Eunice, El centurión, El tribuno estudio de la trilogía operística del compositor Luis Humberto Salgado sobre el surgimiento del cristianismo en el decadente imperio romano del siglo I

Abstract

This study analyzes in a pioneering way the manuscripts of the unpublished opera El Centurión by Luis H. Salgado to determine its compositional chronology and its possible relationships with its historical context, and clarify the revision that the composer makes of the dramaturgical macrostructure after completing the composition. The investigation of these heritage materials takes as a reference previous analyses carried out by the author of this article and his experiences in the execution of the composer’s music theater work. This study has a heuristic character, since it produces some relevant questions: does Salgado’s work respond to features of his historical context? What structural plan does the composer have at the beginning of the process and how does he review it? This research generates orientations for the poetics of the design of a staging of the work, which constitutes a historical debt of the country’s culture since 1997, the year in which the documents entered public funds.