Mariana Pineda (Lorca)
Mariana Pineda , subtitle: A Popular Romance in Three Pictures, is an early play by the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca . The work follows the story of Mariana de Pineda Muñoz , who wasexecutedas a rebel against the rule of Ferdinand VII in Granada and then became an Andalusian folk heroine. According to Lorca's own statement, he based the play not on the historical person, but on the myth of Mariana Pineda, formed by the oral story and the city of Granada. The piece was written between 1923 and 1925 and was first performed on June 24, 1927 at the Teatre Goya in Barcelona . García Lorca directed it himself, the set and costumes were designed by Salvador Dalí , and Margarita Xirgu took on the title role. In October of the same year the work wassuccessfully performedin Madrid at the Teatro Fontalba.
García Lorca often called Mariana Pineda his first piece; probably because his earlier work El maleficio de la mariposa failed when it was first performed in 1920. The character Mariana Pineda is considered to be García Lorca's first strong theatrical female character.
In 2007 Flavio Testi created an operatic version of the piece.
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Mariana Pineda, a young widow and mother of two children, conspires with other liberal-minded people in Granada in 1831 against the tyranny of Ferdinand VII. So she helps her cousin Pedro de Sotomayor, for whom she feels a deep love, out of dungeon to escape, and embroider a flag for the conspirators with the inscription "Law - Liberty - Equality". But the uprising fails and Mariana is arrested. Now the criminal judge Pedrosa approaches her with clear advances - she can give herself up to him or remain true to her convictions and her heart. Pineda now realizes that Pedro loves freedom more than she does; despite the opportunity offered to her to escape her fate, she chooses death through which she becomes a symbol of freedom.
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://federicogarcialorca.net/obras_lorca/autocritica_de_mariana_pineda.htm
- ↑ Edwards, Gwynne. 1980. Lorca: The Theater Beneath the Sand. London and New York: Marion Boyars. ISBN 0-7145-2771-8