AGUA, AZUCARILLOS Y AGUARDIENTE /
LA GRAN VÍA

 

AGUA, AZUCARILLOS Y AGUARDIENTE /
LA GRAN VÍA

17TH MALAGA SERIES OF ZARZUELA BY THE TEATRO LIRICO ANDALUZ 
Choreography Sonia Velez 
Choir and orchestra Teatro Lírico Andaluz
Stage direction Pablo Prados 
Conductor Jose Manuel Padilla

AGUA, AZUCARILLOS Y AGUARDIENTE
[Water, Sweets and Spirits]
Zarzuela in one act by Federico Chueca with a libretto by Miguel Ramos Carrion
With Adelaida Galan, Amelia Font, Eduvigis Sanchez, Estela Vicente, Miguel Guardiola, Luis Pacetti, Pablo Prados, Fran Ortiz y Patricio Sanchez

LA GRAN VIA
Zarzuela in one act by Federico Chueca and Joaquín Valverde with a libretto by Felipe Perez y Gonzalez
With Lourdes Martin, Estela Vicente, Amelia Font / Juana Escribano, Pablo Prados, Juan Carlos Barona, Luis Pacetti, Guillermo Diaz y Juan Jose Sanchez

2.00 h (w/intermissiohn)
www.teatroliricoandaluz.com

Hand programme (ESP)

Agua, azucarillos y aguardiente
Painting of life in Madrid based on the popular bourgeois tradition of strolling along the streets Recoletos and el Prado, where street vendors carrying huge earthenware pitchers (botijos) offered passers-by the classic aguaduchos, a refresment made with water from Lozoya or the Berro source, together with the traditional sweet known as azucarillo. This typical Madrid custom was the inspiration for Ramos Carrion’s sainete [comic sketch] that Chueca used as the starting point to compose one of his best scores. 

La Gran Vía
Amongst Chueca’s very popular production, La Gran Vía has been particularly fortunate. The plot revolves around the comments by the inhabitants of Madrid regarding the imminent construction of a new avenue. In 1886, the year of its premier, the demolition of streets and buildings began with the objective of cleaning and transforming the centre of the city. From that moment on, the libretto was subject to constant modifications due to the need to adapt a text that was so closely linked to ongoing events, and its repercussion on the Spanish composers and librettists of the time was huge. 

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