You have to admit that the posters for the next April fair are the icing on the cake, Finish them off, as they like it in Seville (practically the same as in 2023), well combined, full of well-known names and artist farms and collaborators with the bullfighters. Posters that on paper represent a good box office draw and are sure to attract long lines despite the gloomy clouds hanging over the economy.
The Sevillian poster is undoubtedly a source of pride for spectators of this new bullfight, where the fun goes beyond all the requirements associated with the bullfighting festival.
The April Fair 2024 is once again a well-baked, appetizing cake, seasoned with the other icing on the cake called Morante de la Puebla, which returns to its place after its great triumph of the year last year and which has contributed to it being the absolute protagonist of the 2024 season ticket. And La Maestranza will certainly be packed on the days the bullfighter is announced, with an enthusiastic audience waiting eagerly for the muses to reappear. of the artist to live, who do you know, another unforgettable moment.
Next to the renowned teacher, the young veteran Borja Jiménez, who enters the fair under his own power and through the entrance door through which he passed in Madrid. This bullfighter already knew the joy of the Puerta del Príncipe during his time as a bullfighter and is welcomed with affection and expectation.
It has never been easy for Seville to welcome bullfighters from outside. No one will remember a large group of merit in La Maestranza
With the same interest that a poster with the two roosters in the pen, Daniel Luque and Roca Rey, would have aroused, impossible due to ridiculous and childish personal confrontations; In any case, both will have plenty of opportunity to renew their laurels, also because they deserve it.
Morante, Jiménez, Luque and Roca are well accompanied; In reality, all the performers are present in between, as fifteen of the seventeen posters consist of figures and only the bullfights on April 7th and 9th feature bullfighters who do not enjoy the “motherly appreciation” of the “fans” of this country.
poster Finish them offYes, as the remembered Diodoro Canorea taught his son-in-law Ramón Valencia, current manager of the Pagés company, and as they like it, of course, the royal Maestranza de Caballería, owner of the square and very interested in everything “There are no tickets”, Because it’s not for nothing that he collects just over 22 percent of the sales from each celebration. And they also amaze the vast majority of Plaza visitors, who crave art featuring four-legged artists rather than art featuring bulls.
poster Finish them off – well-combined, attractive, with a preponderance of ornate bullfighters and bulls of the same color – are the ones that seem to be desired in this city.
An aristocratic subscription – the shadow lines, of course – for wealthy, economically well-off people (La Maestranza is a very expensive place, and this year ticket prices are increasing by 6 percent, although it makes clear the company, which has been frozen since 2020), generous Encouragement, well formwho needs social recognition, who comes onto the world’s best catwalk in the capital dressed smartly and smiling.
The Sevillian bullfighting temple is the son of the city that gave birth to it: navel gazing, “the best fair in the world”, “after me no one”, as if bullfighting and its long and fruitful history began and ended here, at the Prince’s Gate.
For this reason, neither the company nor its customers miss a bullfighter on the posters. There are those who have to be there and it’s over. For it is a subscription for distinguished gentlemen, a local or foreign public who have no other desire than to have a good time with an art that cannot be endured, and a minority of patient amateurs who lack the ability to make oneself heard. .
No one will remember a large group of bullfighters who deserved to see the arches of La Maestranza from the Albero and who were not there; The least of them are local because they have not yet managed to escape the very low area of the ladder, and the rest because they do not have the vitola of large stature and, moreover, were born beyond the city walls.
It makes no sense for the San Miguel Fall Fair to be announced in February without taking into account the season’s winners
It was never easy for Seville to embrace bullfighters from the outside; it welcomes them, yes, if they happen to appear and fall into its favor, but no more. Many interesting bullfighters are excluded from this subscription, but no one will ask about it. As well as others who have no merit for it, but appear because of last names or business obligations. Like life itself…
And the cops? More than the brave ones, the usual collaborators. Miura by tradition; Victorino, for repeated triumphs after many, many years of absence, and the others who demand the characters, and let’s say no more. In fact, the same as last year: only El Torero leaves and Juan Pedro Domecq and Alcurrucén return.
And after the April fair, the San Miguel fair at the end of September.
Why are the end-of-season posters announced in the month of February, are they included in the subscription and do they have to be paid several months in advance? Doesn’t it seem more logical to wait for the winners of the season and present a subscription with the three rounds of the cycle in September?
Well no; And the reason is simple: this is how it has been done since time immemorial and no one protests. And since no one complains, the company deposits a certain amount advanced by its customers into its account without anything in return.
Anyway, it’s not normal, but this is Seville. Tradition must be respected: posters Finish them off, a few bullfighters and, if possible, figures; Bulls that do not inspire fear, a nice and funny audience and a presidential box – not to mention – disoriented and in the inevitable service of increasingly comfortable triumph.
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