Andrómeda encadenada
Agustí Charles

World premiere on October 28, 2021 at Palau de la Música Catalana-Petit Palau, Barcelona, on the occasion of the celebration of the AI ÒPERA IA days. Conference on new technological challenges and artificial intelligence in the field of contemporary opera production | October 27 & 28, 2021 organised by Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació (ÒBNC).

Andromeda in Ketten
October 21 & 22, 2022, at Staatstheater Darmstadt, Germany
within the programming of Spain as Guest Country of Honor of the Frankfurt Book Fair, the main book fair in Europe.

Andrómeda encadenada is based on the poem of the same name by the Basque writer Fátima Frutos, in which the author takes the old myth of the woman chained to the rocks and saved by Perseus and gives it a personal, contemporary, and, above all, feminist reading.

The libretto, by Marc Rosich, turns the poet’s verses into dramatic material, transforming them into a sung monologue that also includes other texts taken from various poems by the author, as well as quotations from classical poets, such as Lope or Calderón, dedicated to the mythological character.

The resulting piece presents us with a woman in crisis after a breakup, but who, while taking refuge in the reading of the classics, and especially in the reinterpretation of the myth of Andromeda, ends up finding a way to break the bonds of sentimental dependence and thus reach self-affirmation as an autonomous being.

The staging of Jordi Pérez Solé underlines the shattered world of the protagonist, from which she embarks on her journey, coming to learn to free herself from the chains that do not let her be herself.

Score Andrómeda encadenada. 173 pages.
Editorial Mondigromax