Los elementos is explicitly presented as a "harmonic opera in the Italian style", in which the best tradition of Hispanic verse converges with Italian musical novelties, materialised in the use of violins and the alternation of recitatives and arias. These stylistic features were then understood as synonymous with modernity, something that would not escape its first listeners either. The staging of this new production brings these allegorical codes to the present, while maintaining the emblematic world of baroque opera, with the original results typical of the splendour of this golden age of Spanish music.
Music by Antonio Literes
Coproduction of Teatro de la Zarzuela and Fundación Juan March
Forma Antiqva
Artistic team
Conductor and harpsichord | Aarón Zapico
Stage director | Tomás Muñoz
Cast
Earth | Olalla Alemán
Water | Aurora Peña
Air | Eugenia Boix
Fire | Marifé Nogales
Dawn | Soledad Cardoso
Time | Lucía Martín-Cartón
Sun | Rafael Rivero (bailarín)