Mexico’s Hit Musical ‘Malinche’ Is the Anti-‘Hamilton’

In 2019, on the 500th anniversary of the arrival of Hernan Curtis to Mexico, then Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador caused great controversy in the Spanish -speaking world when he asked King Felipe VI about Sibian to apologize for the Spanish lower randoms from Mexico. The general conflict in the presidency of Khalifa Amilo, Claudia Shinbom. The King of Spain was not invited, after he failed to issue the desired historical apology, to the inauguration of Shinbaum as the first president of Mexico. The Spanish government, headed by Pedro Sanchez of the Spanish Socialist Workers Party, has refused to send any actor to its inauguration at all.

Outside the official diplomatic channels, Spain has reached the request of Mexico to Mexico-in a long musical form full of flamnco and electricity.

Outside the official diplomatic channels, Spain has reached the request of Mexico to Mexico-in a long musical form full of flamnco and electricity.

This musician MalanchWho depicts an obscene romantic version of Spain’s invasion of the Aztec Empire through the eyes of La Malinch, the original woman who worked as a Cortez translator, and became the mother of his child. How did any of these things do so good, dependent on who you ask. Instead, it is depicted as a hero, a victim or a traitor, La Malinche is a typical figure in Mexican history and culture. To this day, the term Malinchista He is a humiliating description of the Mexican who prefers foreign culture – in European or North America – products, products and features.

The musical version of the title of the title is more heroic: it is the hero of the romantic, romantic and ideal novel that inspires Courtis from afar with the power of the song, and embraces Christianity easily, and it is always honest and useful in its translations. As is common in traditional Mexican national novels, music also ends with the birth of La Malinch I Mestizo (Mixed Spanish Bonetic) The child in history. Thus, the musician makes her the symbolic mother of all Mexicans, but instead of photographing it as a tragedy, the music presents it directly as a historic happy end of a great romance.

It is now running in Mexico City until November, Malanch It was opened for the first time in Madrid in 2023. Its first appearance was helped by generous public support from the local government, which is under the control of the common people in the center of the center, and the opponents of the ruling socialists in Spain. Music is marketed as a “experience”, similar to “Las Vegas and Broadway”. There are rumors that a copy in English is in business, with a tour of the end of the United States. There is even Netflix documentary about music making. Now several months after its race in the Mexican capital, it was a box office success, as it was in Spain.

Malanch I faced amazement in a surprising way. Certainly, the creator of the exhibition, the Spanish rock star Nacho, did not help avoid this. He faced criminal charges to break the Spanish labor and immigration law on how to bring members of the Mexican work team to Spain and employ them in production, after they originally entered Spain with tourist visas. Cano also deals with SweetHeart Feals with the local Madrid authorities to build its high production phase, which is called “the largest stage in Europe”. He left a little doubt about his sympathy for Spain’s divided policy, Kanoo announced that “Sanchez is coming for me” after overcoming criminal charges, and was hinting to defend his political simulation – it is supposed to depict a more glorious version than the past Spanish past than the desire for Spanish.

Although the differences in Spain revolve around production more than actual content, the controversy in Mexico was much more about what is happening on the stage. The exact path of the events that caused the fall of the Aztec Empire will not be completely understood, but it is unlikely to be revealed Malanch imagine.

Modern historians have greatly objected to the photography of the Aztec – or Mexico They also called themselves (and thus the name of the country for Mexico) – as a thirsty monsters only bent on human sacrifice. Unfortunately, this wrong observation is all the Aztec that is presented in MalanchWhere the Aztettit capital is served in Tenochtitlan as a red Hillsbek owner of killing in a musical number inspired by heavy metals.

It depicts a clarification of the corresponding TLAXCALA manuscript between Conquistador Hernan Cortés, La Malinche and the Emperor of the Aztezuma.API/GAMMA-RAPHO via Getty Images

Music pays a dramatic license very far. For example, although he was still discussing whether the last emperor was in the Aztec, MoCtezuma, was killed by his people or by the Spaniards, no source claims that he accepted Christ on his deathbed as an imagination of music. It seems that this narrative development was too much so that it could compensate. But despite its historical inaccuracy, the death of MCTEZUMA is greatly organized technically, as the actor MCTEZUMA plays on the stage by an angel descending from the rafters on the wire. This may be the best that summarizes what is being watched Malanch It is like: technically impressive, but historically doubtful.

MalanchThe artistic advantages aside, the musician clearly touches some of the painful places in the Spanish -speaking world. Tensions and disputes should be interpreted about how Mexico, the largest Spanish country in the world today, explains both its original and Spanish past, not only for academics but for politics and culture in general. There is no doubt that most of the theater pioneers see that music is harmless, but it should be noted that these fans are likely to be packed in a way that is not proportional to the wealthy Mexicans – who are the least vulnerable to objecting to the idea of ​​Cortis as a hero or no, as a romantic figure.

Spain is still an important cultural and economic player in its previous colonies; Just try to calculate the Santander and BBVA branches the next time you are in Mexico City. Meanwhile, Madrid itself became one of the great cities of Latin America, with the emigration of the region to Spain, not the least that the United States closes its doors. The transition from Madrid to Mexico City clearly indicates the musician’s ambition to occupy a major role in the culture of culture of Spanish origin through the Atlantic Ocean, whether it is emerging or recycling or always.

The musician also reveals the approach of the various Spanish -speaking world towards its past on the Anglican. It is difficult to imagine an original musician with such an unimaginable photography of English colonialism will fly in the English -speaking world today, whether in Broadway or West End. Sydney Opera includes Earth recognition; The show on Broadway, which is participating with our history Hamilton. Even modern Back to the future Music includes a more important look at ethnic and sexual inequality in the fifties, which appeared in the original Reagan era. It is difficult to imagine that the music in which a collective baptism of the indigenous population is shown as an English -speaking victory in the world.

Scene Malanch.Malinche Press Photo

Of course, the Spanish -speaking world has similar cultural wars on its past, just as the United States and the United Kingdom do. The issues resulting from Spanish conquest and the abstraction of indigenous people are still related to Latin America. In Chile, President Gabriel Borik’s referendum has partially failed on new rights proposed for indigenous groups such as Mapucci. In Guatemala, the US -backed genocheted perpetrators have been in the Mayan for more than 40 years. In the United States, migrants in Latin America are under original origin to some of the worst violations of the immigration system in the United States, with linguistic barriers that have already doubled conditions. Amilo invaded the first to extract a Spanish apology to invade the nerve in Mexico and beyond specifically because injustice is like this.

However, what seems to be, not only in Spain but in a large part of Latin America, is the conviction that Spanish, missionaries and millions should be, if not good men, then a mixed bag at least spreading Spanish culture and language around the world. Many continue on the right in Mexico, and through Latin America, greatly admiring the Spanish conquest, focusing on creating common cultural and religious roots.

Even for Latin America, like the ruling Mourina party in Mexico (the name literally means “Brown”) who reject the favorable interpretations of the invasion, Spain is still living free of rent in their heads, if it is only frustration against the new national novels that appeal to the majority of the indigenous and Mestzo. Since the Mexican War of Independence, this has been the role that Aztec has served in Mexican national novels – an expression of Mexican and national identity free from the subsequent Spanish influence. However, the fact that music about colonial history can move unchanged from Madrid to Mexico City shows the impossible to remove the Spanish influence.

The presence of La Malinche as a historical figure – the original woman who was the key to Spanish conquest – could complicate any specific novel about the past of Mexico. Unfortunately, Spanish creators in music were unable to make something interesting. Malanch It ends somewhat suddenly, after the Aztec was slaughtered by the Spanishs during Nashi Tart (or VictoriaBased on who you ask), with the above birth of the La Malinche and Cortés child. The last number of music, entitled Mexico Magicoand This birth is celebrated as the birth of Mexico itself. It is an exciting message from Spain to Mexico: If La Malinche is your mother, let your father be. So far, many Mexicans have proven that they will push a good bizo to sit through it.