Name: Ainadamar
Start: 2024-10-25
End: 2024-10-25
Location: Metropolitan Opera House

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Stage director

Deborah Colker

Set designer

Jon Bausor

Costume designer

Lighting designer

Paul Keogan

Video designer

Tal Rosner

Sound designer

Mark Grey

Choreographer

Antonio Najarro

Conductor

Miguel Harth-Bedoya

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Daniela Mack

Federic García Lorca

Soprano

Angel Blue

Young Margarita

Gabriella Reyes

Elena Villalón

Nuria

Spoken

Alfredo Tejada

Ruiz Alfonso

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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra

Ainadamar

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Rahul Solomon

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Ainadamar | Golijov

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.

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Ainadamar by Golijov, Fri 25 Oct 2024, From (2024/2024), Directed by Deborah Colker,, Conductor Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Metropolitan Opera House, New York City, United States

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