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El Público: Teatro Real in Madrid

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Teatro Real presents the world premiere of an operatic version of Federico García Lorca's most difficult and mysterious play, and one of the great classics of modern Spanish theatre.

Lorca wrote El Público in Cuba, just after his trip to New York, at a time of intense experimentation in art and life. The play, which openly addresses homosexuality, is a cry of defiance against bourgeois hypocrisy and a plea for sexual and artistic freedom. Lorca was convinced, along with the surrealists, that art had the ability to transform human beings.

In the same spirit, composer Mauricio Sotelo and librettist Andrés Ibañez, along with sculptor and set designer Alexander Polzin, have taken up the challenge of transforming El Público into a twenty‐first century opera.

Musical director Pablo Heras‐Casado
Stage director Robert Castro
Set designer Alexander Polzin
Lighting designer Urs Schönebaum
Chorus Master Andrés Máspero

Director Andreas Wolf
First horse Arcángel
Second man José Antonio López
Third man Antonio Lozano
Elena Gun‐Brit Barkmin
Juliet Kerstin Avemo
Emperor Erin Caves

Opera in five scenes with a prologue
World premiere
Commissioned by Teatro Real

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