THE SEA OF DESIRES
The Sea of Desires is a series of concert-programs honouring the book by Mexican linguist and musicologist Antonio Garcia de León. The goal is to create my own “baroque-folk opera”, by using the technique known as Pasticcio: the baroque costume of appropriating other composers pieces and arranging them into a whole new piece with original libretto and plot. An inspiration for this was Bach’s librettist Christian Friedrich Henrici “Picander”, who suited Bach’s old pieces with different lyrics into big compilations such as the Christmas Oratorio or the Matthew Passion. Also from partimento-masters like Elam Rotem, who I heard performing a self-arranged oratorio in early baroque stile in the Utrecht Early Music Festival in 2023.
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THE TEMPEST
The first part was my first trial of a fully theatrical program, and it is conceived as a baroque “anti-passion”.
On a desert island, lost in the Caribbean, Faustino, a ghost-pirate, howls the story of his own death. Lured into the sea by his greed for the gold of Moctezuma, he is drowned in the tempest and turned into pieces by an ancient god of the new world.
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CANTACLARO
In the second part, the original tragedy develops into a more uplifting collage, this time, mixing Monteverdi arias with the most baroque of all Fandango traditions: the Son Huasteco. Between Italian and French baroque trio Sonatas, “Faustino”, the ghost-pirate, turns into a sort of Orpheus and goes into the underworld to confront the devil (personified by dancer Diana Guzmán) in a heel-work duel.
