The opera in Ecuador and Latin America: its problems

Abstract

The opera, musical genre born in Europe, will be adopted and cultivated in each Latin American country but adding own, original musical and lyrical characteristics of each place. This genre raises questions such as: How did the opera come to the Ecuador and to the rest of Latin America? What are the characteristics of the national opera in Ecuador and Latin America? Who made the opera at the Ecuador? Are there theaters in the Ecuador? Is the opera a genre in extinction in Latin America or is it in its beginnings? The purpose of this article is to make a study about musicological problems that it appears in the opera for what is necessary to encourage a conscience on the operatic productions which constitute lyric patrimonies in each one of the countries that integrate Latin America and especially in the Ecuador, since there are few publications on this topic, coupled with lack of interest manifested in the study of operas with national topics, difficult and necessary task that the musicologists should resolve.

KEY WORDS: opera in Ecuador; opera in Latin American; opera and musicology