Guillermo Alba

Guillermo Alba sings El bateo (Chueca): Yo me llamo Virginio Lechuga, with Marina Gurina
in two parts, i.e. on two cylinders

Tenor cómico active in zarzuela at the dawn of the 20th century in both Madrid and Barcelona. Other than that, I find him at the Teatro Principal in Cádiz in spring 1900 (he had been there before as he was already "well-known to this audience"), at the Teatro de Verano (an open-air season) in Alicante in June 1904 and at the Teatro Comico in Cádiz in February 1905.

Reference 1: Revista Teatral, Literaria, Cientifica, 20 April 1900; reference 2: Sevilla: diario político de la mañana, 1 February 1905; reference 3: Francisco Ángel Reus Boyd-Swan, En torno a la semiótica teatral: sobre algunas compañías profesionales en diversas ciudades españolas. Alicante (1900–1910), in: Signa, no. 12/2003; reference 4: Eva Moreda Rodríguez, Singing and speaking in early twentieth-century zarzuela: the evidence from early recordings, in: Journal of Musicological Research, vol. 41/2022, issue 1
Source for the recording: Biblioteca de Catalunya


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