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Magdalena
Author(s):
Frederick Hazlitt Brennan
Homer Curran
Musician/Composer(s):
Heitor Villa-lobos
Lyricist(s):
George Forrest
Robert Wright
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Composer/lyricists Robert Wright and George Forrest collaborated with the great Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos to create this “musical adventure” for Broadway. A lavish folk opera, “Magdalena” is set along the Magdalena River in Colombia, where emerald mining Indians labor for their faraway European masters. The conflict between Christianity and Indian folk religion is explored in intertwining stories of a young Indian couple and a populist uprising against the tyranny of the absentee mine owners. Reminiscent of such great “Broadway operas” as “Candide,” “Porgy And Bess” and “Street Scene,” “Magdalena” features challenging and beautiful solo and choral work for a cast of trained “legit” singers, in an enthralling epic that spans the globe from the cafés of Paris to the lush jungles of South America. Like “Kismet,” its soaring, classically-based score makes it an ideal show for opera companies, symphony orchestras (in concert presentation) or any group catering to an audience of classical music lovers.
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| Genre(s): | Drama
| | Time Period(s): | Not Available | | Play Type: | Musical | | Runtime: | Not Available | | Acts: | 2 | | Set Complexity: | Not Available | | Set Information: | Not Available | | Year First Published: | Not Available | | Total Characters: | 12 | | Male Characters: | 7 | | Female Characters: | 5 | | Androgynous Characters: | 0 | | Minimum Cast: | Not Available | | Maximum Cast: | Not Available | | Cost: | Not Available | | Publisher: | Music Theatre International
Click on the publisher's name above for additional information, including updated prices. | | ISBN: | Not Available |
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