Rosalía’s Berghain is a thundrous goth-pop hit – but is it opera?

02/11/2025 08:00 The Guardian

The Catalan star’s epic new single is delighting and dividing classical music fans in equal measureThe Top 10 of today’s Spotify Global Top 50 looks like business as usual: two Taylor Swift songs; Lady Gaga and Bruno Mars’ Die With a Smile hanging around for an eighth month; the eminently normal male pop stars Sombr and Alex Warren doing brisk business.But nestled among the crowd-pleasers is something of an outlier: a gothic, baroque assault powered by Vivaldi-style strings and operatic singing in German and Spanish. Continue reading...

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