Name: Ainadamar
Start: 2022-10-29T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2022-11-12T00:00:00.000Z
Location: Theatre Royal

Organization

Costume designer

Jon Bausor

Stage director

Tal Rosner

Singer

Soprano

Annie Reilly

1. Solo Niña

Lea Shaw

2. Solo Niña

Conductor

Stuart Stratford

Deborah Colker

Set designer

Lighting designer

Paul Keogan

Choreographer

Antonio Najarro

Lauren Fagan

Young Margarita

Mezzo-soprano

Samantha Hankey

Federic García Lorca

Julieth Lozano Rolong

Nuria

Spoken

Alfredo Tejada

Ruiz Alfonso

Baritone

John Savournin

Jose Tripaldi

Tenor

Dan Shelvey

A Bullfighter

Colin Murray

A Teacher

Scottish Opera

Welsh National Opera

The Metropolitan Opera

Opera Ventures

Detroit Opera

Spanish

Ainadamar

Glasgow

United Kingdom

Theatre Royal

Ainadamar Golijov

Public

Private

English

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Golijov: Ainadamar - Water and Horse Prelude · Atlanta Symphony Orchestra · Robert Spano · Jeremy Flower

Golijov: Ainadamar

℗ 2006 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin

Released on: 2006-01-01

Producer, Executive  Producer: Valerie Gross
Producer, Executive  Producer, Recording  Producer: Sid McLauchlan
Studio  Personnel, Balance  Engineer: Stephan Flock
Studio  Personnel, Recording  Engineer: Wolf-Dieter Karwatky
Composer  Lyricist: Osvaldo Golijov
Author, Original  Text  Author: Federico García Lorca

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A new co-production with Opera Ventures, Detroit Opera, The Metropolitan Opera and Welsh National Opera


In his critically acclaimed opera, Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov creates a vibrant, poetic sound world combining opera with flamenco dance and song.

Ainadamar (the Spanish pronunciation of the Arabic name ‘Ayn al-Dam’, meaning ‘The Fountain of Tears’) brilliantly reimagines and explores the life and works of Federico García Lorca – playwright and poet – whose anti-fascist stance and open homosexuality led to his death in 1936 at the hands of Franco’s Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War.


'This 80-minute piece of music theater is a quiet spellbinder, an astonishing demonstration of how an opera can sound completely contemporary yet still convey its message in very potent lyrical song.'
 — Peter G. Davis, New York Magazine 


Love, loss, and death – opera’s favourite subjects – emerge through the memories of Margarita Xirgu (Lauren Fagan), muse and friend of Lorca (Samantha Hankey). As Margarita tells their story to her student Nuria (Julieth Lozano), Ainadamar becomes a modern passion play, looking ahead to Lorca’s legacy as an artistic martyr as well as reflecting on his life and works.

Olivier Award-winning choreographer and director Deborah Colker, known for her intensely physical dance work including with Cirque du Soleil, the 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony, and her own Companhia de Dança, makes her hotly anticipated opera directorial debut. The new co-production continues Scottish Opera’s successful partnership with Opera Ventures (Breaking the Waves 2019, Greek 2017).

Timely and relevant, Ainadamar promises to be the Scottish premiere everyone will be talking about. 

 

Kindly supported by Scottish Opera's New Commissions Circle and Sarah and Howard Solomon Foundation

Ainadamar by Golijov, From (2022/2022), Directed by Tal Rosner, Deborah Colker,, Conductor Stuart Stratford, Theatre Royal, Glasgow, United Kingdom

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