El Café del
Burrero, el Café de Novedades, el Café del
Arenal, el Café Filarmónico, Kursaal Central
Café... and this was only in Seville. The list of
singing cafes offering flamenco in the main Spanish cities
between the end of the 19th century and the beginning of
the 20th century is vast. Besides Silverio Franconetti,
manager of one the most popular cafes, many others like
Antonio
Chacón, Manuel Torre, La Serneta, Concha la Carbonera,
El Canario, Juan Breva, Niño de Escacena, Malena,
a young Niña de los Peines were also successful in
these nineteenth-century stages (tablaos). The cinema and
the increasing taste for cuplé drive the arte jondo
away from these sites in the 20s and 30s, thus flamenco
looked for other ways of reaching the public such as theatrical
flamenco or flamenco opera.
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