María del Consuelo Vello Cano, known as La Fornarina (Madrid, 28 May 1884- Madrid 17 July 1915) was an early twentieth-century Cuplé singer whose short career –barely 15 years– nevertheless brought her fame throughout Spain and Europe.[1] Among her admirers were Jacinto Benavente and the brothers Antonio and Manuel Machado.[2]
La Fornarina
Coloured portrait by Antoni Esplugas, from the Centro de Documentación y Museu de las Artes Escénicas (MAE) in Barcelona.
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Vello and the second or maternal family name is Cano.
Biographyedit
Daughter of the Civil Guard Laureano Vello Álvarez and the laundress Benita Cano Rodríguez.
Her first notable appearances were as chorus girl in the Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid and her presence is also documented in the capital's Teatro Japonés around 1900. She apparently owed her nickname, "La Fornarina" (the baker girl) to the La Época journalist Javier Betegón. She already appeared under the name at the Teatro Romea in Madrid, the Teatro Nuevo Retiro in Barcelona and the Salon Novedades in Valencia. From 1904, she became associated with the lyricist José Juan Cadenas.[3]
Her appearances abroad can be traced to 1905, in Lisbon's Coliseu dos Recreios. Soon, she became the star of the Teatro Lara, the Salón de Novedades and the Zarzuela in Madrid as well as the Príncipe Real theatre in Oporto. Her grand entrance on the international scene was at the Parisian "Apollo Théatre" in 1907. It is in Paris that she meets Quinito Valverde, author of the song Clavelitos (Little Carnations) (1909) that would become her greatest success. With this song she trod the boards of London's Alhambra Theatre, the Olympia in Paris or the Palais Soleil in Montecarlo, even appearing in St Petersburg in 1909. After the long European tour, King Alfonso XIII of Spain presided over one of her appearances at the Teatro de la Comedia.
In 1914, a year before her premature death, she premiered El ultimo cuplé (the last cuplé) (a theme that would inspire the 1957 film The Last Torch Song, starring another Spanish diva, Sara Montiel. Critics of the time wrote that she supplemented her a weak voice with good modulation and "exquisite low notes". She died at the height of her fame, at the age of 31 and is buried in Saint Isidore Cemetery.[4]
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^Ortíz-Osés, Andrés (2005). Ortiz-Osés, Andrés; Lanceros, Patxi (eds.). Claves de Hermeneutica: Para la filosofía, la culturay la sociedad. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto. p. 422. ISBN9788498307207. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
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^"Restauración y limpieza de la sepultura de 'La Fornarina'". Cementerio de San Isidro. Retrieved 9 December 2017.
^Fernández, Tomás; Tamaro, Elena (2004). "Biografia de La Bella Chelito" [Biography of La Bella Chelito]. En Biografías y Vidas, la enciclopedia biográfica en línea. Retrieved 2022-09-25.
December 18, 2023
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