Ella-Miau (Rev. 2022) 50’
Opera in one Act for soprano and ensemble
Libretto by Juan Trigos S.
Instrumentation: alto saxophone, electric guitar, piano/Fender piano/accordion (one or two players) and percussions (one or two players)
Synopsis
The madness was present, outside of it, She-Meow, since she was born. She took the form of a woman. She put her mother’s hat on her head, obsessed with the idea of being a cat. Then, the waters of madness soaked the inside of her person and she, She-Meow, was left homeless, without a father and without herself, but treasuring the immense affection of a mother who never accompanied her.
Juan Trigos S.
Program Note
Ella-Miau (She-Meow in English) is an opera in one act with an original libretto by Juan Trigos S. and scored for soprano, alto saxophone, electric guitar, piano/Fender Rhodes piano/accordion (one player) and percussion (one or two players), with a duration of fifty minutes approximately. The new version of the work, wrote in 2022, was premiered in the same year by The Last Hundred in a fully staged production of the opera realized in collaboration with the puppet company “La Coperacha” at the Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Concert Hall of Miami, Florida, and Teatro Degollado of Guadalajara, Mexico, for the 25º Festival Cultural de Mayo. The original work was written in 2018 and premiered in the same year in New York and in Mexico at the prestigious Festival Internacional de Música Nueva “M. Enríquez”by Hypercube Ensemble and Daniela D’Ingiullo (soprano), under the baton of the composer. This works is an example of Juan Trigos’ personal musical language, which led him to a concept he refers to as Abstract Folklore – A process in which he abstracts and assimilates various literary and vernacular musical traditions into a modern compositional rhetoric.
Pictures New Production 2022
KENTUCKY PREMIERE
September 4, 2024 Singletary Recital Hall, Lexington, KY
WORLD PREMIERE RECORDING
August 5-7, 2024 WUKY Recording Studio, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY, USA
WORLD PREMIERE Rev. 2022
May 7, 2022 Herbert And Nicole Wertheim Concert Hall, Miami
May 13, 2022, 25° Festival Cultural de Mayo. Teatro Degollado. Guadalajara, Mexico
Antonio Camacho, stage director
Salvador Rodríguez, Olga Gámez and César Camarena, scenography, costumes, and puppets design.
Juan Trigos, conductor
Daniela D’Ingiullo, Ella-Miau (soprano)
The Last Hundred Ensemble:
Frank Capoferri, alto saxophone
Vladimir Ibarra, electric guitar
Noel Halloway, percussion
Chen-Hui Jen, piano / electric piano
WORLD PREMIERE Original Version
September 29, 2018
Greenwich House Music School, New York
October 7, 2018
Teatro de la Danza, Mexico City
Juan Trigos, Conductor
Luis Martín Solís, Stage Director
Luciano Trigos, Scenography and Costumes Design
Katty Amador, Realization of the scenography
Daniela D’Ingiullo, Soprano
Hypercube Ensemble:
Erin Rogers, saxophone
Jay Sorce, acoustic and electric guitar
Andrea Lodge, piano, electric piano and accordion
Chris Graham, percussions
Supporters and Awards
Thanks to Puffin Foundation for supporting the project
Ella-Miau in Miami 2022
Miami Individual Artists (MIA) Grant Program 2023 awarded to Daniela D’Ingiullo to record on CD Ella-Miau in 2024
Juan Trigos’ University of Kentucky Start-up Fund
applied to the recording on CD
of Ella-Miau in 2024
if you are interested in programming the opera in your season please contact us at info@promusint.com
Technical Sheet
A PRODUCTION BY PROMOMUSICA INTERNATIONAL
THE PRODUCTION INCLUDES:
- Scenography (no technicians are needed to build it)
- Costumes and Props
- Bilingual supertitles
- 2 performances per day maximum
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS:
- Air/Ground and local transportation for 6 peoples (to 8)
- Hotels: 4 rooms (to 5, 4 stars or up)
- Honorarium and Meals for 6 peoples (to 8)
- Rent of the following instruments:
- Gran Piano (or minimum baby grand) with 3 pedals w/tonal pedal. Tuned for rehearsals and performance(s)
- Piano Fender Rhodes with amplification (or similar keyboard)
- Percussions: Vibrafono (with stand), Police Whistle, Triangle, 4 Almglocken (with stand), 3 Suspended Cymbals (Crash, Splash, Ride, with stands), 4 Gongs (with stand), Tam-tam (with stand), Güiro (mounted), 5 Temple Blocks (with stand), Snare Drum (with stand), Bongó (with stand), 1 Conga (medium, with stand), Kick Drum
- Amplification for guitar: preferably a Fender Hot Rod Deville “212”, but any good quality tube amp of similar size (two 12″ speakers) can also be.
- Theater or Concert hall
- Minimum 2 rooms (1 for women /1 for men) with access to the stage
- 9 music stands with light
- light for piano music stand
- 1 conductor stand with light (or 2 more regular music stands)
- 7 chairs (rehearsals and concert)
- 1 conductor chair (rehearsals and concert)
- Projector of 5,000 pixeles for supertitles (optional)
- Lights: we will adapt the production to the existing light system available in the theater or concert hall