Alborada

Alborada El Amanecer del Amor
Lucero, Fernando Colunga and Valentino Lanús
Format	Telenovela, Drama, Romance
Created by	María Zarattini
Directed by	Monica Miguel Sergio Quintero
Starring	Lucero Fernando Colunga Daniela Romo Arturo Peniche Ernesto Laguardia
Opening theme	"Alborada" by Plácido Domingo
Country of origin	Mexico
Language(s)	Spanish
No. of episodes	90
Production
Producer(s)	Carla Estrada
Running time	45 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	Televisa
Picture format	480i SDTV
Original run	October 24, 2005 – February 24, 2006
Chronology
Preceded by	La Esposa Virgen
Followed by	La Verdad Oculta

Alborada (Dawn) is a telenovela made by Mexican TV network Televisa. It is an historical drama, set in colonial Panama and Mexico a few years before Mexican Independence from Spain. The series was broadcast from December 2005 to April 2006 on Univision in the United States. Alborada also won the TV y Novelas award for best telenovela of the year (2006).

Plot

Hipólita Díaz is a young woman who lives in Panama with her husband, Antonio, and her mother-in-law, Adelaida. Antonio suffered from sexual abuses when he was a child, so he isn’t able to consummate his marriage. Adelaida wants to have a grandchild, as Antonio will not inherit the fortune of his uncle, Próspero, unless he sires a son. Luis Manrique y Arellano is a Mexican merchant who came to Santa Rita to close a deal under orders from his cousin Diego, the Count of Guevara, without knowing that the trip was a pretext to have him killed. When Luis is captured by Adelaida's servants while fleeing from justice, she orders him to take Antonio's place in Hipólita's bed, or she'll turn him over to the authorities. So Luis goes to Hipólita's bedroom, intending to escape from a window. It's very dark, she awakes upon hearing him try to escape, she doesn’t see him very well and she believes he is her husband. He makes love to her to keep her quiet, and then makes good his escape. But before he leaves, Hipólita discovers that this man isn’t her husband, but an escaped prisoner. Luis departs, without Hipólita seeing his face or knowing his name - but Luis knows hers. She is furious with her mother-in-law for what she has done, but she can’t change what happened.

Some weeks later, Hipólta finds out that she is pregnant with Luis's child, so she decides to leave home with her maid, Adalgisa, and go to Mexico, where her family lives. There, she has her child, Rafael, and finds her mother and her sister, but they aren’t very thrilled to see her. Hipólita was Asunción's illegitimate daughter, so she sent the girl to Panama to be raised by her grandmother, so that no one in Mexico could know that she had a daughter outside of wedlock. When Hipólita arrives in Mexico, she has to fight against her stepfather's hate and her mother's desperation when she finds out that there's another bastard in the family.

Luis also lives in Mexico: he is a rich man, cousin of the count of Guevara, and there is much mystery about his relationship with his mother, Juana, who appears to hate her own son and support the count against him at every turn. Hipólita and Luis meet again and, although she doesn’t recognize him, he recognizes her and he suspects that the child that Hipólita has with her is also his son. They don’t get on very well initially, but later, they fall in love with each other. Luis feels that he has to tell her that he is her son's father, but he can’t do this, because if he did, Hipólita would hate him. The eventual recognition of Rafael as Luis's son, the reason why Luis's mother detests him, and the plots of the Count of Guevara against Luis are played out against the background of Luis's and Hipólita's attempts to be together.

Cast

• Lucero as María Hipólita Díaz de Guzmán - Main heroine, in love with Luis Manrique, but Married to Antonio de Guzman, but end ups with Luis Manrique
• Fernando Colunga as Luis Manrique y Arellano - Main hero, in love with María Hipólita, married to Esperanza, married to Maria Hipolita
• Daniela Romo as Doña Juana Arellano Viuda De Manrique - Luis Manrique's mother, and real mother of Diego Arellano, Villain
• Arturo Peniche as Antonio de Guzmán - María Hipólita's husband
• Ernesto Laguardia as Cristóbal de Lara - Catalina's husband and Luis Manrique best friend
• Valentino Lanús as Martin Alvarado
• Irán Castillo as Catalina Escobar y Díaz - María Hipólita's sister, Cristobal's wife.
• Alejandro Tommasi as Felipe Alvarado - Martin's father - Luis Manrique advisee.
• Manuel Ojeda as Don Francisco Escobar - María Hipólita's stepfather, villain. Andre's and Catalina's father
• Olivia Bucio as Asunción Díaz Montero de Escobar - María Hipólita's mother, and wife of Don Francisco Escobar
• Luis Roberto Guzmán as Diego Arellano - Luis Manrique's cousin,son of Dona Juana Arellano Villain
• Vanessa Guzmán as Perla - Villain
• Zully Montero as Adelaida de Guzman - Antonio's mother and Maria Hipolita's mother-in-law, villain
• Mariana Karr as Isabel Manrique De Leiba
• David Ostrosky as Agustín de Corsa - María Hipólita and Esperanza's father.
• Mariana Garza as Esperanza de Corsa de Manrique wife of Luis Manrique- Villain
• Roberta as Paula
• Sherlyn as Marina Valdez
• Monica Miguel as Modesta - Villain
• Gilberto de Anda as Gasca - Villain
• Beatriz Moreno as Adalgisa Sanchez
• José Luis Reséndez as Andrés Escobar
• Patricia Martínez as Carmela
• Arturo Vázquez as Ramón
• Lucero Lander as Sor Teresa De lara
• Analia Galloso as Mirtha
• Marcelo Córdoba as Marcos
• Rudy Casanova as Fermin
• Edgardo Tejeda as Vicente
• Lupita Lara
• Humberto Dupeyrón
• Rubén Cerda
• Archie Lafranco as Rodrigo
• Benjamín Pineda as Aurelio
• María Rojo as Victoria Mansera de Oviedo
• Aurora Clavel as Cleotilde
• Jan as Santiago de Corsa
• Eduardo Liñán
• Aarón Hernán as Regidor
• Adalberto Parra as "Higinio"
• Magda Guzmán as Sara de Oviedo "La Poderosa"
• Rosa María Bianchi as Esposa del Regidor
• Justo Martínez as Alvaro
• Julio Monterde
• Eugenio Cobo

Awards

External links

• Alborada on esmas.com (Spanish)
• Alborada on univision.com (Spanish)

References