Marina Viotti & Gabriel Bianco

Victoria de los Ángeles is, even today, one of the greatest ambassadors of Spanish song, always performing songs by Spanish and Catalan composers in her recitals around the world. Especially abroad, she would take out her guitar, which she played perfectly, and accompany herself during encores. The audience would go wild with her seemingly simple interpretations of Clavelitos or Adiós, Granada. Following this musical spirit of Victoria, mezzosoprano Marina Viotti, together with Gabriel Bianco, offer this recital in the impressive setting of the Mirador Torre Glòries, with Barcelona at their feet.

“And in full delirium, when there is not a single real nightingale left in the surroundings, all having fled, defeated, to the Albaicín opposite, then Victoria de los Ángeles takes to the stage with a guitar and launches into Adiós, Granada amidst a wave of tears and shivers. Twice the nightingale must sing, and Granada bids farewell before a city with goosebumps.”

Chronicle by Antonio Gallego Morell published in Ideal on July 3, 1957, on the occasion of the recital offered by Victoria de los Ángeles the previous night at the Alhambra.