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Date of Birth
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01-November-1923
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Place of Birth
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Barcelona
(Spain, Catalonia, Province of Barcelona)
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Nationality
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Spain
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Also know as
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Victoria Gomez Cima, Victoria de los Angeles, ÐнхелеÑ, Ð’Ð¸ÐºÑ‚Ð¾Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð´Ðµ лоÑ, Victoria de los Angeles, Victoria de los Ãngeles, Victoria de los Angeles, de los Ãngeles, Victoria, Victoria Gómez Cima
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Profession
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Singer
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Victoria de los Ãngeles was a Spanish Catalan 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. Her obituary in The Times noted that she must be counted “among the finest singers of the second half of the 20th century". James Hinton, Jr., in Opera magazine, June 1954, praised her "meltingly lovely middle voice". Elizabeth Forbes, writing in The Independent on 17 January 2005, also noted that "It is impossible to imagine a more purely beautiful voice than that of Victoria de los Ãngeles at the height of her career in the 1950s and early 1960s". She was ranked number 3, after Maria Callas and Dame Joan Sutherland, in the BBC Music Magazine's List of The Top Twenty Sopranos Of All Time
In her early years in particular, she also sang a lot of florid music. While she later made fewer appearances in opera, she continued to give recitals focusing on mostly French, German Lieder and Spanish art songs into the 1990s.
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