{"id":265016,"date":"2023-02-13T18:10:18","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=265016"},"modified":"2023-02-13T18:10:18","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T23:10:18","slug":"one-hundred-years-of-rosita-fornes-myths-dont-die","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/one-hundred-years-of-rosita-fornes-myths-dont-die\/","title":{"rendered":"One hundred years of Rosita Forn\u00e9s, myths don\u2019t die"},"content":{"rendered":"

They say that at the age of 13, living in Spain, her passion for art awoke in her. On board the <\/span>Manuel Arn\u00fas<\/span><\/i> ocean liner, she performed for the first time in public, accompanied at the piano by another passenger. She interpreted the tango \u201cSilencio en la noche,\u201d by Horacio Pettorossi and Alfredo Le Pera.<\/span><\/p>\n

The daughter of the couple formed by Guadalupe Bonavia and Santiago Palet, raised by her stepfather Jos\u00e9 Forn\u00e9s Dolz, appeared at the age of 15 in the popular space La Corte Suprema del Arte, singing the milonga \u201cLa hija de Juan Sim\u00f3n,\u201d by Nemesio Manuel Sobrevila. From then on and until the last day of her life, Rosa Forn\u00e9s (New York, 1923) was a diva, on par with the greatest in the world.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Few artists have been able to go through so many stages successfully in theatre, radio, television, cabaret, opera, light opera and cinema. In her it was the result of an unquestionable talent and a life focused on what she knew how to do: art.<\/span><\/p>\n

One hundred years after her birth, Rosa Forn\u00e9s \u2014 for Cubans, simply Rosita \u2014 is evoked by some as a symbol of beauty and others recognize her more as one of the best performers in Latin America, a brilliant actress in drama and extraordinary in comedy.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rosita Forn\u00e9s, a legend of theater and cinema. Photo: https:\/\/www.etcetera.com.mx\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We still need to understand how the myth was formed and grew at a time when there were other stars with similar characteristics. Stopping only in the glamor of Forn\u00e9s is doing an injustice to Rosal\u00eda Lourdes Elisa Palet Bonavia.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrivolity was not her choice, nor was it her characteristic. On the contrary, she opted to work on each stage, in each medium, in front of each microphone with the meticulousness of a goldsmith, with a true passion for excellence and, something important, giving herself and serving her audience with proverbial and responsible devotion,\u201d maintains Cuban musicographer Rosa Marquetti.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAlways La Forn\u00e9s\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n

At the Mart\u00ed Theater, where the Havana people said their last goodbye to the Diva, 122 artists took the stage this weekend (Saturday, 7:00 pm and Sunday, 5:00 pm) to celebrate Rosita\u2019s hundred years. The show \u201cSiempre La Forn\u00e9s\u201d is directed by Alfonso Men\u00e9ndez. About his ties with the vedette, he told <\/span>OnCuba<\/b>:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI debuted with Rosa on October 15, 1988. The first time my name appeared in a printed newspaper, it was in a show with her. My first rehearsal, my first review, my first outing outside of Cuba at the Teatro Principal de M\u00e9xico…was thanks to La Forn\u00e9s. Therefore, you can imagine what she means in my professional and personal life. Working with her was good and bad at the same time. Well, because it was too easy to stage any number for her. She was a true teacher. And bad, because when working with other colleagues you noticed the tremendous talent that she possessed, a powerful intuition. I\u2019s also necessary to talk about the magnificent human being that she was. We last worked in 2013 for her 90th birthday and I visited her in May 2017 for an interview featured in the documentary <\/span>Hacer todos los d\u00edas<\/span><\/i>. For this and many other reasons, we have decided to do the show for free, in honor of Rosa.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n