Name: María de Buenos Aires
Start: 2021-09-17T00:00:00.000Z
End: 2021-09-19T00:00:00.000Z
Location: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

Organization

Conductor

Wen-Pin Chien

Stage director

Helen Lai

Choreographer

Rehearsal Master

Qiu-yin Chen

Set designer

Wei-Kuang Chen

Costume designer

Huai-chih Fan

Lighting designer

Chien-ha Kuo

Singer

Mezzo-soprano

Jeannie Chiang

Maria

Chan-yu Yeh

The shadow of Maria

Riccardo Canzini

Duende

Chien-yao Liao

Understudy

Others

Kaohsiung Chamber Choir

Orchestra

Kaohsiung Symphony Orchestra

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying)

Spanish

María de Buenos Aires -  (Maria de Buenos Aires)

Kaohsiung City

Taiwan

National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts

María de Buenos Aires Piazzolla

Public

Maria de Buenos Aires

Chinese

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Approved

「被神遺忘的她，是毀滅還是重生？」衛武營與城市當代舞蹈團共同製作，獻上皮亞佐拉破天荒寫出的史上第一部「探戈輕歌劇」─「布宜諾斯艾利斯的瑪麗亞」，透過超現實的敘事風格，描繪女主角瑪麗亞於阿根廷首都的生死徘徊，暗喻此南美國家的在宗教與歷史上，與西方的拉扯。全劇歌詞為西班牙文，有獨唱家、詩人、舞者及樂手。序曲的手風琴音...

When you think about tango, probably 90 percent of the tango music that reverberates in your head was composed by him. He is Argentina's "King of Tango," Astor PIAZZOLLA, and this year is the centennial of his birth. PIAZZOLLA rearranged popular street dance music into exquisite music that could be enjoyed by scholars and lay-people alike. His music has also proved to be generational; even classical music superstars such as Yo-Yo MA, Gidon KREMER, and Daniel BARENBOIM have not been immune to its charm and have all paid homage to PIAZZOLLA by publishing tango albums. This year, Weiwuying and Hong Kong's City Contemporary Dance Company have joined forces to perform PIAZZOLLA's "María de Buenos Aires,"—the world's first tango opera and a novelty at the time of its writing. A hyper-realistic narrative style is used to depict the life and death experiences of the heroine María in the Argentine capital, which acts as a metaphor for this South American country's religious and historical links to Western culture. As soon as the sound of the accordion in the overture takes off, audience members' established ideas about "Western opera" are sure to be overturned. In an instant, Weiwuying's Recital Hall is transformed into a tiny South American tavern, giving way to a production full of irresistible and tantalizing charm!

Maria de Buenos Aires by Piazzolla, From (2021/2021), Directed by Helen Lai,, Conductor Wen-Pin Chien, National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan

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