The original version of El Amor Brujo was premiered on 15th April 1915. This distinctively Andalusian work was created in response to renewed calls for the development of a new musical theatre genre. The work encompassed Manuel de Falla´s music, lyrics by María Lejárraga, direction by Gregorio Martínez Sierra, and staging by Néstor Martín Fernández de la Torre. 2015 marks the 100th anniversary of the premiere which, owing to its pioneering and bold nature, would soon revolutionize the Spanish music and theatre scene and set it on the path towards modernity.

Now, one hundred years on, El Amor Brujo still retains its fascinating allure, keeping audiences spellbound due, in large part, to the universal and timeless nature of the subject matter it explores, namely – love and death. From a musical perspective, its enthralling and sensual melodies have become an integral part of our collective imagery.

It is for this very reason – the ease with which this work has become an integral part of Western culture, that we must study it in all of its facets, attempting to apprehend the creative processes that went into its development, while not losing sight of the work´s significance and meaning in our own times.

The organizing committee of Granada’s International Festival of Music and Dance, along with the University of Granada and the Complutense University of Madrid have thus decided to organize a conference series in order to bring together academics conducting innovative research on the work, with a view to sharing knowledge and experience and fostering healthy debates and discussion in a fundamentally important area.

The overarching aim of this international conference, therefore, is to facilitate dialogue between musicologists and other researchers working in the fields of cultural history and heritage, aesthetics, the performing arts, literature and art history.

For more information, please visit:

• International Conference ´El Amor Brujo´: A Metaphor of Modernity (1915-2015)