Manuel Penella
Manuel Penella Moreno (31 July 1880 in Valencia – 14 January 1939 in Cuernavaca) was a Spanish composer. His father was the composer Manuel Penella Raga. His daughter Magdalena Penella Silva married the politician Ramón Ruiz Alonso; through her, he was the grandfather of actresses Emma Penella, Elisa Montés and Terele Pávez. Although his most popular work at home and abroad is the oft-revived opera española El gato montés (a special favourite of Plácido Domingo, who revived it several times and recorded it for Deutsche Grammophon), several of his other works still enjoy popularity in Spain and the Spanish-speaking world, notably the chamber opera Don Gil de Alcalá (scored in Mexican style for strings and harp), some of his revues and the ambitious, late zarzuela La malquerida (1935), based on the masterpiece by Jacinto Benavente.
Genre: flamenco
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Top Tracks
- El gato montés: Torero quiero ser (Rev. Roa García) - Live
- El gato montés / Act 2: Senó, q'e no me farte er való
- Que Dolor De Mare Mia - Remasterizada 2012
- Rosa Yo No Te Cogi (Malagueñas) - Remasterizada 2012
- Don Gil de Alcalá
- Vurria
- Nisciuno Po' Sape'
- Me So' 'Mbriacto 'E Sole
- Anema 'E Core
- Pecche?
- I' M'arricordo 'E Napule
- Mandulinata A Napule
- Guapparia
- Carmela
- Torna!
- Mamma Mia, Che Vo' Sape'?
- Luna Nova
- Marechiare
- Funiculì, Funiculà
- Tangos Jerezanos Te Tengo Que Ver Llorar (feat. Manuel Penella Moreno) - Tangos
Albums (40)
- Clarinet Love Story (2025-03-10)
- Canciones (2022-12-13)
- Sierra Brass Quintet (2022-09-09)
- Reina y Patrona de la Orden Franciscana (2022-02-05)
- The Three Tenors - In Concert, Rome 1990 (And Selected Highlights) (2020-07-04)
- Lars Eric Andersson Brunnskappelmästare (2020-01-10)
- Fauna Sacra (2019-11-18)
- Live La Monnaie (2017-02-03)
- Musica de España. Spanish Classical Music (2016-12-16)
- 50 Greatest Tracks (2015-11-06)
- Ten Top Tenors (2015-11-01)
- I Love Zarzuelas (2014-05-12)
- El Gato Montés (2014-04-12)
- El Divo (2014-03-31)
- Zarzuela: Las Musas Latinas (2013-12-03)
- Zarzuela: Don Gil de Alcalá (2013-12-02)
- Montserrat Caballé - The Diva (2013-05-24)
- Manuel Penella: Don Gil de Alcalá (1958) (2013-05-09)
- Voces Legendarias (Zarzuela) (2013-01-15)
- 101 Domingo (2013-01-01)
- Los 100 Mejores Toques (2012-01-01)
- Great Interpreters of Flamenco - La Paquera de Jerez, 1956 - 1957 (2011-08-12)
- Guitar Orchestra: Arpeggio Gitarzenekar: Barangolás (2007-08-07)
- Duets (2007-01-01)
- Truly Domingo (2006-01-01)
- Brava Berganza (2005-01-01)
- Pasodobles (2004-12-01)
- The Three Tenors - The Best of the 3 Tenors (2002-01-01)
- Sings Neapolitan Songs (2000-01-01)
- Fiesta in Madrid (2000-01-01)
- Cantos de la Mar (2000-01-01)
- Great Voices of the Century (2000-01-01)
- The Three Tenors - Paris 1998 (1970-01-01)
- Music From The Heart Of Spain (1997-01-01)
- Don Gil de Alcalá (1996-10-09)
- 24 Grandes Éxitos de Zarzuela, Vol. 2 (1994-05-17)
- Premier Concours International de Voix D'Opéra Plácido Domingo; Paris 1993 / Concert of the Prizewinners (1994-05-03)
- Penella: El Gato Montés (1992-01-01)
- Sol y Sombra (Remasterizado 2023) (1970-01-01)
- Antologia de la Zarzuela (1970-01-01)
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