Los Diamantes de Corona

About this film

The Cylinder Archive [ www.cylinder.de ] release for May 2010: A quite hard to find Edison Blue Amberol cylinder record of the Mexican series. The particular song, a Spanish Bolero, was composed by Francisco Asenjo Barbieri 1854 in Madrid. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia : Francisco Asenjo Barbieri (3 August 1823 – 17[1] or 19 February 1894) 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, Los diamantes de la corona, and El Diablo en el poder. He was born and died in Madrid, appropriately, since the themes are characters of his operas are often distinctly Spanish and Madrileñan. Among the characters featured by Barbieri are bullfighters, manolos and manolas, and even (in Pan y toros) the famous Spanish painter, Francisco Goya. The character of much of Barbieri’s work is farcical, utilizing mistaken identity and other devices to entertain the audience. His themes deal largely with the ins and outs of love, and the relations between the upper and lower classes in nineteenth-century Spain, but there is also a distinct political character to much of his work. The zarzuel…

Directors & creators

Emilia Sánchez & Matilde Herrera

Subjects

cylinder record; Bolero; Mexican; Spanish; Spain; Duet; Operetta; Latin

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