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Ainadamar

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Wales Millennium Centre: Donald Gordon TheatreBute Place, Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales, CF10 5AL, United Kingdom
Dates/times in London time zone
Programme
Golijov, Osvaldo (b. 1960)AinadamarLibretto by David Henry Hwang
Performers
Welsh National Opera
Matthew Kofi WaldrenConductor
Deborah ColkerDirector
Orchestra of Welsh National Opera
Chorus of Welsh National Opera
Jaquelina LivieriSopranoMargarita Xirgu
Hanna HippMezzo-sopranoFederico García Lorca
Julieth LozanoSopranoNuria
Alfredo TejadaTenorRuiz Alonzo
Annie Reilly​Mezzo-sopranoFirst Solo Niña
Jasey HallSopranoSecond Solo Niña
Gareth Dafydd MorrisTenorTorero
Alun Rhys-JenkinsTenorMaestro

Ainadamar, Arabic for ‘Fountain of Tears’, is the ancient well near Granada where the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca – labelled by the Falangist militia as a ‘homosexual socialist’ – was brutally executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

Golijov’s twice-Grammy-winning opera reimagines Lorca’s life through a flashback of memories by his muse and collaborator, the actress Margarita Xirgu, now in her final moments in 1969 Uruguay, as she seeks to pass her generation’s hopes and passion on to her student, Nuria.

Ainadamar promises a spine-tingling spectacle from the Olivier-winning star choreographer Deborah Colker (Rio 2016 Olympics Ceremony; Cirque du Soleil) in her much-anticipated operatic debut in the director’s seat.

The result is a dazzling kaleidoscope of music, dance, and theatre where flamenco meets opera through traditional Spanish singing and sumptuous operatic numbers, all interspersed with rhythmic, sonic, and poetic outbursts. Ainadamar invites you to experience opera like never before.

Reviews of Ainadamar directed by Deborah Colker

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