Golijov's Flamenco-tinged opera about slain Spanish playwright Lorca comes to the Met
The Metropolitan Opera is preparing to stage a Flamenco-infused production of an opera about Spanish author Federico Garcia Lorca
By MIKE SILVERMAN
Published - Oct 08, 2024, 09:29 AM ET
Last Updated - Dec 16, 2024, 06:32 PM EST
NEW YORK (AP) — Osvaldo Golijov was running out of time.
The Argentine-born composer had been commissioned by the Tanglewood Music Center for a chamber opera to be performed in the summer of 2003. And with the deadline just months away, his original idea wasn’t panning out.
“It didn’t go anywhere. I had nothing,” he recalled in an interview.
Happily, a friend introduced him to playwright David Henry Hwang, and they agreed to collaborate on a piece about a historical figure they both admired: Federico Garcia Lorca, the leftist Spanish dramatist and poet who was killed by fascist forces at the start of the Spanish Civil War.
