The CCCNY caps the year with a recital not to be missed! Celebrate the Holiday Season with a memorable repertoire of arias featuring the most legendary Spanish and Cuban zarzuelas.
The zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre dating back to the 17th century. It alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance. The zarzuela spread to the Spanish colonies, and many Hispanic countries, notably Cuba, developed their own traditions. In Cuba the zarzuelas of Ernesto Lecuona María la O; El cafetal), Eliseo Grenet (La virgen morena) and Gonzalo Roig (Cecilia Valdés), based on Cirilo Villaverde’s classic novel) represent a brief golden age of political and cultural importance. Headlining the program will be soprano Virginia Herrera-Crilly and tenor César Delgado, accompanied by pianist Andrés Sarre.
PROGRAM
PART I
1.-Romanza ‘De este apacible rincón de Madrid’
Zarzuela Luisa Fernanda, de Moreno Torroba 🇪🇸
– César Delgado –
2.-Romanza ‘La Petenera’
Zarzuela La Marchenera, de Moreno Torroba 🇪🇸
– Virginia Herrera –
3.-Romanza ‘Vuelvo a ti’
Zarzuela Sor Inés, de Ernesto Lecuona 🇨🇺
– César Delgado –
4.-Romanza ‘Mulata infeliz’.
Zarzuela María la O, de Ernesto Lecuona 🇨🇺
– Virginia Herrera –
5.-Dúo: ‘Torero quiero sé’
Zarzuela El Gato Montés, de Manuel Penella 🇪🇸
– Virginia Herrera y César Delgado –
PART II
6.-‘Romanza de Rosa la China’
Zarzuela Rosa la China, de Ernesto Lecuona 🇨🇺
– Virginia Herrera –
7.- ‘Damisela encantadora’
Zarzuela Lola Cruz, de Ernesto Lecuona 🇨🇺
– César Delgado –
8.- ‘Romanza de la Paloma’
Zarzuela El Barberillo de Lavapiés, de F.A. Barbieri 🇪🇸
– Virginia Herrera –
9.- ‘No puede ser’
Zarzuela La tabernera del puerto, de Pablo Sorozábal 🇪🇸
– César Delgado –
10.- Gran Dúo: ‘El corazón no sabe mentir’
Zarzuela Cecilia Valdés, de Gonzalo Roig 🇨🇺
– Virginia Herrera y César Delgado –
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[Photo credit: Sociedad Pro-Arte Latinoamericana ~ Staging of the contradanza from the Cuban zarzuela Cecilia Valdés, by Gonzalo Roig]
Virginia Herrera-Crilly has earned a reputation as a complete artist combining effortless vocal technique with sensitive affecting interpretation. She studied voice in
México, Italy, at OMTI with Jerome Hines and at the Center for Opera Performance in New York City with Franco Iglesias. Her many roles on the opera stage include Nedda, Rosina, Liú, Suor Angelica, Mimí, Musetta, Marguerite, Antonia, Despina and Pamina, to name a few. A strong proponent of zarzuela, Ms. Herrera has performed roles in this genre including, Susana, Reina, Elena, Marola, Luisa Fernanda, Carolina and Marquesita in major houses throughout the United States, including Town Hall in NYC and Teatro Nuevo Mexico in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Ms. Herrera has had the good fortune to perform with notable conductors such as Pablo Zinger, Anton Coppola, Johannes Somary, Will Crutchfield, Greg Scimé, Per Brevig and Manfred Knoop. She has been featured at Weill Hall, Repertorio Español Theater, Alice Tully Hall, Bergen Performing Arts Center, Merkin Hall, Town Hall, PNC Arts Center, Rich Forum, Symphony Hall, National Hispanic Cultural Center, Lincoln Center, and the Lensik Theater in New Mexico.
César Delgado, whom Opera News has praised for his “generous, lustrous tenor” and “committed, energetic acting” is one of the most sought-after talents on the US and Mexican musical scenes. He has won many prestigious vocal competitions, including the1st Prize (Male Category) in the 2017 Sinaloa International Singing Competition and the “Murray Rosenthal” Major Award at the Opera Index International Voice Competition in 2016. In 2015, he was chosen to participate in Plácido Domingo’s 2015 New York Master Class, sponsored jointly by Opera News and the Metropolitan Opera Guild. He was also invited to participate in the first International Residency of the Ryan Opera Center by Chicago Lyric Opera. A Mannes President Full Scholarship recipient, Mr. Delgado graduated with a Professional Artist Diploma from Mannes College in Spring 2015. He has performed in major opera companies worldwide, including New York City Opera and Mexico’s Mazatlán Opera, and has sung such principal roles as Liebenskoff in Il Viaggio a Reims, Mario Ruoppolo Daniel Catán’s Il Postino, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, Rodolfo in La Bohème and Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly with Mexico’s Mazatlán Opera.
Mexican born pianist and vocal coach, Andrés Sarre attended the Conservatorio Superior de Música in Madrid, Spain, where he studied with Mtr. Juan Antonio Álvarez-Parejo, Mr. Sarre continued his
studies in Modena, Italy under the instruction of pianist Paola Molinari. He also studied in Mexico with pianists Guillermo Salvador, Aurora Serratos and Rogelio Riojas-Nolasco. Mr. Sarre graduated form the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, in Italy’s Opera Studio, Accademia Renato Bruson’s Opera studio and Teatro de Bellas Artes’s Opera Studio in Mexico City. He has been an accompanying pianist in important masterclasses around the world with first class artists, among them Mirella Freni, Renata Scotto, Ileana Cotrubas, Francisco Araiza, Dunja Vejzovic, Teresa Berganza, Dolora Zajic, Bruno Bartoletti, Luigi Alva, Jeniffer Larmore, Alessandro Corbelli, Elina Garanča, Renato Bruson. Mr. Sarre has performed in leading concert halls throughout Mexico, Spain, Italy, Holland, Germany, Chile, and Costa Rica.
To listen to Plácido Domingo‘s rendition of the most famous aria from Ernesto Lecuona’s María la O, click here:
This event is co-sponsored by Instituto Cervantes
And is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
With the promotional collaboration of
“La magia de la zarzuela” is a complementary presentation of the Cuban Cultural Center of New York’s 19th annual congreso, its flagship event, this year titled España en Cuba: Un ir y venir, streamed on our YouTube channel on Saturday, November 21 and Sunday, November 22, 2020.