The lives of three legendary Latin American women will be portrayed in words, music and visuals on Friday, Sept. 28, at 7 p.m. in Ives Hall in Warren Auditorium at Sonoma State University.
Tres Vidas is a new chamber music theatre work based on the lives of three legendary Latin American women: renowned Mexican painter Frida Kahlo, Argentinean poet Alfonsina Storni, and Salvadoran peasant-activist Rufina Amaya.
Actress Georgina Corbo will portray the three heroines and perform the script by leading Latin American writer and scholar Marjorie Angosin in both Spanish and English.
The show includes images of Frida Kahlo's dramatic visual work, excerpts from Alfonsina Storni's passionate poetry,and passages from Rufina Amaya's heartfelt testimony regarding the brutal massacre of her village of El Mozote.
The internationally known Core Ensemble performs the music on cello, piano, marimba, vibraphone and an array of traditional percussion instruments. It includes arrangements of popular and folk music, plus work by tango master Astor Piazzola and new compositions by Osvaldo Golijov, Alice Gomez, Orlando Garcia, Pablo Ortiz and Carlos Sanchez-Gutierrez.
Tickets are $5 for students and $8 general and will go on sale at the Student Union Front Desk, (707) 664-2382, by mid-September. The program is sponsored by the Women's Resource Center, the Sonoma Student Union InterCultural Center and Associated Students Productions.
Note: Digital photos of the artists are available upon request.
