María Moliner by Fons, Ab (2017/2017), Unter der Regie von Paco Azorín,, Dirigat Cristóbal Soler, Teatre Principal de Palma, Palma de Mallorca, Spanien

María Moliner, alliance of opera and the word.Opera needs to open new paths in order not to lose track of contemporaneity. Limiting yourself to the canonical repertoire can make it stagnant. Luckily, authors like Antoni Parera Fons, recently awarded the National Music Award, are showing us attractive formulas. María Moliner is a landmark of this update. His intelligent eclecticism naturally alternates between realistic and symbolic codes. His score goes in favor of the voice and the word, in the line of a Janáček, which allows the brilliance of María José Montiel and her cast mates. The Madrilenian mezzo embodies the lexicographer in this stage biography premiered at the Teatro de la Zarzuela that does not gloss over the character's political edges: María Moliner, we remember, was a very uncomfortable figure in her time.