Divara – Wasser und Blut

Divara – Wasser und Blut (Divara, Water and Blood) is a German-language opera by Azio Corghi to a libretto by the composer after the play In Nomine Dei by José Saramago,^[1][2] which tells the story of the Dutch "Anabaptist queen" Divara van Haarlem and the Münster Rebellion of 1534.

Divara – Wasser und Blut
Opera by Azio Corghi
Librettist	Azio Corghi
Language	German
Based on	In Nomine Dei by José Saramago
Premiere	31 October 1993 (1993-10-31) Theater Münster

The opera was premiered at Theater Münster 31 October 1993.^[3][4] The opera had originally been conceived for performance in Italian, as Divara – acqua e sangue, as the composer's previous collaboration with Saramago, Blimunda, based on the 1994 novel Baltasar and Blimunda (original title Memorial do convento).^[5]

Recordings

• Divara – Wasser und Blut, Münster Symphony Orchestra, Münster Theater Chorus, Musikverein Chorus, conductor: Will Humburg, 1993 Naxos Records