Victoria de los Ángeles

The Catalan singer Victoria de los Ángeles (Catalan: Victòria dels Àngels) (November 1, 1923 – January 15, 2005) was a well-known soprano whose career spanned the early 1940s to the mid 1970s. She began as

The Catalan singer Victoria de los Ángeles (Catalan: Victòria dels Àngels) (November 1, 1923 – January 15, 2005) was a well-known soprano whose career spanned the early 1940s to the mid 1970s. She began as an opera singer but turned increasingly to lieder in her later years, in particular Spanish and French songs.

De los Angeles was born Victoria Gómez Cima into a poor Catalan family in Barcelona. She studied as the Barcelona Conservatory, graduating in just three years in 1941 at age 18. That year, she made her operatic debut as Mimi a the Liceu, but then resumed her musical studies.