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Ángeles Blancas stars in Medea at the Mérida Festival
June 27 of 2024 |
The soprano Ángeles Blancas opens the 70th Mérida Festival starring in the opera Medea, by Luigi Cherubini. He will do so by playing the role that gives the opera its title, along with Noah Stewart, Esteban Baltazar, Nancy Fabiola Herrera and Mercedes Gancedo, among others. They will be accompanied by Leonor Bonilla, who plays the role of Dircé, and the mezzo-soprano Karina Demurova, in the role of Second Maiden.
During the presentation press conference, Ángeles Blancas commented that she likes challenges to grow and defended that this play is not just her character, but an entire cast of actors and actresses that fill the stage. "I draw on the energy of Jason and all of them. Medea is all of us," she said.
The opera, Cherubini's first great success in 1797 and with recitatives by musicologist Alan Curtis, consists of three acts in which he mixes different styles: classicism, romanticism and verismo, which makes it an opera “extremely intense and difficult to do.” , in the words of director Andrés Salado.
Today, the 27th, is the premiere and the second performance will take place on June 29, both at the Roman Theater in Mérida.
During the presentation press conference, Ángeles Blancas commented that she likes challenges to grow and defended that this play is not just her character, but an entire cast of actors and actresses that fill the stage. "I draw on the energy of Jason and all of them. Medea is all of us," she said.
The opera, Cherubini's first great success in 1797 and with recitatives by musicologist Alan Curtis, consists of three acts in which he mixes different styles: classicism, romanticism and verismo, which makes it an opera “extremely intense and difficult to do.” , in the words of director Andrés Salado.
Today, the 27th, is the premiere and the second performance will take place on June 29, both at the Roman Theater in Mérida.
