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[Welsh National Opera/Opera Ventures]
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Ainadamar
Welsh National Opera, Cardiff
WELSH National Opera has served up a stunning opera telling the life and assassination of Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca in its premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar.
Ainadamar is a tour de force by director Deborah Colker, with a moving and inspiring combination of song, dance, poetry, onstage projections and beautiful music.
Lorca was murdered in 1936 by fascist nationalists in the early stages of the Spanish civil war in Grenada at Ainadamar — the fountain of tears.
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