Having conducted every significant orchestra in his Chilean homeland, Paolo has regular conducting relationships across Latin and North America, Europe and Asia. Paolo Bortolameolli is Music Director of the Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional Esperanza Azteca (México) and Principal Guest Conductor of Filarmónica de Santiago (Chile).

Her newest work, Cura, is currently touring Brazil. Deborah won the 2018 Prix Benois de la Danse for Cão Sem Plumas. She was the movement director of the 2016 Olympics Opening Ceremony, commanding over 3000 people. Deborah became the first woman to create and direct a show for Cirque du Soleil with Ovo (2009). The company won the 2001 Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance and has performed across four different continents. Deborah’s work resists homogeneity and embraces diversity. When founding the Companhia de Dança Deborah Colker in1994, she gathered a troupe of two classical dancers, three contemporary dancers, a break-dance champion, an Olympic gymnast, a model, and an actress. She worked on over forty plays including A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Werner Herzog. In 1984, she began specializing in devising movement for scenic and visual arts. These years forged her interest in working with professionals from different backgrounds and creating dance that synthesizes art and everyday life. In 1979, she joined the contemporary dance group Coringa in Rio de Janeiro. The inventive orchestration finds room for the improvisatory wail of an authentic flamenco singer, guitars and a heart-stopping passage of rhythmically layered gunshots.…this is an opera that deserves a place in the repertory-immediately.”ĭeborah Colker trained in classical piano and volleyball before dance. Arias of languid beauty are interrupted by exuberant outbursts of rhythm, orchestral color and violence. “The melodies shiver with erotic intervals and scales bittersweet half-steps weep with sun-drenched nostalgia and the soul of Spain. The score is “destined to be among the great musical achievements of our time,” raves the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Ainadamar (“Fountain of Tears”) tells the tragic story of legendary poet, playwright, and national icon Federico Garcia Lorca, assassinated by fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Two stellar casts include returning stars Angel Blue (Bess, Porgy and Bess), Ginger Costa-Jackson (Carmen, Carmen), Will Liverman (Figaro, The Barber of Seville), Ashraf Sewailam (Leporello, Don Giovanni), and Brandie Sutton (Clara, Porgy and Bess) and as well as many exciting Seattle Opera debuts.One of opera’s most original voices lets passion and poetry overflowįlamenco, rumba rhythms, and classical singing are woven together by one of today’s most exciting composers, Osvaldo Golijov.

“Saturated in uncompromising quality and creative detail,” ( DC Metro Weekly) the production fills the McCaw Hall stage with nearly 100 on-stage performers in a spectacular Parisian street scene. The “full-bore, traditional production” ( DC Metro Weekly) from Washington National Opera is new to Seattle Opera. Their camaraderie, conviction, and passions, masterfully conveyed by an iconic score, make La bohème easy to love-and impossible to forget. Puccini’s lush, romantic score-performed by a 60-piece orchestra-perfectly captures the simple joys and heartbreaking sorrows of the idealistic bohemians. A timeless story of love and loss. An audience favorite for over a century, this tale of four young Parisians who dedicate their lives to art and love is guaranteed to touch your heart.

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