Paola Prestini - Primero Sueño (2025) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

In this new opera, the interior world of Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz comes to light. Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz was a trailblazing poet, dramatist, scholar, and nun, and is regarded as one of the most remarkable writers of the colonial Latin American period and a pioneering feminist of the New World. Her 1692 magnum opus, the 975-line poem Primero Sueño, is a deeply symbolic journey through the mind and soul’s awakening. Sor Juana’s brilliance shines as she weaves themes of mysticism, feminism, and the profound connection to the natural world.

Sor Juana’s own words appear for the first time in operatic form, as a new musical collaboration between acclaimed composer Paola Prestini and jazz icon Magos Herrera, directed by Louisa Proske. Co-commissioned and co-produced by MetLiveArts and VisionIntoArt, this unprecedented work takes the form of a processional performance through The Met Cloisters. Herrera herself plays Sor Juana, and award-winning German vocal ensemble Sjaella represent both the nuns and the poem’s vivid images, which range from birds to pyramids to characters of Greek mythology. Featuring choreographer/dancer Jorrell Lawyer-Jefferson, sculpture artist David Miguel Herrera, costume and tech designer Andrea Lauer; lighting designer: Jiyoun Chang; projection designer: Jorge Cousineau and sound designer Christian Frederickson.

TRACKLIST

1. Paola Prestini - Piramidal
2. Paola Prestini - Nictimene
3. Paola Prestini - Hermanas
4. Paola Prestini - El Claustro
5. Paola Prestini - El Mar
6. Paola Prestini - Amable Trabajo
7. Paola Prestini - Santa Maria
8. Paola Prestini - Monan Vuchila
9. Paola Prestini - Parda Noche
10. Paola Prestini - Un Cadáver
11. Paola Prestini - El Alma
12. Paola Prestini - Secretos
13. Paola Prestini - El Ser más Elevado
14. Paola Prestini - Pirámides
15. Paola Prestini - La Reina de lo Sublunar
16. Paola Prestini - La Naturaleza
17. Paola Prestini - El Mundo se Ilumina



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