LAS HORAS VACIAS (Opera/Monodrama para actriz/soprano, piano, coro y orquesta de cuerdas) Texto y musica: Ricardo Llorca "Las Horas Vacias," una opera para soprano, coro, piano y orquesta de camara, es un ensayo sobre una mujer solitaria, adicta al Internet y que vive encerrada en su propio mundo de fantasia. "Las Horas Vacias" es un intento de explorar uno de los procesos psicologicos mas comunes y mas dolorosos que el ser humano puede experimentar: la soledad; la confusion entre el mundo real y el imaginario y la creciente sensacion de vacio en la que se ve inmersa la opulenta sociedad...

"The Dark Side," monodrama for mezzosoprano or baritone and piano is an early work of Llorca. It was premiered by Nancy Fabiola Herrera and the composer at the piano on October 4th, 1995 at Lincoln Center in New York City. In "The Dark Side" Llorca experiences for the first time with the voice, which alternates systematically between spoken and sung, a resource that will be a constant in his later opera "Las Horas Vacias/The Empty Hours." "The Dark Side," with a duration of twelve minutes, is divided into six parts: Recitative, Prayer, Recitative, Monologue, Recitative, and "Thread." The...

"The Empty Hours"" - an opera/monodrama for soprano, actress, chorus, piano and strings orchestra- is a work about a lonely woman, addicted to the internet, who lives in her own fantasy world. "The Empty Hours" is an attempt to explore a psychological process, so common in our contemporary world: the loneliness and the increasing feeling of emptiness of the developed Western societies. The compositional techniques in the score have already ample abstractions symbolizing the fragmentation of society, the isolation, the loss of identity that accompanies technology and the dark side of...