Xochicuicatl cuecuechtli

About the show

A Cuicamatini (Master Singer) teaches music to three young women, who also learn to prepare maize. The stranger Tohuenyo arrives and seduces them, then finds himself alone. Xochipilli appears and gives him an ocarina, a symbol associated with sex and death. The opera presents sexuality as an analogy for the intense but fleeting nature of life.