EL DÍA DE LA LIBERACIÓN

CHAMBER OPERA IN ONE ACT (2005)
World Permiere - Vienna, Austria 2006

Heinz Sichrovsky
News Magazine Austria

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“Today, it is a rare thing for opera premiers to be remembered. El día de la liberación by the Chilean composer Luis Saglie is in all ways memorable ... It manages decisively to tell a story through a vivid melodic sense.”
Samuel Adler, Composer
Professor Emeritus at the
Juilliard School and Eastman School of Music 

​"A terrific piece (El dia de la liberación), musically as well as dramatically exciting. Beautifully orchestrated and vocally most moving. You really know how to create the most effective mood and present every situation to its fullest."
Kronen Zeitung, Austria

“The musical language of Luis Saglie in the Chamber Opera El día de la liberación encorporates impacting forms of expression... Saglie portrays the emotional atmosphere clear and straight forward. He manages through good effects of sound to create an atomsphere, while sudden projecting lyricism break the situation... The orchestra ambitiously producing their sound under the direction of the composer...”
Jake Heggie, Composer / Pianist

"El día de la liberación... You have a wonderful gift... There is a real sense of gesture, motion, character, line, architecture and shape... I understood the emotion very clearly... I love the orchestration and the way you handle the voices - alternating between sung and spoken lines and the use of the voices. It is very smart, powerful and theatrical... The development of musical gestures is very clear...”

"I look forward to a large-scale opera from Saglie one day soon. He will surprise us all."
Photos by: Jens Gackenheimer
Christoph Norton-Welsh
"Opera" - The world´s leading opera magazine

"... a promising young Chilean composer ... Saglie himself conducted El Día de la Liberación (´Liberation Day´), his first opera ... He has found his own transparent language."
Wiener Zeitung

“What the composer embodies is a amiability for a moderate Modernism... colorful effects and rough rhythms assure tension. As conductor at the performance in the Penzinger Studiobühne, the Chilean composer was able to portray his composition as a success.”
Österreichische Musikzeitschrift


​“El día de la liberación... his score is put together through a brilliant technique lying somewhere between moderate serialism and a free-tonality. He convincingly portrayed this as the conductor of the opera’s premier.”
Huw Rhys James, Conductor / Pianist
Artistic Director of the Musikwerkstatt Wien - Vienna

“The performance of his opera, El día de la liberación was an enormous success... he composed a score that was full of contrasts and never lacked tension. He has a strong sense of rhythmic structure as well as being able to compose lyrical lines which express the different personalities of the characters on stage... He is an extremely good conductor, with a clear beat and a secure baton technique.”
EL DIA DE LA LIBERACION
Chamber Opera in One Act (2005)
Luis Saglie, composer
Alejandro Santini, librettist
Ute Engelhardt, stage director
Commissioned by Dr. Richard Seifert
Produced by Musikwerkstatt Wien

World Premiere:  Vienna, Austria - 2006
CAST
Don Everardo: Kwang Il Kim
Doña Matilde: Patricia Quinta
Fadrique: Roman Payer
Escolástica: Nina Bernsteiner
Pedrín: Ramón Huidobro

Orchestra of the Musikwerkstatt Wien
Luis Saglie, Music Director / Conductor
​El Día De La Liberación "Chamber Opera in One Act" (2005)
(Scene I_Ending) [pp.41-63 in conductor's score]
El Día De La Liberación "Chamber Opera in One Act" (2005)
(Scene III_Confrontation) [pp.123-131 in conductor's score]
El Día De La Liberación "Chamber Opera in One Act" (2005)
(Scene III_Opening) [pp.84-103 in conductor's score]