Editorial Mondigromax
Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte
Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte
(Eurydice and Charon’s Puppets)
Joan Albert Amargós
Eurídice y los Títeres de Caronte
Opera for 3 voices and chamber orchestra
Composition: Joan Albert Amargós
Idea & Libretto: Toni Rumbau
Voices: mezzo-soprano, baritone and puppeteer
Year of composition: 2001
Duration: 60 min
Language: There is a version in Catalan, another in Spanish and another in Italian.
Commission: Opera de Butxaca i Nova Creació, Barcelona
Production: Festival Grec 2001, Produccions Caliban, Teatre Metropol de Tarragona and La Fanfarra company.
World premiere: July 2, 2001 at Convent dels Àngels
Barcelona Grec Festival 2001
Synopsis
Sophia is a highly acclaimed opera singer faced with a terminal illness. Oscar, her companion and orchestra conductor, is determined to distance her from this reality and tries to get her to concentrate all her energy on the premiere of a new opera which should bring them international fame. The appearance of Pulcinella and of a mysterious street puppet theatre with traditional characters, with their histrionics, energy and passion for life, mesmerizes Sophia. But Oscar finds all this infantile. The puppets are a magical projection of Sophia’s unconscious. In them she materializes her desire for life faced with the reality of her own death. Oscar, on seeing that Sophia is fully absorbed in this unreal and absurd world, becomes desperate and conceives a deep jealousy of the puppeteer. But who is the puppeteer? Slowly in the street theatre the puppet of death makes an appearance…
Score Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte, 219 pages. Editorial Mondigromax
A fragment of Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte in You Tube
Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte was published in CD format in 2005, Harmonia Mundi Internacional (987065), in its Spanish version and with translations of the booklet into English, French and German.
Premi Nacional de Música de Catalunya 2002
National Music Award of Catalonia 2002
Premi Ciutat de Barcelona 2002
City of Barcelona Award 2002
Eurídice y los títeres de Caronte
October 1, 2022
Opera nei Cortili, Classic Aperta, Italy
September 27 & 28, 2022
Teatro Alessandrino, Festival Scatola – Sonora Festival, Alessandria, Italy
**** 20 Years before****
November 12 & 13, 2002
Winterthur Theatre, Switzerland
November 9 & 10, 2002
Ludwigshafen Theatre, Germany
November 6, 2002
Andorra Theatre, Andorra
July 22 & 23, 2002
Lörrach Theater Burghof, Germany
November 18, 2001
Girona, Catalonia
July 2, 2001
World premiere: Convent dels Àngels at the Barcelona Grec Festival 2001
Organised by Associazione Per Mito ets, Milan, Italy
With musical direction by Giovanni Battista Bergamo
Sofia (mezzo-soprano): Giulia Medicina / Wang Qin
Oscar (baritone): Dario Castro / Zhe Xu
Pulcinella / Puppeteers / Swazzle: Toni Rumbau and Eudald Ferré
Creation Cast
Singers Claudia Schneider and Marc Canturri (cast 1)
Singers Cristina Zavalloni and Enric Martínez-Castignani (cast 2)
Swazzle (voice of Pulcinella) Toni Rumbau
Manipulation of the puppets Toni Rumbau and Pavlos Nowak
Scenography José Menchero
Musical direction & Conductor Joan Albert Amargós
BCN 216 Orchestra
Stage direction Luca Valentino
Assistant director Anna Llopart
Lighting Quicu Gutierrez
Construction of the puppets Agueda Miguel, Mariona Masgrau and Pavlos Nowak
With the collaboration of Antonio Miró
Executive production Jaume Grau
Management Dietrich Grosse
Press quote
Eurídice deserved the honors of a crowd-scented premiere, with sold-out tickets and warm applause.
Eurídice is a happy plot conjunction of dramatic interest, attractive music reasonably written for the voices, with attractive instrumentation and superb stage direction. In short, a complete success. La Vanguardia
