A very Mazatlan staging with international operatic revelations accompanied by top-level musicians from the Camerata Mazatlán and the voices of the Ángela Peralta Choir, the public experienced during the premiere of the opera The Marriage of Figaro, a hilarious show with a libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte and extraordinary music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Although it is a story that was published in 1786, a contemporary version was presented in Mazatlán under the stage direction of maestro Ragnar Conde and the musical direction of maestro Abdiel Vázquez. The story was set in a hotel in the port and the owners and their staff were the protagonists.
The modern version of a timeless story brought to the stage by Ragnar Conde and Abdiel Vázquez, makes it clear that there are young artists with the absolute capacity to interpret such technically demanding works in the vocal and stage sense, and accentuates the benefit of building art and culture from the organized civil society and institutions, from different uses and customs, so that the creative heritage of brilliant composers such as Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is known and recognized.
In this co-production between Vinceró Academy, Escenia Ensamble and the Instituto Municipal de Cultura, Turismo y Arte de Mazatlán, the orchestra has great prominence and its members take the audience’s praises for their great mastery of symphonic music; For the soloists, vocally it represented a permanent challenge since the texts and music advance at a dizzying pace.
The opera is full of recitatives with orchestral accompaniment, brilliant duets, some trios stand out, a quartet, a quintet, a sextet in the final part where Susanna, the Count, Marcellina (Rebecca de Almeida – mezzo-soprano – Brazil), Figaro, Bartolo take part (Juan Carlos Villalobos – Mexican baritone) and Don Curzio (Luis Cornejo – Mexican tenor) and even a septet wrapped with beautiful music.
The Marriage of Figaro builds the human emotional dimension, because man and woman are eminently emotional and tend to hide the emotional motivations of their actions through argumentative constructions.
Two couples stand out: Fígaro (Esteban Baltazar, Mexican bass-baritone) who demonstrated vocal and theatrical agility on stage to represent moments full of comedy, irony and sometimes anger and Susanna, his girlfriend (Emma Robertson – Marietta, Georgia, USA), who surprises with her flexibility and agility in every sentence and at the same time acts and becomes an astute, flirtatious and intelligent woman to resolve situations no matter how tangled they may seem.
The Count (Andrés Asencio, baritone – Peru), is a faithful reflection that you cannot have everything in life and through his voice he manages to embody a seductive man who tries to make Figaro’s girlfriend, the employee, fall in love. of the; and the Countess (Daniela Yurrita, soprano – Guatemala) who convinces her with her virtuosity and great expressive capacity as she goes through various states of mind due to the infidelities of her husband.
Figaro and Susanna want to get married and on the same day as her wedding Susanna informs Figaro that the Count is interested in meeting her.
The Count is a very insistent man with women, until he finds out that the young Cherubino (played by Rose Ferreiro – Mexican mezzo-soprano), a character who with the impetus of youth courts all the women in the hotel, including the Countess. Figaro makes an unpredictable plan because he wants to reveal the Count in front of his wife, so he organizes a chance meeting between the Count and Susanna, but in reality the one who appears is Cherubino dressed as a woman. This is just the beginning that leads the viewer to the discovery of the human emotional dimension.
All the characters have an absolute reason for being so that the Mozart effect on the viewer is recognized. Mozart and Lorenzo da Ponte show us the difficulties that couples go through to be able to truly establish themselves, but above all something even more complicated, the ability to forgive.
The Camerata Mazatlán, the Ángela Peralta Choir, Esteban Baltazar, Emma Robertson, Andrés Asencio, Daniela Yurrita, Rose Ferreiro, Hannah Hall (Barbarina), Rebecca de Almeida, Juan Carlos Villalobos, Rodolfo Ituarte (Antonio, the gardener) and Luis Cornejo are a sign of strength and discipline, that they are absolutely moving along the path to success at a very good pace.
The Marriage of Figaro with scenery and lighting by Pedro Pazarán and projections by Chava Banuva is presented again this Sunday, November 19th at 7:00 p.m. at the Ángela Peralta Theater. Tickets at the TAP box office, at 669 982 4446 ext. 103 or at the digital box office on WhatsApp 669 120 00 20.
