The Cuban soprano María Dolors Rodríguez Cabrera, Director of Lyrical Theater “Rodrigo Prats” of Holguín, die of coronavirus in this province, One of the most affected by the pandemic in Cuba today, local officials said on Saturday.
“Once again very hard for the Cuban culture and especially the holguinera. A while ago, the new very valuable person who leaves us for the COVID is María Dolores Rodríguez, director of Teatre Líric d’Holguín. One of the most beautiful voices of our city, ”said former Tele Cristall television director Pedro Lorenzo Hechavarría.
“A beautiful woman of soul and spirit, with an artistic career that began singing in the amateur movement,” wrote the station Radio Angulo on social media. Several people lamented the artist’s loss on social media.
In 1984, Rodríguez won the Second Prize in the annual competition of the popular space of Cuban Television “Tothom Canta”.
He studied singing with Raúl Camayd and Naiad Proenza and integrated the Lyrical Theater of Holguín from 1986. In the National Contest “Rodrigo Prats” for young singers it obtained the First Prize in 1988 and few years later, the Great Prize.
It carried out zarzuelas and operetas and represented Cuba in numerous scenes of Europe, Asia and Latin America; also obtained prizes in Venezuela and Korea, indicated Angulo Radio.
Rodriguez’s death joins that of another figure in Cuban culture, the journalist José Luis Estrada Betancourt, Who wrote for about 15 years for the cultural pages of the official newspaper Rebel Youth.
In the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Public Health (MINSAP) reported the deaths of another 84 people by coronavirus in the country and 9,740 new cases of the disease. In the first 19 days of August the number of deaths (1,636) and the percentage of the lethality rate of the coronavirus increased.
We need your help:
Like you, thousands of Cubans they read and support CiberCuba’s independent journalism. Our editorial independence begins with our economic independence: no organization in any country finances CiberCuba. We make our own agenda, publish our opinions and give voice to all Cubans, without external influences.
Our newspaper has so far been funded only through advertising and equity, but that limits what we can do. That’s why we ask for your help. Your financial contribution will allow us to do more investigative journalism actions and increase the number of contributors who report from the island, while maintaining our editorial independence. Any contribution, big or small, will be very valuable for our future. From only $ 5 and with just one minute of your time you can collaborate with CiberCuba. Thanks.
contribute now