Río de Sangre

Music by Don Davis, libretto by Kate Gale, Spanish translation by Alicia Partnoy

An epic, lyrical tale of a dictator and his wife in a fictional Latin American country, sung in Spanish.

Don Davis is a California-based composer who has achieved recognition both as a composer of contemporary orchestral works and as a dramatic composer for film and television. He has won three BMI awards, two ASCAP Foundation grants and two Emmy Awards and recently scored all the films in the Matrix trilogy.

Conductor & Language Coach: Lucy Arner
Blanca: Caroline Worra
Antonia: Kerry Walsh
Guajardo: Christopher Jackson
Delacruz: Todd Thomas
Igneo: Wayne Hobbs
Estella: Cherry Duke

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VOX 2007

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Elegy for a Prince
Airline Icarus
Río de Sangre
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The Endings
In the Father’s Garden
Crossing the Horizon
The Fisher King
With Such Friends…
La Machine de l’être