FULL El dúo de La Africana (Caballero) Huelva 2024 Marta Capilla, Eduardo Torné, Javier Moreno, Narciso Perera
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: El dúo de La Africana
- Composer: Caballero Manuel Fernández
- Libretto: Miguel Echegaray Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Huelva, Spain, Conservatory of Music of Huelva "Javier Perianes"
- Recorded: May 21, 2024.
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Marta Capilla, Eduardo Torné, Javier Moreno, Narciso Perera, Susana Cabeza, José Manuel Carcela, Carmen Dolores Antúnez, Alejandro López
- Conductor: Alonso Monreal
- Orchestra: Orquesta del CPM Javier Perianes de Huelva
- Chorus: Coro del CPM Javier Perianes de Huelva
- Chorus Master: Narciso Perera
- Stage Director: Teresa Ollero
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Published by: Conservatorio Profesional de Música de Huelva
- Date Published: 2024
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
El dúo de La africana is a zarzuela in one act, divided into three scenes, with music by Manuel Fernández Caballero and libretto by Miguel Echegaray . It premiered with great success at the Teatro Apolo in Madrid, on May 13, 1893.
A humble opera company is preparing to sing L’Africaine ( The African ) by Giacomo Meyerbeer . The dastardly impresario Querubini’s motto is to save as much as possible and not pay anyone.
The tenor, a young man from a good family who has run away from home, is madly in love with the soprano, Antonelli, “a graceful and rich Andalusian woman who spills salt” and is Querubini’s wife. This flirtation arouses the jealousy of the impresario and his daughter who falls head over heels for the young tenor.
Giuseppini, the tenor, takes advantage of the rehearsals to embrace Antonelli, unleashing Querubini’s wrath when he shamelessly does so in the middle of the performance, which is interrupted by the impresario who is on the verge of burning with rage. Thanks to the intervention of the authority everything returns to normal, but a second interruption, that of the young tenor’s mother, who has been looking for him all over Spain, makes everything fall apart.