Rosalía on “Lux” and her devotion to music

October 18, 2026 / 10:19 AM EDT / CBS News

New York's Metropolitan Opera House seemed a fitting setting to chat with the Spanish pop artist Rosalía after the global tour for her latest album, "Lux" (which is Latin for light). "I really like how concentrated the energy is in spaces like this," she said.

This superstar knows about energy and performing. Her song "Berghain," inspired by the 12th-century mystic Hildegard of Bingen, featuring an orchestra and booming choir, is not the typical pop formula. Then again, there's nothing typical about Rosalía. With operatic vocals in Spanish and German, but also an appearance from Björk, the song makes clear the 34-year-old Spaniard's reverence for the classics – and desire to do something different. Opera, she said, was a big inspiration.

She said her tour for "Lux" has been more demanding than any she has done – performing en pointe, for instance, and singing in Japanese, Ukrainian, Catalan and Arabic. She wrote lyrics in 14 languages. "If you find 14 languages in this album, it's not from a place of exhibition, but a search for communion," she said.

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