Early Life
With a well-determined Spanish origin, Viorica Cortez is the eldest of three sisters. She was born in Bucium, a village in the vicinity of Iaşi. Cortez enjoyed an artistic milieu in her parents' house, finding her passion and intense desire of studying music. Later on, she was received in the Iasi Conservatory and, for her final three years of academic studies, she switched to Bucharest's "Ciprian Porumbescu" Conservatory (today the University of Music). In Iasi, at only 17, Cortez made her debut in the alto part of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. She then toured the towns of Moldavia for years, almost exclusively in vocal-symphonical repertoire.
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