FREE ADMISSION OPEN TO PUBLIC
Location: North Miami Beach Band Shell
7275 Collins Avenue – Miami Beach, Florida
Date: Sat, November 5, 2011 – 7:00 PM
Important: No seating is available, be sure to bring your own lawn chairs, picnic blankets and wine.

SUMMARY

Music by Emilio Arrieta
Libretto by Francisco Camprodón & Miguel Ramos Carrión

The two-act zarzuela Marina was premiered on September 21 1855 at Madrid’s Teatro Circo. Despite a cool initial reception, many musicians could sense its popular potential. Gaztambide wrote to the poet López de Ayala: “Emilio’s new zarzuela Marina is most outstanding; a true Spanish Opera sure to please the crowd; it will, I’m sure, be much liked”. Indeed it was, and when the tenor Enrico Tamberlick expressed a wish to play Jorge at the Teatro Real, Arrieta had no hesitation in agreeing to expand it into the through-written, 3-act form familiar today – although there is some question whether Marina’s charm was improved by the operatic inflation, or merely diluted.

CAST

	Marina Hilda del Castillo *
	Jorge Jesse James Vargas
	Pasqual Diego Baner
	Roque Nelson Martinez
	Teresa Daisy Su
	Capt. Alberto -TBA
	Marinero Herman Diaz
	Conductor Alfredo Munar
	Set Designer Carlos Arditti
	Stage Director Raffaele Cardone
	Chorus Master Pablo Hernandez

Sung in Spanish.

* MLO Debut