Organization

Set designer

Jon Bausor

Video designer

Tal Rosner

Choreographer

Antonio Najarro

Singer

Baritone

Jasey Hall

Jose Tripaldi

Tenor

Gareth Dafydd Morris

A Bullfighter

Sound designer

Cameron Crosby

Mezzo-soprano

Hanna Hipp

Federic García Lorca

Soprano

Annie Reilly

1. Solo Niña

Beca Davies

Ensemble

Fiona Finsbury

Dominique Skinner

Chiara Vinci

Rosie Weston

Charlotte Badham

Beth Mabin

Riva Grant

Stella Woodman

Francesca Saracino

Claire Hampton

Helen Jarmany

Jesus Olmedo

Flamenco Dancer

Natalia Adera

Victor Ramos Veredas

Noemí Luz

Isaac Tovar

Bullfighter Dancer

Josie Sinnadurai

Dance Captain

Jane Monari

Stage director

Deborah Colker

Conductor

Matthew Kofi Waldren

Jaquelina Livieri

Young Margarita

Julieth Lozano Rolong

Nuria

Spoken

Alfredo Tejada

Ruiz Alfonso

2. Solo Niña

Assistant Conductor

Edmund Whitehead

Assistant Stage Director

Roxana Haines

Alun Rhys-Jenkins

A Teacher

Lighting designer

Paul Keogan

Scottish Opera

Welsh National Opera

Others

Chorus of the Welsh National Opera

The Metropolitan Opera

Orchestra

Welsh National Opera Orchestra

Opera Ventures

Detroit Opera

The Mayflower

Spanish

Ainadamar

Southampton

United Kingdom

Milton Keynes

Milton Keynes Theatre

Birmingham

Hippodrome

Plymouth

Theatre Royal

Bristol

Llandudno

Venue Cymru

Cardiff

Wales Millennium Centre

Ainadamar Golijov

Public

Private

English

Welsh

Approved

Where flamenco and opera collide. Experience opera like never before with Ainadamar as WNO bring the life of Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorc...

Ainadamar, Arabic for ‘Fountain of Tears’, is the ancient well near Granada where the Spanish poet and playwright Federico García Lorca – labelled by the Falangist militia as a ‘homosexual socialist’ – was brutally executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War.

Golijov’s twice-Grammy-winning opera reimagines Lorca’s life through a flashback of memories by his muse and collaborator, the actress Margarita Xirgu, now in her final moments in 1969 Uruguay, as she seeks to pass her generation’s hopes and passion on to her student, Nuria.

Ainadamar promises a spine-tingling spectacle from the Olivier-winning star choreographer Deborah Colker (Rio 2016 Olympics Ceremony; Cirque du Soleil) in her much-anticipated operatic debut in the director’s seat.

The result is a dazzling kaleidoscope of music, dance, and theatre where flamenco meets opera through traditional Spanish singing and sumptuous operatic numbers, all interspersed with rhythmic, sonic, and poetic outbursts. Ainadamar invites you to experience opera like never before.

Performance credits (Cast & Crew )

Cast

Crew

Ensemble

Co-Producer