Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes
Thu, Feb 5 thru
Sat, Feb 7 2009
Novellus Theater at YBCA
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First time in the Bay Area!
Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes
Monsters and Prodigies: A History of the Castrati (De Monstruos Y Prodigios: La Historia De Los Castrati)
Thu, Feb 5–Sat, Feb 7, 2009, 8 pm • Novellus Theater at YBCA
$30 Regular, $25 Member/Student/Senior/Teacher
Running Time: 105 minutes, no intermission
In Spanish and Italian with English subtitles.
Please join us for a post show Q&A following the Friday performance, with the director of Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes
“Monsters and Prodigies [is] a brilliantly conceptualized, ravishingly performed ensemble piece." — The Los Angeles Times
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“A sophisticated, good-natured lampoon of 18th-century opera … [that’s] funny even for those who are not opera lovers." — The New York Times
"Mexico City’s Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes serves up a … circuslike spectacle that is as disturbing as it is beautiful." — LA Weekly
In the 18th century, the castrati, “sacred monsters” whose voices were surgically molded, represented a peak of artistry. Monsters and Prodigies is about this fascinating cultural phenomenon: talented child singers born in poverty who were castrated to preserve their soprano voices, and propelled to stardom in the frivolous courts of Europe. Directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri and written by Jorge Kuri for Mexico City’s internationally acclaimed Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes, Monsters is theatrical opera with mass-audience appeal—a colorful and often humorous three-century journey from the decadent extremes of the Baroque period to the technological 20th century, where beauty has been annihilated by reason. With a “precise and wild gaze,” Ciertos Habitantes infuses life into one of the most sublime mysteries in history. Secure your tickets now for this virtuoso theater troupe’s YBCA debut.
RELATED LINKS
Teatro De Ciertos Habitantes Official Website
YBCA thanks the Consulate General of Mexico in San Francisco for their participation in this presentation.
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