The Cultural Festival of Mazatlan 2014 is getting ready to live a historic event: The world premiere of the opera, “The Dove and Nightingale, the last days of Angela Peralta” inspired by the life of the ultimate artistic myth of the city: the singer Angela Peralta. Nov. 14 and 15, Angela Peralta Theater.Tickets: $500, $450, $350, $200 available at the Ángela Peralta box office
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The architects of this opera project “La Paloma y el Ruiseñor” (the dove and the nightingale), were gathered at a press conference in the Casa Haas Museum which, after eight years of waiting, will have its world premiere on Friday, November 14th at the Teatro Angela Peralta, highlighted by the tremendous value of having a production planned from its genesis to show the character, history and talent Mazatlan.
Raúl Rico, who also serves as producer of this opera, recounted how when he first met Roger Bourland, a professor of Music at UCLA, was astonished by the tragic story of Angela Peralta, but above all, to the fact that until now, no one had the idea of making it an Opera.
After five years of work, Bourland, in the company of Librettist Mitchell Morris and Music Director Scott Dunn, produced a tale and a musical piece based on rigorous investigation, but also, a world of fiction that gave a sublime and poetic explanation to the death of the diva after her arrival in Mazatlán, and the strange loving bond that bound her to her lover and representative Julián Montiel Duarte.
The result: an opera in two acts, each about 65 minutes, where in the first act, the ocean crossing of Peralta and her company to Mazatlan is narrated. A journey which from the beginning