Next Saturday, April 6th, at 4pm, the Fafe Multipurpose Pavilion welcomes the Choir of the São Carlos National Theater and the Artave Symphony Orchestra, as well as some of today’s most recognized soloists — Cátia Moreso, Luís Rodrigues, Marco Alves dos Santos, Inês Simões, Eduarda Melo, João Merino and Tiago Matos — for the presentation, in the North, of the Operetta Maria da Fonte.
As part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the Revolution of April 25, 1974, this operetta recalls the ideals of freedom, female emancipation and struggle. “Maria da Fonte is a very important phenomenon at the dawn of Constitutionalism in Portugal. This is the first and only female revolt in our history, a revolt by Minho women whose political exploitation catapulted them to a national dimension that still persists in the collective imagination today”, they describe.
The modern version to be presented in Fafe features musical direction by maestro João Paulo Santos and staging by Ricardo Neves-Neves, author of the current libretto, developing around the popular heroine as an intense, courageous woman who does not give up on a certain Social consciousness.
This musical theater is a comedy in 3 acts, written in Portuguese, with an intrigue that involves the character Maria da Fonte herself, her lover Ludovino (a rich farmer) and her sister Joana, based on strong suspicions of betrayal and a conspiracy between the local administrator, Vilar, and the abbot Cortições, who imagines himself to be the father of Maria da Fonte and Joana, to send the boys to the army and fight against the people.
Tickets are available on Ticketline.
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