Stage Director and University of Puerto Rico

Spanish word meaning: In the meantime, he has managed to combine careers as a singer and a stage director, and will take on both roles in this latest of a series of zarzuelas he has introduced to his adopted homeland, according to Toronto Star. Zarzuela is a Spanish word meaning bramble bush. Lawrence Centre Wednesday evening , veteran baritone Silva-Marin will return to the stage in the very zarzuela that introduced him to the form decades ago in San Juan as a comparative literature student at the University of Puerto Rico. It is also the name of King Philip IV hunting lodge outside Madrid, which was apparently surrounded by these bushes. In common with Viennese operetta and Parisian opéra comique, zarzuelas typically incorporate spoken dialogue in addition to singing and dancing, and some of the greatest playwrights of Spain Golden Age, such as Calderon de la Barca, provided texts. Although anxious to have entertainment at his lodge, the cash-strapped monarch was forced to settle for something less than full-scale grand opera and a new Spanish-language genre of operetta was born. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.