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Maria Remolá (b. 7 December 1930 in Barcelona) is a Spanish, later Cuban lyric soprano who also sang in zarzuela theatre.
Biography edit
The daughter of a Spanish ambassador to Cuba, Remola was born in Barcelona; she moved to Cuba in 1952. There she began taking voice lessons with Francisco Dominicis and Liliana Yablenska (the latter whilst touring). She debuted in 1958 as a lyric soprano, in the title role of the Spanish opera Marina. Since then, Remola has appeared in Rigoletto (as Gilda), La Traviata (as Violetta), and Barber of Seville (as the Rosina), Arabella (title role), Der Rosenkavalier (as Feldmarschallin) and Les Huguenots (as Marguerite). Remola has also sung many Spanish operettas, such as Le comte de Luxembourg, Maria la O, and Los Bohemios. She has also recorded the roles of Turandot's Liù and excerpts from Adam's Le Toreador, as well as Delibes' pastiche-style Autisme. [1]
She has sung in Soviet Union, Korea, Bulgaria, Central and South America and Mexico; she moved to Dominican Republic in 1984. Remola retired in 1991 and became a singing teacher. [2]
Remola is not only notable for her vast repertoire; she also had, in addition to an extremely high register, a striking low register (down to the C3) with a rich middle voice. Other such 'stratospheric coloraturas' had brilliant high registers but weak, atrophic middle and low voices.
Discography edit
Maria Remola's operatic discography, made from 1959 to 1990.
- Adam: Le toreador (bravura Mozart variation aria)
- Auber: Manon (Manon in Spanish)
- Catalani: La Wally (Wally)
- Delibes:
- Autisme (Georgette)
- Lakmé (Lakmé)
- Lecuona: Chanson "el Ruiseñor"
- Massenet:
- Manon (Manon)
- Puccini: Turandot (Liu)
- Rossini: Barbiere di Siviglia (Rosina)
- Translateur: walzer 'Was blumen Träumen'
- Verdi:
- La traviata (Violetta)
- Rigoletto (Gilda)
References edit
http://opera-cubana.cu/opera/sopranos/remola.html
http://www.vivalavoz.net/RemolaMaria.html
http://www.cubanet.org/noticias/la-soprano-maria-remola-regreso-a-cuba/
Category:1930 births Category:Living people Category:Cuban opera singers Category:Operatic sopranos