Montserrat Figueras

Montserrat Figueras

Montserrat Figueras i García (Catalan: [munsəˈrat fiˈɣeɾəs i ɣəɾˈsi.ə], 15 March 1942 – 23 November 2011) was a Spanish soprano who specialized in early music. Figueras was born 15 March 1942 in Barcelona, Spain. After initially training as an actress she began studying early singing techniques in 1966, together with her sister Pilar Figueras, and developed an approach and technique for singing early music which combined historical fidelity with vitality.In 1974 she and Jordi Savall, her husband since 1968, Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hespèrion XX (Later: Hespèrion XXI), an early music ensemble. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Montserrat Figueras has received more than 85,087 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Montserrat Figueras is the 540th most popular singer (down from 539th in 2019), the 811th most popular biography from Spain (down from 769th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Spanish Singer.