Purcell: The Indian Queen (with Julia Bullock) | Teatro Real de Madrid, Part 1/2
From the Teatro Real de Madrid, 2013
Semi-Opera in five acts with prologue
Libretto by John Dryden after texts by Katherine Philips, George Herbert
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Vince Yi Hunahpú - Mayan hero/Trickster twin deity
Julia Bullock - Teculihuatzin, The Indian Queen, after Doña Luisa
Markus Brutscher - Don Pedrarias Dávila, Captain General and Governor of Terra Firma
Nadine Koutcher - Doña Isabel
Noah Stewart - Don Pedro de Alvarado, conquistador
Christophe Dumaux - Xbalanque, Mayan Hero/Trickster twin deity
Luthando Qave - Mayan Shaman
MusicAeterna: Choir and Orchestra of the Perm Opera
Teodor Currentzis - musical director
Vitaly Polonsky - chorus master
Peter Sellars - stage director
Gronk - sets designer
Dunya Ramicova - costumes
James F. Ingalls - lighting
Christopher Williams - choreography
Spoken Texts by Rosario Aguilar
Henry Purcell died in 1965, while composing his last opera “The Indian Queen”. So his brother Daniel completed hastily and with poor inspiration the rich, visionary and transcendental score of the great British composer. Some centuries later, Peter Sellars has imagined a fresh and unedited new version of Purcell’s last masterpiece, including some of Purcell’s most inspired songs, with a new libretto adapted from “La niña blanca y los pajaros sin pies” (The white maid and the feetless birds) from Nicaraguan novelist Rosario Aguilar.
The original libretto by John Dryden was supposed to be situated at the courts of Lima and Mexico before the Spanish invasion, developing how an impossible love story between the Queen of the Aztecs and the general of the Yncas will provoke an imaginary conflict between Yncas and Aztecs. Sellars personal vision is more political; it intertwines music, dance, literature, theatre and visual arts and describes the first contact between the Europeans and the Mayas of the New World, a personal and choral narration of the Conquista through the lives of two women who created a new culture.
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