Theater musical and gender perspective: the sicaliptic work of Vicente Lleo during his stage at the Eslava Theater of Madrid (1907-1912)
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5216/mh.v20.62263Keywords:
Sicaliptic genre, Woman,Vicente Lleó, Género chico, Eslava Theater, Opereta.Abstract
At the beginning of the twentieth century, a new model of the bufo theater called the sicaliptic genre was characterized by its high doses of frivolity and eroticism that made a furor in the Madrid scene. Vicente Lleó Balbastre (1870-1922) was the greatest exponent of the genre in musical theater. Under his direction, as an entrepreneur and composer, the Eslava Theater became the temple of sicalipsis. In this article the birth and hatching of the genre are studied, all the sicaliptic works of Vicente Lleó are collected in the golden age of sicalipsis in the musical theater and the main characteristics of his compositional style are analyzed.