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Evita: Recommended Reading/Viewing
MAY 10, 2023
Want to learn more about the history and legacy of Eva Perón? This list features some of the publications and media that have inspired the creative team in their work on this production.
Documentaries
- Tulio Demicheli, dir., El misterio Eva Perón (1987).
- Leonardo Favio, dir., Perón, Sinfonía del sentimiento (1999).
- Carlos Pasini Hansen, dir., Queen of Hearts (1972).
- Eduardo Mignogna, dir., Evita, quien quiera oír que oiga (1983).
- Eduardo Montes-Bradley, dir., Evita: The Documentary (2008).
Biographies
- Eva Perón, La Razón de Mi Vida (Ediciones Peuser, 1951).
- Joseph Page (Ed.), Evita: In My Own Words (The New Press, 1996).
- Alicia Dujovne Ortiz (trans. Shawn Fields), Eva Perón: A Biography (Warner Books, 1997).
- Nicholas Fraser and Marysa Navarro, Evita: The Real Life of Eva Perón (W.W. Norton, 1996).
- Julie Taylor, Eva Perón: The Myths of a Woman (University of Chicago Press, 1979).
Feature Films
- Marvin J. Chomsky, dir., Evita Perón (1981).
- Juan Carlos Desanzo, dir., Eva Perón: The True Story (1996).
- Paula de Luque, dir., Juan y Eva (2011).
- Alan Parker, dir., Evita (1996).
Other Writing
- Mark Alan Healey, The Ruins of the New Argentina: Peronism and the Remaking of San Juan after the 1944 Earthquake (Duke UP, 2011).
- Raymond Knapp, The American Musical and the Formation of National Identity (Princeton UP, 2006).
- Luis Alberto Romero (trans. James P. Brennan), A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century (The Pennsylvania State UP, 2013).
- Marta E. Savigliano, Evita: The Globalization of a National Myth (Latin American Perspectives 24:6, 1997).
- Vagelis Siropoulos, Evita: The Society of the Spectacle and the Advent of the Megamusical (Image and Narrative 11:2, 2010).
- Andrew Lloyd Webber and Time Rice, Evita: The Legend of Eva Perón (Avon Books, 1979).
Related Productions
Evita
A groundbreaking revival of the Tony Award-winning rock opera that follows the adored and reviled Eva Perón’s meteoric rise to first lady of Argentina before her death at 33.
Evita
A groundbreaking revival of the Tony Award-winning rock opera that follows the adored and reviled Eva Perón’s meteoric rise to first lady of Argentina before her death at 33.