The painter Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) is taken into account one of the dazzling inventive personalities of her time. Now her extraordinary life is informed as a dance spectacle on the Semperoper – by the Enrique Gasa Valga Dance Firm. On the premiere, the dancers had been thrilled, as had been the musicians and singer Greta Marcolongo – in line with the title of the present: “Viva la Vida” – “Lengthy Stay Life”. On the finish of the night, the viewers stood up from their seats within the corridor and cheered for your complete ensemble and its soloists.
Frida Kahlo – lady of immense power and resilience
Enrique Gasa Valga, who comes from Barcelona, labored on the Tiroler Landestheater in Innsbruck for a few years and based the dance firm named after him on the finish of 2023. In line with his personal admission, he has all the time been fascinated by the life and work of Frida Kahlo. “She was a lady of immense power and resilience who overcame quite a few challenges and adversities. “Your story is deeply human,” the choreographer is quoted in this system booklet. He wished to make the feelings and motifs that form Kahlo’s artwork seen and tangible by way of the medium of dance.
Music and singing dwell
Valga depicts Kahlo’s life in six scenes – from childhood and her severe accident to like and marriage with the painter Diego Rivera and her journey to Paris to her personal affairs, melancholy, her time in New York and the return to Mexico. She died there on July 13, 1954 on the age of simply 47. The truth that music and singing with many songs from Latin America are supplied dwell makes the efficiency a particular expertise and a murals.
The present is till July twenty sixth «Viva la Vida – A Tribute to Frida Kahlo” will be seen nearly each day on the Semperoper. Whereas the in-house ensemble is on theater trip, the piece is offered by the manufacturing firm Limelight Stay Leisure and Enrique Gasa Valga’s dance firm.
© dpa-infocom, dpa:260715-930-391286/1