| Esmeralda | |
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&sq=Envato&lang=en&file=File:Esmeralda_telenovela.jpg) José Armando (Fernando Colunga, left) and Esmeralda (Leticia Calderón, right) | |
| Genre | Telenovela |
| Based on | Esmeralda by Delia Fiallo |
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| Starring | |
| Music by | José Antonio Farías |
| Opening theme | "Esmeralda" by Javier Rodríguez |
| Country of origin | Mexico |
| Original language | Spanish |
| No. of episodes | 137 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Salvador Mejía |
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| Production locations | Mexico City, Mexico |
| Editor | Juan Franco |
| Camera setup | Multi-camera |
| Production company | Televisa |
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| Network | Canal de las Estrellas |
| Release | May 5 – November 14, 1997 |
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Esmeralda is a Mexican telenovela produced by Salvador Mejía Alejandre for Televisa in 1997.[1] It is a remake of a famous 1970 Venezuelan telenovela of that same name Esmeralda original story by Delia Fiallo.
It stars Leticia Calderón, Fernando Colunga, Enrique Lizalde, Laura Zapata, Salvador Pineda and Ignacio López Tarso.
On Monday, May 5, 1997, Canal de las Estrellas started broadcasting Esmeralda weekdays at 8:00pm, replacing Mujer, casos de la vida real. The last episode was broadcast on Friday, November 14, 1997 with Desencuentro replacing it the following Monday. It was the first collaboration between Fernando Colunga and Juan Pablo Gamboa, who would both later work in La usurpadora (1998), which is also a production of Mejia.
In the United States, it was first broadcast on Univision from December 15, 1997 to July 9, 1998.
In 1998 it was named "The Best Telenovela of the Year" by Premios TVyNovelas.[citation needed]
- ^ "Esmeralda" (in Spanish). alma-latina.net. Archived from the original on September 11, 2011. Retrieved April 3, 2016.