First performance of Blood wedding by Margarita Xirgu in Barcelona (November 22, 1935, Principal Palace). That year Federico García Lorca declares: “This is a real premiere. Now you will see the play for the first time. Now it is performed in its entirety. Imagine that they have already placed on the posters the real name with which he had baptized the work Tragedy“. Now the triumph is total. It was directed by Cipriano Rivas Cherif and Lorca himself. The painter José Caballero designed the sets and Lorca chose and performed some of the music. The critics were on his side. María Luz Morales (La Vanguardia) writes: “It is not only the premiere of Blood wedding in Barcelona, but also the quality of this performance with the collaboration of García Lorca and Rivas Cherif, and the interpretation of the mother (sic) by Margarita Xirgu, which also deserve premiere honors”. Blood wedding has triumphed as Lorca wanted, as a tragedy. And the author is already an internationally acclaimed artist.
