Chicago audiences will be seeing more of Golijov in the near future, when he becomes composer-in-residence of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra next season alongside British composer Marc-Anthony Turnage.
Ainadamar ("The Fountain of Tears") was commissioned for the 2003 Tanglewood Festival and depicts the final days of Spanish playwright and poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Golijov's El Niê±o was performed at the 2002 Ravinia Festival by Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.
The production will include Bernstein’s incidental music for Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of The Lark, and Menotti’s The Unicorn, The Gorgon, and The Manticore.
Lileana Blain-Cruz's production of John Adams' opera-oratorio opened April 23.
Composer John Adams and theatre director Lileana Blain-Cruz retells the story of the Nativity, through the lens of Latin America.
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Lileana Blain-Cruz directs the new production, opening April 23.
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