Iréne Theorin & Dame Sarah Connolly & Julius Drake

In 1950, Victoria de los Ángeles made her debut at Carnegie Hall in New York; a year later, she was already performing three consecutive recitals in a single season due to public demand. The singer cultivated this format throughout her career, even during the 1950s and 60s when she tirelessly performed numerous operatic roles each season. Her respect for the genre of Lied was such that, in many contracts, she required a recital to be held a few days before an opera performance, allowing her to get to know the audience of each theatre. Inspired by the tradition of great recitals—especially the one she gave alongside Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau to bid farewell to Gerald Moore at the Royal Festival Hall in London on 20 February 1967—the Palau de la Música Catalana offers this recital, bringing together for the first time two great divas associated with the Festival, Iréne Theorin and Dame Sarah Connolly, accompanied on the piano by the great Julius Drake.