Teresa Berganza: the last pavane of a legendary Carmen

Will she forgive us for this deviation from her last wishes?

,” the immense Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza would have told her relatives before her death.

But ignoring the disappearance of one of the warmest voices, and one of the most solar personalities in the world of opera, in the last century, is impossible for us.

The singer died this Friday, May 13 in Madrid, in the city which saw her born 89 years earlier.

Madrid she was born.

Madrilenian she will have lived, until the end.

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