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Távora proposes an "encounter" between opera and flamenco on "Flamenco Traviata," his latest production in which claims the fandango, and pays tribute to all the "Traviata", lost, world
Salvador Tavora has brought flamenco and opera, in "Traviata Flamenco", which connects the two worlds through the story of Violet, star of Verdi's La Traviata, with the universe of popular fandango, which were, in both cases, victims of the hypocrisy and social rejection by their status as a courtesan, and colleague nocturnal world of prostitution on the other.
Through this link, Távora up a show that is flamenco, a style of fandangos anthology, which is at the service of the tragic love story between a prostitute Violetta and Alfredo in La Traviata told represented here in the skin of the dancers Maria Tavora and The Mistela.
Távora rejecting the merger "because it would steal the identity of each art," Verdi's music interspersed with the fandangos, whose letters related to the dramatic love story that is told, sound in the voices of the singers Ana Real and José Ángel Carmona, accompanied by Manuel and Miguel Aragon Barraquero guitar and percussion Javier Prieto.
The director intends to "feel" the story from the music, singing and dancing in a show for which he had also a dancer with Carolina Morales, a mosquito, and masks that allow you to make faces that are not and even a white horse on stage as the only symbol of power.
Távora resorts to the austerity of means to highlight the history and uses only the usual black camera, and two vases that allude to the sumptuous life of Traviata, which eventually died in poverty on a painter's ladder.
Traviata Flamenco consists of 12 parts in which the interfacial lyrical universe with flamenco, dedicated to the fandango, which includes up to twelve different colors corresponding to twelve singers.
The use of the fandango is not common in the shows on the block, which uses a more austere flamenco, flamenco as the streak, soleá or martinentes, with a longest dimension in the shades.
Salvador Tavora himself has defined "Flamenco Traviata" as a call to historical consciousness about the value of the fandango torn poetic, dark and chronic popular reality singing and as a tribute to so many Fandanguero forgotten, and also and fundamentally, as shocking news of the generosity of the world's oldest profession: the prostitutes, the "Traviata" (lost), from anywhere in the world.
With this show, Távora who heads La Cuadra since its inception in 1972 with "Quejío" reflects his childhood memories on the singing of Fandanguero neighborhood who did not obey any rule Orthodox singing.
The singer, who often could not read or write, thus enjoying a freedom that allowed him to make up lyrics to sing to his whimsical tone, in a style that until recently has been reviled by the flamenco, and eventually by the bourgeoisie Andalusia because of its relationship with the evening party, who organized "the gentlemen", with the presence of women in public life, and eminently popular.
A world that connects Taor history of the prostitute's La Traviata, you can not live their love story with a member of the haute bourgeoisie of Paris, due to the rejection of which is the subject and end up dying victim of a disease that can not cure the return of her lover.
Love, life, death, feelings and pain that Távora in the lyrics of unrequited love of the fandangos of his childhood, to tell a story that can be expressed "as a way educated in the work of Verdi as a popular mode in a marginal neighborhood of Seville. "
"Flamenco for Traviata"
La Cuadra
Scenario: Almansa Park Auditorium
Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008
Time: 22.30 h.
Admission: 18 euros 15 euros area / B area C / D
Source: Ayuntamiento de San Javier
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