Estrella Morente: ‘Flamenco Singing’

February 2007
London, Sadler's Wells
by Charlotte Kasner

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If Eva Yerbeuna represented flamenco nuevo at the opening of this festival, then Estrella Morente must surely epitomise flamenco puro. This unashamed tribute to the flamenco of the 1920's and 1930's looked startingly different, as if it has been hard to notice the gradual changes that flamenco has undergone over decades.

Not all of the staging worked; the acknowledgement to the composer Falla resulted in a dead stage for a long period at the opening which threatened to kill the evening stone dead before it had even started. It would have been better to have used the stage-sized screen to project historical images and given the evening more of a context.

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