Mr Jarvis's professional energy has masterminded the regular stage productions of zarzuela under Daniel Helfgot which have become such a feature of the year's work. As with the Santa Fe touring zarzuela productions, the solution to the vexed question of translation is solved by a compromise.
Spoken dialogue is performed in English, musical numbers in the original Spanish.
No doubts at all about the musical quality of the performances, scrupulously and imaginatively prepared by Philip J. Bauman . Zarzuela needs real actor-singers, and on the acting side some performers fall short of full conviction, though as the dialogue has been considerably shortened this is not a terminal drawback. Monclova, and Celia Green 's realistically vengeful Gorgonia in La revoltosa set a standard to emulate. Both videos are of an excellent technical and artistic standard, one strange lacuna near the end of La revoltosa 's preludio apart. They fully deserve their publication, offering highly satisfying entertainment to all starved aficionados , as well as fine quality mementos to the performers themselves and effective advertisement for the work of the Conservatory.