Mariana Pineda
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This article is about the play by Federico García Lorca. For the historical person, see Mariana de Pineda Muñoz.
Mariana Pineda is a play by the Spanish playwright Federico García Lorca based on the life of Mariana de Pineda Muñoz. It was written between 1923 and 1925, and first performed in 1927.
Though his first play was El maleficio de la mariposa which was first performed in 1920, it closed after only four performances and Lorca often claimed Mariana Pineda to be his first play. Between 1965 and 1969 the French composer Louis Saguer (1907-1991) has written an opera on the subject. The work was premiered in 1970 in Marseille and was awarded with the "Grand Opera Prize of Monaco" (1970)