Tuning in…
Tuning in…
Castaway
1 appearance
A celebrated soprano.
On the island
Eight records
Reflets dans l'eau (from Images, Set 1)
Well, the first one is Image, D V C Image, uh played by Benedetti Michelangelo.
Mild und leise wie er lächelt (Liebestod) (from Tristan und Isolde)
Ah, I love Tristan, he's all that. very much because uh Ah, well, I cannot go to see the performances. I cried from the beginning till till uh is finished. because of the love of these two persons. And also I had the great chance to hear Flaksted when I was a student in Barcelona.
Well, because he He impressed me very much some years ago. Um I read uh the twenty poems of love. and the the song of despair of him And I I find him the kind of a man that I would really like to have known. because I thought uh his way of saying things was so sincere, so open, so so great, that I I fell I fell nearly in love with Neruda.
L'amour est un oiseau rebelle (Habanera) (from Carmen)
The next one is um Carmen sang by My Dea Dear Superville.
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K. 216 (Adagio)
Isaac Stern with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell
Well, I think uh nobody can go to uh uh island. without modert. And uh so I thought uh the concerto number three in G major uh for violin with my dear, dear friend Isaac Stern.
Duo de la fontaine (from Pelléas et Mélisande)
Irène Joachim and Jacques Jansen
Oh, well, Peliasi Melisante is uh one of my great loves because I love uh metalling. I love the poetry very much. I I love the words and uh I choose this last part uh That is a dueto with Peleas when he goes away. And finally, For first time we hear both of them. Saying I love you.
Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor (Adagietto)Favourite
Chicago Symphony Orchestra conducted by Georg Solti
These are the jet accounts um in a part of my life. where I was I was very, very, very sad. And um one day I heard it. And um touch me so much that I still having inside of me. And I cry all the time, and even when I talk to you now, I could cry. So I will need it, Mahler, very much.
Sounds of the Outside World (Sound Effects)
Well, I choose, if it is possible, all kind of noises. songs of birds, sounds of animals, the cars crossing all kind of sounds that remind me that there is a world that still exists. It is not only your island.
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:48Is Victoria de los Angeles your real name or your stage name?
No, it's not it's not my stage name, it is my real name. … My mother uh was Victoria. My godfather, that was my uncle. uh was unchild and they had a little fight. because they wanted each of them that I was called one Victoria or Los Angeles. And finally my father, the Andalusian, you know, they have great imagination and he knew that in Spain you can find many young girls with the name of Maria de Los Angeles. So he went to the church and asked to the priest if it was possible instead of Maria de Los Angeles somebody to be called Victoria de los Angeles, a combination of my mother and my uncle.
Presenter asks
4:45Whose idea was it that you should take singing lessons?
Since my childhood, of course, I have sang in the school and for my friends, and everybody was saying, Oh, this little child. Beautiful voice, beautiful voice, but nobody thought it. uh to make an artist of me. Uh One day my sister when I was fifteen year old. She said to me, Why we don't go? without saying to nobody. Why we don't go to the conservatory to try the voice, what he's going to say about it. And because he had a great faith And the teacher said to me Will you have a surprise? Yeah, she said a lot of wonderful things and she said, You must study Of course So I went quickly to my home and I said, Father, I I think I'm going to to study singing.
Presenter asks
The keepsakes
The book
Rainer Maria Rilke
I would like to know so much German as to read Rilke. But I have a book. Where in one side is literally is a translation of the German and the other side is the German. And because I know a little of German, I enjoy it very much the work.
The luxury
The first thing that came in mine in mind was uh oh, such a great luxury ... The Victory of Samothrace. From the Louvre.
How do you try to plan your travels [with respect to your family]?
Well, I used to do long tours, uh five months, six months, seven months. But uh since my first boy I arrange shorter periods out of my home because I wanted to see the little woman and uh it was very difficult. Uh so I I I begin to arrange more recitals than operas. This was one of the reasons when I I put the opera more aside little by little. because of the first child, after came the second one. and happened the same thing. So I like to come back home, not to stay too long.
Presenter asks
22:43Why did we hear that recording [of Pelléas et Mélisande with Irène Joachim] instead of yours?
I don't think it is right to hear myself. … I'm not sure if I can do it. did. Maybe I choose mine, but I love the way she does, so I prefer another singer. That the to heal myself.
Presenter asks
23:17Could you look after yourself in isolation on this island?
I suppose I oh yes, I have I'm going to work like crazy. Going to search for food and all these things. I I'm going to learn a lot of things.
“I never had the idea of study singing because I wanted to be a singer. There was nothing to do with that. It's only because I I like to sing. The only the the thing that happened is the the circumstance that in my home was not enough money. And I begin to have great success and conservatory in my studies. And I was popular in there. I had a a big success in the radio, and I began to earn some money each month. And I realize it. That uh I was from the three children of my parents, the only one that could help them. So I I begin with that. That was the idea. Uh and I never had the ambition to be to be single.”
“I was very, very, very shy. And you know to say to say j or see without any kind of sound. in the orchestra, just alone. with all these people in front of me. saying to a young man near to me, Jeteme, or si and you know I was waiting the whole night. Just this moment to say J Mossy and it is for that that I choose that.”
“To escape will will uh represent to begin again another life.”