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World premiere by Ballet Nacional de España on the 27th of December, 1986, at the Teatro de la Zarzuela (Madrid, Spain).
Salvador el Taranto, a poor gypsy whom women find outrageously handsome, is murdered by the Picaos, retainers of the wealthy gypsy Camisón, a former friend of the Taranto father, because Soledad, the women both men wooed, favored the poor gypsy over the rich one. Soledad, Taranto's widow and a former flamenco dancer, teaches her children her dancing skills and makes a living with them dancing in the streets. The two families has sworn eternal hatred to each other, but with the passing time, the favourite son of the Taranto's widow Soledad and Camison´s only daughter fall in love not knowing who the other is. When the two families find out, Taranto's widow Soledad consents to her son's love affair with the daughter of his father´s murderer. But Camison persists in his hatred of the Tarantos. This hatred will turn the two so very young gypsy lovers into two figures of tragedy.
[Text from Alfredo Mañas]
Choreography: Felipe Sánchez
Music: Paco de Lucía (original)
J. Albert Amargos (orchestration)
Costume Design: Candy Román
Set Design: Candy Román
Libretto: Alfredo Mañas (pre-existing)
Lighting Design: Federico Gerlache