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The opera company La Lyra Hispana baroque dance, consisting of singers, instrumentalists and dancers from the Region of Murcia, presents this Friday at 20.30 in the Theatre Thuiller Caravaca de la Cruz the show "Dueling Divas".
Written and directed by Jesus Nieto, "Dueling Divas" is a comedy opera based on disputes in the eighteenth century remained in the theaters of London the two best-known prima donna moment, Faustina Bordoni and Francesca Cuzzoni.
Both artists had come to London to work under the orders of the great composer Georg Friedrich Handel operas.
As Handel operas he composed for the two divas, the rivalry between them was growing.
The result of this rivalry, in London created two opposing camps: when one of the divas sang, followers of the other whistle.
Things came to such an extent that at the end of 1727, and in the presence of the princes of Wales, the two sopranos ended up insulting and fighting scattered across the floor as the crowd cheered the dispute.
"Dueling Divas" is a show loosely based on these events that eventually led to the closure of the Haymarket Theatre in London and the end of the career of the two most famous singers of the moment.
The role will be the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni Ana Fernández Murcia and in the Ukrainian soprano Faustina Tatiana Bordon Melnychenko.
There will also be on stage three dancers who will perform dances choreographed by Eva time Narejos.
The trench will be occupied by an orchestra made up of Baroque period instruments, reliable copies of the instruments used at the time of Handel, directed by violinist Eduardo Fenoll.
The program consists of various musical and dance arias from operas by Georg Friederich Handel, among which will include some excerpts from the opera "Scipione" whose action takes place making the city of Carthago Nova (Cartagena) by the Romans, and whose major role was played at the time by the soprano Francesca Cuzzoni.
The staging includes masks, costumes, lighting and set design time.
Dueling Divas:
Script and direction: Jesus Nieto
Production: José Luis Sánchez
Choreography: Eva Narejos
Conductor: Eduardo Fenoll
Ana Fernandez-La Cuzzoni (soprano)
Tatiana Melnychenko - The Bordoni (soprano)
Vicente Arellana - Eco (actor and dancer)
Eva Raquel P. Barceló and Narejos - dancers
The Lyra Baroque Orchestra Hispanic: Ruben Eduardo Andreu-Fenoll and baroque violins, and Martin José Fdez Páez - baroque flutes, theorbo Ignacio Portillo, José L.Sánchez-viola da gamba, Joseph M.
Square-baroque cello, Anabel Sáez - harpsichord, M. Carmen Torrano - Bass.
Baldoví Virginia - Clothing
Hair and makeup - Begoña Iriarte
Company's technical-Fiorenza Ippolito.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Caravaca de la Cruz
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