(noticia) A Life as a Passion Play, in the Shadow of García Lorca

Opera Review | 'Ainadamar'

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By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Published: January 24, 2006

When the history of Osvaldo Golijov's "Ainadamar" is written, the opera's 2003 premiere at the Tanglewood Music Center may be considered just a workshop along the way. At the time Mr. Golijov admitted to having rushed to finish the score at the last minute. Though his memory play of an opera had haunting aspects to it, whole stretches of the music seemed padded, lacking in urgency.
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Dawn Upshaw, left, as Margarita Xirgu and Kelley O’Connor as the poet García Lorca, with Jesica Rivera, in Osvaldo Golijov’s "Ainadamar" at the Rose Theater.
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After that premiere, Mr. Golijov recruited the director Peter Sellars into the project and, together with the playwright David Henry Hwang as librettist, revised the work considerably. That version was presented at the Santa Fe Opera last summer and, directed by Mr. Sellars, opened in the Rose Theater of the Jazz at Lincoln Center complex on Sunday afternoon. The opera has gained much dramatic impact. Though I still have reservations about this 80-minute, one-act work, the music now seems more precisely and tellingly rendered, with many ingenious strokes and startling details.

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