Conductor | Fabián Panisello Stage Director |Xavier Albertí Titular Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Real Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM
The story of Luis de Pablo and Vicente Molina Foix is one of an intense friendship and a passionate musico-literary collaboration which bears its fruits for the third time with El abrecartas. The first two operatic projects –El viajero indiscreto (1990) and La madre invita a comer (1992) were librettos based on original ideas suggested and developed by the novelist from Elche (Alicante). El abrecartas, on the other hand, was initiated by Luis de Pablo, who at the end of 2010 expressed an interest in transforming Molina Foix’s homonymous novel into a new - and his “last” - opera.
The task of compacting this dense choral novel into a libretto - Molina Foix says it is the “ most difficult task of my life” - where nearly a century of Spanish history is interlaced with the private stories of a group of losers, pleasure-seekers and survivors took its definitive direction when Luis de Pablo suggested restricting his opera to the first half of the novel. In this way, El abrecartas starts at the beginning of the 20th century with a children’s chorus in a small village of the province of Granada. It concludes some 200 pages later in the novel and fifty years later in a duo a capella between a very relevant person of our literature and the invented co-protagonist in this story of loss, exile and deep-felt passion.
Opera in a prologue and six scenes
Music by Luis de Pablo (1930 - 2021)
Libretto by Vicente Molina Foix, basado en su novela homónima (2006)
PREMIERE
New production by the Teatro Real
ARTISTIC TEAM
Musical conductor I Fabián Panisello
Stage director I Xavier Albertí
Stage designer I Max Glaenzel
Costume designer I Silvia Delagneau
Light designer I Juan Gómez Cornejo
Choreographer I Roberto G. Alonso
Choir conductorI Andrés Máspero
Children choir conductorI Ana González
Titular Orchestra of the Teatro Real
(Coro Intermezzo / Orquesta Sinfónica de Madrid)
Pequeños Cantores de la JORCAM
CAST
Federico García Lorca I Airam Hernández
Vicente Aleixandre I Borja Quiza
Miguel Hernández I José Antonio López
Rafael I José Manuel Montero
Alfonso I Mikeldi Atxalandabaso
Andrés Acero I Jorge Rodríguez-Norton
Salvador / Setefilla I Ana Ibarra
Ramiro I Vicenç Esteve
Comisario I Gabriel Díaz
Eugenio d’Ors I David Sánchez
Sombra I Laura Vila
Spanish
Spanish, English
Tickets on sale
20 January
202216 February 2022
19:30
Main Auditorium
18 February 2022
19:30
Main Auditorium
20 February 2022
18:00
Main Auditorium
22 February 2022
19:30
Main Auditorium
24 February 2022
19:30
Main Auditorium
26 February 2022
19:30
Main Auditorium
El Teatro Real y la Residencia de Estudiantes
El acto tendrá lugar en el salón de actos de la Residencia de Estudiantes (
El acto se plantea como un diálogo en torno a esta nueva producción, en el que está confirmada la participación de Vicente Molina Foix, Xavier Albertí y Fabián Panisello y la sesión será presentada y moderada por Juan de Lucas.
23
February
2022
19:00
Miércoles, 23 de febrero
18:30 La madriguera / Carlos Saura / 1969 / 102’
20:30 Déjame hablar / Samuel Alarcón / 2020 / 20’
Mesa redonda sobre la obra de Luis de Pablo para la imagen.
Jueves, 24 de febrero
18:30 Crimen de doble filo / José Luis Borau / 1965 / 90’
20:30 De cuerpo presente / Antonio Eceiza / 1967 / 93’
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