Ainadamar functions on two levels: as a defiant dance against fascist totalitarianism and as an exaltation of the diva.
Ainadamar never quite found its identity between the two poles of conceptual and concrete.
Director of the Met and ENO Madama Butterfly (and librettist of the Met’s Osvaldo Golijovcommission) is dead at 54. Further details are not available at this time.
Tell us: Filth or dementia?
Hasten thee to feed another quarter of conversation for The Talk of the Town!
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