Antonia Zrate (1775, Barcelona 1811) was a Spanish actress.Born
Antonia de Aguirre y Murgua, her birth name reveals her family's
Basque origins. She was the daughter of the actor Pedro de Zrate
Valds, director of a company which was performing "in the lands of
Aragn" at the time of her birth[1] She seems to have arrived in Cadiz
at the end of the 18th century. Cotarelo followed her progress in the
Madrid theatres[2] - she had success throughout Spain, but mainly
acted in the Spanish capital. She is mentioned in 1797 as being in
Madrid with Rita Luna and Isidoro Miquez in Luis Navarro's company,
contracted to the Coliseo de la Cruz. A year later Cotarelo mentions
her singing with Manuela Correa and the same company, now at the
Coliseo del Prncipe. She was still there in the 1801-02 season,
mentioned as a 'matron of serious character' and a year after that she
is recorded as working at the Teatro de los Caos del Peral as part of
the opera and verse company led by Miquez, Antonia Prado and other
major Spanish actors of the period.She was a friend of Francisco Goya,
who painted her in 1805 (the work is now in the National Gallery of
Ireland) and possibly again in 1810-11. She married the singer and
comic actor Bernardo Gil y Aguado. In Madrid in 1793 she gave birth
her only child, Antonio Gil y Zrate, who later became a poet and
playwright. She died of tuberculosis and had probably separated from
her husband by then, since she makes Manuel Garca de la Prada her sole
executor and sole heir in her will.
Antonia de Aguirre y Murgua, her birth name reveals her family's
Basque origins. She was the daughter of the actor Pedro de Zrate
Valds, director of a company which was performing "in the lands of
Aragn" at the time of her birth[1] She seems to have arrived in Cadiz
at the end of the 18th century. Cotarelo followed her progress in the
Madrid theatres[2] - she had success throughout Spain, but mainly
acted in the Spanish capital. She is mentioned in 1797 as being in
Madrid with Rita Luna and Isidoro Miquez in Luis Navarro's company,
contracted to the Coliseo de la Cruz. A year later Cotarelo mentions
her singing with Manuela Correa and the same company, now at the
Coliseo del Prncipe. She was still there in the 1801-02 season,
mentioned as a 'matron of serious character' and a year after that she
is recorded as working at the Teatro de los Caos del Peral as part of
the opera and verse company led by Miquez, Antonia Prado and other
major Spanish actors of the period.She was a friend of Francisco Goya,
who painted her in 1805 (the work is now in the National Gallery of
Ireland) and possibly again in 1810-11. She married the singer and
comic actor Bernardo Gil y Aguado. In Madrid in 1793 she gave birth
her only child, Antonio Gil y Zrate, who later became a poet and
playwright. She died of tuberculosis and had probably separated from
her husband by then, since she makes Manuel Garca de la Prada her sole
executor and sole heir in her will.
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