María Moliner, A. Parera Fons

XXXI Opera and ballet season

An alliance between opera and the word. Opera needs to break new ground to keep pace with contemporaneity. Fortunately, authors like Antoni Parera, recently awarded Spain’s National Music Prize, is offering up attractive formulas. Maria Moliner constitutes a milestone in that process of updating. His intelligent eclecticism alternates in a natural way with realistic and symbolic codes. His score fosters both the voice and the word, in line with Janáček, allowing María José Montiel and the other performers to shine. The mezzo from Madrid plays the lexicographer in this staged biography successfully premiered at the Teatro de la Zarzuela that does not gloss over the political aspects of the character: it should be recalled that María Moliner was a very uncomfortable figure in her day.

A production of the Teatro de la Zarzuela

Conductor: Cristóbal Soler
Producer and Sets Design: Paco Azorín

María Moliner: María José Montiel
Fernando Ramón Ferrando: José Julián Frontal
Carmen Conde / Inspector: Isabel Rey
Goyanes: Gerardo Bullón
Armchair B: Joan Pons
Emilia Pardo Bazán: Celia Alcedo
Among others

Symphonic Orchestra of the Balearic Islands
Cor del Teatre Principal de Palma

Complementary activity:
Meeting with the artistic team: Antoni Parera Fons (composer), Paco Azorín (stage director and set designer) and Lucía Villanova (libretista).
Thursday, May 4, at 8:00 p.m.
Caixaforum (Plaza Weyler, 3, Palma)