They make it reminiscent of Lorca at the Majestic Hotel

BarcelonaIn the autumn of 1935, ninety years ago this year, Barcelona was gripped by a wave of enthusiasm for the plays of Federico García Lorca. There were 142 performances of four of his plays in three different theaters: The silly lady, Yerma, Blood Wedding and Doña Rosita the spinster, which was a world premiere. During his stay of about four months in the city to prepare everything, Lorca reunited with Dalí after being estranged for many years. He also met Gala, but he didn't like her and she became jealous.

During all this time, Lorca stayed at the Hotel Majestic, where this Thursday the singer Badalona native Miguel Poveda, responsible for albums such as Crazy and driving force behind the Federico García Lorca Center in Granada, unveiled a plaque in memory of the poet's stay at the hotel, accompanied by singer-songwriter Joan Manuel Serrat, cultural journalist and Lorca expert Víctor Fernández, and playwright Alberto Conejero. Serrat surprised the audience, including musician Joan Albert Amargós and singer-songwriter Marina Rossell, by singing a fragment of a Lorca poem that he set to music for Ana Belén and later recorded himself. Wounded by love. "I think Barcelona owes this to the poet," Poveda said.

Miguel Poveda is so fond of Lorca that he has a portrait and the poet's signature tattooed on his right arm, of whom he has said on occasion that it is "a religion to follow." The idea of ​​​​placing the plaque, which will be in the hotel lobby, came to him when he stayed at the Majestic following his participation in the tribute paid to Joan Manuel Serrat in the La Paloma room. This was the second Lorca recognition that the Majestic has hosted, following a dinner held ten years ago inspired by the tribute that a group of Catalan intellectuals paid to Lorca at the same hotel on December 23, 1935. "Lorca lived in Barcelona, ​​he wrote one about the city: "Barcelona is something else, isn't it? There is the Mediterranean, the spirit, the adventure, the high dream of perfect love."

Barcelona, ​​​​the capital of Lorca

During his stay at the Majestic, Lorca shared a sheet of paper with the hotel staff to work on the epitaph for Isaac Albéniz, which he read at the musician's grave in the Montjuïc cemetery accompanied by Margarida Xirgu, as Fernández has discovered in the archives of the Federico García Lorca Centre. And who knows if he wrote some of the verses of Sonnets of Dark Love"For me, Barcelona is one of the three capitals, along with Madrid and Buenos Aires, that made Lorca an eternal playwright," said Conejero, author ofThe dream of life, a work that continues the unfinished one Untitled Comedy Lorca's relationship with Barcelona had begun in 1925, thanks to Salvador Dalí. Specifically on April 5th, so this Saturday he will turn one hundred. Lorca was fascinated by Passeig de Gràcia and, above all, by La Rambla. He had held what was his only exhibition of drawings at the Galerías Dalmau. And as a sign of the affection the people of Barcelona had for him, he invited the flower sellers of La Rambla to a performance dedicated to them. Doña Rosita the spinster, which has as a subtitle The language of flowers because they kept sending flowers to the hotel.