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Carlota Arencibia

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Michael Walling

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Joe Pilling

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Rafael Montero

San Ignacio de Loyola

Kate Smith

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Victor Sgarbi

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Tara Venkatesan

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Biraj Barkakaty

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Joana Isidro Praça

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Joana Rodrigues

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Fábio Fernandes

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Pablo Tejedor-Gutierrez

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Tom Watts

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Johnny Figueroa Rodriguez

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San Ignacio de Loyola Domenico Zipoli: Poster

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San Ignacio de Loyola Domenico Zipoli

Presented by El Parnaso Hyspano
LOYOLA
Composed by Domenico Zipoli
Directed by Michael Walling, with Rafael Montero as Loyola

The UK stage premiere of this long-lost baroque opera by Jesuit composer Domenico Zipoli. Originally written around 1720 for performance by Indigenous musicians on the Jesuit missions in Latin America, the score was recently discovered in the Archives of Chiquitos in Bolivia. One of the first operas to emerge from the melting pot of Hispanic and Native cultures, LOYOLA combines the sounds of Europe’s 18th century with Indigenous tradition.

LOYOLA is brought to Grimeborn by El Parnaso Hyspano: an ensemble led by Inca tenor Rafael Montero, dedicated to authentic performances of the Latin American baroque. This musical and cultural integrity is placed in a contemporary setting by director Michael Walling (The Ring – ENO), whose staging underlines the spiritual and existential dilemmas at the heart of this comic, impassioned and deeply spiritual work.

Content Warnings: references to illness and death

San Ignacio de Loyola by Zipoli, From (2023/2023), Directed by Michael Walling,, Arcola Theatre, London, United Kingdom

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