Biografia de esther borja bola

Cuban operatic soprano (1913–2013)

Esther Borja Lima (5 December 1913 – 28 December 2013)^[1][2] was a Cuban operatic soprano.

Biography

Havana-born Esther Borja Lima was trained in solfége and music theory by Juan Elósegui, and in singing by Rubén Lepchutz. She graduated as a teacher in 1934, and began her career in 1935; that year she performed, with Ernesto Lecuona on piano, at the National Theatre (now the Gran Teatro de La Habana), and at the Auditorium Amadeo Roldán.

The same year she sang the waltzDamisela encantadora in the operettaLola Cruz by Lecuona.^[3] Her voice was described as a "beautiful mezzo-soprano with clear diction and a good feel for melody".^[4]

At the time Borja started her career, and for years after, Rita Montaner was the leading stage musical star in Cuba.

However, Montaner (who was also a fine pianist) gradually shifted her career from operatic-style singing towards Afro-Cuban charac