FULL La rosa del azafrán (Guerrero) Sevilla 2018 Compañía Sevillana de Zarzuela
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: La rosa del azafrán
- Composer: Guerrero Jacinto
- Libretto: Federico Romero Sarachaga, Guillermo Fernández-Shaw Iturralde Libretto Text, Libretto Index
- Venue & Opera Company: Teatro Lope de Vega, Sevilla, Spain
- Recorded: December 4 & 5, 2018
- Type: Staged Opera Live
- Singers: Diana Larios, Andrés Merino, Marta García-Morales, Alejandro Rull de las Heras, Carmen García-Serrano, Federico Cassini, Karmelo Peña, Carlos Ortega
- Conductor: Elena Martínez Delgado
- Orchestra: Orquesta titular de la Compañía Sevillana de Zarzuela
- Chorus: Coro titular de la Compañía Sevillana de Zarzuela
- Stage Director: Nieves Fernández de Sevilla
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Streaming
- Quality Video: 4 Audio:4
- Subtitles: yessubs, essubs, gensubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
La rosa del azafrán is an adaptation of “El perro del hortelano” by Lope de Vega, with music by Jacinto Guerrero, a work by Federico Romero and Guillermo Fernández in 1930.
At its premiere on March 14, 1930 at the Calderón Theater in Madrid, “La rosa del azafrán” achieved numerous praise from critics of the time and from the audience who enjoyed its first performance, leaving several for the anthology of the genre. Numbers such as “La canción del sower”, “Las espigadoras” or “Serenata”, among others, which make a clear representation of the traditional and costumbrista life of the people of La Mancha.
The classic theme is the love between two characters who belong to different social classes. Juan Pedro, a ganán distinguished by his industriousness and honesty, sings a couplet with the intent to make him fall in love with Catalina, a maid in the house. But Catalina is also wanted by Moniquito, a young santero from the hermitage, who enters the scene with an urn that protects a San Roque. Not even the saint is worth Moniquito in his flirtations with the maid, who once again rejects him.
In the script, reference is made to the fact that love is as fragile as this pilgrim flower, the saffron, “which sprouts at sunrise and dies at sunset.”