Lorenza Pilar Garcia Seta, known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was a Spanish soprano.
11 Facts About Pilar Lorengar
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Pilar Lorengar was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a soprano she was known for her full register, a youthful timbre as well as a distinctive vibrato.
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Pilar Lorengar moved to Barcelona to study at the Barcelona Music Conservatory and began performing incognito under the name Loren Arce in various halls in order to pay for her lessons.
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Pilar Lorengar studied in Madrid under Spanish lyric soprano Angeles Otein, and she studied in West Berlin with Carl Ebert and mezzo-soprano Hertha Klust, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau's teacher.
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Pilar Lorengar became a member of the chorus of the Teatro de la Zarzuela around 1949.
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Pilar Lorengar made her professional debut in 1950 in Oran, Algeria, playing the role of Maruxa.
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Pilar Lorengar went on to play in London, Glyndebourne and Buenos Aires.
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Pilar Lorengar went on to play Desdemona in Otello at the San Francisco Opera, Violetta in La traviata at the Deutsche Oper in Berlin, and Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni at the Metropolitan Opera.
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Pilar Lorengar announced her retirement and performed her last concert at the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, Spain.
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Pilar Lorengar died of cancer in Berlin, scene of her longest artistic associations, where she resided with her husband, dentist Dr Jurgen Schaff.
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Pilar Lorengar can be seen on black-and-white video in German translation performances from the Deutsche Oper of Don Giovanni and Don Carlos.