Victoria de los Angeles
Victoria de los Angeles
Victoria de los Ángeleswas a Spanish operatic lyric soprano and recitalist whose career began after the Second World War and reached its height in the years from the mid-1950s to the mid-1960s...
conscious maybe
I am very conscious in what I am choosing. Maybe sometimes I put something there and I make a mistake, but it is not because I want to make a mistake.
german mean spanish takes
I mean a German person would never do it like that, it would be very serious, you know, systematic, but a Spanish person it takes another kind of way.
point reality trusted understanding
In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
communication goes good music pretend understand
Yes, it must be something that goes very well with my voice, let's say something that I understand that this would be good communication with the others, and I don't pretend for instance, to look for music that would be something that doesn't go with my personality.
found herself human learned middle reality sung
So don't think in reality I am a singer, I think I am a human being that has sung always all her life, and has learned a little to sing, and has found herself in the middle of a career.
career difficult less
But I think it is more difficult to do a career as a lieder singer, and there have been less lieder singers.
ancient baroque french italian unless
Not unless I do all these ancient and Italian or French or Baroque in the beginnning, I do German.
begin career finally found success
And finally I begin to have such a success in my examinations that I found myself in a career you see.
exterior
But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.
difficult great qualities
But it's always really difficult to find someone that has the qualities to be a great accompanist.
work
Well I look for an accompanist that does his work well, this to begin.
ancient debut found group helped helping music poor spain three won
After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
exterior fuss interested others
I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.
angeles german instance los victoria wanting
I must say to you that my intensions for instance doing German, it is because Victoria de los Angeles is nothing to do with wanting to be like a German singer.