The Lied Festival Victoria de los Ángeles pays tribute to the Barcelona soprano by combining three of the facets that defined her: a love for Lied, excellence, and the promotion of new talent.
The Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation promotes this cycle dedicated to the Lied genre, which the Catalan singer approached with such success.
It offers recitals by internationally renowned artists (LIFE Recitals), an innovative format that gives young performers the opportunity to sing alongside established musicians (LIFE New Artists) as opening acts, and a series of parallel educational activities (LIFE Akademie).
'Damunt de tu, només les flors' from El combat del somni is a song that accompanied Victoria de los Ángeles from her first major debut at the Palau in 1944 until literally the end of her days. This is why this year LIFE Victoria is dedicated to the concept of the Combat del somni (The Combat of the Dream). Combats and dreams—two concepts as distant as they are close—which, when united, can mean many things. It is the combat against oblivion and nothingness, but it is also the combat for yearnings, ideas, and ideals. Many have seen in the title the struggle of that which is born within the soul and finds itself threatened by reality, be it death, war, or disillusionment.
The logo for the Victoria de los Ángeles centenary is a creation by the illustrator Jordi Labanda. It features Victoria de los Ángeles' most characteristic traits: her gaze, her signature “à la garçon” haircut, and her inseparable pearls.
The illustrator has combined the colors red (strength), violet (woman), and pink (femininity) in a pop-reminiscent illustration typical of the soprano's era of maximum splendor. “Victoria 100” was chosen because she was always known internationally as Victoria de los Ángeles (which was precisely her baptismal name and not a stage name as is often thought), although during the early years of democracy in Catalonia she was also referred to as Victòria dels Àngels.
A reflection of her life, as Victoria was the daughter of an Andalusian father and a Castilian mother—witnesses to the first immigration of the early 20th century—who taught her from a young age to love the land and culture that welcomed them: Catalonia. Therefore, any controversy regarding the name is unjustified, and the choice was made for how everyone knows her: Victoria.
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