Maria de Buenos Aires (1968) was the pinnacle of Piazzolla’s artistic ambitions. In it, he combined opera and dance, which had been done previously but here classical ballet was replaced with the tango. Beautiful and doomed, born ‘on a day that God was drunk’, the girl manages to escape poverty and her pathological family and gain much-desired freedom. Seduced by the rhythm of the tango, she descends into the depths of the huge city, becomes a prostitute, learns all about sex and crime, to finally get murdered by a pack of tramps, gangsters, and brothel madams. She gains a new life, however, as her own shadow walking the streets of the metropolis.For the composer, the eponymous Maria is an allegory of his beloved city.
This production of Maria de Buenos Aires is directed by Wojciech Faruga, artistic director of the Polski Theatre in Bydgoszcz, Poland, former head of the Korczak International Festival of Theatre for Children and Young People.
Creative
Piotr Staniszewski Conductor
Wojciech Faruga Director
Mikita Iłinczyk Dramaturgy
Katarzyna Borkowska Set, Costume & Lighting Designer
Krystian Łysoń Choreography