Dance

[ Cancelled ] • Maria de Buenos Aires

Astor Piazzolla and Horacio Ferrer

Matias Tripodi

[ Premiered by the OnR Ballet in 2018] ]

Opera-tango based on a libretto by Horacio Ferrer and score by Astor Piazzolla
Premiered in May 1968 at Sala Planeta, Buenos Aires

Infos

Places

Mulhouse

La Filature

Strasbourg

Opéra

Dates

Apr 16Apr 30, 2021

Prices

6 - 48 €

Duration

1h30

Cast

Chorégraphie, décors Matias Tripodi Direction musicale Nicolas Agullo Assistante à la chorégraphie Xinqi Huang Costumes Xavier Ronze Lumières Romain de Lagarde Photography (stage projections) Claudio Larrea CCN • Ballet de l'Opéra national du Rhin, La Grossa - Orchestre Tipica de la Maison Argentine

Artists

Maria Ana Karina Rossi Ténor Stefan Sbonnik El Duende Alejandro Guyot

Presentation

Created on behalf of the OnR Ballet for the 2019 Arsmondo Festival dedicated to Argentina, Matias Tripodi's superb production of María de Buenos Aires returns this season to mark the centenary of the birth of Astor Piazzolla, founder of the nuevo tango movement. This brilliant composer, who stripped the tango of its clichés, borrowed the tradition and stories of the past to forge his own vision. In the same artistic vein, Tripodi has responded uniquely to the profound challenges of this work, which had a major impact when it premiered in 1968. For this series of vignettes in the lives of Buenos Aires slum dwellers, where the everyday and trivial have their own beauty, he constructs an operatic set in which the tango throws off its folk trappings to reclaim its place as music of the heart, soul and flesh -- like María who, they say, was born "on a day when God was drunk".