Apr 5, 2025
From WQXR
Listen Saturday, April 5th at 1 pm.
Program notes courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera.
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The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues on April 5 with Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, in a performance from the Met premiere run last fall. The opera—with a libretto by David Henry Hwang, translated into Spanish by the Argentine composer—explores the legacy of the great Spanish writer Federico García Lorca, an icon of personal, artistic, and political freedom. Soprano Angel Blue stars as Lorca’s muse, the actress Margarita Xirgu, who flashes back to their friendship while preparing to go onstage and carry on his message. Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack plays the idealistic young Lorca, martyred at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War. They’re joined by soprano Elena Villalón as Xirgu’s student Nuria and flamenco singer Alfredo Tejada as the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso. Miguel Harth-Bedoya conducted the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra in Golijov’s rich and dynamic score.