María Álvarez Tubau (1854 – 13 March 1914) was a Spanish actress, a contemporary of María Guerrero.

Biography

María Álvarez Tubau was born in

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, the daughter of Mercedes Tubau of

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and Manuel Álvarez Robles of

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. She began acting at age 12, together with , completing her training with Vico at the Teatro Apolo and with at the . She achieved some popularity as a comic actress in the

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genre. After marrying for the first time and being widowed in 1877, she married again in 1882, to the playwright and theater director . He reignited her career, making her one of the leading performers of the Madrid scene. Together they formed their own theatrical company at the Teatro de la Princesa. She performed works by contemporary Spanish playwrights such as

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, , Eusebio Blasco, and

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(in a unique and controversial interpretation of his '' Doña Perfecta'' which premiered in 1896). She also staged works by

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Neoclassicists such as Leandro Fernández de Moratín,

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, and Alexandre Dumas, ''fils''. At age 37 she was named "Doctor in Dramatic Art" in a document published in 1891 and signed by José Zorrilla, Núñez de Arce, Campoamor,

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, and

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, among other journalists, politicians, and intellectuals of the era. She toured Spain and America, and in 1904 became a professor at the

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. She died in 1914.

References

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