The Teatro Real dedicates an exhibition to Victoria de los Ángeles
July 2024
- Coinciding with the performances of Madama Butterfly, the Teatro Real presents an exhibition of dresses, photographs, and personal objects belonging to the great Spanish soprano, in collaboration with the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation.
- The Madrid venue will dedicate the opera performances (June 30 to July 22) to the memory of Victoria de los Ángeles, an extraordinary interpreter of the role of Cio-Cio-San, on the centenary of her birth.
- The exhibition includes, among other opera and recital costumes, the striking kimonos that Victoria de los Ángeles wore for the leading role in Puccini’s famous work.
- The tribute exhibition will remain open in the foyer and on the seventh floor of the Teatro Real and can be enjoyed with tickets for performances and during visits to the building.
The inauguration of the exhibition, which took place on July 1, was attended by Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the Teatro Real; Helena Mora, president of the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation; and Marc Busquets, curator of the exhibition.
The inauguration of the exhibition, which took place on July 1, was attended by Joan Matabosch, artistic director of the Teatro Real; Helena Mora, president of the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation; and Marc Busquets, curator of the exhibition.
In the words of Joan Matabosch: “We are very pleased to host this exhibition at the Teatro Real, and we are very excited to remember Victoria de los Ángeles, one of the greatest opera artists and a colossal singer. She is spoken of much less than she deserves, as she opened doors and windows for all generations of singers in this country who came after her.”
For her part, Helena Mora thanked the Teatro Real and its entire team for “their sensitivity in hosting this exhibition, for continuing to show this affection and admiration for Victoria,” while Marc Busquets added that “with this exhibition, we also commemorate Victoria de los Ángeles’s presence in Madrid, as she was a regular at the Teatro Real when it was a concert hall, as well as at the Auditorio Nacional and the Teatro de la Zarzuela — which dedicated a Tribute Gala to her in March of this year on the occasion of her centenary — where she bid farewell to staged opera in 1980 with Pelléas et Mélisande.”
The dresses are part of a collection of 180 pieces belonging to the soprano, preserved by the Victoria de los Ángeles Foundation, which is responsible for disseminating the legacy of the great Catalan diva.
Currently, several of these dresses are exhibited in two simultaneous exhibitions celebrating the centenary of her birth: this one, at the Teatro Real, and another at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, a company with which Victoria de los Ángeles performed for an uninterrupted decade and where she sang the role of Cio-Cio-San 23 times.
For more information, interview requests, or press passes for the exhibition, please contact pavana@pavanapress.es
