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FULL ESTABA LA MADRE (Bacalov) La Plata 2025 Paula Almerares, Alejandra Malvino, Victoria Gaeta, Fernando Grassi
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Estaba la madre
- Composer: Bacalov Luis
- Libretto: Carlos Sessano, Sergio Bardotti, Luis Bacalov Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Sala Alberto Ginastera, Centro Provincial de las Artes Teatro Argentino, Teatro Argentino de La Plata, Argentina
- Recorded: March 22, 2025
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Paula Almerares, Alejandra Malvino, Victoria Gaeta, Fernando Grassi, Sebastián Sorarrain, Mario De Salvo, Emiliano Bulacios, Franco Gómez, Víctor Torres, Vanina Guilledo
- Conductor: Lucía Zicos
- Orchestra:
- Chorus Master: Santiago Cano
- Stage Director: Carlos Branca
- Stage Designer: Lucas Borzi, Pablo Mazzoni
- Costume Designer: Laura Melgar, Leticia Falcone
- Lighting Designer: Maximiliano Troncozo
Information about the Recording
- Format: DVD
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs, gensubs
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
ESTABA LA MADRE whose first version was commissioned in 2004 by the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, is a secular “Stabat Mater” that, through four stories, traces the pain and courage of the mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in search of their missing children: the drama of the mothers who lost their children and their subsequent struggle for truth and justice. The play recalls sadly familiar events: the victims of the military regime that seized power in Argentina in March 1976. Opponents of the regime were kidnapped and never heard from again. They were taken to concentration camps and classified by the police as “Disappeared.” It was thanks to the courage of a group of mothers of kidnapped victims, the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo, that the world learned of the horrors of the military dictatorship. There Was the Mother is a warning not to forget, hence the power of the show, which evokes the horror that emerges from normality.