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Irra Petina Tchaikovsky Mandelbaum Liebling Beverly Sills Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Jan Peerce Donizetti Lily Pons Léo Delibes Richard Strauss Bizet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rossini Barber Johann Strauss Jr Leonard Bernstein Metropolitan Opera 1908 1933 1936 1941 1944 1947 1948 1954 1957 1965 2000
Columbia set # 714. On this side we hear: I Wish & In this Moonlight Night Don't Doubt Me Dear None but The Lonely Heart - Wether By Day. Conducted by Walter Hendl Irra Petina (April 18, 1908 - January 19, 2000) was an actress and singer as well as a leading contralto with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was called the "floperetta queen" by critic Ken Mandelbaum. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Petina was the daughter of General Stephen Petin, Czar Nicholas II's personal escort, and a goddaughter of the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna. She studied singing in New York City with Estelle Liebling, the teacher of Beverly Sills. Her debut role with the Met was as Schwertleite in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre (the second part of the acclaimed Ring Cycle) on December 29, 1933. She appeared as Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with Jan Peerce, the marquise of Berkenfeld in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment with Lily Pons, Mallika in Léo Delibes's Lakmé, Feodor in Boris Godunov, Annina in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Bizet's Carmen. Petina's portrayal of Marcellina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (27 Met performances in all, with four radio broadcasts), won her rave reviews from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Additional credits include 35 Met performances as Berta in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and despite being a contralto, the high soprano role of Rosalinde in a 1944 national tour of Johann Strauss, Jr.'s operetta Die Fledermaus. Petina also appeared on Broadway in productions such as Song of Norway (1947), Magdalena (1948), Hit the Trail (1954), Leonard Bernstein's Candide (1957), for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Anya (1965). Petina appeared as herself in Andrew L. Stone's film There's Magic in Music (1941). Asked how to pronounce her name, she told The Literary Digest the first syllable should be stressed: PEH-ti-na. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) She married Dr. Frank Bussey and died in Austin, Texas. Her archive is held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. References
Irra Petina Tchaikovsky Mandelbaum Liebling Beverly Sills Richard Wagner Giuseppe Verdi Jan Peerce Donizetti Lily Pons Léo Delibes Richard Strauss Bizet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Rossini Barber Johann Strauss Jr Leonard Bernstein Metropolitan Opera 1908 1933 1936 1941 1944 1947 1948 1954 1957 1965 2000
Selections on this side are: Pique Dame - Luza's Aria It was early spring - Where Dancing was Loudest Green GrassIrra Petina (April 18, 1908 - January 19, 2000) was an actress and singer as well as a leading contralto with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was called the "floperetta queen" by critic Ken Mandelbaum. Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Petina was the daughter of General Stephen Petin, Czar Nicholas II's personal escort, and a goddaughter of the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna. She studied singing in New York City with Estelle Liebling, the teacher of Beverly Sills.[ Her debut role with the Met was as Schwertleite in Richard Wagner's Die Walküre (the second part of the acclaimed Ring Cycle) on December 29, 1933. She appeared as Maddalena in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto with Jan Peerce, the marquise of Berkenfeld in Donizetti's The Daughter of the Regiment with Lily Pons, Mallika in Léo Delibes's Lakmé, Feodor in Boris Godunov, Annina in Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier, and the title role in Bizet's Carmen. Petina's portrayal of Marcellina in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro (27 Met performances in all, with four radio broadcasts), won her rave reviews from the New York Times and the New York Herald Tribune. Additional credits include 35 Met performances as Berta in Rossini's The Barber of Seville, and despite being a contralto, the high soprano role of Rosalinde in a 1944 national tour of Johann Strauss, Jr.'s operetta Die Fledermaus. Petina also appeared on Broadway in productions such as Song of Norway (1947), Magdalena (1948), Hit the Trail (1954), Leonard Bernstein's Candide (1957), for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Anya (1965). Petina appeared as herself in Andrew L. Stone's film There's Magic in Music (1941). Asked how to pronounce her name, she told The Literary Digest the first syllable should be stressed: PEH-ti-na. (Charles Earle Funk, What's the Name, Please?, Funk & Wagnalls, 1936.) She married Dr. Frank Bussey and died in Austin, Texas. Her archive is held at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin. References
Irra Petina Sylvan Robert Weede Metropolitan Opera
It was only a few years ago when I discovered "Song Of Norway..on a different performance with different performers. When I got this shortened version of it on Columbia set M 562 I was quite happy to hear it with such fervor of sounds. The orchestra conducted by Sylvan Shulman in my estimation tops the others I have heard for sheer excitement of performance. Irra is at the time a leading lady with the Metropolitan Opera as well as Robert Weede Bariton. I hope you will enjoy it as well. The selections on this set of sides are: "Sun at Midnight"..."Three Loves"..."I Love You"..."Strange Music"
Macrae Irra Petina Holloway 1943 1948 1949 1950 1954
he Railroad Hour was a radio series of musical dramas and comedies broadcast from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s. Sponsored by the Association of American Railroads, the series condensed musicals and operettas to shorter lengths, concentrating on those written before 1943. Singer-actor Gordon MacRae starred in scripts by Jean Holloway, Jerome Lawrence and Robert Edwin Lee. Marvin Miller was the announcer. Warren Barker, at the age of 24, was appointed chief arranger for The Railroad Hour, a position he held for six years. The show's musical director was Carmen Dragon. With its theme song, "I've Been Working on the Railroad", the series began on ABC October 4, 1948 as a 45-minute program, advertised as "World's Greatest Musical Comedies." It was reduced to 30 minutes on April 25, 1949, continuing until September 26, 1949. It then moved to NBC for a run from October 3, 1949, until June 21, 1954. On both networks it aired Monday evenings at 8pm (Eastern).
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