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Enrique Delfino
In the early 1900s, the sainete was a short theatrical form in one or two acts, which in Buenos Aires became very popular as the demand for inexpensive entertainment grew with the city’s populace. Alberto Vaccarezza was one of the form’s most successful writers…
The young woman depicted here is one of many French working girls, usually shop attendants or seamstresses, known as grisettes for the gray flower-print dresses they originally wore in the 1830s.
If tango lyrics collectively comprise a kind of epic soap opera, then that poem’s opening chapter centers on the 1920 tango “Milonguita.”
