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- Bulletin of the Comediantes
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- 1944-0928
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Abstract
The Santa Fe Opera's Life Is a Dream A. Robert Lauer University of Oklahoma On 24 July 2010, Lewis Spratlan's opera Life Is a Dream had its world premiere at the Santa Fe Opera in New Mexico. It is the fourth operatic work based on Pedro Calderón de la Barca's play in the past 104 years. As Luciano García Lorenzo indicates (335), in 1906, Cristòfor Taltabull staged in Figueras (Gerona) an operatic version of La vida es sueño. On 14 January 1943, at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Gian Francesco Malipiero debuted La vita è sogno. This work would be subsequently staged at the Breslau Opernhaus on 30 June 1943 (Maione 550). On 18-19 July 2003, Tomás Marco presented at the Corral de Comedias in Almagro Segismundo, «Opera de bolsillo» (García Lorenzo 335). Finally, between 1975 and 1978, Lewis Spratlan composed the music for Life Is a Dream, a three-act opera based on a libretto by James E. Maraniss. Originally, this work was meant to be presented at the New Haven Opera Theatre, but the company dissolved before that became a reality (Dyer 70-71). The second act of Spratlan's concert version of Life Is a Dream was
Journal
Bulletin of the Comediantes – Bulletin of the Comediantes
Published: Jan 5, 2011