El Amor Brujo [Love the Magician] ~ Original Version
Manuel de Falla El Amor Brujo [Love the Magician] Gitaneria en un acto y dos cuadros (Gypsy Ballet in One Act and Two Scenes) Libretto: Gregorio Martínez Sierra Original Version (1915)
Cuadro primero I Scene 1 Introduccion y Escena / Introduction and Scene Cancion del amor dolido / Song of the Pain of Love Sortilegio (A media noche) / Enchantment (At midnight) Danza del fin del día / Dance of the End of the Day Escena (El amor vulgar) / Scene (Ordinary Love) Romance del pescador / Romance of the Fisherman Intermedio (Interlude)
Cuadro segundo / Scene 2 Introducción (El fuego fatuo) / Introduction (Will-o'-the-Wisp) Escena (El Terror) / Scene (Terror) Danza del fuego fatuo / Dance of the Will-o'-the-Wisp Interludio (Alucinaciones) / Interlude (Hallucinations) Canción del fuego fatuo / Song of the Will-o'the-Wisp Conjuro para reconquistar el amor perdido / Spell to win back lost love Escena (El amor popular) / Scene (Common Love) Danza y Cancion de la bruja fingida / Dance and Song of the False Witch Final (Las campanas del amanecer) / Finale (Bells of Morning)
Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Mezzo-Soprano Dialogue: Natacha Valladares – Ismael Pons-Tena I Cameristi Diego Dini-Ciacci, conductor
El Amor Brujo owes its origin to the inspiration provided by the gypsy dancer Pastora Imperio and her mother, Rosario la Mejorana, from whom Falla learned much about gypsy songs and traditions. The scenario was provided by Gregorio Martínez Sierra. Candelas, a beautiful and passionate gypsy girl, has loved a dissolute and faithless young gypsy. Her life with him was difficult, but now that he is dead she cannot forget him. The scene opens at night in a gypsy house, where two gypsy girls are sitting on the floor, reading the cards. Candelas remembers her faithless lover, whose absence still haunts her, now that he is dead. She is resolved to seek revenge, and this she does by resource to magic, entering the witch's cave and, in spite of the Will-o-'the-Wisp that frequents the place, making use of her magic to summon the spirit of her dead lover back, only to spurn him, treating him as once he treated her. The original version of El amor brujo, in which Pastora Imperio performed at the first staging at the Teatro Lara in Madrid in 1915, uses a relatively small group of instruments and contains material that was omitted from the more familiar revised concert version.