Opera - Teatro Colón

The Little Match Girl / Helmut Lachenmann.DAS KLEINE Mädchen mit denSchwefelhölzern (THE Little Match Girl)By Helmut LachenmannTeatro Colón Permanent OrchestraMusic Direction: Baldur BrönnimannNarrator: Helmut LachenmannCast: Hulkar Saviroba and Yuko Kakuta, sopranosYukiko Sugawara and Tomoko Hemmi, pianoMayumi Miyata, shô soloistWe will be offered with the absolute premiere of The Little Match Girl, an opera byHelmut Lachenmann based upon the classic story by Hans Christian Andersen.Through a stream of consciousness playing around with meteorological situationsand Leonardo Da Vinci’s texts, we are presented with cold, darkness, heat, wind,volcanoes, and music depicting freezing as a metaphor of society’s indifferencetowards the individual. Lachenmann will visit Argentina for the first time in overthirty years to supervise the rehearsals and perform as narrator.March, Saturday 15 th and Sunday 16 th58