Omega
Enrique Morente
Lagartija Nick

VENUE
BAM Howard Gilman Opera House

DATE/ TIME
Nov 5, 7 & 8 at 7:30pm

TICKETS
$20, 45

Listen to a excerpt of Sacerdotes, a track from Morente & Lagarita Nick's album Omega

DESCRIPTION
With a single lament, Enrique Morente moves mountains. From the moment he steps onstage, acknowledges his musicians, and assumes his opening stance, he has the audience in his thrall. A flamenco singer of the first rank, Morente is at once authoritative and seductive as he telegraphs the form's pathos, yearning, and eroticism.

In Omega, a flamenco music concert based on his eponymous album, Morente (backed by five outstanding flamenco musicians and the rock group Lagartija Nick) pays tribute to the turbulent surrealism of Federico García Lorca's Poeta en Nueva York, the Spanish poet's outraged response to Depression-era New York, and to songwriter Leonard Cohen's words and music, whose own incendiary takes on our city drew inspiration from the passions inherent in both Lorca and flamenco.
The result is a cross-cultural triumph. Classical flamenco guitar, bass, and percussion, dazzling, tough-minded lyrics, and cutting-edge rock come together to create an irresistible and uniquely original fusion of sounds and sensibilities.

Performed in Spanish

Presented in association with Instituto Cervantes