Teresa Berganza is remembered in music for work that changed what came after it.
The record lists Teresa Berganza as Spanish mezzo-soprano.
Teresa Berganza was born at Madrid in 1933. Her recorded nationality is Spain. She trained at Madrid Royal Conservatory.
Broadcast radio, the LP and the touring circuit made this the first era in which a musician could reach a mass audience without ever meeting it.
She worked as opera singer, actor and university teacher.
The instruments recorded are voice and piano.
Her work is classed as opera.
She performed with Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando and Academia de las Artes Escénicas de España.
What survives in music is rarely what sold best at the time.
The honours record reads: Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts (1982), Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes (2018), Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise (2013) and Gold Medal of Madrid (1998).
That the work came out of Spain shaped it: musical traditions, training institutions and the reach of a recording industry all differ by country.
Teresa Berganza died in 2022, aged 89. The recordings and scores remain, which is the only durable form a musical life takes.
Achievements
- Gold Medal of Merit in the Fine Arts — 1982
- Gold Medal of the Círculo de Bellas Artes — 2018
- Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise — 2013
- Gold Medal of Madrid — 1998
- Instruments: voice and piano
- Genres: opera
