In December 1965, the Theater of the University of Concepción (TUC, 1945-1973) premiered the first known work that intended an approach to musical theater produced entirely in this local context: La flor de la laguna, by Roberto Navarrete Troncoso. This piece reveals aesthetic priorities, political concerns and dispositions to contingent problems that, in their intersections, show the regimes of visibility-invisibility that defined the paths of dramaturgy in a provincial territory. With an approach based mainly on local history, we propose an analysis centered on thematic and musical contents, which allows reconstructing the position of La flor de la laguna as a singularity within the theatrical-music poiesis of Concepción, which responds to the needs of innovation, claims for local contents and critical sensitivity to contemporary political-social contingency.
Keywords:
Roberto Navarrete, Eduardo Gajardo, Theatre of the University of Concepción, TUC, musical theatre
Henríquez Puentes, P., Masquiarán Díaz, N., Pereira Pereira, D., & Amaya, J. P. (2019). Between the poietic intention and the political gesture. La flor de la laguna and the origins of musical theater in Concepción. Revista Musical Chilena, 73(232), 46–69. Retrieved from https://revistamusicalchilena.uchile.cl/index.php/RMCH/article/view/55816
