Premiere: 14th June 1989

Arriaga Theatre, Bilbao

Music: P. Donosti

Choreography: V. Olaeta

 

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A group of lamias (mythological monster with the body of a woman, supposed to suck the blood of children) is frolicking in a pond in Urbeltz, while a shepherd dreams that the sounds of his alboka (musical instrument) has brought them beside him. The most beautiful of them, who falls in love with the boy, magically turns into a human being. That love leads to a wedding which in turn leads to a whole series of typical sharp classical Basque dances.