Pilar Lorengar as Michaela in Carmen Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon

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Pilar Lorengar as Michaela in Bizet's Carmen Metropolitan Opera Photo by Louis Melancon
Lorenza Pilar García Seta (16 January 1928 – 2 June 1996), known professionally as Pilar Lorengar, was
a Spanish (Aragonese) soprano.
She was best known for her interpretations of opera and the Spanish genre Zarzuela, and as a
soprano
she was known for her full register, a youthful timbre as well as a distinctive vibrato.
Louis Mélançon
(1901-1974) was the in-house
photographer
for the Metropolitan Opera from 1947 to his death in 1974.