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Maese Pedro's Puppet Show

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‘Maese Pedro's Puppet Show’ by Manuel de Falla. Puppets by Ignacio Zuloaga. National Theatre Museum, Almagro © Ministerio de Cultura

Category

Sculpture

Date

1928

Artist

Ignacio Zuloaga

Original title

El retablo de Maese Pedro

National Theatre Museum
Almagro
Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha

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It is a portable puppet theatre that performs a musical and theatrical adaptation of an episode of "The ingenious knight Don Quixote of La Mancha".

The opening night of the musical version of "Maese Pedro's Puppet Show" by Manuel de Falla was on 28 April 1923 in the San Fernando Theatre in Seville. The play was so successful that it was soon put on in other countries. In 1926 it was put on in Amsterdam with Luis Buñuel as the director, and in 1928 in the Paris National Opera Comic Theatre, with the set and puppets by Ignacio de Zuloaga.
A medieval romance is performed: Melisendra being freed by her husband Gayferos. A puppet show, guided by Maese Pedro, in which the characters, the Emperor Charlemagne, the beautiful Melisendra, the knight Gayferos, King Marsilio and the Moors are the protagonists of a chivalric tale.

Details of the work

Object
Model

Technique
String puppets with a German control

Material
Wood, resin, cardboard, card, pita fibre, metal, synthetic hair and several types of fabric. Tempera, watercolour, silver and gold glitter

Place of production
Paris National Opera Comic Theatre. Opening night in 1928