She was one of the undisputed divas and true cosmopolitan of the 19th century: Pauline Viardot-García, whose 200th birthday is this year. Beyond her spectacular stage career in Paris, Vienna, London, St. Petersburg and Berlin, she attracted attention with her literary-musical salons in Paris and Baden-Baden, where she brought together the most famous artists of her time. In her homage program, Anna Samuil combines song compositions from a selection of her companions with rarely heard songs that the great singer wrote herself.