JORGE SOSA
LAURA SOSA PEDROZA & JORGE SOSA
DAVID ALAN MILLER
La Reina is an electro-acoustic opera with text in Spanish and English. Drawing its narrative from the drug trade in Mexico and the United States, the opera is inspired by some of the most vivid real life players in this increasingly violent war from the past and present. Composer Jorge Sosa’s music blends classically trained voices with a chamber orchestra of acoustic and electronic forces, and powerfully conveys a gripping libretto by Laura Sosa Pedroza. Regina, a character inspired by Sandra Ávila Beltrán known as “The Queen of the Pacific,” prays in an American prison cell, asking the patron saint of drug dealers, to protect her. Suddenly, the shrine comes to life. La Santa Muerte guides Regina on a journey through her past, forcing her to relive the tragic sequences of death and treason that led to her crowning as the queen of organized crime, and ultimately her downfall and imprisonment
Commissioned by American Lyric Theater Lawrence Edelson, Producing Artistic Director
Co-presented by American Lyric Theater, The Prototype Festival and French Institute/Alliance Française
At French Institute/Alliance Française’s Florence Gould Hall
