FULL LA CASTALIA IN VETUSTA (Pastiche) Oviedo 2025 Vilma Ramírez, Noive Solar, María Heres, Aitor Garitano

Information on the Performance

• Work Title: LA CASTALIA IN VETUSTA, A lyrical walk through La Regenta  
• Composer: various  
• Libretto: various    Libretto Text, Libretto Index
• Venue & Opera Company: TEATRO FILARMÓNICA DE OVIEDO, Spain  
• Recorded: July 29, 2025
• Type: Staged Opera Live
• Singers: Vilma Ramírez, Noive Solar, María Heres, Aitor Garitano, Ángel Simón, Laura Iglesias
• Conductor: BEGOÑA GARCÍA-TAMARGO   
• Orchestra: JUAN CARLOS MARTÍN, PIANO  
• Stage Director: Iñigo Santacana  
• Stage Designer: ÑIGO SANTACANA  
• Costume Designer:   
• Lighting Designer: Piquero Producciones Teatrales SL  

Information about the Recording

• Published by: La Castalia  
• Date Published: 2025  
• Format: Streaming
• Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
• Subtitles: nosubs  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE

Clarín’s passion for lyric theater is reflected in La Regenta with the mention of ten operas and five zarzuelas, not gratuitously but with an intertextual function or as a historical reference to the works performed in Oviedo at the time the novel is set.

Iñigo Santacana constructs a dramaturgy “in the abyss,” where fiction bursts into the reality that, in turn, represents fiction, and thus, the real characters—singers of the primitive Castalia Society, who recreate passages from several of the works cited in Clarín’s novel—interact with the true protagonist.

In recovering scores for now almost forgotten zarzuelas, we have had the invaluable help of María Luz González Peña, archivist of the SGAE (Spanish Society of Music and Culture), and María Encina Cortizo and Ramón Sobrino, professors of Musicology at the University of Oviedo. Among them, the manuscript Beltrán y la Pompadour by José Casares and Manuel Cañete stands out. This title is particularly relevant in the novel as a paradigm of the “gallant” atmosphere that will lead to Ana Ozores’s downfall following her spiritual crises. Also significant is the inclusion of a fragment from the opera “Les Huguenots,” which would inaugurate the Teatro Campoamor in 1892.

PROGRAMA MUSICAL
0:00 FAUSTO (Ch. Gounod). Dúo “Tardi si fa… Dammi contemplar il tuo viso”.
Vilma Ramírez y Aitor Garitano
7:15 LA SONÁMBULA (V. Bellini). Aria “Vi ravviso”.
Ángel Simón
10:22 EL BARBERO DE SEVILLA (G. Rossini). Aria “Se il mio nome”.
Aitor Garitano y María Heres
10:35 LOS MAGYARES (J. Gaztambide). Terceto “Cuidad no os haga daño”.
Noive Solar, Aitor Garitano y Ángel Simón
19:05 UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (G. Verdi). Aria “Re dell’abisso, affrettati!”.
María Heres
25:40 BELTRÁN Y LA POMPADOUR (J. Casares. Arreglo de Teo Montero Rey).
Dúo “Hacéis bien; yo, la Marquesa”.
Noive Solar y Aitor Garitano
32:15 EL JURAMENTO (J. Gaztambide). Dúo “Es el desdén acero de doble filo”.
Vilma Ramírez y Ángel Simón
40:15 POLIUTO (G. Donizetti). Aria “Decio, signor del mondo”.
Ángel Simón
46:30 LA FAVORITA (G. Donizetti). Aria “Spirto gentil”.
Aitor Garitano
49:55 LOS HUGONOTES (G. Meyerbeer). Dúo “O ciel, dove vai tu?… Lasciami partir”.
Vilma Ramírez y Aitor Garitano
53:00 RIGOLETTO (G. Verdi). Cuarteto “Bella figlia dell’amore”.
Noive Solar, María Heres, Aitor Garitano y Ángel Simón
59:20 LA TRAVIATA (G. Verdi). Final “Prendi, quest’è l’immagine”.
Vilma Ramírez

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