Antonio García Gutiérrez
Birthplace: Chiclana de la Frontera, Spain
Antonio García Gutiérrez was a Spanish Romantic dramatist, whose El trovador, staged at the Teatro del Príncipe in Madrid in 1836, was a triumph and the source of Verdi's Il trovatore (1853), and whose Simón Bocanegra (1843) became Verdi's Simon Boccanegra (1857). He spent six years in Cuba and Mexico, wrote zarzuelas, El grumete (1853), with music by Arrieta, the most popular of them, was elected to the Real Academia Española in 1862, and directed the Museo Arqueológico in Madrid from 1872.
Source works
- El trovador (1836)
- Simón Bocanegra (1843)
Written from
- Rey Hazas, A. (n.d.) 'Antonio García Gutiérrez', in Diccionario Biográfico electrónico. Madrid: Real Academia de la Historia. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).
- Wikipedia (2026) Antonio García Gutiérrez. (Accessed: 19 October 2026).