The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024-25 season of Saturday matinee broadcasts continues with Osvaldo Golijov's opera "Ainadamar."
The opera is Osvaldo Golijov’s Grammy award–winning debut opera portraying the life and work of poet-playwright Federico García Lorca, who was assassinated by fascist forces at the beginning of the Spanish Civil War due to his socialist beliefs and homosexuality.
His story is brought to life through the recollections of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, Lorca’s muse (soprano Angel Blue), and the Met debut of conductor of Miguel Harth-Bedoya.
Read the synopsis from the Metropolitan Opera or watch the video below to hear from composer Osvaldo Golijov and librettist David Henry Hwang.
From the Met: "Described as 'an opera in three images,' 'Ainadamar' traces the life of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca as recounted by his muse and longtime collaborator, actress Margarita Xirgu.
"Over the course of the opera, Margarita relates episodes from Lorca’s life—his persecution for his political sympathies and his homosexuality, her attempts to persuade him to flee the Spanish Civil War, his death at the hands of the fascist Falangists—and the opera’s tone and structure reflect much of his writing, combining crude realism with transcendent idealism and imbuing the everyday with a sense of mythic ritual."
Composer: Osvaldo Golijov
Libretto: David Henry Hwang
CAST
Margarita Xirgu: Angel Blue
Nuria: Elena Villalón
Federico García Lorca: Daniela Mack
Ramón Ruiz Alonso: Alfredo Tejada
