Talk:Victoria de los Ángeles

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Note to user Friviere: With all due respect, I have undone your renaming of this page. This singer is known in the music world as "Victoria de los Ángeles" and that is how we should refer to her in conformance with Wikipedia naming principles. However, I have added the Catalan version of her name in the first sentence and there is of course a redirect from Victòria dels Àngels. This may not be ideal from your point of view but I hope that it is acceptable. -- Viajero 20:26, 8 May 2005 (UTC)

[edit] I cannot agree

But I will try to investigate it.--Friviere 11:41, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Done.--Friviere 15:03, 2 Jun 2005 (UTC)

I think that this is a very sensible and reasonable compromise. Not only was the singer known to the musical world (and many outside it) as 'Victoria de los Ángeles' (or 'Victoria de los Angeles') but that is also how she chose to 'market' herself (or how she was 'marketed' outside Catalonia). ChristopherW, 29 May 2006

[edit] Her recording with Villa-Lobos

Is somebody able to situate her recording with Villa-Lobos and the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française in 1957? It's an important recording of the Bachianas No. 5. --Leonardo T. de Oliveira 21:33, 17 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Victoria de los Ángeles

It is not only that she chose to "market" herself as Victoria de los Ángeles, but that there ISN'T the slightest evidence that she EVER called herself by a Catalan version of this name, or that anybody except Catalan separatists ever called her thus. WHY should these people be allowed to impose their invented reality on the rest of the world??

Although the usually seen birth surnames of Gómez Cima are given in Wikipedia's article, EMI's notes to their newest re-issue of her recording of Spanish Zarzuela songs states that her authentic surnames were actually López García.

Neither Gómez Cima nor López García are Catalan surnames. Her parents were both from Málaga, in the Southern Spanish region of Andalusia. And she looked, of course, every inch an Andalusian!

Tantris 02:10, 25 October 2006 (UTC)