Germany - Mexico

In the poem Liebes-Lied, Rainer Maria Rilke imagines love as the vibration of a violin’s strings, which, when they touch, produce a single resonance without losing their individuality. From this delicate tension arises this recital: a journey through the different forms of desire, from its anticipation to its eruption, its fracture, and its persistence in memory.

In fin-de-siècle Vienna, Rilke’s texts and Arnold Schönberg’s music paint a world of extreme sensitivity. With Poulenc’s La voix humaine, featuring a French libretto by Jean Cocteau, the recital enters a radically different space: desire becomes an experience that reveals itself as need, obsession, and overflow. 

The voice becomes the body, and the body becomes a battlefield. This central section serves as the dramatic core of the program: a monologue that lays bare, without filters, the extreme vulnerability of love. After the breakup, desire ceases to belong to the present and shifts into memory. The texts by Federico García Lorca, alongside the music of Joaquín Turina and Enrique Granados, convey the experience of love transformed into echo, lament, and identity. In this final section, a dimension deeply rooted in Spanish culture emerges: love as a constant wound, as an emotion that survives and becomes tangible.