Ventura de la Vega ( Spanish: Ventura de la Vega , full name Buenaventura José María de la Vega y Cardenas , Spanish: Buenaventura José María de la Vega y Cárdenas ; July 14, 1807 , Buenos Aires - November 29, 1865 , Madrid ) - Spanish playwright, translator and poet of Argentinean origin. The father of the playwright Ricardo de la Vega .
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At the age of eleven, according to the will of his father, he was sent by his mother from Argentina, where the war of independence had just ended, to the former metropolis. According to legend, when boarding the ship he shouted: “Citizens, can you really let the Argentine be taken away from his homeland against his will?” Upon his arrival in Madrid in 1818 he was sent to San Mateo College, where Alberto Liszt was among his teachers, and among comrades and fellow practitioners, José de Espronsed . Together with Espronseda and Larra de la Vega, in his youth, he composed a circle of poets of a romantic direction, with self-irony called “Parnasik” ( Spanish El Parnasillo ).
In 1832 he performed with the play “Don Quixote on the Sierra Morena” ( Spanish Don Quijote en Sierra Morena ) - a remake of one of the episodes of “ Don Quixote ” by Cervantes . A year later, he published in Havana the first book of poems, American Rhymes ( Spanish: Rimas americanas ). The mature poems of de la Vega were collected in the book only after his death, while his dramas were successfully staged during the lifetime of the author. In 1838, de la Vega married opera singer Maria Manuel Oreiro Lem . He taught literature to the young Queen Isabella II , and for some time was her personal secretary at the turn of the 1830s and 1840s. moved to a conservative position, when he was elected to the Royal Academy in 1842, he made a speech about the dangers of romanticism for state foundations. In 1847, Isabella II appointed de la Vega the director of the Spanish Theater - the main theater stage in Madrid, from 1857 until the end of his life he headed the Madrid Conservatory .
Among the plays de la Vega - as historical dramas, among which stand out “Don Fernando de Antequera” ( Spanish Don Fernando de Antequera ; 1847 - the resounding success of this play is witnessed by the Russian report [3] ) “The death of Caesar” ( Spanish) La muerte de César ; 1865), as well as numerous comedies from the life of the middle class and the bourgeoisie. Of the comedies of de la Vega, the most important is the play “Secular Man” ( Spanish: El hombre del mundo ; 1845) - a reduced exposition of a vagrant story about Don Giovanni in the language and style of the “philistine drama”, polemic with respect to the sublime interpretation of the same story by another Spanish playwright , Jose Sorrillia [4] . On the libretto de la Vega is written one of the famous Zarzuel Francisco Asenho Barbieri , “Playing with Fire” ( Spanish: Jugar con fuego ; 1853).
Ventura de la Vega also proved to be a prolific theater translator. In his translations, in particular, many plays by Eugene Scribe and Victor Hugo 's drama “ The King Amuses ” were performed on the Spanish stage.
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 BNF identifier : Open Data Platform 2011.
- ↑ 1 2 International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- ↑ Madrid <sic!> And the current Spanish society // Library for Reading , 1847, Volume 83, No. 7, p. 112.
- ↑ John C. Dowling. El anti-Don Juan de Ventura de la Vega // Actas del VI Congreso Internacional de Hispanistas. / Coord. por Evelyn Rugg, Alan M. Gordon. - University of Toronto, 1980. - P. 215-218.
Literature
- Michael Schinasi. Ventura de la Vega and El hombre de mundo : At the Threshold of the Realist Period in Spain. - Vigo: Editorial Academia del Hispanismo, 2015 .-- 152 pp. ISBN 978-84-16187-13-3