On his return from America he returned to La Scala in Milan, with Los Huguenotes, Ana Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia and La Fuerza del Destino . His farewell was delirium. The time had come when all the businessmen were vying for it for the first theaters in the world.
In the spring of 1877 debut at Covent-Garden in London. His triumph was such that he had to sing seven seasons in a row. It was no longer understood, he could not imagine the season without Gayarre. He became so loved by that public that the most relevant groups in society competed for him for their halls.
In the fall of 1877, after spending his holidays in Roncal, he traveled to Madrid to make his debut for Real. But the sensitive Gayarre had a thorn in his heart. When I returned, in full glory, D. Conrado García, whom Gayarre had as his second father, was living in Pamplona. His debut in Madrid was on the night of Thursday, October 4 with the boat-in-boat theater. I should have sung La Favorita with Elena Sanz, Bocolini and Ordinas. The great success brought Gayarre's fame to the most remote corners of the Peninsula. Don Hilari n Eslava, detained at home due to his ailments, could not hear him at the Teatro Real. And Gayarre went to his house to make him participate in the triumph. Just the two of them, they sang everything Eslava wanted. He gave himself entirely to him. Such was the noble soul of the hoarse tenor s. His father, D. Mariano Gayarre, gave him the great surprise of ing up in Madrid to spend Christmas and to sing to him. His arrival was at the beginning of December with his nephew Pedro Mar in Garján. That same night he sang La Africana , and he led them to a central front box for seats. The theater was packed. Seeing his intimates the overflowing joy of the great tenor, they inquired the cause. He confided to one of his friends: The person I love the most in the world is in the theater . And I took him to the peephole of the curtain. The other thought of some mysterious lady, of a romantic love. But Gayarre, grave and emotional, said to him, pointing it out: he's my father. Of the two, the older one is him . The friend immediately spread the word. Soon all eyes were directed towards there. But Uncle Mariano was talking calmly with his nephew, without noticing the expectation that he had aroused. When in the fourth act he sang in an inimitable manner the beautiful romance O Paradisso! , the enraged audience cheered and applauded the robust old man in the box, but he only had eyes for his son. Gayarre's father did not miss the nights that his Juli n sang and he became very popular in that romantic atmosphere of the Teatro Real. It is said that there was no lack of a lady who, in the midst of the ovations, addressed the: Ah! Don Mariano, if you were capable of making another like him!... Pray - I replied - these things do not themselves . One of those days, when Gayarre's success was being discussed privately, Pepe Gainza asked his father: And what do you think, grandfather, of everything that is being said? The response of that man, who liked to hear and shut up, expressed his thought: Like the one at home none . This famous phrase ran through the media attached to the Real. And when death took the famous singer, among the crowns that came to the saddened Roncal, the aforementioned phrase shone in gold letters, on the crown of Joaquina Barbieri, wife of the famous composer, a regular at the artist's cenacle.
MEL