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La Malinche

BBC Radio 3
on BBC Radio 3

Words and music by Paul Barker.

A short opera exploring the moment when Cortes landed in Mexico and the Old World confronted the New: a moment of poise and reckoning before one civilisation toppled under the force of another.
(first UK broadcast)

Modern Music Theatre Troupe/The Composer

Contributors

Words and Music:
Paul Barker
Malinche, an Indian native:
Susanna Murray (soprano)
Cortes, Spanish conquistador:
Richard Jackson (baritone)
Xicotencatl, an Indian warrior-priest:
Jonathan Peter Kenny (counter-tenor)
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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