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Los ojos de las niñas

Sonia de Munck, soprano, and Miguel Huertas, piano

This seguidilla was commissioned for Angiolina Ortolani and it was first played at a benefit concert for the soprano herself in April 1857. The text is by José Selgas and the song was published the same year by Casimiro Martín. This seguidilla was composed by Arrieta after receiving a letter from Barbieri berating him for not knowing about this type of popular song. In Los ojos de las niñas, Emilio Arrieta demonstrates the popular touch he could bring to his music, always in a stylised way, influenced by the author’s Italian education.

Recording date

November 27 and 28 2021.

Performers

Sonia de Munck

Born in Madrid, she studied at the Superior Singing School of Madrid under Mª Dolores Travesedo and Miguel Zanetti and won the Lola Rodríguez Aragón award for excellence in academic performance. She completed her training with Jorge Rubio and Daniel Muñoz and took part in master-classes taught by great names such as Victoria de los Ángeles, Dolora Zajick, Ana María Sánchez, Istvan Czerjan, Wolfram Rieger, Enza Ferrari, Janine Reiss and Joceline Dienst. She won the City of Logroño singing competition and the 4th Pedro Lavirgen International Singing Competition.

Sonia de Munck has sung on major Spanish stages such as the Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Teatros del Canal in Madrid, the National Auditorium in Madrid, the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona, the Teatre Lliure in Barcelona, the Campoamor Theatre in Oviedo, the Baluarte Auditorium in Pamplona, the Gayarre Theatre in Pamplona, among many others. Apart from her wide-ranging repertoire in opera and zarzuela (light opera), including the role of Marina by Emilio Arrieta, she has diligently nurtured concert singing, accompanied by Miguel Zanetti, Fernando Turina or Aurelio Viribay, among others.

She has been conducted by the likes of José Ramón Encinar, Jesús López-Cobos, Miguel Roa, Miquel Ortega, Karel Mark Chichon, Cristóbal Soler, Pablo Heras-Casado, Antonino Fogliani, Jorge Rubio, José Miguel Pérez Sierra, Lorenzo Ramos or Santigo Serrate and directed on stage by Lluis Pasqual, Gustavo Tambascio, Emilio Sagi, Luis Olmos, Ignacio García, Curro Carreres, Ian Judge, Patrick Mailler and Tomás Muñoz, among others.

She recorded La Clementina by Boccherini, conducted by Pablo Heras-Casado.

Miguel Huertas

Born in Tomelloso, he studied piano in Seattle with Maki Botkin and in Madrid with Guillermo González. He furthered his studies in Vienna, where he specialised in piano accompaniment, fortepiano and clave, and in Paris with teachers such as Noël Lee, Jeff Cohen and the composer Henri Dutilleux. He works with the Teatro Real in Madrid and teaches at Nottingham University. He has been the accompanist at master-classes given by Teresa Berganza, Raúl Giménez, Ubaldo Gardini and Paul Hamburguer.

He has accompanied recitals given by a host of artists such as Piotr Beczala, Carlos Álvarez, Joan Pons, Manuel Lanza, Aquiles Machado, Juan Antonio Sanabria, Isabel Rey, Elena Mosuc, Carmen Solis, Nancy Fabiola Herrera, Ana Ibarra, Ruth Iniesta or Diana Damrau. He has played at the National Theatre in Qatar, Teatro Real in Madrid, Teatros del Canal, Arriaga Theatre in Bilbao, Teatro de la Zarzuela, National Music Auditorium in Spain, Royal Opera Muscat (Oman), Teatro de Bellas Artes in Mexico, H. Universität in Vienna and in festivals such as MESS (Sarajevo), Fex (Granada), San Sebastián Musical Fortnight, Verano Trecastagni (Sicily), Almagro Classical Theatre Festival, Mérida International Classical Theatre Festival or the Cuenca Religious Music Week. As a pianist-actor, he has worked with many stage directors such as Ignacio García, Joan Anton Rechi, Enrique Viana, Juan Carlos Corazza and Helena Pimenta.

He has recorded for Radio France, Radio Clásica and Deutsche Grammophon. He is featured on the Prado Museum website playing several works on original instruments.

Documents

Los ojos de las niñas
25/04/2022