The zarzuela in Spanish film of the 1960s and 1970s: from adaptation to reinterpretation

• Autores: Vicente Galbis López
• Localización: The Routledge Handbook to Spanish Film Music / Laura Miranda González (ed. lit.), 2024, ISBN 9781003174974, págs. 226-235
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • This study analyses the significant presence of the zarzuela in Spanish film in the 1960s and 1970s. It first considers a series of seven adaptations of zarzuelas directed by Juan de Orduña between 1968 and 1969. These films were shot on film, but produced by Televisión Española (TVE), the state television channel. After broadcast, some films were then shown in cinemas in Spain, and in Latin America where they were well received.The second part of the study considers reinterpretations, those films in which an original musical creation appears, but based on the basic elements of the zarzuela. The two films in question are connected by the work of the renowned composer, Carmelo Bernaola. I will first study the prominent role of the zarzuela in El hueso (Antonio Giménez-Rico, 1970), and then ¡Bruja, más que bruja! (Fernando Fernán Gómez, 1977), which was described by one of its writers as a “cinematographic zarzuela.”The study concludes with Pepi, Luci Bom y otras chicas del montón ( Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom, Pedro Almodóvar, 1980), in which a brief zarzuela fragment is used in a different way.