Opera Southwest
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Opera Southwest is an American professional opera company based in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Founded in 1972, it has presented many world premieres of new operas in addition to the standard repertoire.
The National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, 2010
Zarzuela
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Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain
Opera Southwest
…operatic repertoire, the company has regularly presented both new and relatively rarely performed works. These include: Bononcini's Polifemo (1982), a zarzuela double bill of Ruperto Chapí's La revoltosa and Tomás Bretón's La verbena de la Paloma (1993), revivals of Henry Mollicone's The Starbird and The Face…
Poster of Doña Francisquita