Calle Joaquín Arjona
It recalls Joaquín Arjona y Ferrer, an actor from Seville who dominated the Madrid stage of the mid-nineteenth century.
Behind the sign of Joaquín Arjona there is a man from Seville who stepped onto a stage at twelve and never came down. Born in 1817, he began studying medicine and left it for the theatre, the trade he carried in his blood through his mother, the actress Josefa Ferrer.
By 1844 he is already in Madrid, and his name was tied to the great roles of the repertory: Moratín’s El sí de las niñas, El desdén con el desdén, Larra’s Los lazos de familia. His most lasting mark he left as a teacher: from 1865 he taught elocution at the Madrid Conservatory, and actors of the next generation passed through his classroom, among them Emilio Mario. He died in Madrid in 1875.