17 Facts About Carmen Barros

Carmen Aida Barros Alfonso was a Chilean actress and singer of jazz, popular music, and opera.

Carmen Barros was known for being the first to portray the character Carmela in the Isidora Aguirre play La pergola de las flores in 1960.

Carmen Barros lived between Santiago, other cities of the country, Peru, and Europe, and learned to speak German before Spanish.

When she was 14, her father, Tobias Carmen Barros, was assigned as Chilean ambassador to Germany, and that change marked her life.

Carmen Barros tried to resume her basic education, in a German school, but could not stand being in a co-educational one, so she chose to retire and take private classes at home.

At age 19, Carmen Barros returned to Chile, but everything had changed.

In 1946, when a company of New York's Metropolitan Opera House came to Chile with the Beethoven opera Fidelio, Carmen Barros was invited to participate.

Carmen Barros was even invited to go to New York, but did not dare; she had been outside the country for too long.

Carmen Barros's brother was the one who spurred her interest in theater.

Carmen Barros was an actor and creator of the Pocket Theater, and invited her to participate in the play Carlos y Ana, which she starred in.

Carmen Barros worked with Luis Alberto Heiremans, combining her talents for singing and the theater.

Carmen Barros went to Italy with her husband and three children to see what happened there.

Carmen Barros continued with her "operatic" work, went to live in Vienna, and was invited to take a leading role in the Opera of Brussels, Belgium.

Carmen Barros had the opportunity to become an international opera star.

Carmen Barros entered the Trial Theater of the Catholic University and was invited to participate in Esta Senorita Trini, which was the prelude to La pergola de las flores.

Carmen Barros shared the stage with Silvia Pineiro, Ana Gonzalez, and many other actors, and starred as the first Carmela.

Carmen Barros died on 21 December 2023, at the age of 98.