Calle Ricardo Calvo
Recalls the Madrid actor Ricardo Calvo Agostí, famous for his recitation of classical verse in Spanish theater during the first half of the twentieth century.
The name evokes Ricardo Calvo Agostí, a Madrid actor (1875–1966) remembered as one of the great reciters of classical verse on the Spanish stage. He belonged to a theatrical dynasty, and his fame came from his voice: he spoke Calderón and the Romantics with a way of delivering verse that shaped several generations.
Something uncommon for an actor of his time survives: his recorded voice. Around the 1910s he recorded verse recitations for the Odeon label, among them Rubén Darío’s Marcha triunfal. The tourist who strolls along Ricardo Calvo walks under the name of one of the few voices from that theater that can still be heard.