Spanish Coloratura Soprano Maria BARRIENTOS: Canciones populares Españolas (1928)

Spanish Coloratura Soprano Maria Barrientos (1883-1946) / Canciones populares Españolas / Piano - Manuel de Falla) / Recorded: 1928 -- 1. El Pano moruno. 2. Seguidilla murciana. 3. Asturiana. 4. Jota. 5. Nana. 6. Cancion. 7. Polo. 8. El amor brujo: Somf of the fire (de Falla) 9. Soneto a Cordoba (de Falla) María Barrientos (Catalan: Maria; Barcelona, 10 March 1883 - Ciboure, 8 August 1946) was a Spanish opera singer, a light coloratura soprano, one of the most eminent sopranos of her time. Barrientos was born in Barcelona, where she received a thorough musical education (piano and violin) at the Music Conservatory, before turning to vocal studies with Francisco Bonet. She made her debut at the Teatro Novedades in Barcelona, as Ines in L’Africaine, in 1898, aged only 15, quickly followed by the role of Marguerite de Valois in Les Huguenots. She was immediately invited to all the major opera houses of Europe, singing in Italy, Germany, England, France, to gre