Editorial Mondigromax
Dànae recorda
Dànae recorda (Danae remembers)
Joan Magrané Figuera
Monodrama for soprano and violin
Music Joan Magrané
Libretto Helena Tornero
Year of composition 2020
Duration 20 mins.
Language Catalan
A production of Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació – ÒBNC, coproduction with Gran Teatre del Liceu
Online streamed premiere on November 15 to 22, 2020
Live premiere on September 28, 2022 at Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
With music by Joan Magrané, Helena Tornero writes the confession of a woman who returns to the cellar where she was kidnapped and abused by her father when she was a teenager. Inevitably, she must face the ghosts and memories from which she has always kept at bay.
This piece should have premièred at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in the autumn of 2020, but the restrictions imposed due to the pandemic meant that it could only be streamed. It is part of Sis Solos Soles, an Opera de Butxaca i Nova Creació (ÒBNC) project which unites six monodramas for female voice and instrumentalist into a single performance. It was commissioned from six different librettist-composer teams. While exploring the bowels of a theatre, the audience should discover, through a sort of intimate confession, the tales underlying the different voices which are trapped in their respective home environments.
Score Dànae recorda 32 pages. Editorial Mondigromax
Dànae recorda
July 22, 2023
Església de Santa Maria d’Àneu · Escalarre · la Guingueta d’Àneu, Pallars Sobirà, Catalonia
July 12 & 13, 2023
Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
GREC Festival de Barcelona
September 28, 2022
Live premiere
Ateneu Barcelonès, Barcelona
Artistic & production team
Music Joan Magrané
Libretto Helena Tornero
Soprano Elena Copons
Violin Judit Bardolet
Music director Francesc Prat
Stage director Marc Rosich
Stage design and lighting Laura Clos ‘Closca’
Costumes and make-up Núria Llunell
Assistant to the director Jordi Pérez Solé
Space assistant Sergi Corbera
Executive producer Clàudia Robert
Doctoral placement ÒBNC Daniel Blanco
ÒBNC communication Ester Cánovas
Administration Mònica Arús
ÒBNC directors Dietrich Grosse & Marc Rosich