Chat in La Dolores

La Dolores is an opera by Tomás Bretón premiered on March 16,1895 at the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, according to a libretto written by Tomás Bretón himself, based on the play of his friend Feliú y Codina, and doing even more Popular the myth of "La Dolores". Breton, precursor of the so-called "Spanish opera", created a work full of drama but away from the prevailing neo-romanticism in the literary and Italian opera styles, approaching more Wagnerian. José Feliú y Codina wrote this work in 1891 based on a popular copla that, he said, he heard in Binéfar during a trip from Madrid to Barcelona.

At present, discarded the importance of the theories about its real existence, as maintains Sanchez Portero, the study focuses on the literary production that occurred after the creation of the myth. Shortly after the premiere of the opera, Feliu transforms his work into a novel, and second parts appear such as those of Acevedo, Luis Fernández Ardavín and others, and, above all, they produce cinematographic works of special interest, such as the one shot in 1908 by the pioneer of the cinema Fructuós Gelabert, that of 1923, by Maximiliano Thous Orts, and those of 1940 and 1947, starring and directed respectively by Concha Piquer, by Florián Rey, and Imperio Argentina, by Benito Perojo. In Calatayud, in the province of Zaragoza, there is a museum about the universal work of Breton. The song, with jota's air, says: If you go to Calatayud,. Ask for Dolores,. That is a very pretty girl.

And friend of doing favors."La Dolores" has also served as inspiration for memorable parts of the Anthology of the Zarzuela in 1964, by José Tamayo Rivas. After its premiere the work was represented 53 days in a row in Madrid and 103 in the Tívoli de Barcelona. Later, it was censored and cut off, with the performances being suspended in 1923. It was performed for the last time at the Teatro Real in October 2004, with stage director José Carlos Plaza and musical director: Antoni Ros Marbá. And as interpreters: Elisabete Matos, Alfredo Portilla, Stefano Palatchi, Cecilia Diaz, Angel Ódena and Enrique Baquerizo among others. The first DVD of this opera was recorded from this last performance, which also includes a second DVD of extras and a 32-page booklet with detailed information on the author, the work and its interpreters.

Among the information provided by the libretto deserves to stand out that of three great critics. For Guillermo Morphy, protector of Breton, Casals and Albéniz among other outstanding musicians,"La Dolores is a Spanish opera on all four sides, in fact, its plot, characters, place of action, music and popular pictures, all lead to the Spain of the end of the century, next to end in the crisis of 98 ". For Emilio Casares,"With its premiere it was finally possible to contemplate in Spain the total success of an opera of ours. Dolores is also the fruit of an era, of necessity and of circumstances: the continuous desire throughout the century XIX to arrive at a great Spanish national opera ".

And finally, for José Carlos Plaza, National Theater Prize, and stage director of La Dolores,"Solana, Valle, Goya, Buñuel have been flying over our work, they and many others, were able to strip a part of the Spanish soul and Bretón, with his Dolores, is one more piece of this chain, showing a part of Spain, the obscurantist and repressive Spain that, although times depict it with modernity, still strikes heartbreaking." On the other hand, the recording of Plácido Domingo de La Dolores, also directed by Antoni Ros Marbá, won the Gramy Latino in 2000. This opera is rarely performed today. In the statistics of Operabase does not appear among the operas represented in the period 2005-2010.

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