Organization

Conductor

Rafael Payare

Singer

Tenor

Aquiles Machado

Florentino

Baritone

Gustavo Castillo

El Diablo

Stage director

Alberto Arvelo

Costume designer

Solange Arvelo

Orchestra

San Diego Symphony Orchestra

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San Diego Master Chorale

Singing with the Devil: Payare and Cantata Criolla

San Diego

United States

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

Singing with the Devil: Payare and Cantata Criolla: Cantata Criolla (“Florentino, el que cantó con el Diablo”) Estevez (+1 More)

Public

Creole Cantata ("Florentino, the one who sang with the Devil")

Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80

La Peri

Santa Cruz de Pacairigua

Approved

Singing with the Devil: Payare and Cantata Criolla: Cantata Criolla (“Florentino, el que cantó con el Diablo”) (+3 More)

Paul Abraham Dukas (1 October 1865 – 17 May 1935) was a French composer, critic, scholar and teacher. A studious man, of retiring personality, he was intensely self-critical, and he abandoned and destroyed many of his compositions. 

Work: La Péri, ballet (1912) scored for one piccolo (doubling third flute), two flutes, two oboes, one English horn, two clarinets in A, one bass clarinet in B flat, three bassoons; four horns in F, three trumpets in C, three trombones, one tuba; a percussion section that includes timpani, bass drum, snare drum, cymbals, triangle, tambourine and xylophone; one celesta; two harps and strings. 

Orchestra: American Symphony Orchestra

Conductor: Paul Paray

Recorded 24 March 1968 
Carnegie Hall, New York

Music Director Rafael Payare leads the Orchestra in works by two of Venezuela’s most notable composers. Antonio Estévez’s best-known music is the 1954 Cantata Criolla, a lively work based on the Venezuelan mythic poem about a singing contest between Florentino and the Devil. And Evencio Castellanos’ Santa Cruz de Pacairigua is filled with the influences of the country’s folk melodies, popular dance rhythms and even medieval carols. Plus, French composer Paul Dukas’ La Péri, a dance poem based on a Persian folk story, is filled with grandiosity, mystery and introspection—and an ebullient fanfare closing.

English

Singing with the Devil: Payare and Cantata Criolla by Estevez, Fauré, Dukas, Castellanos, E., From (2023/2023), Directed by Alberto Arvelo,, Conductor Rafael Payare, The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, San Diego, United States

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