Maria de Buenos Aires

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Address Plac Teatralny 1, Warszawa
Tags Opera
Venue's website www.teatrwielki.pl…
Director Wojciech Faruga
Release 2023
Author Astor Piazzolla

Maria de Buenos Aires is the New World, new music, nuevo tango, and tango operita, a new type of opera based on the magnificent rhythm and character of the tango, a dance born on the southeast coast of Latin America. The folk Argentine tango finally saw its bard, Astor Piazzolla, a poet composer who came up with a new way of presenting this passionate dance, drawing inspiration from Stravinsky, Bartok and classical music forms, as well as jazz and electronic rock, and elevated tango to the rank of ‘art music’.

Maria de Buenos Aires was the pinnacle of Piazzolla’s artistic ambitions. In it, he combined opera and dance, which had been done previously but here classical ballet was replaced with the tango. Beautiful and doomed, born ‘on a day that God was drunk’, the girl manages to escape poverty and her pathological family and gain much-desired freedom. Seduced by the rhythm of the tango, she descends into the depths of the huge city, becomes a prostitute, learns all about sex and crime, to finally get murdered by a pack of tramps, gangsters, and brothel madams. She gains a new life, however, as her own shadow walking the streets of the metropolis.For the composer, the eponymous Maria is an allegory of his beloved city. This production of Maria de Buenos Aires is directed by Wojciech Faruga, artistic director of the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, former head of the Korczak International Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People.

libretto: Horacio Ferrer conductor: Piotr Staniszewski dramaturgy: Mikita Iłinczyk set, costume & lighting designer: Katarzyna Borkowska choreography: Krystian Łysoń

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