García Lorca arrives at the NY Metropolitan Opera with Ainadamar

New York., The life and death of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca entered the Metropolitan Opera Theater in New York yesterday led by Ainadamarthe only opera by Argentine Osvaldo Golijov, for which he won two Grammy Awards in 2007.

Composed in 2003, Ainadamar, (source of tears in Arabic) refers to the place where the poet was murdered by fascists in 1936 at the beginning of the Spanish civil war (1936-1939) and his relationship with the Catalan actress and theater director Margarita Xirgu.

The memories of Lorca’s muse and friend center this opera in three scenes in Spanish, in which the evocation of Mariana Pineda, one of the great legacies of the Andalusian writer, a tribute to freedom, permeates the 90 minutes of the work.

The Brazilian choreographer Deborah Colker has made the protagonists dance, such as Angel Blue, the Afro-American soprano who plays Margarita Xirgu. It is basically a story told by women. Even Lorca is played by the Argentine-born mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack.

With a libretto by David Henry Hwang, Ainadamar It is a new bet from the temple of beautiful song New Yorker to attract new audiences and rejuvenate attendance.

Ainadamar He won two Grammy Awards in 2003 and in 2007 for best opera recording and best contemporary classical composition.

This is the second opera in Spanish that the Met Opera offers in its programming for the second consecutive season, after Florence in the Amazonby Mexican Daniel Catán.