His grandmother was a pianist and music became a part of his life as a passion. It couldn’t be possible and he hadn’t had the opportunity to delve into the notes and chords. “I’ve never studied music and that’s my frustrated passion, that thorn in my side.”
But playwright, actor and director Lola Blasco (Alicante, 1983) got there another way. He did this with his opera libretto in 2021 MaryProduction of the Teatro Real in Madrid and the same year I will love youThe premiere of zarzuela, whose music was composed by master Alonso, was held at Teatro de la Zarzuela.
To top it off, the creator of Alicante received the 2016 National Award for Dramatic Literature. My century, my monster, the adventure has just begun with another opera, but in this case in Valencian. a venture Voro Garcia, The director of the Ensems festival called Blasco to write the lyrics while composing the music for the novel. ignore, By Manuel Baixauli.
«The novel fascinated me because Very well written but very complicated», says Lola Blasco. “But it’s a very fragmented work, and that somehow allows me to tell everything, or not intend to tell everything.”
ignore A text about creation and failure, “It describes how you feel like a failure when you see genius in others, and in that sense it reminds me of this.” Unsuccessful [novela de Thomas Bernhard], is quite complex due to many double games. But “it has resonance, and being present to the music is very interesting to me,” he says.
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For the playwright, the challenge of writing a libretto that must be completed by December is this: you must be so syntheticbut the truth is that I have always done a lot of poetic theater and in that sense it has cost me less.
Blasco recalls that he began working with music in his shows: “I experimented a lot with music in my work, especially in the ones I directed.” Finally he says: “It happened A natural step to decide to write opera librettos».
For the playwright who will premiere the National Dramatic Centre’s production next February crazy theater Stating that he signed and directed, “Writing a script means getting closer to the music and it is true that you have to give a role to the music, but it seems like a very beautiful thing to me.” And Voro assures me that he admires García’s work. “The work is collaborative, I will present the first script and then you will have to adapt it with music… it is a beautiful job.”
His work will also be translated canicula It will be translated into Romanian and presented at the Instituto Cervantes in Bucharest. “This Alicante family travels the world, for me this is a very local story. But it seems to connect with different cultures,” he says.