Abelardo e Heloísa

Abelard and Heloise
2025

Description

Composer:
Fátima Fonte

Librettist: Patrícia Portela
Date: 2025
Language: Portuguese
Duration: 30 minutes
Small-scale

Characters

Heloise: soprano
Abelard: baritone

Synopsis

What makes us prefer impossible love to requited love?
Abelard and Heloise, separated for 1000 years by death and the impossibility of consummating their love, meet again to rethink what love is, whom it serves and whom it consumes, suspecting that perhaps human beings are not cut out for happiness.

Instruments

Fl | Cl | Hn | Vln | Vc | Cb

Premiere

Date: 2025
Venue: Anfiteatro da Fonte Grande, Alte
Commission: FIO – Festival Informal de Ópera
Stage Director: Patrícia Portela
Music Director: Jan Wierzba
Cast: Ana Caseiro,  Ricardo Rebelo da Silva and Orquestra do Algarve

Scores & More Information

Listen excerpt 1    Listen excerpt 2    Composer’s Website

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