EL PAÍS DE SED (2018)

El país de sed is a piece for tenor and orchestra based on texts by the poet Raúl Zurita and music by the composer Ludwig van Beethoven. In Zurita's poem Escucha entonces pendejo, Beethoven is personified as a political prisoner at the time of the Chilean military dictatorship and his deafness as an allegory of a country incapable of listening to the tragedy that afflicts him.

For the musicalization of this poem I made use of the base material of three of the most political compositions of Beethoven, Fidelio, the Ninth Symphony and Egmont, in addition to some music that has a special meaning for Chilean society. Egmont curiously, 176 years after its premiere in Vienna, was censored in the context of Chilean dictatorship, in one of the most important stages of my country, the Chilean National Opera.

El país de sed is an attempt to find the links between the history of classical music and the political history of Chile.