Marina Heredia returns to the United States to sing Manuel de Falla’s El Amor Brujo, alongside the San Diego Symphony and Rafael Payare, on 8 October at 7:30 p.m. on the spectacular stage of the Rady Shell at Jacobs Park. Marina will share the stage with Javier Perianes, who will play Noches en los Jardines de España, to complete, together with Chabrier’s España, a very Spanish evening that, in fact, is entitled A Night in Spain. Marina will repeat the experience later, in 2026, again with Rafael Payare but this time with the Philadelphia Orchestra.
Marina was in the United States as recently as this past March to participate in the New York Flamenco Festival, and previous visits include the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and St Luke’s in New York, always with El Amor Brujo and conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado. Her most recent performance was very special because, in addition to taking place at the Palace of Charles V in the Alhambra as part of the 1st Granada Flamenco Biennial, it was a double presentation as she sang En Libertad! El camino de los gitanos, presenting his latest album, with this work as the centrepiece, with the City of Granada Orchestra conducted by José Trigueros, and with José Quevedo “Bolita” on guitar and Paquito González on percussion. This work, composed jointly by Joan Albert Amargós and José Quevedo, was commissioned by the Duisburg Philharmonic Orchestra, with which it premiered on 28 and 29 June 2023 with Amargós himself conducting. It had its Spanish premiere in A Coruña on 24 and 25 May 2024 with the Galicia Symphony Orchestra, and this season it is also scheduled to be performed by the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra in January 2026, in both cases also conducted by Maestro Trigueros.
Marina Heredia is undoubtedly the most sought-after international singer for this repertoire. In recent seasons, she has performed at the Konzerthaus and Philharmonie in Berlin with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra; the Pierre Boulez Saal in Berlin, the Laieszhalle at the Elbphilharmonie in Hamburg, the Lausitz Festival in Görlitz, the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival, the New York Flamenco Festival and the Cartagena Festival. She has sung with orchestras of the stature of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the San Francisco Symphony, the Orchestre National de Lille, the Orquestra Sinfônica da Casa da Música do Porto, the Rouen Opera and the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, with which she recorded El Amor Brujo under the baton of Pablo Heras-Casado, and in La Fura del Baus’ production for the Granada Festival under the baton of Manuel Hernández -Silva, as well as with the Castile and León Symphony Orchestra and Thierry Fischer, the Galicia Symphony Orchestra and José Trigueros, the Navarra Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Perry So, the RTVE Symphony Orchestra, again conducted by Hernández-Silva, the Murcia Region Symphony Orchestra with Roberto Forés, and the North Macedonia Philharmonic Orchestra with Christian Vásquez.