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Rosario Fernández Guerrero (born about 1880 – died 1960s) was a Spanish dancer and pantomimist with an international career. Although she was not a singer, she is most often associated with the role of Carmen.
Rosario Guerrero | |
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Friedrich August von Kaulbach, "Rosario Guerrero as Carmen" (circa 1908) | |
| Born | Rosario Fernández Guerrero about 1880 Spain |
| Died | 1960s (aged c. 80) Madrid |
| Nationality | Spanish |
| Other names | La Bella Guerrero, Rose Guerrero |
| Occupation | dancer |
Guerrero was born in Spain; some sources give Madrid as the city, while she recalled a childhood in Seville.[1][2]
Guerrero danced in Paris and London as a young woman.[3][4] She danced a ballet version of Carmen in 1903 in London at the Alhambra Theatre. "I reveled in it," she told an interviewer, "I felt that I was Carmen, and do you know, I verily believe that my Don José was now and again really afraid of me."[1] She danced in New York in 1903 and 1904, appearing in The Rose and the Dagger and The Red Feather.[5] In 1905, she was in London again,[6] in a pantomime called The Nightmare with music by A. Porinelly, at the Palace Theatre.[7][8]
In 1906 there were reports that she was hospitalized in Vienna in 1906, found "violently insane" from "excessive dancing".[9] She performed pantomime shows[10] in London in 1908,[11] in New York and Chicago in 1909,[12][13] and in other American cities including San Francisco and Indianapolis in 1910.[14][15] She owned a "small estate" in France.[16]
Guerrero was described as a "famous beauty" in 1908.[17] She posed for a series of portraits by German artist Friedrich August von Kaulbach, who considered them among his best work.[18] Arthur Kampf's celebrated 1906 canvas, Spanische Tänzerin is similarly believed to be a portrait of Guerrero.
Her sister Enriqueta, billed as "the Little Guerrero" and "Guerrerrito", also worked as a dancer in London in the 1900s.[19][20]
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