YERMA
CREDITS
Soprano Adriane Queiroz
Mezzo-soprano Denise de Freitas
Tenor Martin Muhle
Baritone Homero Velho
Piano Marcos Aragoni
Conception and Stage Director André Heller-Lopes
(coordinator of the Young Interpreters of São Carlos Program)
Mezzo-soprano Denise de Freitas
Tenor Martin Muhle
Baritone Homero Velho
Piano Marcos Aragoni
Conception and Stage Director André Heller-Lopes
(coordinator of the Young Interpreters of São Carlos Program)
PROGRAM
The Embassy of Brazil presents a concert with excerpts of the opera YERMA by Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) on Sunday the 22nd of November at 7pm, honoring the fifty years of the composer's death.
PRESENTATION
Within the vast production of Villa-Lobos (1887-1859) full of vocal music shaped like corals and songs, the opera has a special place. And no other is more special than Yerma, an opera in three acts based on the homonym piece by Garcia Llorca.
Although the desire of producing dramatic music – “stage works” - persued the most acknowledged brazilian composer's imagination since he first travelled to Paris, only one musical (Magdalena) and three operas (Izath, A Menina das Nuvens and YERMA ) came from his inspiration. They were composed between 1914 and 1958. The composition of Yerma started in 1955 and was made between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, taking two years of the artist's life that dedicated the final piece to Hermenegilda Neves d'Almeida. Contracted by John Blankenship from Sarah Lawrence College the biggest opera of Heitor Villa-Lobos was only premiered twelve years after the composer's death in August 1971, at the famous Santa Fé Ópera. The brazilian debut happened only in 1983 at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. It was presented in Europe only twice, one in a concert in the United Kingdom and the other in a German show, both in the eighties.
The libretto of Yerma is directly taken from the famous homonymous play by Frederico Garcia Llorca. Tragic, he narrates the story of a woman obsessed by the dream of motherhood and a victim of a society full of moral rules; incapable of understanding the love of a husband that refuses her children, tormented by the attraction to another man and oppressed by the other women of the village, Yerma has an outcome highly operatic, dramatic and bloody. Yerma is a fascinating piece that bears the mark of Villa-Lobos and his characteristic nationalism and ritmic strenght, creating a sophisticated musical language.
Although the desire of producing dramatic music – “stage works” - persued the most acknowledged brazilian composer's imagination since he first travelled to Paris, only one musical (Magdalena) and three operas (Izath, A Menina das Nuvens and YERMA ) came from his inspiration. They were composed between 1914 and 1958. The composition of Yerma started in 1955 and was made between Rio de Janeiro and Paris, taking two years of the artist's life that dedicated the final piece to Hermenegilda Neves d'Almeida. Contracted by John Blankenship from Sarah Lawrence College the biggest opera of Heitor Villa-Lobos was only premiered twelve years after the composer's death in August 1971, at the famous Santa Fé Ópera. The brazilian debut happened only in 1983 at the Municipal Theater of Rio de Janeiro. It was presented in Europe only twice, one in a concert in the United Kingdom and the other in a German show, both in the eighties.
The libretto of Yerma is directly taken from the famous homonymous play by Frederico Garcia Llorca. Tragic, he narrates the story of a woman obsessed by the dream of motherhood and a victim of a society full of moral rules; incapable of understanding the love of a husband that refuses her children, tormented by the attraction to another man and oppressed by the other women of the village, Yerma has an outcome highly operatic, dramatic and bloody. Yerma is a fascinating piece that bears the mark of Villa-Lobos and his characteristic nationalism and ritmic strenght, creating a sophisticated musical language.
DATES
FOYER OF THE NATIONAL THEATER OF SÃO CARLOS
NOVEMBER 2009
Day 22nd at 7pm
Age Rating
over 3
NOVEMBER 2009
Day 22nd at 7pm
Age Rating
over 3
BILHETES
FREE ENTRY
subject to the room capacity
subject to the room capacity
