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Love and Other Demons is a story of forbidden love set in the tropical and magical world of 18th century Colombia, adapted from the novella by Nobel-prizewinner, Gabriel García Márquez. One Sunday in the slave market in the port of Cartagena de Indias, a young girl is bitten by a dog. The girl is Sierva Maria of All The Angels, the daughter of the Marquis, and the dog is rabid. Although Sierva herself seems unhurt, this is a town where reason and superstition are at war, and soon the talk is not of rabies, but possession. Sierva finds herself imprisoned in the Convent of St Clare, where Cayetano Delaura, the bishop's exorcist, comes to drive out her demons. But soon it is Delaura himself who is possessed, consumed by Love, 'the most terrible demon of all'. As the lovers' obsession grows, so too does the desire of the authorities to purge this sickness from their midst.

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Music: Peter Eotvos

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Work type: Opera or Operetta.

T02015093951

Sung in English with supertitles. A new commission for the 2008 Festival, supported by The John S. Cohen Foundation, Columbia Foundation Fund of the Capital Community Foundation and a number of individuals. Start time 16:35 - Finish 20:25. Start time 17:50 - Finish 21:40Producer Glydebourne Festival Opera. Conductor Vladimir Jurowski. Director Silviu Purcarete. Design Helmut Sturmer. Company London Philharmonic Orchestra. Company Glyndebourne Chorus. Other Thomas Blunt (chorus master). Performer Marisol Montalvo (Sierva Maria). Performer Robert Brubaker (Don Ygnacio). Performer Nathan Gunn (Father Delaura). Performer John Graham-Hall (Abrenuncio). Performer Mats Almgren (Don Toribio). Performer Marietta Simpson (Dominga de Adviento). Performer Felicity Palmer (Josefa Miranda). Performer Jean Rigby (Martina Laborde).

10 Aug 08 to 30 Aug 08

Glyndebourne, Lewes :: V671
listing details L0861659237

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