The Metropolitan Opera recently announced their 2024-2025 season, a lineup which will include Theatre Professor David Henry Hwang’s opera Ainadamar.
Composed by Argentinian composer Osvaldo Golijov with direction by Brazilian director and choreographer Deborah Colker, the Grammy Award-winning opera explores the storied life of gay Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca, whose socialist politics and homosexuality led to his assassination by Fascist forces in 1936, at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
Hwang's libretto explores Lorca's life story through the memories of Catalan actress Margarita Xirgu, who was Lorca’s muse, played by Angel Blue and Gabriella Reyes. Lorca is portrayed by Daniela Mac in a trouser role, and Alfredo Tejada plays the facilitator of Lorca’s assassination, Falangist politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso.