Osvaldo Golijov's Ainadamar Performed by the Long Beach Opera
Long Beach Performing Arts Center, Terrace Theater, at the Long Beach Convention & Entertainment Center (300 E. Ocean Blvd. Long Beach, CA 90802)
- Full Price:
- $90.00 - $110.00
- Our Price:
- $45.00 - $55.00*
* Additional fees apply.
All offers for Ainadamar have expired.
The last date listed for Ainadamar was Saturday May 26, 2012 / 8:00pm.
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Goldstar Member Tips
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Skimeup on Information
Business or better
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Skimeup on Information
Eat beforehand - there is no intermission
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Skimeup on Information
$10 parking - give yourself plenty of time. Lots of events in the area
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Skimeup on Information
Get there early for the preperformance talk.
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Goldstar Member on Information
There is plenty of parking in or near the Long Beach theatre. We had no problem.
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Goldstar Member on Information
Lots of blah blah. I wasn't impressed.
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veronica on Information
Nice casual
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veronica on Information
Eat before
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veronica on Information
Eat before just don't go
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Goldstar Member on Information
Opera attire for this performance ranged from jeans to evening wear.
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Kenyon on Information
Definitely try the street B4 paying at lot.
11 Goldstar Member Reviews
Kenyon
Red Velvet Member
Written on Aug 11 2012Enjoyed the pre-show talk - well at least the parts in English... Theatrical staging, lead singers were quite strong. Great venue.
Jenee Gossard
Written on May 31 2012Beautiful, exciting music, well played and sung. Odd staging.
Goldstar Member
Written on May 29 2012Ainadamar is a reflection on the death of Federico Garcia Lorca told through the eyes of Margarita Xirgu, a celebrated actress and personal friend of the poet and playwright who kept his works alive. The opera beautifully executed by Long Beach Opera singers and orchestra. The white sheet-over-stage with cutouts for actors to rise or descend below the stage was simple, uninspiring and kind of silly. Still, excellent delivery by actors and musicians.
Sonia Pawluczyk
Written on May 28 2012I saw this Opera the previous week, there were many details I wanted to see again therefore I decided not to miss the opportunity and see the performance the next week (it is not the first time I do this). The "mise en scene" was very different from traditional operas but was complimentary to the music. The singers were superb. Gregorio Luque gave a talk about Federico Garcia Lorca an read three poems in Spanish.
Marlene F. Mills
Red Velvet Member
Written on May 28 2012I don't always like modern opera, but I absolutely loved this one. As to the LBO, the singers and the orchestra were terrific. I am so glad I saw the offer on Goldstar as otherwise I wouldn't have known that it was being performed localy.
Goldstar Member
Written on May 21 2012superb performance, voices, sets, music, libretto and basic concept concerning Federico Garcia-Lorca
veronica
Written on May 21 2012horrible it was 90 minutes of torment
Goldstar Member
Written on May 21 2012Not to be missed! The music, orchestra and singers are marvelous. The lighting designer is a genius. This little opera company is able to do far more on a dime than LA Opera with its debauched mega-millions.
Goldstar Member
Written on May 21 2012I very much enjoyed the music and the singing, especially the Lorca role. But since it was about Lorca,I expected the libretto to be more poetic. I also found the staging to be dull.
Goldstar Member
Written on May 21 2012Very static. The voices were good but they used amplification and it was hard to know where the voices were coming from! This is a chamber opera and perhaps the venue was too large.
Skimeup
Red Velvet Member
Written on May 21 2012I am a huge fan of Long Beach Opera but at the reception afterwards, everyone seemed to feel that as good as LBO is, this was the best thing ever. A full lush orchestra, beautiful music, and great singing. More of a "music drama" than an opera.
More Information About Ainadamar
Website
http://www.longbeachopera.org/2012-season/ainadamar
Quotes & Highlights
- "Golijov's score is amazing, in its opening distant trumpet calls, its insinuating dance rhythms, its vital command of percussion and its arrestingly beautiful arias for women's voice. The end is a devastatingly lush trio ... " --Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times
Description
Ainadamar (arabic for "Fountain of Tears") tells the story of the Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca who was executed in 1936 during the Spanish Civil War. Lorca's life and deaths are told in flashbacks by actress Margarita Xirgu, for whom Lorca wrote some of his greatest female roles. Xirgu remembers him during the last moments of her own life, which ended in 1969. Ainadamar becomes a gripping reflection on the undying faith of a people, the moral duty of the artist and the relationship between artistic and political freedom. "I am freedom. I am wounded and bleeding hope," sings the dying Xirgu at the opera's cathartic close.
The opera runs 90 minutes without an intermission.
Sung in Spanish with English supertitles.
There is a pre-performance talk one hour before show time.