“Misa Azteca”, the first major event of the Festival Cultural Mazatlán 2023 reserves pleasant sound, visual and dance surprises with the participation of members of the CULTURA Folkloric Ballet.
Maestro Javier Arcadia, director and choreographer of the Ballet Folklorico, reported that there will be 14 dancers, including 10 maidens and four men, who will wear impressive outfits to represent the theme of the Aztec culture, something that from their perspective will be impressive from the moment they begin to dance.
“We are going to participate in the ‘opening’, we are going to make the ritual entry with some maidens and two priests, the priest will guide the maidens to the temple where the mass will be held. We want the theater room to simulate the pyramid where the mass is being said. We are going to use elements such as smoke, incense for the setting of the mass, but the guideline itself is the guide of the great priest,” said Arcadia.
At the opening of the program they will participate during the piece “Xochipilli”, composed by Carlos Chávez in 1940.
To immerse the public in the mysticism of the play, people who enter the theater lobby will be greeted with a pre-Hispanic setting where a shaman will be doing a cleansing, an act that will impact them.
Javier Arcadia invited the public to attend “Misa Azteca” with the performance of the Camerata Mazatlán, the Ángela Peralta Choir, the Ballet Folklorico de Cultura, and the soloists Eduardo Tapia (tenor), Wendy García (soprano) and Rosa Ferreiro (mezzo-soprano ), under the direction of maestro Gordon Campbell.
“We will be waiting for you, it will be something different, it is the first time that something like this is presented in Mazatlán, there are other operas but this one is by a Mexican-American composer, it has very beautiful pieces and a great production,” he stated.
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