Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz) (EFE).- The Lola Flores Museum opens its doors today in Jerez de la Frontera (Cádiz), her hometown, so that all her admirers can feel the energy, passion, power and greatness of the Pharaoh, according to what her daughters, Lolita and Rosario, have told, very excited.
With the inauguration of the museum, “a dream” of Lola Flores is fulfilled, on the centenary of her birth and 28 years after her death.
His family – his sister Carmen, 86 years old; his daughters, his grandchildren and his two great-grandchildren-, together with the clan’s friends, will be the first to access the Lola Flores Cultural Center, in the Plaza de Belén in Jerez de la Frontera, in an inauguration that they have wanted to be private.
They do not rule out what happened at Lolita’s wedding, when, before the avalanche of the press and admirers, Lola Flores herself came out and said one of her phrases that has remained in the collective memory: “If you love me, go away.”
“If it happens, I will tell you; well, I’ll say, ‘Stay away a little’”, Lolita joked at the press conference that she offered with her sister, the mayoress of Jerez, Mamen Sánchez, and Mariola Orellana, the family friend who has been in charge of moving forward this project and to select, in the trunks kept with Lola Flores’ things, the collections that will feed this museum, along with donated memorabilia.
The mayoress of Jerez has revealed that one of the first people to enter the museum when it opens to the public this afternoon will be a married couple from Argentina who have written to tell her that they will be traveling from that country, with tickets already purchased. , to know this museum. “We Argentines got to know Andalusia through Lola,” they told him in an email they wrote to him.
The museum was “the illusion” of the artist
The museum, which has the name of Cultural Center, was “the illusion” of Lola Flores, Lolita has told.
After initiatives that did not materialize in Madrid and Seville, the “dream” has come true in Jerez and in the format that Lola Flores wanted. “She wanted her museum to be like her house, for people to go” and “they have made the house that she wanted,” Lolita said.
Her wedding dress has been the only object that they have revealed that will be among the 200 pieces that the museum will have, in addition to some 30 or 40 jewels, many of them replicas.
His granddaughter Elena Furiase, Lolita’s daughter, has put the voice in the center’s audio guides. For Rosario, the museum is “an explosive bomb”, as was her mother, with which all visitors will be able to feel “all her energy, her greatness”.
Mariola Orellana, who has confessed that no one in her life has “hypnotized” her like Lola Flores and who, with Carmen Mateo, has worked on this project, explained that her set-up “seems that she was guiding her”, a process in which even “miracles have happened.”
He explained that the museum has not been built “with a desire for anything” and that, if money is earned with the tickets -ten euros, general price- after paying the maintenance costs, that benefit will go to a Lola Flores Foundation, that they are preparing
The Museum will be completed with a stage and a patio, in the same square, where there will be from a store to a place to offer recitals or other activities, a living “pole” that will also have the Flamenco Museum next door.
His daughters have confessed that they feel that their hearts are coming out “through their mouths”, from emotion. “It had been 28 years since she had worn a suit from my mother, her shoes. Touching her stuff has been a shock. It is to have my mother alive again ”, confessed Lolita.