FULL María Moliner (Fons) Madrid 2017 Montiel Frontal Ferrández Peris
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: María Moliner
- Composer: Fons Antoni Parera
- Libretto: Lucía Vilanova Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro de la Zarzuela, Madrid, Spain
- Recorded: 2017
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: María José Montiel, José Julián Frontal, Sandra Ferrández, Sebastiá Peris, Celia Alcedo, María José Suarez. Lola Casariego
- Conductor: Víctor Pablo Pérez
- Orchestra: Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
- Chorus: Coro del Teatro de la Zarzuela
- Stage Director: Paco Azorín
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Nos gusta la Zarzuela
- Date Published: 2020
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
SYNOPSIS:
This work is based on the life of María Moliner, when making a virtue out of necessity and using the cultural confinement in which she was after Franco’s victory in the Spanish Civil War, she decides to carry out an astonishing idea: to write in her home and on her own a dictionary with such a strength it could made blush the Royal Academy of Spanish language.
We witness the bits and pieces of María Moliner’s daily life, which go by monotonous, in silence, obstinate, defining and accumulating words in spite of the unjust rejection of the Academy of Language in accepting her as a member of the institution. We witness her vibrant and magical inner world, which travels from one time to another, disclosing her intuitions, nostalgias, fears, fantasies, renunciations and passions. We are witnesses of the first symptoms of the cruel illness, which will immense her to the oblivion of all the words she defined.