Osvaldo Golijov and David Henry Hwang’s opera, inspired by the life of Federico García Lorca, arrived at the Met with a ...
Angel Blue and Daniela Mack star in Deborah Corker’s poetic vision of Osvaldo Golijov’s operatic homage to Federico García ...
The life and death of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca, whom Fascist forces assassinated during the Spanish Civil War, is ...
Osvaldo Golijov’s opera about Federico García Lorca makes its Met debut in a dance-heavy production, directed by the ...
Lorca, who was a classical pianist, was captivated by cante jondo, or “deep song, the original manifestation of flamenco, ...
Rippling scales of Spanish guitar, the howls of a raspy-voiced singer, thunderous clapping and stamping — the sounds could ...
Osvaldo Golijov’s AINADAMAR, which made its Met debut this week, with a libretto translated by the composer from the English ...
Hwang wrote the libretto in English and Golijov translated it into Spanish. Somehow the result, “Ainadamar,” premiered on schedule. It was restaged in revised form two years later at the Santa ...
The Metropolitan Opera is preparing to stage a Flamenco-infused production of an opera about Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca.
The work, “Ainadamar,” by Argentine-born composer Osvaldo Golijov and playwright David Henry Hwang tells Lorca’s story through the lens of his muse, Margarita Xirgu, who starred in one of ...