This week we chat with Timothy Winn about the Spanish play turned musical - Bernarda Alba.

Ben Brantley, reviewing for The New York Times, wrote, "This latest offering from the prolific Mr. LaChiusa, often feels wan and weary...The music, though superbly orchestrated (by Michael Starobin) and played, goes places that singers used to hard-sell Broadway pizazz cannot follow. The punctuating yelps; the wavering sustained notes in minor keys; the labyrinthine interior musical paths; the eruptions into antimelodic harshness — these are all more the stuff of mid-20th-century chamber operas than conventional show tunes...The touchingly game performers, who include musical pros like Daphne Rubin-Vega (a haunting presence as the ugly daughter) and Yolande Bavan (as Bernarda's senile mother), inevitably stumble over such challenges."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernarda_Alba_(musical)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_John_LaChiusa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_Bernarda_Alba_(play)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federico_Garc%C3%ADa_Lorca

https://www.origintheatrical.com.au/work/6669

http://www.classictheatre.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/The-House-of-Bernarda-Alba-Study-Guide.pdf

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