Beaumarchais
Beaumarchais is the result of a partnership between mala voadora with the composer, conductor and musicologist Pedro Amaral. It is an opera inspired by three texts of Beaumarchais – The Barber of Seville, The Marriage of Figaro and The Guilty Mother – which already have been, all of them, adapted for opera in the past. The three new versions will be live recorded in a studio mounted on the stage of Dona Maria (National Theatre). There will be the proper soundproofed recording cabin, microphones, mixing tables, monitors, all the infrastructure, catering, technicians, cleaning crew, staff, public relations, everything. There will be true workers – elements of the working class who, fulfilling their political and social vocation, will claim for their rights, fight, make revolutions, lynch their oppressors. This show could be called Revolutionary Riots in the Deutsche Grammophon, or Class Struggles at Decca (this one is less glamorous). Beaumarchais would like it.
Ficha
stage direction Jorge Andrade. musical composition Pedro Amaral . music Orquestra Gulbenkian . with (actors) Anabela Almeida, Bruno Huca, Isabél Zuaa, Jorge Andrade, Marco Paiva e Tânia Alves (singers 1st Cast) André Henriques, Carolina Figueiredo, Eduarda Melo, Joana Seara, Luís Rodrigues, Manuel Rebelo, Marco Alves dos Santos, Pedro Cachado (singers 2nd Cast) Filipa Passos, José Bruto da Costa, Lucinda Gerhardt, Manuel Gamito, Pedro Casanova, Sara Afonso, Tiago Gomes . pianist Joana Gama . scenography and costumes José Capela . light design Daniel Worm d'Assumpção . stage photography José Carlos Duarte . promotional image António MV . promotional video Jorge Jácome e Marta Simões . production direction Joana Costa Santos . support to production and communication Jonathan da Costa . cultural management and programming Vânia Rodrigues . co-production Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, mala voadora . mala voadora is an organization funded by the Portuguese Government – Ministry of Culture/Directorate-General for the Arts and is associated with O Espaço do Tempo and Associação Zé dos Bois.
Program
22 June - 2 July 2017 . show Beaumarchais by mala voadora + Pedro Amaral . Teatro Nacional D. Maria II, Lisboa