Salvador Videgain Gómez
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Salvador Videgain Gómez was a Spanish actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

, singer, producer
Record producer
A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

 and composer
Composer
A composer is a person who creates music, either by musical notation or oral tradition, for interpretation and performance, or through direct manipulation of sonic material through electronic media...

.

Private life

Videgain married actress Antonia García de Videgain
Antonia García de Videgain
Antonia García , was a Spanish singer and actress. Her birth and death both occurred in Cadiz and Madrid, Spain.-Biography:...

 in 1868. They had two children: Antonio Videgain
Antonio Videgain
Antonio Videgain García was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as A vuela Pluma and El vals coqueto.-Biography:...

 (born 1869) and Salvador Jr. (born February 26, 1886).

The Beginning

Videgain was born in Malaga
Málaga
Málaga is a city and a municipality in the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, Spain. With a population of 568,507 in 2010, it is the second most populous city of Andalusia and the sixth largest in Spain. This is the southernmost large city in Europe...

 in 1845,friz of Spanish, English, Irish, and Basque ancestry. His family relocated often, as his father worked at different jobs along the Coast. He later transferred to Cadiz
Cádiz
Cadiz is a city and port in southwestern Spain. It is the capital of the homonymous province, one of eight which make up the autonomous community of Andalusia....

, where he began acting in dramas and encouraged him to enroll in one company of zarzuela. Flores y abrojos was the beginning in Gibraltar 1866 was a great title of year for him and his future wife. their production moved to smaller village in Andalucia, Spain.

In 1870s the titles are famous: Abel y cain, Un viaje de mil demonios, El ultimo figurin, Fausto, Dos leones,4 sacristanes, El fantasma de la aldea, La salsa de aniceta...

In 1880, Videgain played the lead role in the comedy Entre dos tíos.The title was a commercial failure, but was appreciated by critics. He later appeared in Entre dos platos and Musica clásica, his most successful play of the decade.Meterse en Honduras 1983.At this point, Videgain and wife was receiving 60% of all profits to title in their company. Videgain and Antonia, José Talavera and others worked in the provocative work Los bandos de villafrita, inspired by newspaper articles about an elusive acts politics in Spain. He also appeared in the period comedy Ganar el pleito (1884) about a private eye and his partner who get mixed up with trouble. In 1885 he appeared in Las grandes figuras political work of society in Spain.
In 1900, Videgain composed one title about the Juan Tenorio, Invictus, which was met with generally positive reviews. His "Inspirational work, Videgain's title has a predictable trajectory, but every scene brims with surprising details that accumulate into a rich fabric of history, cultural impressions and emotion european."

Music

Videgain has had a strong passion for music all his life, particularly zarzuela
Zarzuela
Zarzuela is a Spanish lyric-dramatic genre that alternates between spoken and sung scenes, the latter incorporating operatic and popular song, as well as dance...

 and operetta
Operetta
Operetta is a genre of light opera, light in terms both of music and subject matter. It is also closely related, in English-language works, to forms of musical theatre.-Origins:...

s. He was a pianist and composer, and although he was never successful as a professional musician, he passed on the influence to his son Antonio Videgain
Antonio Videgain
Antonio Videgain García was a Spanish conductor and composer, who dedicated his career to writing zarzuelas, such as A vuela Pluma and El vals coqueto.-Biography:...

, a successful singer and composer. Zarzuela has played an important role in Videgain's life, he developed as a ragtime pianist early on and had originally intended to pursue a career in music by studying for a music theory degree after graduating from high school. Videgain co-wrote "Tenorio en Nápoles". He compused in the original piano compositions for his wife Antonia García, the song "Marcha flamenca" with music by Videgain and son.

Prizes

Videgain has been recognized with multiple awards and nominations for his work in theatre. He song with famous voices as Sigler, Enrique Lacasa, Bonifacio Pinedo and Fleta, he is one of the few singers best known as an actor to win recognized.

Further reading

  • La autentica vida e historia del teatro 2005 Juan Jose Videgain
    Juan José Videgain
    Juan José Videgain is a Spanish writer, actor and director. Most of Videgain's books have reached cult status thanks to their weird sense of humor in Spain. He is from an old theatrical family in Spain. Salvador Videgain is his grandfather....

    ISBN 84-7828-135-5
  • Diccionario de la zarzuela España e hispanoamérica ICCMU (2003) Vol.II varios autores ISBN 84-89457-23-9
  • Federico Chueca: El alma de Madrid (1992) F.Hernández Girbal Ed. Lira 1992 ISBN 8485679140

Press

  • El globo 1876-1887.
  • El Imparcial (prensa) 1873-1887.
  • El Liberal 1887.
  • La correspondecia de Madrid 1876.

External links

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