Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza died in Madrid on Friday at the age of 89. His name will remain associated with the music of Mozart and Rossini, which corresponded to his voice as precise as it is light.
Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza, who performed in the world’s greatest concert halls since the early 1950s and was notably a legendary Carmen, died Friday at the age of 89, a announced the Spanish Ministry of Culture.
“We are deeply saddened to learn of the disappearance of Teresa Berganza”, tweeted the Spanish Ministry of Culture while Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez hailed “one of the greatest female voices in the world”.
Posthumous message full of humility
“I don’t want a public announcement or a wake, nothing. I came into the world without anyone knowing, I want it to be the same when I leave,” Teresa Berganza wrote in a post. posthumous message broadcast by his family in the Spanish media.
The singer will remain one of the greatest mezzo voices of the last century, an essential figure in the history of singing. his name will remain associated with the music of Mozart and Rossini which corresponded to his voice as precise as it is light.
She marked with her voice the Rossinian roles among others
Teresa Berganza also reminds us that behind the coloratura or the contralto, behind the mezzo and the diva there is always a woman. She marked with her voice and her personality the roles of Rossini, then Mozart and above all embodied Carmen in an unforgettable way. Before continuing the song through the transmission of his fragile but powerful art.
>> A voir, Teresa Berganza singing “Habanera”, taken from “Carmen”:
She made her debut in 1957 at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, in the role of Dorabella in “Così fan tutte”, by Mozart. The following year, the opera singer went to the United States, to Dallas, alongside Maria Callas, in “Médée” by Cherubini.
The lyrical singer then sang in the most famous venues in the world, from Vienna to Milan via Paris, London, New York or Chicago. She had known, during nearly forty years of career, to stay at the top.
Teresa Berganza was the first woman admitted to the Royal Academy of Arts in Spain and also holds an honorary doctorate from the University of Complutense in Madrid. In 2005, she received the insignia of Chevalier in the National Order of the Legion of Honor in France.
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