Iubirea și alți demoni este adaptată după romanul lui Gabriel García Márquez‘Love and Other Demons’
Composed by Peter Eotvos. Directed by Silviu Purcarete
Performances on 10, 13, 16, 19, 22, 24, 27, 30 August 2008 at 16.35 (Sundays) and 17.50 (all other dates).
Glyndebourne Opera, Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 5UU; Box Office: 01273 813813, www.glyndebourne.com
Tickets: £10 – £165. Tickets available at £30 for people aged 30 or under (limited availability).
Standby seats at £15. Standby tickets are only made available 72 hours before each performance.
• ‘Love and Other Demons’
Performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra and The Glyndebourne Chorus. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski; Designer: Helmut Stürmer. Libretto: Kornel Hamvai.
Cast includes: Marisol Montalvo as Sierva Maria; Robert Brubaker as Don Ygnacio; Nathan Gunn as Father Delaura. Sung in English with supertitles.
‘Love and Other Demons’ is based on the novel of the same name by celebrated author Gabriel García Márquez – a tragic love story set in 18th-century Spanish Columbia, the catholic miracle drama is set against a backdrop of slavery and decaying colonialism.
Synopsis: A young girl, the daughter of the Marquis, is attacked by a rabid dog and finds herself imprisoned in the convent where the Bishop’s exorcist comes to drive out her demons. Yet soon it is he who is possessed, consumed by the most terrible demon of all – LOVE.
Silviu Purcarete has worked in Romanian and European theatre for more than twenty years, most notably for the National Theatre of Craiova and Theatre Bulandra in Bucharest. His productions have won many awards and great critical acclaim both in Romania and abroad. In 1996 Purcarete became Director of the Centre Dramatique National de Limoges for whom his productions have included ‘Oresteia’, ‘Three Sisters’ and ‘Don Juan’. Opera credits include ‘La Boheme’ (Essen), ‘Parsifal’ (Scottish Opera coproduction with WNO), Donizetti’s ‘Roberto Devereux’ (Wiener Staatsoper) and Rameau’s ‘Castor et Pollux’ (Opera Bonn).
Silviu Purcarete’s work has been seen extensively in the UK and includes ‘The Decameron’, ‘Phaedra’ and Aeschylus’ ‘Danaides’ (Glasgow), ‘Oresteia’ (Lyric Hammersmith), ‘Ubu Rex’ (Edinburgh International Festival) and ‘The Tempest’ (Nottingham Playhouse). In 2005 Purcarete directed ‘Scapino or The Trickster’ at Chichester Festival Theatre. In 2006, ‘The Twelfth Night’, a National Theatre of Craiova production, was presented during the Bath Shakespeare Festival, and in 2007, Purcarete directed Eugene Ionesco’s ‘Macbett’ for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Composer Peter Eotvos is one of the best known interpreters of 20th century music and is amongst the most widely commissioned opera composers in Europe. His operas, which include ‘The Three Sisters’, ‘The Balcon’ and ‘Angels in America’, are amongst the most frequently performed in the contemporary repertoire. This Glyndebourne Commission will be the first major production of any of his operas in the UK.
Details on www.glyndebourne.com