Elena Villalón
8 pieces since 2019 — in 4 roles, at 5 companies, most often at Metropolitan Opera.
8
pieces
4
roles
5
companies
8
years
Role Amore
Role Gilda
Jester to me
Rigoletto at The Santa Fe Opera is a near miss.
Role Glauce
The scorned mother of us all
Seeing Sondra Radvanovsky as Medea at Lyric Opera of Chicago sprawled across the floor, soaked in her children’s blood, is proof that we’re witnessing an utterly haunting singer-actor.
Role Nuria
Actress of protest
Ainadamar functions on two levels: as a defiant dance against fascist totalitarianism and as an exaltation of the diva.
Spain and neutered
Ainadamar never quite found its identity between the two poles of conceptual and concrete.