#Giovanni García

[teconozcomascarita]

Planisferio de Salviati. Nuño García de Toreno, 1525

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4 aprile … ricordiamo …

4 aprile … ricordiamo … #semprevivineiricordi #nomidaricordare #personaggiimportanti #perfettamentechic

2023: Andrés García, attore messicano. Nato e cresciuto nella Repubblica Dominicana da genitori di origine spagnola si trasferì poi in Messico per intraprendere una carriera nel mondo dello spettacolo. Attivo a partire dalla fine degli anni sessanta, nel decennio successivo raggiunse una certa fama a livello internazionale, dopo aver recitato in fortunate pellicole. In seguito fu attore in…

[oceanusborealis]

Book Club: The Next Chapter - Movie Review

We take a look at the follow up to #BookClub that takes the group on a whirlwind trip to #Italy

TL;DR – While it might not stick the landing, it is still an improvement on the first film, and the friend dynamic completely works. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Rating: 3.5 out of 5. Post-Credit Scene – There are some photos during the creditsDisclosure – I was invited to a press screening for this film. Book Club: The Next Chapter Review – Sequels are always a tricky beast to approach. There are few things worse…

[anticattocomunismo]

La cricca di Sant'Anselmo che fa la guerra al rito antico

Dal segretario Viola ai sottosegretari García Macías e Marcjanowicz, fino a Ravelli e Midili che guidano le celebrazioni pontificie: provengono tutti dall’Ateneo Sant’Anselmo e si muovono animati soltanto da un accecamento ideologico e cieco di fronte alla realtà. Ecco chi fa la guerra alla Messa antica. (more…) “”

[soracities]

i saw your tags, and i wanna ask what books "punched you in the gut" (i wanna get punched too)?

SO glad you asked anon omg

Let the Right One In, John Ajvide Lindqvist

i am lewy, Eoghan Ó Tuairisc

Antigone, Jean Anouilh

Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte

A Tale for the Time Being, Ruth Ozeki

"The Condemned", Stig Dagerman

The Snake, Stig Dagerman

A Moth to a Flame, Stig Dagerman

Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin

From A to X, John Berger

The Plague, Albert Camus

The Myth of Sisyphus: Essays, Albert Camus

How the Soldier Repairs the Gramophone, Saša Stanišić

Posession, A.S. Byatt

A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Eimear McBride

"The Husband Stitch", Carmen Maria Machado

The Bloody Chamber, Angela Carter

On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong

An Inventory of Losses, Judith Schalansky

The Need for Roots, Simone Weil

Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich

Deaf Republic, Ilya Kaminsky

Agua Viva, Clarice Lispector

Broken Vessels: Essays, Andre Dubus

The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoevsky

One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

The God of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

A Field Guide for Getting Lost, Rebecca Solnit

A Thousand Splendid Suns, Khaled Hosseini

Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

We, Yevgeny Zamyatin

Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro

Books Burn Badly, Manuel Rivas

The Memory Police, Yoko Ogawa

The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield

Uzumaki, Junji Ito

The Little Prince, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

For Two Thousand Years, Mihail Sebastian

[actorsinunderwear]

Giovanni García in The Family (2017)

[quiltofstars]

The Lagoon Nebula, M8 // Juan García

The Lagoon Nebula is the first emission nebula in the catalog. Emission nebulae are clouds of gas and dust that is being ionized by hot, massive stars at their centers. That ionized gas emits its own light, which we see in our images.

The Lagoon Nebula is a star-forming region, discovered in 1654 by Giovanni Hodierna.

[killingsboys]

read in 2024!

it's that time again! i loved doing reading threads in 2022 and 2023 so i will definitely be carrying on the tradition this year. as always, you can find me on goodreads and storygraph, and you're always welcome to message me about books!

Check, Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Book 2: Sticks and Stones by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

Check, Please! Chirpbook by Ngozi Ukazu* (★★★★★)

The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern (★★★★★)

The Bad Ones by Melissa Albert** (★★★★☆)

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng (★★★★★)

None of This Is True by Lisa Jewell (★★★☆☆)

Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert (★★★☆☆)

The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels by Janice Hallett (★★★★☆)

Dream Work by Mary Oliver (★★★★☆)

Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect by Benjamin Stevenson (★★★★☆)

Cain’s Jawbone by E. Powys Mathers

The Poppy War by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

You’ve Been Summoned by Lindsey Lamar** (★★☆☆☆)

The Seven Ages by Louise Glück (★★★★☆)

The Last Girl Left by A.M. Strong & Sonya Sargent** (★★★☆☆)

The Dragon Republic by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison

Normal People by Sally Rooney (★★★★★)

How to Solve Your Own Murder by Kristen Perrin** (★★★☆☆)

She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen (★★☆☆☆)

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins (★★★☆☆)

The Drowning Faith by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner (★★★★★)

The Burning God by R.F. Kuang (★★★★★)

King Lear by William Shakespeare (★★★★☆)

All These Sunken Souls by assorted authors, edited by Circe Moskowitz (★★★★☆)

The Big Four by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 1 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton (★★☆☆☆)

The Avant-Guards, Vol. 2 by Carly Usdin, Noah Hayes (★★★★☆)

Jurassic Park by Michael (★★★☆☆)

The Magician’s Nephew by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

Les Misérables by Victor Hugo (★★★★★)

Violeta by Isabel Allende (★★★☆☆)

Wrong Place Wrong Time by Gillian McAllister (★★★★☆)

The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis (★★★★☆)

Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison Bechdel (★★★★☆)

The Color Purple by Alice Walker (★★★★★)

The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes (★★★★★)

Third Girl by Agatha Christie (★★★☆☆)

The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin (★★★★★)

In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado (★★★★★)

Prince Caspian by C.S. Lewis (★★★☆☆)

I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman, translated by Ros Schwartz (★★★★★)

Persuasion by Jane Austen (★★★★★)

V for Vendetta by Alan Moore & David Lloyd (★★★★☆)

What Lies in the Woods by Kate Alice Marshall (★★★☆☆)

We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir by Raja Shehadeh

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie* (★★★★★)

Legendborn by Tracy Deonn (★★★★☆)

The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin* (★★★★★)

Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi (★★★★☆)

An asterisk (*) indicates a reread. A double asterisk (**) indicates an ARC.

[manuscripts-dontburn]

Hardy Women: Mother, Sisters, Wives, Muses

Author: Paula Byrne

First published: 2024

Rating:  ★★★★☆

A biography of a great writer but told through the women in his life, both real and fictional. I liked that idea a lot and Paula Byrne does a good job gathering information, pointing out connections, and for once showing that even iconic artists are dependent for much of their eventual fame on those around them. It is a big book but the chapters are quite short, which makes it easy to go read without being fatigued. Naturally, Hardy's works are explored with quite a lot of detail, so if you do not want to be spoiled for certain books, read those first.

Love in the Time of Cholera

Author: Gabriel García Márquez

First published: 1985

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Was this beautiful, rather captivating, well-constructed? Absolutely. I had a hard time putting this book down, in fact. It offers a brilliant insight into how people perceive themselves in time and how it feels to grow old. But there are also elements involved and glossed over which I found too disturbing to now say I loved this book. Rape and paedophilia are both included as something completely normal (even desirable) and the "love" of the main character is really just stalker-is obsession. I hope to read more by Marquez, preferably something with the same quality of writing and less disturbing sex stuff.

The Diary of a Provincial Lady

Author: E.M. Delafield

First published: 1930

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Loved the breezily sarcastic tone in which the entries are written, describing the everyday chores and tasks and social obligations in a quite funny way. On the other hand, there really isn´t a story in there. I would also wish that publishers would include translations from French instead of assuming everybody still speaks it as if we lived at the 1885 Russian Imperial Court.

Herc

Author: Phoenicia Rogerson

First published: 2023

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

Modern language, modern mindset, modern world views, modern and "cool everything... there is nothing that would even remotely feel like a Greek myth.

Luck of the Titanic

Author: Stacy Lee

First published: 2021

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Unfortunately, it would seem, that no fictional book about the Titanic can weave a story without completely denying the near impossibilities of the class divide. The first half of the book, where disbelief had to be employed at all times, was simply OK, but the last 70-or-so pages, dealing with the sinking, I found thrilling and eventually quite moving. A good book for younger readers.

Decameron

Author: Giovanni Boccaccio

First published: 1349

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Do not enter this book with the notion you can breeze through it. You cannot and you should not, because quite frankly, reading more than a few of the 100 stories gets tiring and tedious very quickly. However, if you settle yourself comfortably with an almost full-cast audiobook and measure out the stories wisely, this can is not bad at all. If nothing else, it stands as an interesting mirror of its time and mindset. Also, gives you a great idea of what medieval people did instead of watching porn and reading raunchy novels. Some stories are quite funny, some totally bonkers.

An Education in Malice

Author: S.T. Gibson

First published: 2024

Rating: ★☆☆☆☆

Perhaps my rating is pretty harsh, but I read this book very quickly and still, when I reached the end, I felt like it had been a waste of time.

The Foundling

Author: Stacey Halls

First published: 2020

Rating: ★★★☆☆

This was a pretty solid piece of historical fiction. I simply wish it was a little more complicated, a little longer to really sink into the characters.

The Familiar

Author: Leigh Bardugo

First published: 2024

Rating: ★★★☆☆

Seemingly perfect in the choice of set up and the setting, the book teethers on the brink of being simply boring due to an incredibly slow start. It does get better, but I never truly warmed up to the main character and all in all felt underwhelmed after I had enjoyed other works by the same author. Not bad, not great.

The Meaning of Mary Magdalene: Discovering the Woman at the Heart of Christianity

Author: Cynthia Bourgeault

First published: 2010

Rating: ★★★★☆

Only slowly I gather all of my thoughts on this (quite slim) volume and frankly, other reviewers have summed up many of my own feelings better than I could. I have always felt a pull by the character of Mary Magdalene and I found the author´s research and conclusion fascinating, if not always easy to grasp at once, I did question some of her assumptions as more of wishful thinking than historical probability. At some points, it also smelled a bit too strongly of eastern esoterism for my liking. I have never felt a need to insert "feminine energy" into Christ´s ministry, I could feel those women who followed Him quite well, but it is true that for aeons the organized church (both catholic and protestant), chose to ignore them. So it is good and necessary to remind them about the importance of women generally and Mary Magdalene specifically. Even if you do not agree with all that the author suggests (never forcibly pushes), I found this book a valuable reminder of the fact that the gospels and the story of Jesus are living things still, ready to offer new views and new thoughts, if you care to look. I also appreciated that even though focused on Mary Magdalene, this is a book written with a profound love for Christianity and hope for its renewal and survival in the future.

Ana María and the Fox

Author: Liana De la Rosa

First published: 2024

Rating: ★★★☆☆

A decent palate cleanser, but I guess I was not as charmed as I had wished to be. Would not mind reading the next instalment.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

Author: Gail Honeyman

First published: 2017

Rating: ★★★★☆

I went into this thinking it was a feel-good thing. Boy, was I wrong. This is, in fact, a very painful book about trauma and loneliness, and though it does have the proverbial silver lining, it disturbed me a lot. One of those good books I shall never read again.

[squadrah]

do any of the boys have favourite books?

Risotto: The Day of the Owl by Leonardo Sciascia, Pedro Páramo by Juan Rulfo, Lassie Come-Home by Eric Knight

Formaggio: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, Dirty Fred, The Captain by Jenő Rejtő (P. Howard), A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Prosciutto: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco, The Chase by Alejo Carpentier, The Complete Novels of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

Pesci: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne, The Godfather by Mario Puzo, The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien

Ghiaccio: Carrie by Stephen King, The Art of War by Niccolò Machiavelli, Lord of the Flies by William Golding

Melone: The Foundation by Isaac Asimov, I’m Not Scared by Niccolò Ammaniti, Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

Illuso: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, Weaveworld by Clive Barker, Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Sorbet: The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka, Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez, The Complete Tales of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe

Gelato: The Good Soldier Švejk by Jaroslav Hašek, The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio, The Blaireau Case by Alphonse Allais

All: The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas

[semtituloh]

Anónimo, 43. Ayotzinapa, 2014, Imágenes en Voz Alta.

SUS NOMBRES, SUS EDADES.

Felipe Arnulfo Rosa. 20 años.

Benjamín Ascencio Bautista. 19 años.

José Ángel Navarrete González. 18 años.

Marcial Pablo Baranda. 20 años.

Jorge Antonio Tizapa Legideño. 19 años.

Miguel Ángel Mendoza Zacarías. 33 años.

Marco Antonio Gómez Molina.

César Manuel González Hernández.

Julio César López Patolzin. 25 años.

Abel García Hernández. 21 años.

Emiliano Alen Gaspar de la Cruz. 23 años.

Doriam González Parral. 19 años.

Jorge Luis González Parral. 21 años.

Alexander Mora Venancio. 21 años.

Saúl Bruno García.

Luis Ángel Abarca Carrillo. 18 años.

Jorge Álvarez Nava. 19 años.

Christian Tomás Colón Garnica. 18 años.

Luis Ángel Francisco Arzola. 20 años.

Carlos Iván Ramírez Villarreal 20 años.

Magdaleno Rubén Lauro Villegas. 19 años.

José Luis Luna Torres. 20 años.

Bernardo Flores Alcaraz.

Israel Caballero Sánchez. 21 años.

Arturo Vázquez Peniten.

Jesús Jovany Rodríguez Tlatempa. 21 años

Mauricio Ortega Valerio. 18 años.

José Ángel Campos Cantor.

Jorge Aníbal Cruz Mendoza. 19 años,

Giovanni Galindes Guerrero. 20 años.

Jhosivani Guerrero de la Cruz. 21 años.

Leonel Castro Abarca. 18 años.

Miguel Ángel Hernández Martínez. 27 años.

Antonio Santana Maestro.

Carlos Lorenzo Hernández Muñoz. 19 años

Israel Jacinto Lugardo. 19 años.

Adán Abraján de la Cruz. 24 años.

Christian Alfonso Rodríguez. 21 años

Martín Getsemany Sánchez García. 20 años.

Cutberto Ortiz Ramos. 22 años.

Everardo Rodríguez Bello. 21 años.

Jonás Trujillo González. 20 años.

José Eduardo Bartolo Tlatempa. 19 años.

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Hi, idk if you still want ask or not, but I love your writing <333 What's your inspiration? Your fav author or books?

hiiii thank you so much!!!!!!! u r too kind!!!!!!!! <3<3<3

i've been thinking about this all day to try to give a good answer but i sort of realized my inspiration could probably be best described by 2019 tendercore era tumblr lol. if u were not there for that truly magical experience of posting, it was a lot of crush by richard siken and various mary oliver poems and such classics as the goldfinch by donna tartt and movies like portrait of a lady on fire dir celine sciamma and my own private idaho dir gus van sant. and a lot of it has become very tumblr cliche by now, but they are very formative to me and are still some of my favorites and they r just good they hold up i think. also -- just remembered he was in this group -- but ocean vuong's first poetry collection was one of the first i read and it was just like. so amazing. i also really liked his novel on earth we're briefly gorgeous.

i think a lot about james baldwin and frank o'hara in terms of bringing the poetic to the everyday (giovanni's room is one of my favorites and "for grace after a party" is one of thee poems of all time for me. and "mayakovsky" and "on rachmaninoff's birthday" he has so many hits). recently i've been trying to get a little bit more experimental ish. i recently read and really liked garçon manqué by nina bouraoui (which wikipedia tells me is translated as tomboy).

all time favorite writer is federico garcía lorca. i don't really think i've got much of him in my writing but i'll always namedrop him. hes my weird dead gay historical figure friend forever and ever <3

[literary-illuminati]

23 books for 2023!

tagged by @wearethekat - I'm assuming this means generally books tbr for the year. If it means specifically new releases then I just give up.

Alecto the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Prescribed Burn by Arkady Martine

Hellbent by Leigh Bardugo

Translation State by Ann Leckie

He Who Drowned The World by Shelley Parker-Chan

Into the Riverlands by Nghi Vo

The World We Make by N. K. Jemisin

Cyteen, by C. J. Cherryh

Regenisis by C. J. Cherryh

Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone

Gunmetal Gods by Malik Akhtar

Galatea by Madeline Miller

Anna Karenina by Tolstoy

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin

Weavers, Scribes, and Kings: A New History of the Ancient Near East by Amanda Podany

Roman Republics by Harriet Flower

The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hamalainen

The Wages of Destruction by Adam Tooze

The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe by David M. Perry and Matthew Gabriele

Honorable Company: A History Of the English East India Company by John Keay

Origin: A Genetic History of the Americas by Jennifer Raff

tagging uhhh not sure who else I know with this much of a tbr that I haven't spammed with these. @txttletale ?

[evelyngarciatirado-blog]

La Verdad: cuando las mentiras e infidelidades tejen su propio laberinto

Obra teatral que es una comedia dramática que nos muestra la delgada línea que existe entre el amor y la costumbre.

La Verdad, del dramaturgo Florian Zeller, dirigida por Giovanni Ciccia y producida por Makhy Arana, ha sido llevada a escena en el emblemático Teatro Marsano, que fue el centro de operaciones de la compañía de Osvaldo Cattone, quien se encargó del trabajo tanto artístico como técnico de todas las puestas en escena. La obra es una comedia ligera y veloz, con diálogos desopilantes, que, en boca de un actor tan natural y espontáneo como Sergio Galliani, tienen una efectividad rotunda. El público se divierte de principio a fin con lo que tendría que ser un drama, pero que, poco a poco, gracias a los enredos provocados por el personaje de Miguel (Galliani), desemboca en una espiral de carcajadas que el público sabe agradecer con grandes aplausos.

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Acudir a ver La Verdad no tiene pierde, el personaje principal, Miguel, es un mentiroso compulsivo, que cuando se ve en falta, se victimiza y encuentra en los demás defectos que ��l mismo tiene pero que no reconoce. Es un hombre manipulador que trata de burlarse de su entorno, pero que al final resulta burlado, todo en medio de diálogos jocosísimos que mantienen en vilo a los espectadores. Miguel envuelve a los demás personajes con sus discursos y artimañas y trata de convencerlos de lo que a todas luces es ilógico.

El protagonista mantiene una relación clandestina con Alicia (Milene Vázquez), cuyo esposo, Paul (Gonzalo Torres), se encuentra desempleado y deprimido. A Miguel parece no importarle la situación espinosa en la que se encuentra, mientras que Alicia no soporta más la tensión que esto conlleva. Magdyel Ugaz es Laura, la esposa de Miguel, una mujer muy astuta y algo retorcida. Miguel, supuestamente, quiere ocultar su infidelidad para no hacerles daño ni a Laura ni a Paul, que es su mejor amigo.

La obra en todo momento es bien recibida por el público, gracias a su frescura y a la vitalidad que muestran los actores en escena.

La obra

La Verdad, un texto de Florian Zeller, adaptado por Fernando Masllorens y Federico González del Pino, es una comedia de enredos con una buena dosis de drama. Se presenta en el Teatro Marsano (Calle General Suárez 409, Miraflores). Funciones: de miércoles a sábado a las 8:00 p.m. y domingos a las 7:00 p.m. Boletería del teatro: de miércoles a sábado de 4:30 a 9:00 p.m. y domingos de 3:30 a 8:00 p.m. (Por Evelyn García Tirado)

[surroundedbytheworld]

The Books I Read in 2022

La masonería. Historia e iniciación, por Christian Jacq (1975) [tr. Manuel Serrat Crespo, 2006]

La interculturalitat, per Joaquín Beltrán (2005)

No em deixis mai, per Kazuo Ishiguro (2005) [tr. Xavier Pàmies, 2005]

El Mundo Clásico. Por qué importa, por Neville Morley (2018) [tr. Antonio Guzmán Guerra, 2019]

Mis chistes, mi filosofía, por Slavoj Žižek (2014) [tr. Damià Alou, 2015]

Cómo ser un estoico. Utilizar la filosofía antigua para vivir una vida moderna, por Massimo Pigliucci (2017) [tr. Francisco García Lorenzana, 2018]

Filosofía: ¿Por qué importa?, por Helen Beebee y Michael Rush (2019) [tr. Irene Riaño de Hoz, 2021]

La nova innocència, per Raimon Panikkar (1998)

Silencio, por Shûsaku Endô (1966) [tr. Jaime Fernández y José Miguel Vara, 1988]

1984. La novela gráfica, por George Orwell [historia] y Fido Nesti [ilustración y adaptación] (2020) [tr. Miguel Temprano García, 2013]

Qué es el Tao, por Alan Watts (2000) [tr. David González Raga, 2010]

La autopista, Akira #1, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1984) [tr. E.S. Abulí]

La ciudad de los saqueadores, La leyenda demadre Sarah #1, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1990) [tr. Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

La ciudad de los niños, La leyenda demadre Sarah #2, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1991) [tr. Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

La ciudad de los ángeles, La leyenda de madre Sarah #3, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1993) [tr. Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

La ciudad de la paz (Primera parte), La leyenda de madre Sarah #4, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1997) [Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

La ciudad de la paz (Segunda parte), La leyenda de madre Sarah #5, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1997) [Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

Blue Like Jazz. Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality, by Donald Miller (2003)

La ciudad del futuro (Primera parte), La leyenda de madre Sarah #6, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1998) [Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

La ciudad del futuro (Segunda parte), La leyenda de madre Sarah #6, por Katsuhiro Otomo y Takumi Nagayasu (1998) [Olinda Cordukes, 2008]

El despertar, Akira #2, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1985)  [tr. E.S. Abulí, 1999]

Revelaciones, Akira #3, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1985)  [tr. E.S. Abulí, 1999]

El emperador del caos, Akira #4, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1993)  [tr. E.S. Abulí, 2000]

Venganzas, Akira #5, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1990)  [tr. E.S. Abulí, 2000]

Reconstrucción, Akira #6, por Katsuhiro Otomo (1985)  [tr. E.S. Abulí, 2000]

Homo videns. La sociedad teledirigida, por Giovanni Sartori (1997) [tr. Ana Díaz Soler, 1998]

Gilgamesh (c. 2100 – 1200 bce), versión de Stephen Mitchell (2004) [tr. Javier Alonso López, 2008]

Hierba, por Keum Suk Gendry-Kim (2017) [tr. Joo Hasun, 2022]

La vida il·lustrada, per Lisa Aisato (2019) [tr. Anna Jolis Olivé, 2020]

El budisme, per Joan Leita (1991)

The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Danforth (2012)

Flip It Like This!, by David Hayward (2022)

‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ and Three Stories (‘The Happy Prince’, ‘The Birthday of the Infanta’, ‘Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime’), by Oscar Wilde (c. 1890) [eds. Gary Schmidgall & Peter Raby, 1995/2007]

Lord of the Flies, by William Golding (1954) [introduction by Stephen King, 2011]

The First Christmas: What the Gospels Really Teach Us About Jesus’ Birth, by Marcus J. Borg & John Dominic Crossan (2007)

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[elmartillosinmetre]

Rescate de una ópera española

[José Luis Turina, Miguel Ángel García Cañamero, Félix Palomero y Ramón Sobrino en el acto de presentación / RAFA MARTÍN]

El sello de la OCNE presenta la grabación de una ópera olvidada de Ramón Carnicer (1789-1855)

Entre las misiones de una institución como la Orquesta y Coro Nacionales de España se cuenta, en lugar principalísimo, la de difundir el patrimonio propio, fomentando la creación de música nueva, pero también trabajando por la recuperación de obras antiguas. Así que cuando el pasado 8 de noviembre, el compositor y académico José Luis Turina, Félix Palomero, director técnico de la OCNE, Miguel Ángel García Cañamero, director del Coro, y Ramón Sobrino, editor crítico de la ópera junto a María Encina Cortizo, presentaron un triple CD con Elena e Malvina de Ramón Carnicer, estaban cumpliendo, de forma demasiado tardía (pero ese es otro tema), con una responsabilidad ineludible, pues aunque la industria discográfica se ha transformado radicalmente en el nuevo siglo, la grabación sigue siendo el medio más directo para poner el patrimonio sonoro a disposición de quienes, en este caso, lo pagan, los contribuyentes españoles.

La edición de Elena e Malvina es el trabajo de toda una década de Cortizo y Encina para el ICCMU (Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales), cuya labor en pro de la música española debe de ser convenientemente alabada. La obra fue registrada en el concierto extraordinario ofrecido por la OCNE el 14 de mayo de 2016 (y de ahí la anterior referencia al tardío trasvase al formato físico), cuando junto a los conjuntos se reunieron un grupo de importantes cantantes españoles, liderados por la soprano Raquel Lojendio y la mezzo Clara Mouriz, que encarnaron los roles principales, pero que incluía también a Gustavo Peña, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Josep Miquel Ramón y Javier Franco, todos bajo la batuta de Guillermo García Calvo.

Elena e Malvina es la cuarta ópera de Ramón Carnicer, la que le sirvió para su debut en el Teatro del Príncipe de Madrid, donde la obra se estrenó el 11 de febrero de 1829. Presentada como melodrama semiserio in due atti, cuenta con un libreto en italiano de Felice Romani y, en opinión de Cortizo y Sobrino, supone la transición entre los primeros modos compositivos de Carnicer, cercanos al modelo rossiniano y aún muy presentes en ella, y los de su segunda etapa, que entroncará con el mundo romántico. De hecho, la ópera está ambientada ya en una Escocia legendaria de referencias góticas (castillos, tempestades, venganzas, duelos) y presenta una trama de amores traicionados con final feliz, y de ahí su adscripción al género semiserio.

[Ramon Carnicer por Madrazo (1836) / D.S.]

Natural de Tárrega (Lérida), Carnicer trabajó para el Teatro de la Santa Cruz de Barcelona, que lo comisionó varias veces para viajar a Italia en busca de cantantes y de partituras de los grandes maestros italianos. Allí estrenó sus primeras óperas, Adele di Lusignano (1819), Elena e Costantino (1821) y Don Giovanni Tenorio (1822). Tras la invasión de los Cien Mil Hijos de San Luis que puso fin al trienio liberal, Carnicer se exilió, primero en París y luego en Londres, pero en 1827 decidió volver a España, donde fue literalmente secuestrado por el gobierno para que dejara Barcelona y ocupara la dirección de los teatros de la Corte, el Teatro de la Cruz y el Teatro del Príncipe, en sustitución de Saverio Mercadante. Allí presentó Elena e Malvina y después Cristoforo Colombo (1831), Eufemio di Messina (1832) e Ismalia (1838). Pudo participar en algunas otras óperas y se le atribuye una Ipermestra (1843), aunque su autoría es discutida.

De todo este repertorio, sólo Elena e Costantino estaba en formato CD (lo publicó el sello italiano Dynamic en 2010). El Don Giovanni Tenorio fue editado también en su día por el ICCMU, ofrecido en versión escénica en el Festival Mozart de La Coruña en 2006 y en Pésaro al año siguiente y luego olvidado. La ROSS ofreció en 2012 una versión de concierto de Cristoforo Colombo en la que participaron las voces de Yolanda Auyanet, Cristina Faus y Joan Martín Royo, entre otros, y dirigió Santiago Serrate. En este contexto, la publicación de Elena e Malvina debe ser considerada un acontecimiento en la restauración del Romanticismo musical español, tan maltratado por el tiempo.

[Diario de Sevilla. 26-12-2022]

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