DIARIO DI UNA MADRE

THE BOND THAT SPANS A LIFETIME

The Perelada Festival presents the world premiere of Diario di una madre, a new song cycle by Alberto García Demestres with lyrics by Cristina Pavarotti, performed by soprano Sabina Puértolas and pianist Rubén Fernández Aguirre.
Spanning fourteen songs and two interludes, the work takes the form of an imaginary diary that covers an entire life: from the moment a mother senses the presence of her daughter to the moment when memory begins to fade. Between these two points, the cycle unfolds a succession of scenes and moments we recognise as our own - childhood, adolescence, love, separation - which, while maintaining an intimate tone, are charged with an emotional depth that transcends the anecdotal.
Cristina Pavarotti's lyrics, written in Italian, adopt a direct and seemingly everyday register, marked by irony and a lucidity that avoids any idealisation. The mother appears not only as an origin or refuge, but as a subject who questions herself, doubts and acknowledges her own fragility. The daughter, meanwhile, is portrayed in absence, in the separation, in that inevitable movement that defines any bond.
Alberto García Demestres' music does not illustrate this story but runs parallel to it, like another diary. Through a composition that alternates lyricism and tension, proximity and distance, the score creates an expressive space where emotions are not fixed but transformed. Rather than describing, the music accompanies thought and makes it audible, always maintaining a living relationship with the word.
In the performance by Sabina Puértolas and Rubén Fernández Aguirre, this universe takes shape as an intimate, almost confidential listening experience, where the voice and the piano share the same space of breath and meaning.
A premiere that places motherhood at the centre of a discourse that rejects clichés to explore, with profound honesty, the passage of time, the transformation of the body and the persistence of the bond.