La Curandera - Comic Opera in One Act

Cinnabar is proud to partner with the National Endowment for the Arts, the Argosy Contemporary Music Foundation, Community Foundation Sonoma County, Sonoma County Arts Council and Target Stores to present the West Coast Premiere of La Curandera, Robert Xavier Rodriguez’ comic opera in one act. La Curandera is based on an original story inspired by Mozart’s three-character opera, Bastien and Bastienne. A new Mexican setting replaces Mozart’s sorcerer with a curandera, or practitioner of folk healing and magic.

Rodriguez employs authentic Mexican melodies throughout the opera, in a score filled with his characteristic "richly lyrical" (Musical America) writing, in a style "romantically dramatic" (Washington Post) and full of the composer's "all-encompassing sense of humor" (Los Angeles Times). More at: G. Schirmer, Inc. and Associated Music Publishers, Inc.

La Curandera will be available for touring in Spring 2007.

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