The Pan-American Symphony Orchestra (PASO) presented "María de Buenos Aires", a tango opera with music by Astor Piazzolla and lyrics by Horacio Ferrer, which premiered at the Sala Planeta in Buenos Aires on May 8, 1968. This beautiful piece will be performed by a cast of Argentines: Mariana Quinteros as María; Martín de Leon as the Sparrow with a Dream and the Payador, and Hugo Medrano as the Duende. On bandoneon, Rodolfo Zanetti.
 
About "Maria de Buenos Aires".
"Maria de Buenos Aires" is a charmingly seductive and surrealistic tango-opera. Maria was born in the suburbs of Buenos Aires, Argentina, "on a day when God was drunk...with a curse in his voice." Maria passionately seeks her freedom. After rejecting the innocence of love, she is seduced by the streets and swept into the underworld of Buenos Aires. She is a virgin and a prostitute; she sleepwalks through violence, her own burial, dreamlike confessions to psychoanalysts, and her own resurrection, until she finally gives birth to a new version of herself.
 
When
Saturday, September 16, 2017
At 8:00 PM
 
Where
Lisner Auditorium
George Washington University 
730 21st Street, NW.
Washington, DC
 
 
This show is supported by the DC Commission on the Arts and the Humanities, and sponsored by the Argentine Embassy in Washington, DC.