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LA HABITACIÓN DE CARLOTA (Carlota’s Bedroom)
2019 - opera monodrama / 2020 Mexico / 2021 Bolzano
For soprano, actress and chamber orchestra
(video and electronics)
 
ARTURO FUENTES | SARAH MARIA SUN | SANDRA VICTORIA AGUILAR
ENSEMBLE VÉRTICE | CHRISTIAN GOHMER
 
Duration: 1 hr.
Original idea: Arturo Fuentes
Stage direction: Arturo Fuentes
Script and libreto: Arturo Fuentes
Lighting: Arturo Fuentes
Music composition and sound design: Arturo Fuentes
Video direction: Arturo Fuentes
Lighting and stage advice: Jim Clayburgh 
Audio direction and recording: Andrés Solís
Costume design: Arturo Fuentes, Eva Praxmarer
Dress painting: Günter Brus
Drone Controller: Enrique Gutiérrez
 
Based on the book Noticias del imperio by the Mexican writer Fernando del Paso (1935-2018)
 
Performed by: Ensamble Vértice
Conductor: Christian Gohmer
Soprano and acting: Sarah Maria Sun
Actress: Sandra Victoria Aguilar
 
Mexican Premiere: 
19th and 20th October 2019
Festival Vértice, UNAM. 
Sala Covarrubias
Executive producer: Festival Vértice 
Producer: Marisa de León
 
Storyline:  Carlota of Belgium, Empress of Mexico, sings her lament of love and oblivion. Locked in her castle for 60 years, she goes crazy writing letters to Maximilian.
 
Edited by: LondonHall Editions, Austria
Film recorded and produced by TV UNAM
VIDEO
2021 Italian premiere in Bolzano, Italy

​This video production is only for private use and for documentation purposes; prohibited its public reproduction. 

New version of the opera monodrama CARLOTA'S BEDROOM, with Johanna Vargas, Alice Crepaz-Fuentes, Peter Rundel and the Haydn Orchestra.
Premiere 11-12 June 2021, Bolzano, Italy
Trailer 1
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