A Menina Gotinha de Água, New–Opera by Paula and Miguel Azguime

Miguel Azguime composition & libretto on original text by Papiniano Carlos
Paula Azguime concept; staging, video & sound projection
Erica Mandillo musical direction and choir staging Preparatory Choir of the Lisbon University
Camila Mandillo soloist
Lisbon University Children’s Choir 
Drawings from the Ateliers and Preparatory Choir of the Lisbon University
Andre Bartezki technical direction & software development
Perseu Mandillo film & image processing
Sara Janic costumes

Project: Miso Music Portugal / Miso Ensemble New OP-Era 
Miso Studio: multichannel diffusion system 
Miso Music: Portugal production

Commissioner: Ecomuseu Municipal do Seixal
Special acknowledgement to Papiniano Carlos’ family

This opera is about water cycle indispensable for human life on Earth. It tells a story of a water drop, which leaves the sea, evaporates, travels with the wind along with other million water drops, which are transformed into rain, give life to flowers and food to people, which descend to the ground, arouse in a fountain, in a water trickle, in a stream, turning into a river and going back to the sea. The opera’s setting is concomitantly built upon infantile visual imagery through real and digital images. The drawings, the videos, the representations and its transformations, hand in hand with movements/choreography of the choir contribute to the perception and fruition both of the music and the story. The music, sung by children, joins spoken and singing voices, real-time sound transformations of voice as well as nature and electronic sounds diffused in space.