WHEN:
Saturday, April 5th, 2025
WHERE:
The Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture
2936 N Southport Avenue
Chicago, IL
A spokesperson describes the event as follows:
“...REMEDIOS VARIOS PARA LAS AFLICCIONES
DEL CUERPO Y EL ESPÍRITU
(Various Remedies for the Affliction of the Body and Spirit)
Composer: Carlos Carrillo / Librettist: Stephanie Fleischmann
Set in a world devoid of color and inspired by the imagery of surrealist painter Remedios Varo, a lone tree holds within its rings the memory and possibility of music, poetry, and art. An herbalist struggles to heal a community afflicted by a siege of maladies, and a homesick boarding-school student dreams of escape. An ancient medicinal, written in Spanish (one of countless forbidden languages), just may hold the key — to transcendence, or complete obliteration. This operatic fable journeys into the realm of imagination, where renewal and possibility take root… and blossom..."
