Bodas de sangre

World premiere of a new opera by Manuel Busto inspired by Federico García Lorca's tragedy, presented at the Teatro Real in Madrid, a venue devoted above all to opera.

This production brings Federico García Lorca's drama into the language of opera, with a renewed take on the text. Manuel Busto composes the work and also takes on the musical direction, while Bárbara Lluch is in charge of the staging. The story revolves around a bride torn between her commitment to the Groom and the affection that still binds her to Leonardo Félix, a former lover who has also been unable to forget her.

The wedding is overshadowed by the resentment of the Groom's mother, marked by the violence of the past and by her feud with the Félix family. When the lovers decide to run away together in the middle of the ceremony, the wedding breaks apart, and the pursuit that follows ends in a final confrontation in which love and death become indistinguishable.

The production stresses the ritual dimension of the work, in which existence and death intersect within a universe of myths, arid landscapes and ancestral forces. Fatality, passion and destiny stand out as the central pillars of a score that gives musical form to that dramatic world.