“Tres Vidas,” a chamber music theatre work for singing actress and trio, will be presented Tuesday, Oct. 14, at 8 p.m. in Ice Auditorium in Melrose Hall at Linfield College.
The performance is based on the lives of three legendary Latin American women: renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Salvadoran peasant-activist Rufina Amaya and poet Alfonsina Storni of Argentina.
With a script written by Chilean scholar and award-winning writer Marjorie Agosin, “Tres Vidas” offers powerful portrayals of each woman. Christina Isabel Lucas portrays the three heroines, with storylines including Frida Kahlo’s dramatic and passionate relationship with painter Diego Rivera, Rufina Amaya’s astounding singular survival of the massacre at El Mozote, and Alfonsina Storni’s life-long challenges as Argentina’s first great feminist poet.
The musical score, performed by the Core Ensemble (cello, piano, percussion), includes arrangements of traditional Latin American folk songs as well as Argentinean popular and tango songs made famous by Mercedes Sosa and Carlos Gardel. Additional music by Astor Piazzolla, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz, Alice Gomez, Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez, Michael DeMurga, and Osvaldo Golijov round out the musical score.
Chamber Music Theatre is a unique performance format developed by the Core Ensemble featuring a marriage of theatrical narrative to chamber music performance. Since 1993, the Core Ensemble has toured nationally to every region of the United States and internationally to England, Russia, the Ukraine, Australia and the British Virgin Islands. The Ensemble was the recipient of the 2000 Eugene McDermott Award for Excellence in the Arts awarded by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has received support from the State of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs, New England Foundation for the Arts, Palm Beach County Cultural Council, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Virgil Thomson Foundation.
Sponsored by the Lacroute Arts Series at Linfield College, the Department of Music and the Department of Theatre and Communication Arts, the performance investigates Linfield’s 2014-15 PLACE (Program for Liberal Arts and Civic Engagement) theme by exploring the question of “How Do We Know?” through storytelling. It also contributes to the celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month.
The performance is free. Seating is first-come, first-served. For more information, call 503-883-2802.
