sentences:  Cortez took her advice and applied for the International "George Enescu" Contest in Bucharest (1964), where she ranked only fourth.The same year, she won the International Singing Contest in Toulouse, along with Romanian fellow tenor Ludovic Spiess.In "Le Monde", the well-known critic Jacques Lonchampt praised her dark, velvety mezzo, her artistry and technique, as well as her glittering beauty on the stage.