The Museu de la Música honors soprano Conxita Badia with a previously unseen exhibition

The Museu de la Música presents Conxita Badia. Come You and the Songs, an exhibition that highlights the figure of the Catalan soprano and reveals a lesser-known facet of her life: her political commitment to the Republic and to Catalan culture during the Franco regime. The exhibition can be visited from December 17 to February 15, 2026, as part of the Conxita Badia Year, marking the 50th anniversary of her death.

Promoted by the Museu de la Música, L’Auditori and the Conxita Badia Year, the exhibition brings together photographs, archival documents, personal letters, scores and recordings, many of which are on public display for the first time. Curated by Mireia Domènech i Bonet, the artist’s great-granddaughter, the exhibition traces Badia’s artistic career, from her early years with Enric Granados and Pau Casals to her central role in musical life during the 1920s and 1930s, as the preferred interpreter of composers such as Eduard Toldrà, Frederic Mompou and Robert Gerhard.

The exhibition also highlights Conxita Badia’s role as an ambassador of Catalan culture during the Spanish Civil War, when she inaugurated the Republican Pavilion at the 1937 Paris International Exposition with a concert, before going into exile in Latin America. Upon her return to Barcelona, she developed an influential teaching career with students such as Montserrat Caballé and took an active part in cultural resistance under the Franco regime.

The exhibition is part of the broader programme of activities of the Conxita Badia Year at the Museu de la Música and L’Auditori, which includes concerts, symposia and artistic initiatives through February 2026.