The night of the opera in World music.
Tonight four full opera albums from world music. Successively, you will listen to:
1. Maria de Buenos Aires – Tango Operita.
Astor Piazzolla composed the music and Horacio Ferrer wrote the libretto. The work discusses the history of the woman Maria who, at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century sees the rise and development of tango in the Argentinian capital of Buenos Aires.
CD. María de Buenos Aires – Tango Operita, Teldec (1998), code: 3984-20632-2
2. Eric Vaarzon Morel – Flamenco Opera El Greco de Toledo, about the life of the painter El Greco who lived in the multicultural city Toledo. Besides Eric Vaarzon Morel on flamenco guitar the following artists also collaborated: Xenia Meijer, mezzo-soprano; Eric Vloeimans, trumpet; Maarten Engeltjes, countertenor; Ginesa Ortega, flamenco singer; Carlos Denia, flamenco singer; and a string quartet consisting of Oene van Geel, viola; Ben Mathot, violin; Emile Visser, cello; David de Marez Oyens, double bass.
CD. Eric Vaarzon Morel – Flamenco Opera El Greco de Toledo, EVM (2012), code: CTC-2996030 (2CDs)
3. Frank London – A Night In the Old Marketplace.
Frank London mixes Jewish, jazz and world beats in his unique adaptation of a Yiddish multi-media work from 1907, written by Il Peretz. Designed by director Alexandra Aron with a libretto by Glen Berger, this multi-media concerto reflects the cabaret of Kurt Weil with Tom Waits. This is an absurdly funny dark night of disaster and mystique in an old Jewish marketplace.
Cd. Frank London – A Night In the Old Marketplace, Soundbrush Records SR1010.
4. Mikis Theodorakis – Opera Highlights.
Theodorakis, among other things famous for the music for Zorba the Greek, is since 1980 mainly occupied with classical music – including five operas, a requiem, five symphonies – but he hasn’t entirely given up on composing song cycles. For instance, in 2006 he composed the song cycle "Odysseia" that was released on the Greek label Legend through an interpretation by Maria Farantouri in 2007.
CD. Mikis Theodorakis – Opera Highlights, FM records.
