El Orfeó Català y sus conciertos parisinos de 1914: de la estela de una diva al triunfo de lo popular

Abstract

In this work we offer an approach to the journey that the Orfeó Català made to Paris, as a part of the artistic excursion to Paris and London in June 1914. Throughout primary sources and Spanish and French newspaper sources, we will recover the events that surrounded the tour and we will know how was the reception by the public and the press. Also, and despite the fact that the publicity prior to the event used the figure of María Barrientos –the most famous Spanish soprano of the moment–, as patroness of the Orfeó in the journey, in this work we will try to demonstrate that the Barcelona group succeeded thanks to its technical quality and the brilliance of the popular repertoire.