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Spanish. Premiere. 6 October 1851. ( 1851-10-06) Teatro del Circo, Madrid. Jugar con fuego (Playing with Fire) is a zarzuela in three acts by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri, to a Spanish libretto by Ventura de la Vega. The first performance took place at the Teatro del Circo in Madrid on 6 October 1851, and it rapidly became a cornerstone of the ...
In office. 13 March 1892 – 19 February 1894. Preceded by. Pedro Antonio de Alarcón. Succeeded by. Segismundo Moret. Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 19 February 1894 [1]) was a well-known composer of the popular Spanish opera form, zarzuela. His works include: El barberillo de Lavapiés, Jugar con fuego, Pan y toros, Don Quijote ...
Alfredo Manuel De La Fé (born February 6, 1954) [ 1 ] is a Cuban -born and New York–based violinist who lived in Colombia for more than 16 years and is responsible for adapting the violin to Colombian traditional dance music creating innovative Salsa and Latin American music. The first solo violinist to perform with a Salsa orchestra, De La ...
Zarzuela (Spanish pronunciation: [θaɾˈθwela]) is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular songs, as well as dance. The etymology of the name is uncertain, but some propose it may derive from the name of a royal hunting lodge, the Palace of Zarzuela, near ...
17 February 1894 (1894-02-17) Teatro Apolo, Madrid. La verbena de la Paloma (The Fair of the Virgin of la Paloma) —subtitled El boticario y las chulapas y celos mal reprimidos — is an 1894 zarzuela with a libretto by Ricardo de la Vega [ es ] and music by Tomás Bretón. It premiered on 17 February 1894 in Teatro Apolo, Madrid.
Joaquín Romualdo Gaztambide y Garbayo ( Tudela, Navarre, 7 February 1822 – Madrid, 18 March 1870) was one of the most prominent Spanish composers of zarzuela in the mid-nineteenth century. His contribution to the revival of the genre was highly significant; and although during the last century his work virtually disappeared from the Spanish ...
Federico Moreno Torroba (3 March 1891 – 12 September 1982) was a Spanish composer, conductor, and theatrical impresario. He is especially remembered for his important contributions to the classical guitar repertoire, becoming one of the leading twentieth-century composers for the instrument. [2] He was also one of the foremost composers of ...
Zarzuela is characterized by a mixture of sung and spoken dialogue. Although Juan Hidalgo de Polanco's early forays into opera were more along the lines of Italian opera, he was instrumental in helping to create the art form, composing the first known zarzuela, El laurel de Apolo, in 1657. The courtly Baroque zarzuela, a mixture of ...