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Federico del Sagrado Corazón de Jesús García Lorca [a] [b] (5 June 1898 – 19 August 1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright, and theatre director. García Lorca achieved international recognition as an emblematic member of the Generation of '27, a group consisting mostly of poets who introduced the tenets of European movements (such as symbolism, futurism, and surrealism) into Spanish ...
Blood Wedding (Spanish: Bodas de sangre) is a tragedy by Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca.It was written in 1932 and first performed at Teatro Beatriz in Madrid in March 1933, then later that year in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The House of Bernarda Alba (Spanish: La casa de Bernarda Alba) is a play by the Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. Commentators have often grouped it with Blood Wedding and Yerma as the Rural Trilogy. Garcia Lorca did not include it in his plan for a "trilogy of the Spanish land" (which remained unfinished at the time of his murder). [1]
The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife (La zapatera prodigiosa), also known as The Shoemaker's Wonderful Wife and The Shoemaker's Prosperous Wife, is a play by the twentieth-century Spanish dramatist Federico García Lorca. [1] [2] It was written between 1926 and 1930, and first performed in 1930.
In contrast to García Lorca's first play, The Butterfly's Evil Spell, which was first performed in 1920 but which closed after only four performances, Mariana Pineda was a success. [1] Consequently, García Lorca often claimed that Mariana Pineda was his first play. The play figures prominently in the opera Ainadamar (2003) by Osvaldo Golijov.
The Romancero gitano (often translated into English as Gypsy Ballads) is a poetry collection by Spanish writer Federico García Lorca.First published in 1928, it is composed of eighteen romances with subjects like the night, death, the sky, and the moon.
Lorca, himself a composer, conceived this play with musical interludes (Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas) as well as songs on stage.The stylized construction of the piece has proved attractive as an operatic subject to numerous composers, among them Rieti (1949), Elston (1958), Maderna (1961), Fortner (1962), Olsen (1966), Goeyvaerts (1972), Belamarić (1974), Dreznin (1981), Susa (1984), Hoyer ...
García Lorca, Federico. 1970. Five Plays: Comedies and Tragi-Comedies.Trans. James Graham-Lujan and Richard L. O'Connell. London: Penguin. ISBN 0140181253.Includes: The Billy-Club Puppets, The Shoemaker's Prodigious Wife, The Love of Don Perlimplín and Belisa in the Garden, Doña Rosita, the Spinster, The Butterfly's Evil Spell.