FULL BLOOD WEDDING (Nicola LeFanu) London 1992

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: Blood Wedding  
• Composer: LeFanu Nicola   
• Libretto: Deborah Levy based on Federico García Lorca's play    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Jacob Street Studios, London, UK  
• Recorded: 1992
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: unknown
• Conductor: Anne Manson  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: Jules Wright  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: The Wapping Project  
• Date Published: 2023  
• Format: Unknown
• Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
• Subtitles: nosubs  

• ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

  Quote from www.nicolalefanu.com
  Many listeners will recall the essential narrative of Lorca’s play. In a
  remote Spanish village some seventy years ago, two young people are to
  marry. The bridegroom is eligible, comparatively well-to-do; the bride, who
  lives alone with her widowed father, accepts the marriage proposal as her
  way forward, as the way to ‘land, children, health’. But her passions are
  secretly taken up with Leonardo Felix, her former sweetheart, now her
  cousin’s husband. Leonardo comes from a family which has feuded for
  years with that of the Groom. Every generation has seen senseless
  killings: the groom’s mother lost her husband and eldest son, and at the
  opening of the opera she inveighs against further bloodshed.

  Deborah Levyʼs libretto condenses and intensifies Lorcaʼs poetic language so
  that his main protagonists –– the mother, the bride and groom, and Leonardo
  the lover – are thrown into even greater relief. The opera ends with a lament
  sung by the women alone. Whatever the bloodshed, life goes on.

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