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The Indian Queen

Henry Purcell died in 1695, while he was composing his last opera « The Indian Queen ». His brother Daniel completed hastely and with poor inspiration the rich, visionnary and transcendental score of the great British composer. Some centuries later, Peter Sellars has imagined a fresh and original new version of  Purcell’s last master piece, including some of  Purcell’s most inspired songs, with  a new libretto adapted from « La niña blanca y los pajaros sin pies » (The white maid and the feetless birds) from Nicaraguan novelist Rosario  Aguilar. The original libretto by John Dryden was supposed to be situated at the courts of  Lima and Mexico before the Spanish invasion, developping how an impossible love story between  the Queen of the Aztecs and the general of the Yncas will provoque an imaginary conflict between Yncas and Aztecs.

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© Javier del Real