Myrtha Garbarini

[1][2][3] Born in 1926, Myrtha Garbarini first studied music under her mother, the pianist Elvia Ochoa, and then under Elizabeth Westerkamp.

She studied voice under the Polish-born Lydia Kindermann and classical Spanish song under the soprano Conchita Badía.

[1][2] In 1949, the Spanish composer Joaquín Rodrigo selected Garbarini to sing his Madrigales Amatorios, accompanying her on the piano at the Club Español in Buenos Aires.

[2] It was in 1958 that she joined the Teatro Colón where she first performed in The Love for Three Oranges and went on to sing major roles in some 25 operas, including the Argentine works Marianita Limeña by Valdo Sciammarella, Sueño de Alma by Carlos López Buchardo and La Zapatera Prodigiosa by Juan José Castro.

[1] Garbarini also sang oratorios under the baton of Karl Richter, including Bach's St John Passion and Mass in B minor, Handel's Messiah and Mozart's Requiem.