EL CIMARRÓN
An AMOC* Production
Music by HANS WERNER HENZE
Libretto by HANS MAGNUS ENZENSBERGER
based on the autobiography of ESTEBAN MONTEJO
as related to Miguel Barnet
DAVÓNE TINES, bass-baritone
EMI FERGUSON, flute
JONNY ALLEN, percussion
JORDAN DODSON*, guitar
ZACK WINOKUR, director
JOHN TORRES, lighting designer
CARLOS SOTO, costume designer
CATH BRITTAN, producer
JENNIFER CHEN, rehearsal assistant
Hans Werner Henze’s El Cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a tour-de-force sonic onslaught based on the oral autobiography of Esteban Montejo, an enslaved Afro-Cuban who escaped bondage on a sugar plantation, survived in the jungle, fought for Cuban independence from Spain, and lived to tell about it, all before dying at the age of 113. Henze’s visceral score is a cry for freedom that transcends time and place.
*denotes special guest artist
Premiered May 10-11, 2019 at the Met Fifth Avenue, New York, NY as part of Julia Bullock’s season as Artist-in-Residence at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Production photos by Stephanie Berger, Samuel J. Brewer, Vincent Tullo, and Taylor West
“spellbinding…a true ensemble performance”
