The master of transformations Fedosy Santaella 
Ah yes, there were still some years for the Duke of Darkstone is let her see the world with his brightness and his boastful talk online pyramid of beauty and his abdomen without roots, when in 1916 he appeared in Caracas one of the most extravagant never saw the bare Caracas.
Characters have always been unique in the world, and in our land. Remember at the time of Crespo, the notorious Francisco Delpino and Lamas, famous Chirulí of Guaire hatter by profession who wrote the series of poems singular metamorphosis Another , and some other free verse as well never Imprint weighted, which was as follows:
flying bird that you stopped in your arm green
passed hunter matot;
be worth more than you sleep!
not forget another character also Crespo of times (on the insane at the time of Crespo, right?): Telmo Romero, Rasputin Creole witch loved by the lady of the house (and they will think badly of Dona Jacinta, Carache), which became director of hospitals in Caracas and Teques mental asylum. Romero, who was not crazy, but I knew to be grotesque, assured his master that he could cure the madness of his own invention remedies. He maintained that deception to that Crespo was killed in the Mata Carmelera, then had to run (Romero Telmo, the deceased was already dead), because students, civilized people until they try to pass them off as memos, they wanted to lynch him in such a liar was that gentleman.
of these characters have a lot, many nationals, others come from outside, as it was, say her name once, Leopoldo Fregoli, watchmaker, photographer, actor, singer and pioneer of cinema, which was fregolígrafo version Italian invention of the Lumière. A man of many, no doubt, so that became known chiefly as the greatest transformations of his time. And when I talk about a quick change paratheatrical art, not an art-men-who-prefer-be-girls-and-so.
Fregoli, it should be noted, was not a crazy as Delpino and Lamas or fraud as Romero. Say rather that his specialty was precisely the scam and turned into art fraud. Proteus of their time, Leopoldo Fregoli was one and was all, was a man and woman, the king of costumes and impersonations, master of mime, pantomime, magic, ventriloquism, singing, acrobatics, ie all these arts - paratheatrical - they have to study today Broadway actors to give him a note in a work more or less prestigious (or not); arts certainly are so close to cheating, its practitioners Scammers seem to me brought to light and become an artist.
Fregoli same gentleman was with misshapen whiskers vagrancy, or respectable lady hopeless damsel, imitating supremacy, as Klaus Nomi of their times, the voice of a light soprano, a tenor or a baritone, down to the lowest notes of deep bass, they said the chronicles of his age, chronic also indicated that Leopoldo Fregoli was "the first man who made women's roles without attaching to it any way vulgar or ridiculous," and added and nothing suspicious, just in case.
Legend (fancy way of gossip) that, as a soldier, Fregoli was part of a theater group. One day some of his colleagues were alienated (only that we know that is "alienated"), and to his "unwillingness" translated in the absence, Fregoli decided to play the roles of those missing. Apparently he did very well, and began his career accelerated, the forerunner of Futurism of Marinetti (I mean, will not believe), because during their performances, in a rapid and surprising, Fregoli voice changed, apparel and record thus becoming a different character each time. He often said: "Art is life, and life transformation." So ahead of Einstein was the master, and this also mean it, do not think I mock.
Anyway, his talent gave him worldwide fame that is, thanks to this, he traveled the world and paid for it, which we try to do a lot in our life, not dying in the attempt, but without actually achieve it, even once. Coined the term psychiatry Fregoli syndrome to define a mental disorder schizoid type. The thing is more or less like this: a man who suffers Fregoli syndrome, may believe that his mistress, not his wife but his brother died a few years ago, which has been reincarnated in it. Things like that. On the other hand, joined the Italian the word "scrubbers" to indicate a rapid and dizzying action. Recall that in the Venezuela English language used "vitoqueado" to speak of well-dressed and decked out in Modesto Vito reminiscent of the great Franklin, Duke of Darkstone, the Caracas gomecista Petronio.
By the way, who go to the theater today and see a scene where the action is mixed with images projected on stage, do not think they are seeing something new. Fregoli he did in his time. With his silent films projected fregolígrafo, seasoned with magic tricks where the court "magic" or trick of the "image replacement" made to disappear, appear or transform the characters and things (was called Fregoli "The Italian Mellies). These small works were filmed between 1898 and 1899. Mockery husband, Fregoli in the restaurant , Fregoli bib magic, magician Fregoli and The music teacher are some of the names of the shorts. Still in 1904 we know that used them.
This singular character, a man ahead of his time and influenced artists such as Joan Brossa, was in Caracas in 1916, as I said, and sorry for the repetition, but you had to pick up the thread.
The theater was then one of the favorite distractions of Caracas. In March, the opera company of Amerigo Manzini was premiered at the Municipal Donizetti's La Favorita. The cast had a first-line foreign stars, along with a group of talented singers and dancers. Cost six Bs entry to patio and stage and a gallery bolivar ("Suck this tangerine!"). All very well, all to ensure success, but few people attended such a great work. Why? Simply because in the theater Caracas, known by the pompous name of Coliseum Veroes began on April 11 to present the operas Leopoldo Fregoli Salamis and The Flying , And the Journal of agitated movement on stage, Paris Concert, which Fregoli played more than twenty characters. (Who knows if Victor Modesto Franklin came to see him on that occasion, and then lit a fire in his mind that years later would be reflected in the sublime figure of Darkstone.)
About Fregoli performance, teacher Charles Chambers History of theater in Caracas that "the public was astonished when he entered the door dressed as a woman, and out the other dressed as a gentleman, without losing the thread of dialogue or musical duo of fantasy stage . Leopoldo
Fregoli
This was the theater Proteus, who came to Caracas and beat himself, David of the tables, the great Goliath Municipal Theatre, with its cheap prices and great artists. The public certainly loves the circus, and Fregoli great advance, the prophet of pop, better known to the circus of all: that it touches the emotions, causes astonishment and curiosity and that, like Proteus, points directly to the unconscious, two brothers of a thousand forms and enigma. "And is not the history of humanity struggle to bring to light the darkness outside and inside? Not the history of the future war against the enigmas of existence? Maybe he loved quick change because rarity was the artistic expression of one of the deepest fibers of man.
Fregoli born in Rome in 1867 and died in 1936 in Viareggio, a town in the region of Tuscany, famous for its carnival. If any of you becomes one lucky traveler unclean times, and comes to shop around the cemetery of that place, please look for his grave and see if it is true that on his epitaph reads:
"Here Leopoldo Fregoli held its latest transformation."
Third drop: how do we find after falling? 
Become ugly 
