Astor Pantaleón Piazzolla bandoneonist, pianist, director, and composer. www.piazzolla.org.A must for lovers of cinema, dance, argentinian culture and tango music. The 16th, 22th and 30th of September in the “Casa da America Latina", we will dive into the world of Astor Piazolla by projecting three different points of view of the life and work of this controversial artist of the 20th century.
PROGRAM
- 16 of 19:00 September - 21: 00hs - “Maria of Buenos Aires” Opera-Tango.
With the presence of the director Rudolf Werthen (Belgium 2006)
- 22 of 19:00 September - 21: 00hs - “SUR” Drama
- 30 of September 19:00 - 21: 00hs - “Tango Maestro, Astor Piazzolla” Doc.
FREE ADMISSION
The audio-visual material will be projected in “Casa da America Latina” Av. 24 of Julho, 118-B.
FILMES
María de Buenos Aires (Opera-Tango) | Reproduction by Rudolf Werthen (2006).
María de Buenos Aires is a tango opera (tango operita) with music by Astor Piazzolla.[1] and libretto by Horacio Ferrer[2] which premiered at the Sala Planeta in Buenos Aires in May 1968.The surreal plot centers on a prostitute in Buenos Aires, Argentina; the second half takes place after her death. The characters include María (and, after her death, the Shadow of María), a singer of payadas, various members of the Buenos Aires underworld, a poet narrator who is also a goblin-like duende, several marionettes under his control, and a circus of psychoanalysts. Several elements of the libretto suggest parallels between María and Mary, the mother of Jesus (in Spanish, María) or to Jesus himself.[1]
The music draws on the nuevo tango idiom for which Piazzolla is famous.[1] The original idea for the story was conceived by Piazzolla's then lover, Egle Martin (though she was already married to Eduardo "Lalo" Palacios). The title role was originally conceived for Martin, but while Piazzolla was still composing the operita, he and Martin broke up after he asked her husband for her hand at Christmas in 1967. According to Martin, Piazzolla said to Lalo, "She is music, she can't belong to anybody, no she is music, she is music, and that's me." After their rift a replacement was desperately needed, but Piazzolla soon met folksinger Amelita Baltar at the Buenos Aires nightclub "Nuestro Tiempo", formerly called "676" and once Piazzolla's home base in Argentina. Baltar's identification with the character Maria paired with her beauty and captivating stage presence made her ideal.
SUR
Floreal is released from the prison prior to the end of military coup d'état in 1983. He is estranged to his former life because of his last few years in prison and discovering that his wife cheated him he is not sure he wants to go back to his former life and family. Wandering through the night his former friend "El-Negro" appears in the dark. He was killed during the military coup. But this night he has a special mission: to help Floreal to catch up and face with the past, what has happened when he was serving time in prison. El-Negro helps him to live through the important events happened in his absence.
By the sunset, when El-Negro finally says he is ready now to go on with his life and he must be back now, Floreal realises that he must be strong and must continue his life where he left.
Docu of the Life and Work of Astor Piazzolla
With Astor Piazzolla
Fernando Suarez Paz , Pablo Ziegler, Hector Console, Oscar Lopez Ruiz
Horacio Malvicino, Daniel Piazzolla, Diana Piazzolla, Maria Susana Azzi
Yo-Yo Ma, Gary Burton, Fernando Solanas, Daniel Barenboim
Richard Galliano, David Harrington
Length : 1h : 46m : 20s