• This story is about the Mexican singer Chavela Vargas and the Spanish poet Federico Garcia Lorca. Chavela and Federico, share a brotherly love story. Poetry and music are the places of their meetings. A nonagenarian woman, Spanish American emblem, resists dying before making her last wish: make a tribute to the allegorical poet of Granada. The offering that she has proposed for the tribute is to interpret the poetry and dramaturgy of Lorca with the rhythms that have served her for other songs. Chavela Vargas relates that when she lived in the Student’s Residence of Madrid, in the same room where Federico Garcia Lorca lived years ago, she received the visit of a yellow bird that contained the soul of the Spanish poet. These meetings are the beginning of a relationship that goes beyond space and time. The Nightingale and the Night is a documentary that transgresses barriers; two timeless creators converge in the space of art. The singer and the author that was killed during the Spanish civil war, discover that, together, make an immortal universe.

“The poet and me, both of us insomniacs, used to spend hours talking, listening to music, singing or reading poetry out loud. Poetry written by him, like one that says: La noche no quiere venir para que tú no vengas, ni yo pueda ir.  García Lorca was the first one to be noted. -I was … Continue reading →

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