João Guilherme Ripper Domitila Fundación Juan March, Madrid 2024

Conductor piano Borja Mariño Director Nicola Beller Carbone Ana Quintans, soprano Premiered in Rio de Janeiro in 2000, the libretto is inspired by a true story that took place in the 1820s: the impossible relationship between King Pedro IV of Brazil and the Marquise Domitila de Castro. Under the guise of a monologue, Domitila reminisce their frustrated romance by reading the letters exchanged between them, thus creating a polyphony of characters. The yoke they both bear is represented trapped between strings, as if they were a single character with different appearances struggling with themselves to find balance in the midst of the ties that condition their existence.