DeCachetitoRaspado
CheekToStubbledCheek 

COMIC-HEMOFICTION OPERA
IN TWO ACTS.

Music by Juan Trigos
Play by Juan Trigos Synister

U.S. PREMIERE
(Chamber Version)

OCTOBER 29 & 30, 2015
RIALTO THEATRE
(Atlanta, GA)
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CHAMBER VERSION
(Rev. 2007)

ORCHESTRAL VERSION

[Soprano, Mezzosoprano, Tenor, Baritone. Actors: 2 women and 2 men (optional). Optional Mixed Chorus (8 to 16). Ensemble: 1 C Flute (Also Fl. in  G and  Picc. one performer), 1 B flat Clarinet, 1 Baritone Sax (also Alto and Soprano Saxes., 1 performer), 1 Trombone, 2 Percussionists, Guitar, Harp and Piano ]. 
Language: Spanish. Year: 1999 (Rev. 2007). World premiere: 1999. Duration: 96'
Publisher: PromoMusica International Ed.
Perusal Score

Función-Presentación(Siamés I & Siamés II)

Danzón (Quartet)

Padrino (Quartet)

Brindis (Quartet)

[Soprano, Mezzosoprano, Tenor & Baritone. Actors: 2 women and 2 men (optional). Mixed Chorus. Instruments on stage: =1010 – ssx/asx/bsx – 0010 – 2 perc – guit, pf. Orchestra: *3*3*3*3 – 4331 – tmp+3 – hp, pf - str]
Language: Spanish. Year: 2004. World premiere: no, recorded on 2004. Duration: 104'
Publisher: PromoMusica International Ed.
Perusal Score

Danzón (Quartet)

Plim,Plom,Talám (Chorus)

Canción de cuna (Primancianita, Mezzosoprano)

Sifilismo perdonador (Juansonrisa, Baritone)

THE ARTISTS


JUAN TRIGOS
COMPOSER & CONDUCTOR

Juan Trigos is a very active conductor and composer, creator of the concept Abstract Folklore. In his musical production are clearly distinguished two fundamental aspects: vocal music (opera and sacred) and instrumental music with a notable predilection for the concertante forms. His works has been performed worldwide. Among the most significant latest commissions his Symphony N.3 “Ofrenda a los muertos” for the Houston Symphony Orchestra (2013).


JUAN TRIGOS SYNISTER
PLAYWRIGHT (LIBRETTIST)

Creator of the aesthetic literary style Hemofiction. Literature of search which reflects on the bleeding of the consciousness in multiple mirrors, where it contemplates with horror the thousand faces of personal infantilism, process which endures desolation and anguish, indispensable symptoms on the road to individuation, path of ascension towards human. The works which have given him fame include La Llorona, La Leyenda de Don Juan Manuel, La Diabólica Santa de la Tijeras, Callejón de las ratas, Mamá es loca o está poseída, La Culpa.


LUIS MARTÍN SOLÍS
STAGE DIRECTOR

Internationally renowned, he has directed plays of Shakespeare, Maeterlinck, Golding, Suzanne van Louhizen, Luis Buñuel, Ibarguengoitia, Octavio Paz, among the others. He directed operas by Donizetti, Rossini and Vivaldi. He also directed contemporary operas as well as La muerte pies ligeros, Paso del norte and El conejo y el coyote by Victor Rasgado, the last one performed in the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washingtong D.C.


LUCIANO TRIGOS
PAINTER (SCENE & COSTUMES)

Following the tradition of the Mexican Muralism, Luciano Trigos recently realized “El Gigante”, a 753 sqft mural commissioned by the “Don Quijote Iconographic Museum” of Guanajuato (Mexico). He’s paintings are product of lateral, germane vision. Plastic cells are born, they grow and reproduce inside original, abstract form and at the same time, follow a kind of autonomous development.

THE PERFORMERS


AMY SHEFFER
PRIMANCIANITA (MEZZOSOPRANO)

Since 2006 has been guest soloist in several Festival, Summer Programs and Theaters in Europe and United States, as well as, Bel Canto Institute (Florence, Italy), Opera in the Ozarks, Inspiration Point (AR), University of Wisconsin-Madison Opera, Le Chiavi Institute, Texas Music Festival (Houston, TX), University of Houston Moores Opera Center (Houston,TX). Among the others concert programs and opera productions, Rossini's "La Donna Del Lago" and "Guillaume Tell", Bach's "Cantata 106", Mozart's "The Magic Flute", Puccini's "Gianni Schicchi" and "Suor Angelica", Offenbach''s "Les Contes d'Hoffmann", Floyd 's "Cold Sassy Tree", Menotti's "The Consul".


CÉSAR TORRUELLA
JUANSONRISA (BARITONE)

Originally from Puerto Rico, he sang as a guest soloist in Austria, Puerto Rico and the United States giving concerts and opera performances. His repertoire includes Schubert's Mass N.2 in G Major, Beethoven's Symphony N.9 and "Choral Fantasy" Op.80, Bach's "Magnificat", Puccini's "Tosca", Rossini's "Il Barbiere di Siviglia", Donizetti's "L'elisir d'amore", Offenbach's "Les Contes d’Hoffmann", Verdi's "Falstaff", Mozart's "Le Nozze di Figaro" and "Cosí fan tutte", Floyd's "Cold Sassy Tree", Ravel's "L'heure Espagnole", Ullmann's "Der Kaiser von Atlantis", F. Morreno Torroba's "Luisa Fernanda", Britten's "Albert Herring", Rota's "Il cappello di Paglia di Firenze", Poulenc's "Les Dialogues des Carmelites" and the world premier of Rafael Hernández's" Cofresí".


DANIELA D'INGIULLO
SIAMESE I (SOPRANO)

She has been guest soloist in various theaters and festivals in Europe, United States, Mexico and Costa Rica collaborating, among the most important commitments, with Icarus Ensemble, Eastman Broad Band Ensemble, the Symphony Orchestras of Puebla, Aguascalientes and Guanajuato, Heredia, respectively. She has specialized in XXth-XIth Centuries Music, especially in Juan Trigos' music by whom she sang the opera "DeCachetitoRaspado", Cantata N.2 and N.3 “Phos Hilaron” (N.3 also recorded for Quindecim). Last April 2015, in Mexico, with the Boca del Río Philharmonic Orchestra, she premiered his "Nezahualcoyotl Icuicahuan" for soprano and orchestra with texts in Nahuatl language by the Aztec poet Nezahualcoyotl.


ESTEBAN CORDERO
SIAMESE II (TENOR)

Puerto Rican tenor Esteban Cordero is in the early stages of a promising career. Mr. Cordero appeared as a soloist with the Israel Chamber Orchestra and the Coro Nacional de Puerto Rico, and is a frequent guest soloist of the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico. He has been invited twice to participate in the prestigious International Summer Opera Institute in Tel Aviv and the Prelude to Performance summer program. His roles include Don Ramiro (La Cenerentola), Nemorino (Lʼelisir dʼamore), Rinuccio (Gianni Schicchi), Rodolfo (La Boheme), Tamino (Die Zauberflöte), Javier (Luisa Fernanda), Spalanzani/ Nathanael (Contes d'Hoffman) Count Vaudemont (Iolanta) and the tenor solo in Carmina Burana.

Daniela Arroio DANIELA ARROIO
MUERTA I (ACTRESS/DANCER and CO-CHOREOGRAPHER)

Graduated from the College of Dramatic Literature and Theater and the Desmond Jones School of Mime and Physical Theatre of London (UK). She has a background in contemporary dance, singing, Roy Hart, Mask, Puppet and Improvisation. Recipient of the scholarship “Scenic Creators 2009-2010” from the Mexican Fondo Internacional de la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA). She has been part of the Company Carro de comedias of the prestigious Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). She has worked with directors like Carlos Corona, Luis Martín Solís, Antonio Castro, Haydeé Boetto, Fernando Bonilla, Juan Carlos Vives, Jesusa Rodriguez, Rosenda Monteros, among others.

 

Anna Mariscal

ANNA MARISCAL
MUERTA I (ACTRESS/DANCER and CO-CHOREOGRAPHER)

Graduated from the acting school CasAzul, Performing Arts Argos. As an actress she participated in the production Un chingo de lana by Antú Romero Nunez, in collaboration with the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico (UNAM). and the Maxim Gorki Theater in Germany, in the Miguel Covarrubias’ hall. Principal actress in Los últimos días de Clark K. directed by Xavier Villanova, in the Helénico Theater. Recently worked with the stage director Luis Martín Solís in “Paz en su laberinto” and in the monologue Me llamo Rachel Corrie, directed by Edgar Álvarez Estrada. She worked under de direction of Álvaro Hernández and Hari Sama in a publicity series. Now, she is preparing to film a web series.

 

ANA MARIA OTAMENDI
OUR VOCAL COACH

Pianist, coach and conductor. She is Head Vocal Coach of the Moores Opera Center at the University of Houston, as well as Music Director, pianist and conductor for different programs at HGOCo. Since her orchestral debut at age twelve, Ana María has performed as a soloist and collaborative pianist at important venues and with renowned orchestras in Austria, Panama, Brazil, the United States, Spain, Italy, and Venezuela.


ZEITGEIST CHORUS
DEANNA JOSEPH DIRECTOR

Director of Choral Activities at Georgia State University. Dr. Joseph’s research in the area of 19th century choral-orchestral performance-practice has led to invited presentations on the topic at several division conferences of the American Choral Director’s Association and at the national convention for the National Collegiate Choral Organization. She holds conducting degrees from the Eastman School of Music, where she was awarded the Walter Hagen Conducting Prize. For this production she will conduct her Zeitgeist Chorus of eight selected singer: Megan Brunning and Wanda Yang Temko (Sopranos), Avery Leigh Draut and Samantha Puckett (Altos), Richard Clement and James Moonsuk Kang (Tenors), Stephen W McCluskey and Evan Tyor(Basses).

  

BENT FREQUENCY 

ENSEMBLE & CO-PRODUCER

Hailed as “one of the brightest new music ensembles on the scene today” by Gramophone magazine, Bent Frequency (BF) is a performance ensemble possessing a vision to redefine the traditional music experience - ushering it from the strict formality of the concert hall into the fresh air of contemporary artistic expression and experimentation. Founded in 2003, the group brings the avant-garde music tradition to life through adventurous programming, the promotion of New Music, and a creative synthesis of music and media. As an ensemble-in-residence at Georgia State University, BF has become the most active and visible contemporary music ensemble in the Southeast.

THE OPERA


Synopsis

The central theme in the opera DeCachetitoRaspado (CheekToStubbledCheek) is the absence that the characters, Juansonrisa and Primancianita, fill up by projecting their imaginings. She is sterile, so she gives birth to two siamese sons who accompany them in all their theatrical improvisations. The story begins with the introduction of these beings of invention speaking about a baptism —imaginary as well—to which the president who has governed Mexico at diverse stages of the country’s life keeping the same criminal tendencies, will attend. Same imposing personality in collusion with the Church. There will be baptism with piñata-fractured heads. Instead of pulque, beer will run; instead of friends, compadres. Padrino (Godfather) will take requests. They have also invited the dead, Catalina and Antonia, fictitious portraits of Primancianita, to dance during the celebration. These illusory deceased are Juansonrisa’s lovers and also his victims, for he strangles them daily. Primancianita is hooked with Padrino-Presidente (Godfather-President) and wants to have sex with him. But the man of state is politically and carnally chaste. Tall. Güero (blond). Puts hands behind his back. Reads The Holy Bible. Goes to church after taking off his cassock. After washing his hands well. AfterPraying. AfterThinking of his madrecita santa (saintly mother). There is confusion between the real wedding of the protagonists and the imaginary wedding with Señor Presidente (Mister President) and with the baptism party to which a nonexistent priest attends.

Honeymoon in Cuernavaca. Primancianita affirms she was a virgin before marriage, and shows her red panties as proof. There is comic singing to virginity, as to the garter that will attract the love of our Señor Presidente. There is singing to the nation and the religious inquisitorial party, rambunctious institutional party, party that has ruled the country for many decades.

The opera concludes when Padrino-Presidente (Godfather-President) says that no one goes to the theater. What remains—beyond their fictional infidelities, beyond social conventions, beyond the games in which they pretend wanting to die and having wishes of killing one another—is the taste of the true love these two alcoholics feel for each other.

Horror-Hemofiction

Horror-Hemoficción (Horror-Hemofiction) is a literary movement of search. It reflects the characters in a multitude of mirrors in which they contemplate, frightened, the thousand faces of their personal infantilism. The protagonists, human children, play at being serious adults, but are murderers or full of lies. In every novel, play, or short story, infantile cruelty invades. Perhaps, someday, spiritual awakening will lead to maturity, which would mean plenary responsibility from which all characters created by Juan Trigos Synister—precisely because they are human, that is to say, children—run away.
Horror-Hemoficción, always in jest, profound and amusing literature, opens doors to the personal conscience of the author and, by expansive reflection, is road towards the intimate knowledge of the reader who is capable of peeking into his or her own depths.

Juan Trigos Synister

Previous preformances

Discography

XXVI Festival SpazioMusica
Chiostri di San Domenico, Cagliari (Italy).
Dicembre 8, 2007

Singers:
Gabriela Thierry (Mezzo)
Maurizio Leoni (Baritone)
Daniela D'Ingiullo (Soprano)
Oscar De La Torre (Tenor)

Actors:
Lorenzo Mijares (Juansonrisa)
Pino Ruberto (Siamese 2)

Players: Eastman BroadBand Ensemble

Paintings and Images: Luciano Trigos
Stage Director: Lorenzo Mijares
Conductor: Juan Trigos


XXV Foro Internacional de Música Nueva Manuel Enríquez
Teatro de las Artes, Mexico City.
November 3, 2003
Producers: Juan Trigos Synister and Juan Trigos
Co-producton: "Music Biennale Zagreb", "Festival Internacional Cervantino" and Foro Internacional de Música Nueva "Manuel Enríquez"

XXXI Festival Internacional Cervantino
Teatro Principal. Guanajuato City (Mexico).
Octorber 29 e 30, 2003.

XXII Music Biennale Zagreb
Teatro Nazionale (Zagreb, Croatia)
April 4, 2003

Singers:
Claudia Montiel (Soprano)
Adriana Díaz de León (Mezzo)
Mario Hoyos (Tenor)
Benito Navarro (Baritone)

Actors: company "Teatro de Hemoficción":
Bertha Vega (Primancianita)
Itzia Zerón (Siames I)
Julio Escartín (Juansonrisa)
Oscar Yoldi (Siames II)

Ensemble: Icarus-Cantus
Paintings and Costume Designer: Marianela de la Hoz
Stage Director: Lorenzo Mijares
Conductor: Juan Trigos


Festival Internacional Música y Escena
Teatro Helénico, Mexico City
September 20 and 21, 1999.
Co-production: Festival Internacional Música y Escena, Teatro Helénico and Fondo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (FONCA)

Singers:
Claudia Montiel (Soprano)
Adriana Díaz de León (Mezzo)
Elías Granados (Tenor)
Benito Navarro (Bariton)

Players: La Camerata de las Américas

Paintings and Costume Designer: Aldo Ciardiello
Stage Director: Raúl Falcó
Conductor: Juan Trigos

Producers: Juan Trigos Synister and Juan Trigos


 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

DeCachetitoRaspado
Movie-Orchestral version for singers, choir, ensemble on stage and orchestra (2004)

Recording for CD and DVD for
DarkPress LLC Production (USA)

Singers: Claudia Montiel (Soprano), Gabriela Thierry (Mezzo), José Guadalupe Reyes (Tenor), Benito Navarro (Baritone)
Actors: company "Teatro de Hemoficción", Bertha Vega, Itzia Zerón, Guillermo Jaír, Lorenzo Mijares
Ensemble on stage: Icarus Ensemble
Choir: Academic Choir Saint Petersburg-Concert
Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of Saint-Petersburg
Stage director: Lorenzo Mijares
Photograph Director, Paintings and Images: Luciano Trigos
Make up Designer: Luciano Trigos
Paintings and Costume Designer: Marianela de la Hoz
Conductor: Juan Trigos R.

Recording and Editing: Master Sound S. Sokolov
Ri-Editing and Ri-Mastering: Juan Switalski
Video production and post-production: Fritz Siebert

Producers: Juan Trigos R. e Juan Trigos S.
Production: DarkPress LLC
Co-production: “OOO Fonos” (Russia), Icarus Ensemble (Italy) and Company “Teatro de Hemoficción” (Mexico).


DeCachetitoRaspado
Original Chamber version (2002)

Singers:
Claudia Montiel (Soprano)
Adriana Díaz de León (Mezzo)
Mario Hoyos (Tenor)
Benito Navarro (Baritone)
Players: Camerata de las Américas
Stage Director: Raúl Falcó
Conductor: Juan Trigos

Quindecim Recordings QP089 (2002)