Editorial Mondigromax
Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina
Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina
Dialogues of Tirant and Carmesina
Joan Magrané
Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina
Chamber opera in 4 parts
Composition: Joan Magrané
Libretto: Marc Rosich, on Joanot Martorell’s Tirant lo Blanc (1490)
Voices: soprano, mezzo-soprano, baritone
Year of composition: 2019
Duration: 80 min.
Language: Catalan
Commission: Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació
Coproduction: Òpera de Butxaca i Nova Creació, Gran Teatre del Liceu Barcelona and Castell de Peralada Festival
World premiere: July 18, 2019 at Claustre del Carme, Castell de Peralada International Music Festival (Girona).
Framed as a battle of love, and death, inspired by Joanot Martorell’s timeless chivalric novel, these dialogues are a continuous, amorous, and romantic coming and going between Carmesina and Tirant, a game of variations on themes of love and heartbreak, between desire and convention, taken from an ironic perspective.
As a counterpoint, there are two antagonistic feminine characters: on the positive side, the mediation of Plaerdemavida; and on the negative, the scheming betrayals of the Viuda Reposada (Resting widow). At the same time, artist Jaume Plensa transforms the space into a luminous installation of neon, which, like a metronome, beats the inexorable passing of time exemplified by romantic zeal.
Score Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina. 254 pags.
Editorial Mondigromax
Diàlegs de Tirant e Carmesina
November 23 to 27, 2022 (4 performances)
Season premiere at the Teatro Real
Sala Verde, Teatros del Canal, Madrid
February 13, 14, 15, 2020
Foyer, Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona
July, 18 2019
World premiere
Claustre del Carme, Castell de Peralada International Music Festival
Cast in Madrid
Tirant | Josep-Ramon Olivé | Baritone
Carmesina | Isabella Gaudí | Soprano
Resting widow / Plaerdemavida| Ana Brull | Mezzosoprano
Soloists of the Principal Orchestra of Teatro Real
Cast in Barcelona and Peralada
Tirant | Josep-Ramon Olivé | Baritone
Carmesina | Isabella Gaudí | Soprano
Resting widow / Plaerdemavida| Anna Alàs i Jové | Mezzosoprano
Instrumental Group
Artistic team
Musical Conductor | Francesc Prat
Stage Director | Marc Rosich
Stage Designer| Jaume Plensa
Costume Designer | Joana Martí
Lighting Designer| Sylvia Kuchinow
Choreographer | Roberto G. Alonso
Instrumental Group
Flute
Frederic Sanchez
Harp
Esther Pinyol
Violin
Joel Bardolet
Violin 2
Antonio Viñuales
Viola
Adam Newman
Cello
David Egger
Press quotes
Opera like poison… Joan Magrané proposes a chamber opera where his universe captivates and narcotizes the viewer…
…we live a kind of new golden age of Catalan composers. La Vanguardia, Jordi Maddaleno
Magrané has been able to recreate the richness and variety of the original novel… ABC, Pep Gorgori
