A Love the magician

ANTONIO JOSÉ The Muleteer, suite from opera,
MANUEL de FALLA Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Love, the Magician, ballet for cantaora voice, two flamenco dancers, flamenco ensemble and orchestra

cantaora Rocío Bazán, flamenco dance Ana Morales and David Perez, guitars Manuel de la Luz a Manuel Herrera, percussion Agustín Diassera, piano Alejandro Pico-Leonis, Brno Philharmonic, conductor Jörg Birhance

• An evening of Spanish passions, impressions and fiery dances
• Suite from the unfinished opera The Muleteer by Antonio José, a composer of the first third of the twentieth century who perished in the Spanish Civil War
• De Falla’s piano concerto Nights in the Gardens of Spain inspired by French impressionism
Love, the Magician (El amor brujo), ballet pantomime in one act based on an old Andalusian legend, in a symphonic version breath-takingly rendered by Spanish soloists and the Brno Philharmonic