XICO
An electroacoustic opera which brings together the ancient god Tezcatlipoca, the Tlaxcallan leader Xico and three friends from Mexico city. It invites to reflect about the way Mexicans value themselves and their origins.
PERFORMERS
Pablo Cesar Reyes Ramírez – Baritone
He has participated in various musical projects such as La Traviata, Carmen, Luisa Fernanda, Gloria de Vivaldi, etc. As a soloist he has performed with the Coronation Mass (1997, 2006, 2009), “La verbena de la paloma” with the role from “Don Sebastián” (2010), La tabernera del puerto with the role of “Walter Simpson” (2011), in the opera of “Bastián y Bastiana” with the role of “Colás” (2011), in “La mulata de córdoba ”with the role of the“ Grand Inquisitor ”(2012), in“ The elixir of love ”with the role of“ Dulcamara ”(2013), in“ The boy and the spells ”with the roles of“ The clock, the cat , the tree and the armchair ”(2014), in the project of chapel and profane music from the 16th to the 19th centuries“ Six Chapel Masters of the Cathedral of Morelia as “El Cronista” (2015-2016), at the Opera from “The Magic Flute” with the role of “Papageno” (2016), Carmina Burana (2016), Mozart’s Requiem (2008, 2011, 2017), in the Opera of “The Magic Flute” with the role of “Orator ”(2017) and in the musical“ Jesus Christ superstar ”with the role of“ Caiaphas ”(2008, 2011, 2019). Currently preparing arias from the opera of “Mephistopheles”.
ALEJANDRA ZAVALA – SOPRANO
Form Mexico City. In 1990 she began his piano studies. In 1993 she joined the Choir of the Ministry of Culture, singing as a soloist in various participations. In 1994 she began his studies at the Conservatorio de las Rosas, specializing in singing, with the mezzo-soprano Guadalupe Góngora Romero. In 1996 she continued his vocal training with the baritone Hugo Barreiro Lastra, and was part of the Opera Workshop of the Conservatory of Roses, participating in operas such as “La Traviata” by Giusseppe Verdi playing Annina, “Dido and Aeneas” by Henry Purcell as the First Witch, La Serva Padrona by Giovanni Battista Pergolesi in the role of Serpina, “Orfeo y Euridice” as Amor, and in the Mexican premiere of the opera “El Rey Cuervo” by Mervin Burtch as Pisea. With this same workshop she has sung in forums such as the Sala Netzahualcóyotl in Mexico City. She has sung as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the Michoacan University of San Nicolás de Hidalgo, with the Chamber Orchestra of Early Music of the Conservatorio de las Rosas and with the “Continuo” Baroque Music Ensemble. Her repertoire includes Baroque works from Europe and Mexico, Renaissance music, Mexican nationalism, and compositions from our time. Since 1999 he has been a member of the Vocal Octet of the Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo. In addition to his musical training, she studied the Bachelor of Communication Sciences. She has dedicated a large part of her work to teaching in high school level institutions and in a particular way, with classes in vocalization, music history and listening training.
MARÍA REGINA GARCÍA ZAVALA – MEZZO-SOPRANO
She began her musical studies as a child under the tutelage of Fr. Nicolás Mendoza R. At the age of 6 he joined the “Soledad Gutiérrez de Figaredo” Primary Choir under the direction of Maestro Hernán Cortés Carrillo, who was the director of the “Niños Cantores de Morelia”. She did his musical studies at the Higher Institute of Sacred Music, having as singing teachers the tenor Emilio Medina González and the baritone Ricardo Santín. She has taken master classes with the mezzo-soprano Ana Caridad Acosta, the baritone Salvador Godofredo Guízar and the countertenor Héctor Sosa. She was a member of the Chamber Choir of the Higher Institute of Sacred Music of Morelia. She has participated as a soloist with the Chamber Orchestra of the UMSNH, performing the Stabat Mater by G. B. Pergolesi, Magnificat by Antonio Vivaldi, among other works. She has been part of various chamber music ensembles, for which she has a wide repertoire that includes medieval, baroque, Spanish music, opera arias, sacred music and Mexican music, singing works such as Stabat Mater by Antonio Vivaldi. She is currently part of the Monte Verdi Duet. It has been presented in different auditoriums of the Mexican Republic.
ALBERTO SÁNCHEZ – TENOR
Born in Mexico City. From a very young age he had contact with music and children’s choirs, since he was part of the singing children of the National School of Music (Today SCOLA CANTORUM DE MEXICO) directed by Mtro. Alfredo Mendoza, right there, studied music theory with Mr. Cruz Rojas in the same institution and later for family reasons, in 1986, he moved to Morelia where he continued his choral training in the Choir of the “Niños Cantores de Morelia”, under the baton of Mtro. Sergio Nava. At the age of 20, he began taking singing classes at the house of culture in Morelia with Mtra. Ma. Guadalupe Góngora and with Mtro. Alfredo Zamora and Valencia, participating in some concerts in Morelia and the state of Michoacán and starting his career as a soloist in the presentations of the workshops of that same institution in the years 1994 to 1996, accompanied by the “Silvestre Revueltas” Youth Orchestra directed by its founder, Mtro. Alfredo Zamora. His repertoire includes works such as Arias, Zarzuela, Canción Mexicana, Canción Italiana and Napolitanas, Boleros and different works of the sacred genre, including Requiem and Brevis Masses. In 2019, he participated, both with the string quartet “Ad Libitum” and with the “Ensamble Amadeus”, as a soloist in different Artistic events and festivals both in the city of Morelia and in the state of Michoacán and Guanajuato. With the quartet of male voices “Canto Firme”, he has been an active soloist member and with whom he gives concerts and recitals in Morelia, in the State of Michoacán and in different states of the country.
MARCOS MEJÍA GALVÁN – BASS
CWith training as a choral director, he has turned his knowledge into a wide musical field. Offering comprehensive and personalized solutions to all types of students. He pays special attention to each aspect that comes together in the personality of the listeners and with the general public to extract the maximum benefit from them. Extensive skills in the management of cultural events and proper time management.
MARGARITA RAMÍREZ TALAVERA – NARRATOR
Born in Uruapan, Michoacán, on December 26, 1988. She graduated from the Bachelor of Music in the area of Composition from the “Conservatorio de las Rosas” in Morelia, Michoacán, under the tutelage of Mtro. Horacio Uribe Duarte. Currently, she also has a Master’s degree in Music as Interdisciplinary Art awarded by the University of Barcelona, Spain, which she obtained after being selected as a beneficiary of the FONCA-CONACYT Program for Study Abroad. As part of her extracurricular training in 2014 he obtained his certification in the musical methodology of Rhythmic and Movement “Dalcroze”, endorsed by the Jaques Dalcroze Institute in Geneva, Switzerland. Regarding her training as an oral narrator, she took the “Oral Narration” workshop given by Numancia Rojas at the Casa de los Cuentos, Barcelona, Spain. This training allowed her to present herself as an independent storyteller in different locations, including the La Parota Cultural Center, both with brief interventions and complete sessions stories for children and adults. This experience made her part of “Tresillas, telling music”, a group that is still in force to date. Currently, she is focused on teaching children’s music in various schools, mainly in Mozarteum, based in the city of Morelia.
VIDEO
SABINE BÜRGER
Sabine Bürger studied Visual Art at Düsseldorf Art Academy. Since 2007 she has been focusing mainly on video, exploring the interface between video and sound. She has worked with different musicians on various projects resulting in collaborations with Heiner Göbbels (D), William Basinski (US), Machinefabriek (NL), Steve Roden (US), and Svarte Greiner (N), amongst others. Great Expectations, her video and photographic portrait of the Wisbech & Fenland Museum/UK has been presented at CHAT2017, a conference organized by the University of Amsterdam (2017), as well as at Art, Materiality and Representation, a conference at the British Museum and SOAS University of London (2018). The installation Neander’s Hollow, a collaboration with Dutch musician Chis Bakker, was exhibited at Stadtmuseum Düsseldorf in autumn 2018. Previous audio-visual collaborations with Rosalía Soria Luz include The Silver Key, presented at ISSTA International Festival and Conference on Sound in the Arts, Science and Technology, Dundalk Institute of Technology, Northern Ireland (2017), and Synthetic Springs, premiered at the klingt gut International Symposium on Sound, organized by the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg (2018).
With the participation of ACUTÚN
Based in Freiburg in Germany, this folkloric dance group is directed by Natasha Abba Bernstoff.
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