Opera
Opera
Stay in Mexico - Ópera 360º - 2022
Creator-librettist
A newly written Virtual Reality opera, featuring 30 Asylum Seeking at the US-MEXICO border wall
Dido and Aeneas 2020
Stage director
Baroque opera by Henry Purcell, staged as part of the FESTIVAL DE MÉXICO EN EL CENTRO HISTÓRICO (online performances) with the Academia de Música Antigua AMA-UNAM and Compañía de Danza Juvenil DAJU UNAM.
Dido and Aeneas 2019
Stage director
Baroque opera by Henry Purcell, staged as part of the IMPULSO Festival in UNAM (Sala Miguel Covarrubias, Mexico City) with the Academia de Música Antigua AMA-UNAM and Compañía de Danza Juvenil DAJU UNAM.
Camille Claudel 2019-2021
Actor
80-min one-woman show written by Gaël Le Cornec directed by Diego Vázquez. Premiered in Teatro La Capilla in México City February-May 2019 (EFIARTES México). Second Season: Sala Villaurrutia, CCB, INBA, México City, October 2019. Third season: Mexico National Tour, Festival Una Sola Voz, INBAL Summer 2021. Fourth Season: Teatro Benito Juárez, Mexico City, October 2021.
IM.PULSO 2018
Co-Curator & Co-producer
The second edition of this Performing Arts Festival, which features opera, took place at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in August-September 2018. IM.PULSO produces original music & stage productions, commissions new work, supports emerging artists and promotes collective creation.
Liquid History
movement director
Liquid History was part of the Totally Thames Festival 2017, funded by PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund and Arts Council England.
Opera, physical theatre and carnival collide in this brand new production that tells the story of London and the ebb and flow of its people through five found objects from the River Thames.
Writer & Director Ruth Mariner, Composer Sarah Dacey, Designer Kate Lane, Film-maker Daisy Dickenson, Movement Director Yuriria Fanjul, Singers: Donna Lennard, Claire Filer, Chiara Vinci, Will Davies, Adrien Mastrosimone
Created in collaboration with The Museum of London Docklands, The Thames Museum and Totally Thames.
Supported by Arts Council England, PRS Foundation and by The Stephen Oliver award to tour in 2018.
Yuriria Fanjul
Acting Reel
Monologues and scenes from:
The Young Lady of Tacna, by Mario Vargas Llosa
News from the Empire, by Fernando del Paso
Yerma, by Federico García Lorca
The Tempest, by William Shakespeare
IM.PULSO 2017
Co-Curator & Co-producer
The first edition of this Performing Arts Festival, which features opera, took place at UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in August 2017. IM.PULSO produces high level stage productions, commissions new work, supports emerging artists and promotes collective creation.
L'Orfeo
movement director
The Mexican premiere of Bruno Maderna’s orchestration of Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo (1607) at the Palacio de Bellas Artes Opera House in Mexico City, opened the 33rd edition of the Festival del Centro Histórico de la Ciudad de México.
With a Semi-Staged/Concert version of this piece -considered to be the first opera ever written- we celebrated the 450th anniversary of Monteverdi’s birth, the 410th anniversary of the premiere of this opera, and finally the 50th anniversary of Bruno Maderna’s orchestration.
La Creciente
director
Commissioned by Festival Internacional Cervantino FIC 2015, as part of the programe OM21 “Opera Mexicana Siglo XXI”.
Based on the film El Premio by Paula Markovitch
Composer: Georgina Derbez, Librettist: Paula Markovitch.
Music Director: Ludvig Carrasco
Stage Director: Yuriria Fanjul, Co-director Ragnar Conde
Set & Costume Design: Edyta Rzewuska
Producer: Valeria Palomino
Cast: Irasema Terrazas, Gabriela Flores, Carolina Wong, Juan Carlos Heredia, Schola Cantorum.
The Turn of the Screw
Director
Review: The Turn of the Screw, Anglo Hungarian Opera Company
“Thank you so much for this wonderful opera and spectacle; we hope to see your company again. We are strongly touched, deeply agitated… The screw didn’t turn just once this evening… perhaps it’s much more fair to say that the world did turn in fact. Thanks again! ”
- Anonymous, Audience member, Budapest 2011
Review: The Turn of the Screw, Anglo Hungarian Opera Company
“A truly remarkable experience. Drama, music, expression – this production had it all. Such talent. Bravo!”
- Jane Lance, Audience member, Budapest 2011
A Sign in Space
movement Director
Commissioned by Gestalt Arts, Composed by N. Morrish Rarity with a libretto of A. Sawbridge, based on works by Calvino and Defoe.
Stage Director: Ruth Mariner
Music Director & Conductor: William Cole
Performed at Peckham, London 2014.
Adrift
movement Director
Commissioned by Gestalt Arts, Composed by Ed Scolding.
Stage Director: Ruth Mariner.
Music Director & Conductor: William Cole.
Performed at Peckham, London 2014.
Review: Clive and Other Stories, Gestalt Arts
"The best came last: Adrift. A man and a woman (Oliver Brignall and Maud Miller) sat stranded on a raft, rocking slowly as they resigned themselves to their impending death. The stage direction was a stroke of genius, with actors lurching under rippling blue cloth to form waves, while a moon sculpted from paper and fairy lights slowly passed above."
- Francesca Wickers, Fringe Opera
Clive
movement Director
Commissioned by Gestalt Arts, Composed by Ben Ashby, with a libretto of Matthew Lee Knowles.
Stage Director: Ruth Mariner.
Music Director & Conductor: William Cole.
Performed at Peckham, London 2014.