Rosario García Orellana [SEP] voice type
Rosario García Orellana
Rosario García Orellana (October 2, 1905 Havana – November 3, 1997 New York City) was a Cuban coloratura soprano. Cuban composer and pianist Ernesto Lecuona composed "Escucha al Ruiseñor" (Listen to the Nightingale) for her which she recorded, among other Cuban music, in New York City for RCA Victor. She was thereafter known as Cuba's nightingale.
Her operatic debut came on November 25, 1933, courtesy of the Company of Opera of Chicago, at the New York Hippodrome,
Pérez as "Rosario Vega de García"
- Víctor Montero as "Antonio Garcia" - Villain
- Delfina Guzmán as "Victoria Edwards"
- Verónica Soffia as "Ignacia Tobar Vidal"
- Diego Ruiz as "Martín Vial" - Villain
- Camila Hirane as "Dominga Velasco"
- Felipe Orellana as "Rodrigo Campos"
- María Luisa Mayol as "Soledad Vivanco"
- María de los Ángeles López as "Jacinta Olavarria Tobar / Jacinta Spencer Tobar"
- Franco Latorre as "