[Opera Wire] Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera to Release ‘Con Alma’


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Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera to Release ‘Con Alma’


By: David Salazar
November 4, 2020





“Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera will team up for “Con Alma,” a new operatic album and live event both launching this December.

The album, which will be released on Dec. 4, was recorded remotely between March and October 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic and features classic songs from the Mexican and Jazz songbook. The work will be released on National Sawdust Tracks and features over 30 musicians across three continents including the all-women German-based Ensemble Sjaella, Constellation Chor, the Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Mexico’s Orquesta Sinfónica de Minería, Kronos Quartet cellist Jeffrey Zeigler, Silk Road clarinetist Kinan Azmeh, guitarists Romero Lubambo and Vinicius Gomes, arranger and multi-instrumentalist Gonzalo Grau, and arranger Diego Schissi.

 


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