Ainadamar / Osvaldo Golijov.

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

Golijov, Osvaldo, 1960-

Contributor:

Hwang, David Henry, 1957- librettist.

Upshaw, Dawn, singer.

Rivera, Jessica (Soprano), singer.

Bird, Anne Carolyn, singer.

Chandrasekaran, Sindhu, singer.

O'Connor, Kelley, singer.

Mayer, Sean, singer.

Asklof, Robb, singer.

Montoya Martínez, Jesús, singer.

Chama, José Eduardo, singer.

Spano, Robert, conductor.

Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, performer.

Atlanta Symphony Chorus, performer.

Standardized Title:

Ainadamar

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936--Drama.

García Lorca, Federico.

García Lorca, Federico, 1898-1936.

Operas.

Genre:

Drama.

Sound recordings.

Operas.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (81 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

Place of Publication:

New York : Deutsche Grammophon, [2006]

Language Note:

Sung in Spanish.

System Details:

digital

optical

1.4 m/s

stereo

digital recording

Summary:

A stirring tale of political and artistic courage. Dawn Upshaw sings the role created for her as she reminisces about the martyred Spanish writer Federico Garcia Lorca in a series of flamenco-drenched dream-like flashbacks.

Participant:

Dawn Upshaw (Margarita Xirgu) ; Jessica Rivera (Nuria) ; Anne Carolyn Bird, Sindhu Chandrasekaran (voices of the fountain) ; Kelley O'Connor (Federico García Lorca) ; Sean Mayer (MAestro) ; Robb Asklof (Torero) ; Jesús Montoya (Ruiz Alonso) ; Eduardo Chama (José Tripaldi) ; Atlanta Symphony Orchestra ; Women of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chorus ; Robert Spano, conductor.

Notes:

Opera in 3 images; libretto by David Henry Hwang, translated in Spanish by the composer.

Recorded Nov. 2005, Atlanta Symphony Hall, Atlanta.

Compact disc.

Program notes in English and libretto in Spanish and English (30 p. : ill., ports.) inserted in container.

OCLC:

66899697

Publisher Number:

028947761655

B0006429-02 Deutsche Grammophon