Tango/María de Buenos Aires

Performances
BUYThursday, Mar 21, 2013, 9:00PM
BUYFriday, Mar 22, 2013, 9:00PM
BUYSaturday, Mar 23, 2013, 9:00PM
BUYSunday, Mar 24, 2013, 7:00PM
Miami: MMMM Fort Lauderdale: MMMM Location Key:

Performances are at The Stage, 170 NE 38th Street, Miami, FL 33137.

Admission is standing room, general admission.

A product of the highly-acclaimed, living American composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Tango is a one-act comic concert operetta composed for a single tenor role, sung by Young Artist Matthew Newlin, and a chamber ensemble. Designed to present three consecutive scenes without pause, the action follows the protagonist at the height of the tango craze in 1913 as he embodies different characters to convey the varied perceptions of this seductive and polarizing dance.

Set in Argentina, the surreal plot of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla’s María de Buenos Aires is the tale of ill-fated María, who was said to be born “on a day when God was drunk.” Living in the poor suburbs of Buenos Aires, María is seduced by the sounds of tango, becoming a streetwalker, and falling victim to a tragic death. The audience then follows María’s Shadow as it walks the city’s Underground, which has become her hell.