Alexandra Nowakowski & Michal Biel

Driven by a fervent curiosity for new repertoires, Victoria de los Ángeles performed unusual programs that included hard-to-find songs from other countries, at a time when research was not as simple as it is now, without the internet or Spotify. American soprano of Polish origin Alexandra Nowakowski, together with Polish pianist Michal Biel, who debuted at the festival with Jakub Józef Orliński in 2018, pay tribute to this facet of Victoria by performing some of Chopin's Lieder that the Catalan soprano sang with Manuel García Morante. They complete the program with Lieder by Strauss, so present at the beginning of her career, as well as Debussy and Granados, who always accompanied her.