Los gavilanes

Zarzuela in three acts with music by Jacinto Guerrero and libretto by José Ramos Martín, set in a Provençal village in 1845 to which an indiano enriched in Peru returns. Jordi Bernàcer is in charge of the musical direction at the Teatro de la Zarzuela.

Juan, an indiano who has prospered in Peru, returns to his village on the coast of Provence, where everyone had given him up for dead. As soon as he arrives, he hands out jewels and luxury gifts to his brother, his sister-in-law and his nieces, and the mayor, Clariván, comes to ask him to fund the works the town needs, even though the two were rivals in the past.

His reunion with Adriana, his great love, reveals that she is now a widow, lives in poverty and has a daughter, Rosaura. Juan settles the family's debts and announces that he wants to marry the young woman, which causes an uproar among the villagers: they begin calling him 'the hawk' (el gavilán), mocking him for having caught a dove.

Rosaura, however, is in love with a young man her own age, and the two plan to elope, so the clash between the indiano's desires and the young woman's feelings drives the plot. Jordi Bernàcer is the musical director of this production, which is staged at the Teatro de la Zarzuela with the score by Jacinto Guerrero.