Manual de Falla: Nana

Written by Sari Gruber

Soprano

In category: Song of the Day

Published July 10, 2019

When a singer welcomes a child into the family, there are many nights of baby-rocking that put to practical use the collection of lullabies learned for the recital stage. De Falla’s “Nana” was a song I had performed only once as a student at Tanglewood Music Center, but it reemerged from my long-term memory early on in the sleep-deprived search for good lullabies for our daughter. Unlike some songs that come and go, “Nana” has stuck around for nine years as a staple of the bedtime routine. My daughter now can sing it to me, with an uber-Spanish flair. De los Angeles floors me with her singing of this simple-sounding but devilishly difficult little song every time.

Repost from July 15, 2015

author: Sari Gruber

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Hailed as “nothing short of sensational” (Opera Magazine) and “a real creature of the stage,” (Opera News) soprano Sari Gruber is a longtime NYFOS favorite. As we anticipate her return to the NYFOS Mainstage this fall in a double bill of Marc Blitzstein’s No For An Answer and Kurt Weill’s Der Silbersee, we revisit her Song of the Day posts from 2015.

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