Luisa Fernanda

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Zarzuela in three acts (1932)

Music by Federico Moreno Torroba
Libretto by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernandez Shaw

Performed in Spanish with German surtitles

Conductor Josep Caballé-Domenech
Director & Set designs Emilio Sagi
Costume designs Pepa Ojanguren
Choreography Nuria Castejon
Lighting Eduardo Bravo

Luisa Fernanda Maria José Montiel
Vidal Hernando Plácido Domingo
La duquesa Carolina Patricia Petibon
Javier Moreno Israel Lozano
Mariana Raquel Pierotti
Rosita Maria José Suarez
Don Luis Nogales Federico Gallar

Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra
Arnold Schoenberg Chor (Chorus director: Erwin Ortner)

Coproduction with the Teatro real Madrid,
the Washington Opera and the Los Angeles Opera

The strains of Spanish music, bittersweet love stories, light‐hearted music theatre and the charm of a nostalgic genre – all this is found in the zarzuela, the Spanish counterpart of the French opéra comique and the German Singspiel. The zarzuela had its heyday from the mid 19th century, before the Spanish Civil War and the emergent cinema brought its popularity to a temporary end. It is during this latter period that Federico Moreno Torroba wrote his comedy of manners Luisa Fernanda, one of the most successful zarzuelas of all time. It was premiered in Madrid in 1932 and has since been performed well over ten thousand times in Spain and Latin America.