FULL How Nanita Learned to Make Flan (González-Medina) Binghamton University NY 2024

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: How Nanita Learned to Make Flan  
• Composer: González-Medina Enrique   
• Libretto: based on a Mexican fable by Campbell Geeslin    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: Chamber Hall, Anderson Center for the Performing Arts, Binghamton University, New York State, Binghamton University Music Department  
• Recorded: November 15 & 17, 2024
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: unknown
• Conductor: unknown  
• Orchestra:
• Stage Director: unknown  
• Costume Designer:   

Information about the Recording

• Published by: Binghamton University Music Department   
• Date Published: 2024  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  
• Video Recording from: YouTube     FULL VIDEO
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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

The enchanting story takes place in a tiny Mexican village and follows Nanita on her adventures, which include a magical pair of shoes, sleepwalking, a talking parrot, a dessert recipe for flan, social and religious traditions, and a love of family.

How Nanita Learned to Make Flan is an energetic, light-hearted story about a shoemaker?s daughter from a small Mexican village who has no shoes to wear to her first communion because her father is too busy to make them. She takes it upon herself to make her own shoes, but they then take on a life of their own and whisk her away on a journey into the desert at night. Lost, she comes across a Ran…