The Lola Flores Museum will open its doors tomorrow 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 have told today and Rosario.
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 friends of the clan, will be the first to access the Lola Flores Cultural Center tomorrow, in the Plaza de Belén in Jerez de la Frontera, in an inauguration that they 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 have remained in the collective memory: “if you want to leave me.”
“If it happens, I’ll say it myself, well I’ll say ‘get away a little bit’,” 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 He has been in charge of carrying out this project and selecting the collections that will feed this museum, which will have both things by the artist and donated memorabilia.
The mayoress of Jerez has revealed that one of the first people to enter the museum when it opens to the public tomorrow 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 see this museum. “We Argentines got to know Andalusia through Lola,” they told him in an email they wrote to him.
The museum, which is called the Cultural Center, was “the illusion” of Lola Flores, says her daughter Lolita.
After initiatives that did not materialize in Madrid or 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, so that people would go” and “they have made the little house that she wanted,” says Lolita.
Her wedding dress has been the only object that they have revealed that will be among the 200 pieces that the museum will have, including some 30 or 40 replicas of jewels.
As a curiosity, her granddaughter Elena Furiase, Lolita’s daughter, has been in charge of providing a 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 confesses that no one in her life has “hypnotized” her like Lola Flores, and who has worked on this project with Carmen Mateo, explains that “it seems that she was guiding him”, in a process in which even ” Miracles have happened.”
The museum has not been made “with a desire for anything” and if money is earned with the tickets (ten euros, general price) after paying maintenance expenses, that benefit will go to a Lola Flores foundation that they are preparing, says Orellana .
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 live “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”, with emotion. “It had been 28 years since I had worn a suit from my mother, her shoes… touching her things has been a shock. It is having my mother alive again,” Lolita confessed.
