MEDIATHEK

El Cristo de Elqui is an opera of four acts and a prologue, by one of the most radical Chilean composers, Miguel Farías, known for his opera Renca, Paris and Nits. The libretto is based on the books The Art of the Resurrection and Queen Isabel sang rancheras by the national author Hernán Rivera Letelier,
 
 The staging is from Jorge Lavelli, the french-argentinian theater director and libretist.
 
 The music of El Cristo de Elqui is intended as an attempt to represent the voice of the desert and the northern pampas, with its passive nights and afternoons of howls of suffering and pleasure. The desert speaks during the interludes, while in the dramatic scenes, the music visits the common spaces of the Chilean north of the 20th century. They visit rancheras and boleros that unite miners, prostitutes and priests, while the desert whispers the eternal song of their own voice and history that is mixed with the whistles of their silence. In this sound space the Christ of Elqui starts and adventure to be consecrated as the new messiah, or a self-confident madman... the pampa will judge.