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She worked on over forty plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Werner Herzog. In 1984, she began specializing in devising movement for scenic and visual arts. These years forged her interest in working with professionals from different backgrounds and creating dance that synthesizes art and everyday life.

In 1979, she joined the contemporary dance group Coringa in Rio de Janeiro. The inventive orchestration finds room for the improvisatory wail of an authentic flamenco singer, guitars and a heart-stopping passage of rhythmically layered gunshots.…this is an opera that deserves a place in the repertory-immediately.”ĭeborah Colker trained in classical piano and volleyball before dance. Arias of languid beauty are interrupted by exuberant outbursts of rhythm, orchestral color and violence. “The melodies shiver with erotic intervals and scales bittersweet half-steps weep with sun-drenched nostalgia and the soul of Spain.

The score is “destined to be among the great musical achievements of our time,” raves the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ainadamar (“Fountain of Tears”) tells the tragic story of legendary poet, playwright, and national icon Federico Garcia Lorca, assassinated by fascists during the Spanish Civil War. One of opera’s most original voices lets passion and poetry overflowįlamenco, rumba rhythms, and classical singing are woven together by one of today’s most exciting composers, Osvaldo Golijov.