Knowing very little of the story of her life I was looking for a narrative which really only partially exists. This is more an expressive, emotive piece than a straight shot at biography.
Tamara is both feisty and fragile, a slight figure against the padded-out paunchiness of Irek Mukhamelov as Diego. Ever-present are the six skeleton figures who at one point don sombreros and become a comic if grisly Mariachi band.
Peter Salem’s music is evocative of Central America but also strident and dissonant at times, and is a perfect accompaniment to the angular , almost mechanical movements of the corps.
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