Floricienta
| Floricienta | |
|---|---|
 Florencia Bertotti starring as Florencia 'Flor' Fazzarino-Santillán Valente in the Argentine soap opera Floricienta. | |
| Created by | Cris Morena |
| Starring | See Cast and characters below |
| Country of origin |  Argentina |
| Production | |
| Running time | 60 min |
| Original release | |
| Release | March 15 2004 – December 2 2005 |
Floricienta is a very famous Argentine telenovela based on the Cinderella story. It was originally recorded from 2004 to 2005, but continues to be broadcast in almost 70 countries. Some international channels airing Floricienta are TVE International, Disney Channel Latino, Disney Channel Europe. It is also available in the UK on the BSKYB Satellite lineup.
The lead roles were portrayed by Martin Fierro-winner actress Florencia Bertotti and Juan Gil Navarro, Isabel Macedo, and Latin American teenage idol Benjamin Rojas.
Background
Season 1
Floricienta is loosely adapted from the story of Cenicienta (Cinderella, in Spanish-speaking countries) and also presents some comparisons to the film The Sound of Music. The plot revolves around Florencia (Flor), a poor but dreamer, rash, vivacious, cheerful and happy Italian Argentine girl whose life changes when she meets Federico Fritzenwalden, the older son of a very rich German Argentine family whose parents died in an accident. Fede is the head of the family and has 5 lovely younger brothers living with him in a big house. Fede has a bitter, cold, strict, rigid, and lonely personality until he falls in love with Flor upon meeting her. But Fede has a girlfriend, Delfina (the witch), who wants Federico's money. Federico's brothers hate Delfina, but when Flor comes to the Fritzenwaldens' residence, hired by Fede as the nanny, everybody loves her.
Floricienta was influenced by the original Cinderella story in many ways:
- Fede is referred to as "Flor's Prince Charming."
- Flor's trademark is her shoes (in the pilot, she loses one of her shoes at Fede's house when she is initially hired as a singer for a party, and Fede searches for her).
- Flor is helped by her godmother, Titina, throughout the series.
- One plot twist is that the villain, Malala, is revealed to be Flor's stepmother, making her rivals, Delfina and Sofia, her stepsisters, though Sofia is her friend.
- Flor claims to see fairies throughout the series.
- The fact that Flor is a maid, who marries into wealth and nobility.
At the end of the first season, the show has a big twist.
Federico, after realizing that his girlfriend Delfina was lying to him all the time, leaves her at the church during their wedding and goes to Flor. Then after a while he dies in an accident, saving Maximo Calderon de la Olla who then gives his Body to Federico's soul. In the second season Flor falls in love with Maximo and they get married in the end. They also have 3 children and a very strong love that came from the part of Fede inside Max.
First season worldwide broadcasts
Cast and characters
- Florencia Bertotti as Florencia Fazzarino / Santillán Valente
- Juan Gil Navarro as Federico "Don Freezer" Fritzenwalden (2004)
- Fabio Di Tomaso as Count Maximo Augusto Calderón de la Hoya (2005)
- Benjamín Rojas as Franco "Farolitos" Fritzenwalden
- Isabel Macedo as Delfina Santillán Torres-Oviedo
- Graciela Stefani as María Laura "Malala" Torres-Oviedo de Santillán
- Gerardo Chendo as Claudio Paul Bonilla
- Esteban Pérez as Matías Ripamonti
- Camila Bordonaba as Paloma/Julieta
- Pablo Heredia as Pedro
- Alejo García Pintos as Evaristo (2005)
- Esteban Prol As Lorenzo
- Stefano De Gregorio as Tomas Fritzenwalden
- Mariana Esposito as Roberta
- Agustin Sierra as Martin Fritzenwalden
- Nicolas Maiques as Nicolás Fritzenwalden
- Paola Salustro as Maia Fritzenwalden
- Brenda Gandini as Olivia Fritzenwalden
- Micol Estévez as Dominique (2004)
- Eugenia Suárez as Paz (2004)
- Catalina Artuzzi as Marina (2005)
- Henny Trayles as Greta Van Beethoven
- Diego Child as Danilo "Facha"
- Diego Mesaglio as Damián "Bata"
- Felipe Colombo as Miky
- Maida Andrenacci as Valentina
- Mariana Seligman as Clara
- Micaela Vazquez as Renata "Nata"
- Piru Saenz as Piru
- Norberto Diaz as Eduardo Fazzarino (2004)
- Zulma Faiad as Titina
- Ángeles Balbiani as Sofia Santillán Torres-Oviedo
- Alberto Anchart as Antoine (2004)
- Esteban Perez as Matias (Matute) Ripamonti (2004)
- Hilda Bernard as Nilda Santillan (2004)
Songs
1ª temporada (First season)
- Chaval Chulito by flor
- Pobres los ricos by the cast of Floricienta
- Ven a Mi by Franco and Flor, it has an acoustic version too
- Mi vestido azul by Flor, it has an acoustic version too
- Kikiriki by Facha and Flor
- Por que by Flor , it has an acoustic version too
- Quereme sólo a mí by Delfina
- Y así será by Flor and Federico
- Un, dos, tres by Flor, opening song
- Y la vida by Flor and Federico
- Tic-Tac by Flor
- Los niños no mueren by Flor
2ª temporada (Second season)
- Corazones al viento (by Flor) (Opening song)
- Cosas que odio de vos (By Flor and Maximo)
- Flores Amarillas (By Flor)
- Que esconde el conde (By Flor)
- Desde que te vi (By Franco)
- Ding dong (By Flor)
- Un enorme dragón (By Flor)
- Caprichos (By Delfina)
- Vos podés (By Flor)
- Te siento (By Flor)
- A bailar (Cast Floricienta)
- Hay un cuento (By Flor)
- Algo de ti (by Lorenzo)
- Contigo amigo (by Franco)
- Tu (by Flor and Maximo)
Theater 2004
- Solo mio (By Delfina)
- Laberinto (Cast Floricienta)
Theater 2005
- Yo creo en milagros (By Flor) (Same music of "Los niños no mueren")
- Miau miau (By Franco) (Same music of "Kikiriki")
- Princesa de la terraza (By Lorenzo)
Floricienta's products and live shows
The producers, CMG/RGB Entertainment, have launched CDs, DVDs, and a huge range of products trademark, and licensed merchandise. They also produced live shows presenting the main actors of the TV show in a musical-play related to the program's plot. Floricienta, the live show got a high rate of acceptance and massive audience going to each live show in tour in Argentina, all of them got sold-out in minutes, and moreover, due to the high rates of audience at international levels, they launched the tour by visiting other countries overseas as well.
Tour
Floricienta and her music band transcended TV screens and offered live performances in theater play- format (in Argentina) and concerts-musicals format including almost all the cast in many Latin American countries and in Israel. During these successful tours, actors could meet their fans face to face, gave interviews, TV and radio reports, press conferences, awards for records delivering, etc.
2004-2005
During these years Floricienta presented successful live shows in Argentina.
2005
Floricienta went on a successful tour in Israel- Floricienta was very successful in Israel in 2004-2005-
2006
The Tour of Dreams 2006 visited many countries with sold out records in the most important cities of these countries:
- Bolivia
- El Salvador
- Ecuador
- Guatemala
- Panamá
- Perú
- República Dominicana
- Venezuela
2007
Two and a half years after this soap opera ended, Floricienta:The Tour of Dreams 2007 visited Mexico for the first time. Even though the time distance, it had such a great success and acceptation of the Mexican audience, so much that some press info would confirm this tour came to dark or publicize the original show facing the premiere of the latest Floricienta's Mexican remake as it was about to start in TV by that time, Lola...Érase una vez. And indeed, Floricienta's show knocked down the local version, as it has done with all of its remakes worldwide. Floricienta: The tour of Dreams in Mexico, was absolutely profitable to stir up Floricienta's feelings fans, which are still alive currently worldwide, and this tour was presented in these important Mexican cities:
- Guadalajara
- México D.F.
- Monterrey
- Puebla
- Querétaro
- San Luis Potosí
- Veracruz
CDs
Floricienta has so far 7 CD. These are:
- 1]Floricienta y su banda [2004]
- 2]Floricienta y su banda karaoke [2004]
- 3]Floricienta [2005]
- 4]Floricienta karaoke [2005]
- 5]Floricienta especial navidad- Christmas special edition [2007]
- 6]Floricienta princesa de la terazza- the balcony princess [2006]
- 7]Floricienta grandes éxitos- greatest hits- [2008]
DVDs
- Floricienta en el Teatro-Floriienta at the theater
- Floricienta 2: Gran Rex 2005 Princesa de la Terraza- Floricienta at Gran Rex Venue- The princess of the balcony
- Floricienta Temporada 1: First season episodes in 6 DVDs packs (Is a brief version and it's only available in Spain)
- Floricienta Temporada 1: Doubbed into Greek, Targeted to all Balkan region countries. Available in Greece.
Music Videos
- Porqué (Why)
- Ven a mí (Come to me)
- Tú (You)
- Enorme dragón (Enormous dragon)
- Mi vestido azul (My blue dress)
- Flores amarillas (Yellow Flowers) (broadcasted in MTV channels)
- Apertura de la primera temporada - Tema: Floricienta -Overture of first season.
- Apertura de la segunda temporada - Tema: Corazones al viento (hearts flying) overture of second season.
Television specials
- Floricienta: El tour de los Sueños Latinoamérica- Tour of Dreams Latin America
- Floricienta: El tour de los Sueños en México- Tour of Dreams, México
- 200 Flores (especial 200 programas) - 200Flowers. Special celebrating 200 episodes.
- Flori 100 ta: (especial 100 programas primera temporada) - Special celebrating 100 episodes.
- Especial 300 programas (especial 300 programas de la segunda temporada) -Special celebrating 300 episodes (Second season).
- Floricienta&The Count's wedding:Thousands of Floricienta's fans attended to this fiction wedding show, where they could see their favorite actors for real in the same place and time. The "ceremony" seems so real due to the fact it was the first time a soap opera included fans on a wedding ceremony as audience in a real set, which was a famous stadium located in Buenos Aires City. Thousands of excited fans witnessed the famous happy ending fairy tale's style final episode shoot in a super production with a crowded live show including all Floricienta's cast, lively recorded and broadcasted in the final episode.
- The kisses corner:Tv program regarding Floricienta. It was weekly broadcasted in Venezuela. The program presented reports and other items regarding the plot in its first season, characters, actor's biographies, contests, etc. "The kisses corner" was attended by Floricienta's fans, making this show an interactive program.