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Q&A: Jorge Martín
Date: 5/17/2010 By Mark Lowry, TheaterJones.com
"To create a full-scale opera is an impressive feat, but to have it produced by a respected opera company, without a commission, is another hurdle. Cuban-American composer Jorge Martín, 51, knew this would be a challenge when he first asked for the rights to adapt Before Night Falls into an opera. But he was so compelled by the memoir of Reinaldo Arenas, an openly gay Cuban poet and writer and political rabble-rouser, that he kept working on it.
Now, 15 years after securing those rights, Martín’s opera will have its world premiere by the Fort Worth Opera. He wrote the libretto before the 2000 movie version of Before Night Falls, which earned Javier Bardem an Oscar nomination. Fort Worth Opera’s General Director Darren Woods found out about the show―“he was spying on it,” Martín says―and staged a workshop production of it in 2008 at the Seagle Music Colony, on Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, not far from Martín’s Vermont home."
Continue reading the full TheaterJones.com article here.
Date: 5/17/2010 By Mark Lowry, TheaterJones.com
"To create a full-scale opera is an impressive feat, but to have it produced by a respected opera company, without a commission, is another hurdle. Cuban-American composer Jorge Martín, 51, knew this would be a challenge when he first asked for the rights to adapt Before Night Falls into an opera. But he was so compelled by the memoir of Reinaldo Arenas, an openly gay Cuban poet and writer and political rabble-rouser, that he kept working on it.
Now, 15 years after securing those rights, Martín’s opera will have its world premiere by the Fort Worth Opera. He wrote the libretto before the 2000 movie version of Before Night Falls, which earned Javier Bardem an Oscar nomination. Fort Worth Opera’s General Director Darren Woods found out about the show―“he was spying on it,” Martín says―and staged a workshop production of it in 2008 at the Seagle Music Colony, on Schroon Lake in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, not far from Martín’s Vermont home."
Continue reading the full TheaterJones.com article here.
