Juan Lombía

Portrait of Juan Lombía, by Antonio María Esquivel. 1837. (Museo de Zaragoza).

Juan Lombía (1806 in Zaragoza – 1851 in Madrid) was a Spanish actor,[1] author and theatre impresario. As an author, he only remembered today for his 1808 El sitio de Zaragoza, a one-act prologue dedicated to the Dos de Mayo Uprising.[2] As impresario at Teatro de la Cruz, he was responsible for the staging of numerous works by José Zorrilla, among them Don Juan Tenorio.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rafael González Cañal, Almudena García González, Felipe B. Pedraza Jiménez (2008). Rojas Zorrilla en escena. Univ de Castilla La Mancha. p. 76. ISBN 8484276325.
  2. ↑ Demange, Christian (2004). El dos de mayo: mito y fiesta nacional, 1808-1958. Marcial Pons Historia. p. 80. ISBN 8495379732.
  3. ↑ Gies, David Thatcher (1996). El teatro en la España del siglo XIX. Ediciones AKAL. p. 113. ISBN 0521478367.


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