their own. Maria’s spirit survives, returning to haunt the city of her birth in death.

Sensual and pulsing to the beat of Argentine tango, this mesmerizing tale of a woman consumed by passion and her reckless search for love and freedom intoxicates the eyes and ears. The haunting melodies that drive Maria’s every step are played by an orchestra featuring uniquely Argentinian sounds. Piazzolla’s seductive score is irresistible and electrifying; Ferrer’s poetry compelling and provocative. Like the tango itself, Maria de Buenos Aries entwines you in its fierce embrace and never lets you go!

Maria de Buenos Aires by Piazzolla, From (2023/2023), Directed by Dennis Whitehead Darling,, Conductor Rolando Salazar, Southern Theatre, Columbus, United States

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