María de Buenos Aires
Tango operita in two parts
Libretto: Horacio Ferrer
Premiere of this production: 16 March 2023, Polish National Opera
„Maria de Buenos Aires” (1968) was the pinnacle of Piazzolla’s artistic ambitions. In it, he combined opera and dance, which had been done previously but here classical ballet was replaced with the tango. Beautiful and doomed, born ‘on a day that God was drunk’, the girl manages to escape poverty and her pathological family and gain much-desired freedom.
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Available on vod.teatrwielki.pl until 28 July 2024
Filmed on 14 and 21 March, 2023 at the Polish National Opera.
The recording is streamed courtesy of Faber Music on behalf of Warner Chappell Music.
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Conductor: PIOTR STANISZEWSKI
Director: WOJCIECH FARUGA
Dramaturgy: MIKITA IŁINCZYK
Set, Costume, Lighting Designer: KATARZYNA BORKOWSKA
Choreogaphy: KRYSTIAN ŁYSOŃ
Casting Director: IZABELA KŁOSIŃSKA
CAST
María, La Sombra De María
NATALIA KAWAŁEK
La Voz de un Payador / Voz de Ese Domingo / Porteño Gorrión con Sueño / Analista Primero / Ladrón Antiguo Mayor
ŁUKASZ KARAUDA
El Duende (Narrator)
DAMIAN KWIATKOWSKI
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Bandoneon: Klaudiusz Baran, gitara: Andrzej Olewiński
Chorus: Joanna Michalska, Maria Udovenko, Justyna Zanni, Marcin Maciak, Marek Kulik, Michał Zambrzycki
Dancers: Dominik Więcek, Wojciech Kałuża, Marek Bula, Bartłomiej Gąsior, Andrei Kamarov, Paweł Kozłowski
Orchestra of the Polish National Opera
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Sound director: Adam Ciesielski
Filmed by: Marcin Dunin-Borkowski
