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The Arts Intel Report

A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Doña Francisquita, by Amadeu Vives

Nov 10–17, 2019
La Rambla, 51-59, 08002 Barcelona, Spain

It’s a zarzuela, a lyric-dramatic genre unique to Spain, which bounces between scenes sung and spoken. In this refreshed view of a Spanish classic—Amadeu Vives’s Doña Francisquita—three love triangles break open, shift, and merrily, mathematically, resolve. —L.J.