Jun 07 Friday
Experience Raven Chacon’s visual compositions from the For Zitkála-Ša (2018) series through live performance. Marisa Demarco will perform a one-of-a-kind, in-gallery concert. This ticketed performance will include the score For Carmina Escobar, as well as her own work.
Raven Chacon created For Zitkála-Ša, a series of lithographs of musical arrangements dedicated to contemporary American Indian, First Nations, and Mestiza women working in music performance, composition, and sound art. Chacon envisioned the scores as portraits of the women and how they navigate the twenty-first century. The title of the series refers to the Yankton Dakota composer and musician Zitkála-Šá, who lived from 1876 to 1938.
Jun 09 Sunday
The operatic genre known as zarzuela originated in Spain during the Baroque period (1630-1750), underwent a renaissance in the Romantic Era (1850-1950), and made its way to the Americas, where individual, Spanish-speaking countries developed their own versions. Solo vocal music is accompanied by choral & orchestral settings that alternate with dialogue. Zarzuela also incorporates folk tales and dance into a most enjoyable art form that especially resonates with audiences here in New Mexico
Our Season Finale Operetta program features scenes from La Verbena de la Paloma, Luisa Fernanda, Marina, El Guitarrico, El Barbarillo de Lavapiés, Don Gil de Alcalá, La Taberna del Puerto, Diamantes de la Corona, El Trust de los Tenorios, La del Manojo de Rosas, Katiuska, La Dolorosa, and Cecilia Valdéz. Composers include Tomás Bretón, Federico Moreno de Torroba, Emilio Arrieta, Augustin Pérez Soriano, Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, Manuel Penella Moreno, Pablo Zorozábal, José Serrano Simeón, and Cuban composer Gonzalo Roig.