Francesc Viñas

At the age of 23, he enrolled in singing lessons at the Barcelona Conservatory where he studied under Gonzalo Tintorer Latour [ca].

After hearing him in some of the conservatory's concerts, Juan Goula, a principal conductor at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, urged him to study the title role of Lohengrin.

[5] He did not reach the San Carlo in Lisbon until 1904, and the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires until 1910, debuting at both inevitably as Lohengrin.

On 31 December 1913 he sang Parsifal at the Liceu in Barcelona, with Margot Kaftal, Cesare Formichi and Vincenzo Bettoni, on the 30th anniversary of its Bayreuth premiere and thus the first night that the prohibition on its performance elsewhere was lifted.

[5] In 1918 he sang for the last time at the Teatro del Liceo in Barcelona, and after his retirement from the stage, he focused on promoting the Fruit Tree Festival in Moià that he himself had established in 1905.

[11] See also the chronology and discography by Larry Lustig and Clifford Williams: “Francisco Viñas”, Record Collector, Vol.