Diana Navarro: “People get very nervous with ideologies, I’m more interested in people”

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Playing Diana Navarro (Malaga, 1978) pike bark inside in a strange landA musical about an encounter between Valencia-born police officer Lorca and composer Rafael de León in 1936, which never actually took place, and tries to keep the Granada-born author from his pending death. work, which It can be seen at the Auditorium on June 3 and 4. Palma contains well-known couplets that set the record, From Piquer to Navarroand an upcoming music tour.

Three characters in the game.

What if the meeting of these three great figures had actually taken place?

Well, I don’t think it would be a major spoiler of the game, namely the killing of Lorca. I like to imagine that Doña Concha somehow reconciles and rewrites history, but that doesn’t happen in the same work, because in the end, of course, that fate is ending. Of course, it is a work that will surprise the people of Mallorca with the stories and lives of the characters Lorca is much better known. We didn’t know much about Rafael de León and Concha Piquer and the study perfectly explains who they are, where they came from and what surprised me the most, at least that’s what surprised me the most when I started working and preparing. The character, Doña Concha, a woman who went to Broadway at age 14 and started her career in America, was one of the first feminist businesswomen we had in our country.

We think of more contemporary artists who have been successful in the United States, but we shouldn’t underestimate this woman.

Yes, it was absolutely incredible because at the age of 14, nothing more, he got there, by the hand of maestro Penella, to Broadway and the Schubert brothers listened to him and developed all that American discipline from there. He went to Spain at the age of 19 and brought together Rafael de León, who made timeless songs that we continue to sing today.

I’m starting to think, if Lorca had written a song he could sing and Rafael de León had composed it… Would we have a jewel?

Well, it’s a jewel and a poetic license that we allow ourselves to, and that’s the surprise of the job. This is the song Julio Awad and I composed to create a couplet with Lorca’s words. Federico García Lorca had never composed a couplet, and that’s how we composed it for work.

As I commented earlier, Rafael de León, the number of important, beautiful couplets that he composed and that have survived is no longer known.

Yes, first of all, he was a kind, extremely intelligent, funny person who had to suppress his homosexuality due to circumstances, and wrote his lyrics with an exquisite text, escaping the censorship so that he wouldn’t change his lyrics much. The truth is, it’s one of the big unknowns shown in the piece, which is great.

Diana Navarro is characterized as Concha Piquer.

What does it mean to have the opportunity to sing these ‘Tatuaje’, ‘Ojos verdes’ couplets…?

It’s a pleasure, because I’m playing the actor, not Diana Navarro, of course, I created the character from the character I felt and believed to be Concha Piquer. And of course because it’s Concha Piquer the character sings and I sing there too, trying to do it from her and not from Diana Navarro, but it’s still a pleasure because they are timeless jewels that can interpret them. and again, really, great.

Can you keep just one of them?

Ugh, that doesn’t seem to hurt whichever finger you cut off… but it’s true Green eyes And the romance of the other They overwhelm me every night I make them.

Politics, ideologies, baton and Francoism

The work is a hymn about the reconciliation of two Spains in a very tense and very difficult time.

Yes, there is a very conciliatory, very powerful message that the play’s director and writer, Juan Carlos Rubio, suggests to us: let’s look into each other’s eyes and forget about ideologies. About ideologies, everybody voting democratically at the ballot box what they should vote, of course, but we are human, so that’s who we are and we put the person before the ideology.

What comes painted in this election year.

The truth is yes, unfortunately it’s still a topical issue because people get very nervous with ideologies, which I absolutely and deeply respect, but I’m more concerned with people, so I love this message of reconciliation. work

It is also an acknowledgment of the couplet because it has long been time It became associated with Francoist Spain, with censorship, and indeed it was said on both sides…

Yes, the republican couplet was much more free as it was said, it was not subject to censorship, but the regime [franquista] He wanted to own this music because the country has a solid memory, but it has nothing to do with it. Copla doesn’t have any political flavors, it’s just music that is the culture of our country, a soundtrack that has been done before and what we continue to do now and should continue to be so. Our elders of this generation, who have saved us many generations and continue to be the great heroes of having experienced a war, post-war period, a pandemic. The couplet is a tribute to all of them.

Do you think new generations will understand that you “travel more than Piquer’s trunk”?

Certainly. And most of all, I think the new generation who come to watch the game will be very interested in the characters and investigate to learn more about them.

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