In the 13th-c, a brief lyric, often with a homosexual implication, used by Galician-Portuguese troubadours to express joy in being reunited with their lovers at dawn. The 13th-c poet Nuno Fernandes Torneol makes the theme ironic by employing the typically merry refrain to describe a girl's distress on being forsaken by her lover.
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Plot
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In Santa Rita, Panama, Hipolita is still living with her grandmother, Doña Carlota, and Hipolita is arranged to marry Antonio. Hipolita's mother in law, forces a Mexican man, Luis, to pretend
be Antonio and to have sex with Hipolita.
Cast
Lucero--Hipolita Diaz de Guzman, later Hipolita Diaz de Manrique y Arellano, Condesa de Guevara,
main heroine Fernando Colunga--Luis Manrique y Arellano, later Conde de Guevara ,
main hero Daniela Romo--Juana Arellano, viuda de Manrique, mother of Diego,
villain Arturo Peniche--Antonio de Guzman, husband of Hipolita Luis Roberto Guzman--Diego Arellano, Conde
de Guevara,
villain Mariana Garza--Esperanza, wife of Luis Ernesto Laguardia--Cristobal de Lara, friend of Luis Iran Castillo--Catalina, sister of Hipolita and wife of Cristobal Alejandro
Tommasi--Felipe, friend and employee of Luis Manuel Ojeda--Francisco, father of Catalina,
villain Vanessa Guzman--Perla Olivia Bucio--Asuncion, mother of Hipolita and Catalina, wife of
Francisco Beatriz Moreno--Adalgisa, maid of Hipolita Jose Luis Resendez--Andres, son of Francisco Mariana Karr--Isabel, aunt of Luis Monica Miguel--Modesta, Juana's maid Valentino Lanus--Martin,
Son of Felipe Marcelo Córdoba--Marcos, works for Luis, friend of Martin
Crew
María Zarattini - Original Story Placido Domingo - Interpreter of Theme Song "Alborada" Carla Estrada - Producer
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