Esmeralda (telenovela)

telenovela


title = Esmeralda
country = Mexico
year = 1997
network = Televisa
language = Spanish
director = Karina Duprez
Marta Luna
Beatriz Sheridan
producer = Salvador Mejía
cinematographer = Jesús Nájera
writer = Delia Fiallo (original)
Liz Orlin
Dolores Ortega
Georgina Tinoco (adaptation) | cast = Leticia Calderón
Fernando Colunga
Enrique Lizalde
Raquel Morell
music = L. Alberto Diazayas
theme_song = "Esmeralda"
performer = Javier Rodríguez
episodes = 137

Esmeralda is a telenovela that was released by Televisa in 1997. It is a remake of a 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name, and was itself remade in Brazil in 2004. Another version is Topacio from Venezuela on 1984.

Plot Summary

A stormy night finds a country healer, Dominga (Raquel Olmedo), attending a difficult birth. The mother dies shortly after giving birth to a boy. Meanwhile, at the Casa Grande hacienda, Blanca de Velasco de Peñarreal (Raquel Morell), is also giving birth. Her husband, Don Rodolfo Peñarreal (Enrique Lizalde), waits anxiously outside her room, hoping the child will be a boy. Their doctor cannot reach the hacienda, because the storm has blown a tree across the road. The family sends for Dominga, who delivers the child.

The child is a girl -- and apparently stillborn. Dominga, realizing the grief that this outcome will cause Don Rodolfo, tells Crisanta, the family's nanny, about the orphaned baby boy, and the two of them decide to swap the babies while Blanca is still unconscious. Crisanta gives Dominga Blanca's emerald earrings as a price for her silence.

Dominga returns to her house with the lifeless baby girl in her arms. Shortly after, the girl begins to cry. Realizing that she has made a terrible mistake, Dominga resolves to raise the girl as her own. She names the girl Esmeralda, after the emerald earrings.

Eighteen years later, the Peñarreals return to the Casa Grande after a stay in Mexico City. The boy born that night, José Armando Peñarreal (Fernando Colunga), is fully grown. Esmeralda (Leticia Calderón), who had been born blind, still lives in the countryside with Dominga. Shortly after, they meet, they fall in love -- much to the displeasure of Don Rodolfo.

Cast

* Leticia Calderón - "Esmeralda Peñarreal de Velasco"
* Fernando Colunga - "José Armando Peñarreal de Velasco"
* Enrique Lizalde - "Don Rodolfo Peñarreal"
* Laura Zapata - "Fátima Linares viuda de Peñarreal"
* Ana Patricia Rojo - "Georgina Pérez-Montalvo"
* Salvador Pineda - "Dr. Lucio Malaver"
* Ignacio López Tarso - "Melesio"
* Gustavo Rojo - "Dr. Bernardo Pérez-Montalvo"
* Irán Eory - "Sister Piedad"
* Noé Murayama - "Fermín"
* Elsa Cárdenas - "Hortencia Lazcano"
* Raúl Padilla - "Trolebús"
* Dina de Marco - "Crisanta"
* Elsa Navarrete - "Aurora"
* Esther Rinaldi - "Flor de la Caridad 'Florecita' Lucero"
* Juan Carlos Serrán - "Dionisio Lucero"
* Rafael Amador - "Dionisio Lucero"
* Juan Pablo Gamboa - "Dr. Álvaro Lazcano"
* María Luisa Alcalá - "Doña Socorro 'Socorrito"'
* Alejandro Ruiz - "Adrián Lucero"
* Nora Salinas - "Graciela 'Gracielita' Peñarreal Linares de Valverde"
* Rafael del Villar - "Sebastián Robles-Gil"
* Sergio Jurado - "Lic. Joaquín Estrada"
* Raquel Morell - "Blanca De Velasco de Peñarreal"
* Raquel Pankowsky - "Juana"
* Raquel Olmedo - "Dominga"
* Gustavo Aguilar - "Anuar"
* Gabriela Aponte - "Benita"
* Alejandro Ávila - "Designer"
* Eduardo Cáceres - "Femio"
* José Antonio Coro - "Lic. Díaz Mirón"
* Roberto D'Amico - "Gustavo Valverde"
* Gabriela del Valle - "Zoila"
* Odín Dupeyrón - "Gabino"
* Paola Flores - "Tomasa"
* Dacia González - "Rita Valverde"
* Isadora González - "Tania"
* Jesús Lara - "Tomás"
* Alma Rosa López - "Maribel"
* Melba Luna - "Epifania"
* Lorena Martínez - "Sister Lucila"
* Fabrizio Mersini - "Luis"
* María Morena - "Doris Camacho"
* Genoveva Moreno - "Zenaida"
* Ursula Murayama - "Jacinta"
* Genoveva Pérez - "Eufraria"
* Jaime Puga - "Lino"
* Carlos Ramírez - "Dr. Ramos"
* Juan Ríos - "Claudio"
* José Luis Rojas - "Eleno"
* Mauricio Rubi - "Facundo"
* Roberto Ruy - "Indian Ofelio"
* Dolores Salomón - "Tula"
* Gabriela Salomón - "Petra"
* Cuco Sánchez - "Don Cuco"
* Alberto Santini - "Nacho"
* Irma Torres - "Altagracia"
* Marco Uriel - "Emiliano Valverde"
* Horacio Vera - "Ciriaco"

External links

* [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0211802/ Esmeralda] at the IMDB.
* [http://www.esmas.com/esmeralda/ Esmeralda] at Televisa