‘The girl with the bunch of roses’ was first performed in Madrid at the Fuencarral Theatre in 1934, a Tuesday the thirteenth. It is a lyrical farce in two acts set in the square of a Madrid neighbourhood.

As its author Pablo Sorozabal states in his autobiography ‘My life and my work’: “… that a Basque educated in music in Germany… seeks to write a farce in two acts with the action taking place on the same date as the opening night… that does not enter anyone’s head.” Remember that three years previously, the Second Republic had been declared. However, this story about a florist, proud of her working class background, who was being courted by a mechanic and a pilot, which also features a manicurist, a scrap iron merchant and a waiter, nicknamed “the walking encyclopaedia” due to his verbal diarrhoea, enjoyed immediate and absolute success, that endures today.

This production, which is produced by the Campoamor Theatre, is stage directed by Emilio Sagi, grandson of Emilio Sagi Barba and nephew of Emilio Sagi Vela, both great baritones, the first the impresario of the Fuencarral Theatre and the second the actor who played Joaquín, the mechanic in love, in 1934.