Mariana Pineda (opera)
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| Title: | Mariana Pineda |
| Shape: | Opera in three pictures |
| Original language: | Spanish |
| Music: | Flavio Testi |
| Libretto : | Federico García Lorca : Mariana Pineda |
| Literary source: | Folk romance |
| Premiere: | September 8, 2007 |
| Place of premiere: | Erfurt, Theater Erfurt |
| Place and time of the action: | Andalusia , 1828-1831 |
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Mariana Pineda is an opera in three pictures by Flavio Testi . The libretto is taken from the play Mariana Pineda by Federico García Lorca . The opera was premiered on September 8, 2007 in the Erfurt Theater.
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The opera is set in Spain from 1828 to 1831. The widow and mother of two Mariana Pineda supports the resistance of liberal circles against the repressive regime of the king against the advice of her stepmother Angustias. She is embroidering a revolutionary flag and helps her lover, the revolutionary Don Pedro, to escape from prison. The criminal judge Pedrosa discovers her connections to conspiratorial circles and wants to use this to force Mariana on his love. When she refuses to accept him, she is placed under arrest. From Fernando, who is devoted to her in selfless love, she learns that Don Pedro has only taken advantage of her. But she continues to resist the urging of Pedrosa, who finally has her sentenced to death.
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The opera begins with a short orchestral prelude, followed by a monologue by the title character Mariana. She met her childhood friend Fernando, her adoptive mother Doña Angustias and her lover Don Pedro de Sotomayor one after the other. The second picture shows Don Pedro's conversation with one of the conspirators. Pedrosa's subsequent visit leads to Mariana's arrest. The third picture shows the captivity of Mariana, in which she encounters Pedrosa and Fernando, framed by the women's choir.
The musical language is relatively easy to access. The opera is composed through and contains no conventional arias or musical numbers. Frequently repeated, memorable motifs that stand in a dissonant but nevertheless tonal context are striking. Strong accents are set by the brass section. The orchestra itself is only small. The vocal parts consist mainly of parlando , which occasionally penetrates into extreme pitches. Often the singers are only accompanied by a single solo instrument. At the beginning and at the end of the opera, only the title character Mariana ariose forms are assigned.
Work history
The libretto comes from the composer himself. He used the dramatic core of the play Mariana Pineda by Federico García Lorca , from which he removed many subplots and characters. The prologue and the first five scenes of the original, in which the Andalusian ambience was introduced, are also missing. The plot focuses on the psychogram of the title character Mariana Pineta, who is permanently on stage. The rest of the plot is reduced to an intimate play in which Mariana's relationship with three men, the revolutionary Don Pedro, her lover Fernando and the police chief Pedroso, is processed.
The world premiere of Mariana Pineda took place on September 8, 2007 together with the German premiere of Testi's opera La brocca rotta in the Erfurt Theater. Lorenz Aichner was the musical director, Peter Hailer directed, the stage design was by Hank Irwin Kittel and the costumes by Uta Meenen. The singers were Ilia Papandreou (Mariana Pineda), Erik Fenton (Fernando), Dimitar Tenev (Don Pedro), Juan Carlos Mera-Euler (Pedrosa), Máté Sólyom-Nagy (Un conspirador), Helena Zubanovich (Dona Angustias), and Alice Rath (Isabel la Clavela) and sopranos of the opera choir (novices).
Web links
- Appetite for more. Review of September 8, 2007 on Deutschlandradio Kultur , accessed on March 18, 2016
- Joachim Lange: Easy from the Italian. Reviewed on September 11, 2007 in the World , accessed March 18, 2016
- Work information on sonzogno.it , accessed on March 18, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Program booklet Mariana Pineda & La brocca rotta. Theater Erfurt, 2007/08 season.
- ↑ "I'm at the Italian" - Theater Erfurt presents the 2007/08 season on helloarticle.com ( Memento from February 14, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on March 18, 2016.
- ^ Christopher Norton-Welsh: Performance Review. In: Opera from January 2008, p. 46 , accessed on March 18, 2016.
- ^ Matthias Nöther: Italian Modernism in Thuringia. In: operwelt from November 2007, p. 42, accessed on March 18, 2016.
- ↑ Mariana Pineda / La brocca rotta (premiere September 8, 2007) at the Theater Erfurt ( memento from December 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).