There are friendships that endure beyond one's own life and impact future generations. This is the case of Conxita Badia and Pau Casals, two musicians and friends whose respective careers were cut short by the Civil War. This year, the fiftieth anniversary of their death, we celebrate the Year of Conxita Badia with a series of events that aim to vindicate the figure –not sufficiently known– of one of the best Catalan sopranos of the 20th century.

Conxita Badia i Millàs (Barcelona, ​​​​1897 - Barcelona 1975) was one of the most relevant Catalan sopranos of the 20th century and a "leading figure of song", according to the writer Joan Alavedra. A disciple of Enric Granados, Pau Casals and Manuel de Falla, her voice and deep passion for music, but also her dreamy character, captivated everyone. "She was music made woman", the composer Narcís Bonet once said. "She had a special way of saying the paraules, of fer-te feel the music", remembers Montserrat Bonet, net of the soprano. Tanmateix, the interruption of the seva career by the war and the exile, the her discreet character and the fet of being dona, are going to bury in the oblit the figure and arrival of Badia, who now recovers the Generalitat in l'Any de Conxita Badia, mig segle After the death of the soprano.