Antonio Reparaz, un músico español en Oporto: nuevos datos para su biografía

Abstract

This article aims to provide new biographical information about Antonio Reparaz, particularly relating to the years he worked in Porto, as musical director and impresario of the S. João Royal Theatre.The basic sources for this article have been a collection of unpublished documents held at the Porto District Archive and the press, especially O Comercio do Porto, one of the most important nineteenth-century newspapers and the only periodical available almost in its entirety at the Library of the Faculty of Letters of the University of Porto.The analysis of these sources has led to a reconstruction of Antonio Reparaz’s musical activity in Porto between 1856 and 1881, as well as a study and understanding of the city’s main theatre, the second opera house in Portugal.