Òpera Popularde Barcelona
Federico García Lorca · Enrique Granados · A production by Jaume Villanueva
Lorca’s elegy becomes an experience of flamenco, dance, song and live music.
Words, song and movement build a ceremony in which beauty coexists with loss. Enrique Granados’s music meets coplas and flamenco forms as a weary bullfighter leads a young tavern boy towards a tragic destiny.
Stage world
An intimate, hand-crafted production in which Lorca moves through body, music and silence.
The production at a glance
One singer, two dancers and a piano create the performance with immediate theatrical truth.
A church, a bullring, a tavern and moonlit pasture evoke the bullfighting landscape of the early twentieth century.
More than one hundred performances, two Barcelona seasons and appearances at Madrid’s Teatro Español.
Gallery
Watch the Llanto por Ignacio Sánchez Mejías video on YouTube ↗
Artistic and touring profile
Juana García ‘La Gitana Catalana’, Nacho Blanco, Frederic Gómez and Rafael Plana.
Four performers: flamenco singer, two dancers and piano with percussion.
Highly flexible for different spaces; the rider describes the optimum, not the minimum.
6 m proscenium opening × 5 m depth.
A baby grand piano is preferred; upright is also possible.
8–10 channels from stage to control and 4 return channels.
Touring formats
Ask Joan Romaní, Head of touring and bookings, about formats, availability and booking terms.