Hello I'm Krusty Young and this is a podcast from the Desert Island Discs archive.

For rights reasons we've had to shorten the music.

The program was originally broadcast in 1978 and the presenter was Roy Plumley.

Radio 4, and now it's 20 past 12.

Desert Island Discs. Thanks. And as usual the castaway is introduced by Roy Plumley. This week are cast away as the celebrated soprano, Victoria at Los Angeles.

Now that's not your real name, that's your stage name, isn't it?

Victoria of the Angels Angels which is very beautiful

it's not it's not my stage name it is my real name it's your real name oh yes my

mother was Victoria my godfather that was my uncle, was Angel, and they had a little fight because they

want to teach of them that I was called one Victoria or Los Angeles and finally my

father under Luzian you know they have great imagination and he knew that in Spain you can find many young girls

with the name of Maria de Los Angeles so he went to the church and asked to the

priest if it was possible in situ,

somebody to be called Victoria of Los Angeles,

a combination of my mother and my uncle.

So the priest say, well, yes, it's all right. It is for that that I have this name.

Thanks God. I think my father had a great idea because for stage I think it is a very good name.

How did you set about choosing just eight records?

Are you looking into the past, are the great performances performances great pieces of music how did you set about choosing

your...

Well I choose this problem is very difficult because there are so many great performances of everything and so great music that really it is very difficult to choose.

Some of these records are associated or something.

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