Montserrat Figueras García (15 March 1942, Barcelona, Catalonia – 23 November 2011, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Catalonia) was a Catalan
soprano who specialized in
early music. Figueras was born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, and began studying early singing techniques together with her sister Pilar Figueras in 1966 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, an early music ensemble. Figueras and her husband w…
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