List of Mexican operas

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The Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City where several operas by Mexican composers had their world premieres

This is a list of operas by Mexican composers.[1] Many, but not all, of them premiered in Mexico. Amongst the operas which had their first performances abroad are Melesio Morales' Ildegonda (Italy, 1868), Daniel Catán's Florencia en el Amazonas (USA, 1996), and Julio Estrada's Murmullos del páramo (Spain, 2006).

Rolando Villazón in the L'elisir d'amore in Vienna 2007.

Many of the operas listed have librettos in Spanish, the official language of Mexico. However, the practice of using French or Italian librettos was common in 19th and early 20th century Mexico when much of the opera in that country was performed by visiting troupes largely composed of European singers unaccustomed to singing in Spanish. Both Gustavo Campa's Le roi poete and Ricardo Castro Herrera's La légende de Rudel had French librettos,[2] while Catalina de Guisa by Cenobio Paniagua and several other notable operas of this period had Italian librettos.[3] Although the vast majority of later Mexican operas have Spanish librettos, there have been 20th century works set to English texts, most notably The visitors by Carlos Chávez with a libretto by the American poet Chester Kallman.

The first opera by a Mexican-born composer was Manuel de Zumaya's La Parténope, performed in 1711 before a private audience in the Viceroy's Palace in Mexico City.[4] However, the first Mexican composer to have his operas publicly staged was Manuel Arenzana, the maestro de capilla at Puebla Cathedral from 1792 to 1821.[5] He is known to have written at least two works performed during the 1805/1806 season at the Teatro Coliseo in Mexico City — El extrangero and Los dos ribales en amore. Both were short comic pieces.[6] The first Mexican opera seria was Paniagua's Catalina de Guisa (composed in 1845 and premiered in 1859).

A statue in Mexico City to Plácido Domingo as a recognition to his contributions to 1985 Mexico City earthquake victims and his artistic works

With its story about the Huguenots in France and an Italian libretto by Felice Romani, contemporary critics noted that the only thing Mexican about it was the composer.[7][8] Although the traditions of European opera and especially Italian opera had initially dominated the Mexican music conservatories and strongly influenced native opera composers (in both style and subject matter), elements of Mexican nationalism had already appeared by the latter part of the 19th century with operas such as Aniceto Ortega del Villar's 1871 Guatimotzin, a romanticised account of the defense of Mexico by its last Aztec ruler, Cuauhtémoc. Later works such as Miguel Bernal Jiménez's 1941 Tata Vasco (based on the life of Vasco de Quiroga, the first bishop of Michoacán) incorporated native melodies into the score.[7]

List

Cenobio Paniagua, the composer of the first Mexican opera seria

18th century

19th century

20th century

The Teatro Juárez in Guanajuato, where the final version Chávez's The visitors premiered in 1999

21st century

  • Briago crucificado
  • Historia de cabeza
  • Ni una gota de conciencia

See also

Notes and references

  1. ↑ The list also includes the operatic subgenre of zarzuela, but rock operas
  2. ↑ The French libretto of La légende de Rudel was translated into Italian for its first performance
  3. ↑ Standish, Peter, A Companion to Mexican Studies, Boydell & Brewer Ltd, 2006, pp. 69-70. ISBN 1-85566-134-9
  4. 1 2 Russell, Craig H. "Zumaya [Sumaya], Manuel de". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  5. ↑ Tiemastra, Suzanne Spicer, The choral music of Latin America: a guide to compositions and research, Greenwood Publishing Group, 1992, p. 8. ISBN 0-313-28208-0
  6. 1 2 3 Catalyne, Alice Ray. "Arenzana, Manuel". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  7. 1 2 Grout, Donald Jay and Williams, Hermine Weigel, A short history of opera, Columbia University Press, 2003, p. 561. ISBN 0-231-11958-5
  8. ↑ Bethell, Leslie, The Cambridge History of Latin America, Volume 4, Cambridge University Press, 1984, p. 469. ISBN 0-521-23225-2
  9. 1 2 Stevenson, Robert Murrell, Music in Mexico: A Historical Survey, Crowell, 1952, p. 195
  10. 1 2 Orrego-Salas, Juan. "Paniagua y Vasques, Cenobio". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  11. ↑ Stevenson, Robert. "Morales, Melesio". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  12. ↑ Stevenson, Robert. "Ortega del Villar, Aniceto". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  13. 1 2 Benjamin, Gerald R. "Castro Herrera, Ricardo". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  14. ↑ Stevenson, Robert. "Campa, Gustavo E(milio)". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  15. ↑ Stevenson, Robert. "Bernal Jiménez, Miguel". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  16. ↑ Miranda-Pérez, Riccardo. "Moncayo (García), José Pablo". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  17. ↑ Conservatorio Superior de Música de Badajo, Programme Notes: Concierto de piano: Música mexicana, 8 May 2009, p. 18 (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  18. ↑ Vela, Sergio, The Visitors: ópera de Carlos Chávez, paradigma de la modernidad mexicana, Perspectiva interdisciplinaria de música, Vol. I, N. 1, September 2006, pp. 66 - 72 (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  19. ↑ Sosa, José Octavio, Dos siglos de ópera en México, Volume 2, Secretaría de Educación Pública, 1988, p. 247. ISBN 968-29-2224-0
  20. ↑ Central Opera Service, Central Opera Service Bulletin: Directory of Contemporary Operas, Vol. 30, Nos. 2-4, 1990 p. 163 (accessed 25 March 2010)
  21. ↑ operacalli.com, Leoncio y Lena (sourced from José Octavio Sosa, Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005)(in Spanish, accessed 26 March 2010)
  22. ↑ Miranda-Pérez, Riccardo. "Jiménez Mabarak, Carlos". In Macy, Laura. Grove Music Online. Oxford Music Online. Oxford University Press. (subscription required)
  23. ↑ Yolanda Moreno Rivas. La composición en México en el siglo XX. Secretaria de Educacion Publica (1994), p. 175. ISBN 968-29-6163-7.
  24. ↑ Aguilar, Ananay, "La circularidad en Aura, la ópera de Mario Lavista", Cuadernos de música, artes visuales y artes escénicas, Vol.1, No.2, December 2006 (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  25. ↑ operacalli.com, Ambrosio o La fábula del mal amor (sourced from José Octavio Sosa, Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005) (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  26. ↑ Turegano, Preston,"Cultivating Opera: New work came to company's attention at just the right time", San Diego Union - Tribune, 28 February 1994 (accessed 25 March 2010, subscription required)
  27. ↑ operacalli.com, La sunamita (sourced from José Octavio Sosa, Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005) (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  28. ↑ operacalli.com, Madre Juana (sourced from José Octavio Sosa, Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005) (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  29. ↑ Works: Hilda Paredes, official web site of the composer (accessed 26 March 2010)
  30. ↑ Bonilla, Roberto García Visiones sonoras: entrevistas con compositores, solistas y directores, Siglo XXI, 2001. p. 158. ISBN 968-23-2388-6
  31. ↑ Vanguardia, "Ópera mexicana vuelve a Bellas artes", 7 July 2009 (in Spanish, accessed 26 March 2010)
  32. ↑ Tommasini, Anthony, "In Houston, a Premiere Of a Mexican's Work", New York Times, 29 October 1996 (accessed 25 March 2010)
  33. ↑ operacalli.com, La tentación de San Antonio (sourced from José Octavio Sosa, Diccionario de la Ópera Mexicana, Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes, 2005) (in Spanish, accessed 26 March 2010)
  34. ↑ Historial de la Ópera de Hemoficción “De Cachetito Raspado”, official web site of the composer (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  35. ↑ "Videos"
  36. ↑ Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, "Murmullos del páramo, ópera de Julio Estrada", 6 September 2006 (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)
  37. ↑ Notimex, Estrenará Federico Ibarra su octava ópera "El juego de los insectos", 6 July 2009 (in Spanish, accessed 25 March 2010)

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