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Victoria de los Ángeles will shine with a new light through a foundation
El Periódico de Cataluña - Marta Cervera
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
The music and personality of Victoria de los Ángeles, one of the greatest sopranos of the 20th century, will live on through the foundation that bears her name. The Foundation held its inauguration ceremony in the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya (TNC) yesterday, two years after her death.
Government officials, friends, and admirers of the singer, including director Antoni Ros Marbà, Ofelia Sala, the soprano, and Rosa Cullell, director of the Liceu, among others, gathered in the Sala Petita of the TNC to wish the Foundation well, and welcome Elena Mora, the Foundation Chairperson and the singer’s daughter-in-law. The ceremony was marked by music and dancing, two of De los Ángeles´s passions. The string quartet of the Orquestra del Gran Teatre del Liceu played pieces from Manon Lescaut by Puccini, followed by Ángel Corella, who entranced the audience by dancing O mio babbino caro from Gianni Schicchi, also by Puccini, and recorded by the soprano, who was from Barcelona.
The Foundation, which will have the most extensive website on the singer (www.victoriadelosangeles.org) ready for launching by the end of the week, has reached an agreement with Columna Música to publish all her music. The first two records contain some music that has never been released. Tokio recitals, now in the shops, contains her performances in the Japanese capital, accompanied by the pianist Manuel García Morante, from 1988 to 1990. There are also works by Schumann and Ravel, a traditional Catalan repertory and, for the first time, four compositions that the singer never recorded: Ave Maria by Schubert and three pieces by the Venezuelan Reinaldo Hahn.
The opera Martha by F. Von Flotow is due to come out shortly, in which the singer sang in English at the Metropolitan in New York in 1962. "There was only one recording of this opera, in which Victoria gave a masterly performance, and the most modern technology has been used to digitalise it", explained Núria Viladot, Director of Columna Música, yesterday. The record company was started 10 years ago, and focuses on Catalan and Latin American repertory.
"In addition to bringing out previously unreleased material, the collection dedicated to De los Ángeles will include all the material that has not been catalogued, or which came out in vinyl and has not yet been recorded in digital form” continued the Director of Columna Música.