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Opera Colorado’s new production of Donizetti’s “The Daughter of the Regiment” offers audiences a contemporary perspective on the classic 1840 comedy, featuring RuPaul’s Drag Race winner Monét X Change in a traditionally non-singing role that has been reimagined for her operatic background.
Stage Director Chía Patiño has inverted the opera’s typical portrayal of how a military regiment influences its adopted daughter, instead exploring how the presence of a young woman transforms the soldiers around her.
“I think in general they tend to stage her as therefore a very manly woman,” Patiño explained. “I decided to turn around and to see what happened if, as every father, the tenderness comes out in every father when they have a daughter …. There is a softer part in every man’s heart that comes out when they’re dealing specifically with daughters.”
Daughter of the Regiment marches onto the stage with wit, charm, and a whole lot of heart. Preview audiences are calling it “hilarious” and “delightful.”
Don’t miss it November 9-17 at the Ellie Caulkins Opera House!
Daughter of the Regiment Takes the Stage Next Week
Happy Halloween from your friends at Opera Colorado! While trick-or-treating and scary movies are fun, we’re looking forward to something else, Daughter of the Regiment! Our fall opera opens in just over a week on November 9. Take a look at some moments from rehearsals, then keep reading to learn more about Colorado Gives Day and some community events we’re excited for.
See the complete News Letter from The Opera Colorado VOICE
Chía Patiño to Join the Department of Voice & Opera
The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance announces that Chía Patiño will join the Department of Voice & Opera as an assistant professor in the fall of 2024. She brings extensive directing experience, having worked with opera companies in the US, Spain, Ecuador, Colombia, Guatemala, Chile, México, Brazil, Nicaragua, United Arab Emirates, and Egypt.
OPERA America's 2024 Opera Grants for Women Stage Directors and Conductors
The grant opens doors for women artists by incentivizing professional opera companies of all sizes to engage women in key artistic roles.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Florencia en el Amazonas NI – 24. März 2022
Review by Klaus Billand
(…) Amazonisch-musikalischer Farbenreichtum à la Puccini und Debussy.
Eine Premiere der ganz besonderen Art! Die Ópera de Tenerife in der Hauptstadt Santa Cruz führte in einer Produktion des Auditorio de Tenerifezum ersten Mal eine lateinamerikanische Oper auf. Und es wurde gleich eine spanische Erstaufführung! „Florencia en el Amazonas“ des Mexikaners Daniel Catán wurde in Europa bisher nur in Deutschland und der Schweiz aufgeführt, während das Werk in der westlichen Hemisphäre schon über viele Bühnen gewandert ist.
Nach dieser Premiere der Catán-Oper mit dem Libretto von Marcela Fuentes-Berain, die aus dem magischen Realismus von Gabriel García Márquez in seinem Roman „Die Liebe in den Zeiten der Cholera“ schöpfte, fällt es einem schwer zu verstehen, warum das Werk erst nun in Spanien zu erleben ist, und dazu noch auf den vom Festland weit entfernten Kanarischen Inseln, die dem Amazonas aber immerhin etwas näher sind. Aber bis auf zwei Länder also war es bisher noch unbekannt in Europa!
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Dreaming/Undreaming: Creating an Interdisciplinary Event
Premiered on June 2, 2021 at 7:00 pm EDT
This new work creates a unique visual and musical experience, an art-music video where we travel between worlds of persuasive dreams and deceptive realities in our universe. A piano recital progresses seamlessly between original compositions created specifically for this project in conversation with the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, the master of polyphony. Dreaming/Undreaming establishes a conversation between the piano recital and a series of original videos.
Flauta Magica de los Andes (The Magic Flute of the Andes)
Act 1, Queen of the Night
La Flauta Mágica de los Andes (The Magic Flute of the Andes), is an adaptation of Mozart’s complete opera by the Teatro Nacional Sucre of Ecuador, Chia Patiño artistic and stage director; with a transcription for the Orquesta de Instrumentos Andinos from a concept by Segundo Cóndor, realized by Carmen-Helena Téllez, in collaboration with Tadashi Maeda and Leonardo Cárdenas.The translation to Spanish and Kichua is by Chia Patiño, with puppets by Alejandra Prieto and costumes by Felype de Lima.
Patiño and Téllez reconsidered the art of transcription (practiced by Mozart himself) as a tool to invite new audiences to opera, and to prove Mozart’s power to speak in different “translations” across time and cultures. Patiño’s Spanish and Kichua version encountered surprising parallelisms between Schikaneder’s original libretto and traditional Andean legends. The version for Andean instruments proved very suitable for young voices.
Opera Talk: A Lesson on Love, Loss, and Letting Go
Seattle Opera
Conversation featuring stage director Chía Patiño, choreographer Donald Byrd, and conductor Stephen Stubbs to hear more about their creative vision behind our upcoming production of Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice. The inspiration for the earliest operas, as well as numerous retellings in each new generation, the ancient myth of Orpheus and Eurydice is a reflection on music’s power to express love and sorrow. It is a story that reflects our own time as we come to terms with our collective grief and, like Orpheus, grapple with the pain of letting go.
Moderator: Jonathan Dean, Dramaturg
Panelists:
Chía Patiño, Director
Donald Byrd, Choreographer
Stephen Stubbs, Conductor
WILD SWANS by Chía Patiño
“Alexandria Symphony’s Concertmaster Claudia Chudacoff will record Chia Patino’s mournful Wild Swans with string quartet. This will be the first known recording of this piece. The Ecuadorian composer was inspired by poetry, expressing a range of emotion and speaking to those in isolation.”
Claudia Chudacoff and Jane Stewart, violins
Eric deWaardt, viola and Schuyler Slack, cello
Alan Wonneberger, recording
W.A. Mozart: Requiem, Offertorium-Domine Jesu Christe
Carmen-Helena Téllez
This concept by Carmen-Helena Téllez intends to reveal in a ritualized fashion the theological and cultural contents embedded in Mozart’s Requiem, addressed specifically to the Latin American experience. It was realized by stage director Chia Patiño, Executive and Artistic Director of the Teatro Nacional Sucre, with visuals by David Guzmán and Daniel Calderón. The production included readings between the movements of verses from the Purgatorio and Paradiso of Dante’s Divine Comedy.
Mozart Requiem: Confutatis and Lacrimosa
Live interdisciplinary performance, Teatro Nacional Sucre, Quito, March 23, 2018, Carmen-Helena Téllez, music director.
The segment is part of a performance of Mozart/Süssmayr’s complete Requiem in an interdisciplinary concept by Carmen-Helena Téllez with realization by stage director Chía Patiño, and video images by David Guzmán and Daniel Montalvo. The concept reveals Mozart ‘s Requiem as a repository of cultural and theological messages, including Catholic teachings about the soul’s travel after death, the teachings of Dante in his Divine Comedy, and images of Latin American experience, projected in the paintings from the churches of Quito, and the ensemble’s own representations of socio-political events.
Musical Los Miserables - Dirección Escénica
Propuesta escénica latinoamericana del Musical Los Miserables a cargo de Chía Patiño.
Latin American scenic proposal of the Musical Les Miserables by Chía Patiño.
Suite Española: Explorando Iberia
Houston Grand Opera presents the digital premiere of Suite Española: Explorando Iberia, created by HGO Artistic Advisor Ana María Martínez, one of the greatest sopranos in the world. The concert will celebrate the music of Spain, including the art form known as zarzuela, or Spanish musical theater, by featuring a collage of selections from the repertoire’s most beautiful pieces.
Martínez will be joined by pianist Kevin J. Miller, guitarist Jeremy Garcia, and percussionist Richard Brown; flamenco dancers Manuel Gutierrez Cabello and Ana María Barceló; and two HGO Studio artists, tenor Ricardo Garcia and baritone Blake Denson. Cuban artist Irma La Paloma serves as choreographer, and Ecuadorian composer Chia Patiño, stage director for the University of Texas Butler Opera Center, directs.
Puccini's Tosca - Northern Lights Music Festival
Melodrama in 3 Acts – Libretto by Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illica
Premiere in Teatro Costanzi, Rome: January 14,1900 After the drama by Victor Sardou
Time: The Present in a Mexican City
Conductor Gavriel Heine
Director Chia Patino