Stories of women written by men
History weave = estera weave

“Opera is not forbidden for women. That is true. Women are its jewels, the indispensable ornament. Without primma donna, there is no opera. However, the role of jewelry, of a decorative object, is not the decisive one; and on the opera stage, women perpetually sing their ruin. The emotion is never as moving as when the voice is raised to die.” Catherine Clément

In opera, as in other artistic genres, men have monopolized and dominated androcentric stories and narrative schemes in which women are accessory characters and always articulated in terms of their heroic companions; this question expands into the history of humanity, in what percentage were more male historians concerning women? Do we live in a world invented and told by men?

The performance opens a range of questions and invites analysis of women’s stories constructed by the antagonistic gender.

The interculturality is present in these elements as a significant axis, the native and the western, possibly it could be a relation between the dominant and dominated culture in parallel to the patriarchal system and its domination, very apart from this comparison, it is a work of self-referential character of a feminine voice with Imbabureño origin from where the weave comes (mat made with the totora plant) about its musical formation, this causes that questions like woman and singer arise.

Melodies for action
“Porgi amor” de la ópera Le nozze di Figaro con música de Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart sobre un libreto en italiano de Lorenzo da Ponte, basado en la pieza de Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais.

“Stizzoso mio stizzoso” de la ópera La Serva Padrona, con música de Giovanni Battista Pergolesi y libreto en italiano de Gennaro Antonio Federico, a partir de la obra de teatro de Jacopo Angello Nelli

“El Lamento de Dido” de la ópera Dido y Eneas, con música de Henry Purcell y libreto en inglés del dramaturgo y poeta Nahum Tate

La Habanera de la ópera Carmen, musica por Georges Bizet y el libreto en francés de Ludovic Halévy y Henri Meilhac, basado en la novela Carmen de Prosper Mérimée.