30. Josefina Huguet, soprano
(Barcelona, 1871 - 1951)
Opera & Songs


2 CD      ADD



  IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Rossini)
NORMA (Bellini)
LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR (Donizetti)
GLI UGONOTTI (Meyerbeer)
LOHENGRIN (Wagner)
duet with Fernando de Lucia, tenor
RIGOLETTO (Verdi)
LA TRAVIATA (Verdi)
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA (Verdi)
FAUST (Gounod)
duet with Fernando de Lucia, tenor
& other excerpts
DINORAH (Meyerbeer)
and many more operatic arias
Songs:
IL BACIO (Arditi)
L'ENYORAMENT (Clavé)


At the beginning of her career, Huguet maybe did not have the immediate and sensational success that Barrientos and Graziella Pareto would achieve some time later. In her first years, we find her in major roles but not the leading ones, and it was not until the mid of 1890's that her name began to appear on the covers of illustrated magazines and to acquire international presence.

Later on, Josefina Huguet achieved additional prestige upon having triumphed at the Academy of Music, of New York, in 1903, and it was probably because of that merit that she was considered when La Voce del Padrone ("His Master's Voice") engaged her to make in Milan some opera recordings that have the virtue of being the first commercial opera recordings ever to be made by a Spanish soprano


Josefina Huguet,the first Spanish soprano to make disk recordings.


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