GOLIJOV : AINADAMAR

Radio New Zealand Concert network
Tuesday 19th of July 2011 at 8 pm

Osvaldo GOLIJOV's Ainadamar, three images about
the martyred Spanish writer, Federico Garcia Lorca
Margarita Xirgu.................. Dawn Upshaw
Federico Garcia Lorca....... Kelley O'Connor
Nuria................................. Jessica Rivera
Ruiz Alonso....................... Jesús Montoya
José Tripaldi...................... Eduardo Chama
Maestro............................. Sean Mayer
Torero............................... Robb Asklof
Voices of the fountain......... Anne-Carolyn Bird
.......................................... Sindhu Chandrasekaran
Woman of the Atlanta SO Chorus, Atlanta SO/Robert Spano
(DG 477 6165)

COMPOSER
INTRODUCTION
BACKGROUND
SYNOPSIS
REVIEW (2004)
REVIEW (2006)
REVIEW (2006)


Golijov achieved early fame with his Spanish SAINT MARK PASSION. He was born into a Jewish family in Argentina in 1960. The title AINADAMAR means "fountain of tears" (I can detect the Hebrew words for "eye/spring" and "tears" in it, but it is Arabic, and the name of the well in Granada where Federico Garcia Lorca was slain). 
The notes cited above will take you to a mine of information about the opera and its recording. 
 It lasts 80 minutes. 
Mezzo Kelley O'Connor plays the role of the poet and playwright who was executed in Fascist Spain in 1936 (the year I came in, as his reincarnation?), and thereafter his works could only be performed in Latin America. 
Dawn Upshaw (celebrated for her 1993 recording of Gorecki's Sorrowful Songs Symphony) is Margarita Xirgu, the Catalan actress who worked "with" the poet before and long after his death.