FULL El abrecartas (de Pablo) Madrid 2022 Hernández Quiza López Montero

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: El abrecartas  
• Composer: de Pablo Luis   
• Libretto: Vicente Molina Foix    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Real de Madrid, Spain  
• Recorded: February 26, 2022
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Airam Hernández, Borja Quiza, José Antonio López, José Manuel Montero, Mikeldi Atxalandabaso, Jorge Rodríguez-Norton, Ana Ibarra, Vicenç Esteve
• Conductor: Fabián Panisello  
• Orchestra: Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid  
• Chorus: (Coro Intermezzo  
• Chorus Master: Andrés Máspero  
• Choreographer: Roberto G. Alonso  
• Stage Director: Xavier Albertí   
• Stage Designer: Max Glaenzel  
• Costume Designer: Silvia Delagneau  
• Lighting Designer: Juan Gómez Cornejo  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: myoperaplayer  
• Date Published: 2022  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: yessubs, essubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The story of Luis de Pablo and Vicente Molina Foix is one of an intense friendship and a passionate musico-literary collaboration which bears its fruits for the third time with El abrecartas. The first two operatic projects –El viajero indiscreto (1990) and La madre invita a comer (1992) were librettos based on original ideas suggested and developed by the novelist from Elche (Alicante). El abrecartas, on the other hand, was initiated by Luis de Pablo, who at the end of 2010 expressed an interest in transforming Molina Foix’s homonymous novel into a new – and his “last” – opera.

The  task of compacting this dense choral novel  into a libretto –  Molina Foix says it is the “ most difficult  task of my life”  –  where nearly a century of Spanish history  is interlaced  with the private stories of  a group of losers, pleasure-seekers  and survivors took its definitive direction when Luis de Pablo suggested  restricting his opera to the first half of the novel. In this way, El abrecartas starts at the beginning of the 20th century with a children’s chorus in a small village of the province of Granada. It concludes some 200 pages later in the novel and fifty years later in a duo a capella between a very relevant person of our literature and the invented co-protagonist in this story of loss, exile and deep-felt passion.