Title

Hatuey : Memory of Fire

Authors

Office of Arts + Cultural Programming
PEAK Performances at Montclair State University

Date(s) of Performance

9/14/2018 - 9/23/2018

Company

Music-Theatre Group

Directed by

Director: Mary Birnbaum; Music Director: Constantine Kitsopoulos

Created by

Music: Frank London; Libretto: Elise Thoron; Music Director/Conductor: Constantine Kitsopoulos; Stage Director: Mary Birnbaum; Choreographer: Maija Garcia

Performers/Artists

Performers: Nathaniel Stampley, Matthew Patrick Morris, Jennifer Jade Ledesna, Nicolette Mavroleon, Ethan Simpson, Tomas Cruz, Enrique Acevedo, Gerardo Contino, Jen Anaya, Eliza Bonet, Tislarm Bouie, Lauren Cox, Myriam Gadri, Abdiel Jacobsen, Sandra Marante, Jorell Williams

Summary

HATUEY: Memory of Fire is a soaring Cuban-Yiddish opera, a love story set in a Havana nightclub in 1931. Oscar, a young Jewish writer who escaped the pogroms in the Ukraine to make a new home in Cuba, falls in love with Tinima, a beautiful singer and passionate revolutionary of Taino descent. As Oscar pens an epic poem about Cuba’s legendary 16th century freedom fighter, Hatuey, Tinima draws him into her fight against the corrupt Machado regime. This vibrant fusion of Afro-Cuban and Yiddish music and culture is also a powerful celebration of freedom performed in English, Yiddish, and Spanish with English supertitles.

Disciplines

Theatre and Performance Studies

Link to Full Performance Video

Full Performance Video

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Files

Additional Information

Interview on YouTube

OPEN Artist Spotlight with cast of Hatuey: Memory of Fire