Exciting news from Gabriela Ortiz
With the successful premiere of her opera "Luciérnaga" (Firefly) and the reprising of her Téenek — Invenciones de Territorio, by the LA Phil this past month, Gabriela Ortiz show us again how great of a composer she is. Premiered on October 10th, the opera, with a libretto written by Silvia Peláez and commissioned by the festival Vertice of UNAM, tells the story of Alcira Soust Scaffo, an Uruguayan poet, who locked herself in the male toilet of the Tower of Humanities at UNAM,