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2023-03-10 11:00:06
On this day in 1928 the Metropolitan Opera presented the United States premiere of Puccini’s La rondine starring Lucrezia Bori and Beniamino Gigli.
2022-12-21 20:19:00
Hand-colored photo of the War Memorial Opera House and Veterans BuildingCollection of Lisa HirschMy article on the San Francisco Opera archive mentioned an exhibit of archival material at the San Francisco Airport Museum. It's in the Harvey Milk Terminal 1, Departures Level 2, Gallery 1D, through Aug. 13, 2023. Because I don't know whether I'll be at the airport between now and then - it depends on whether I go to Scotland in the spring, which in turn depends on work and COVID - I figured I probably would not get to see it. Now there's a press release from San Francisco Opera, and it turns out that there is a way to see it without flying: you can make an appointment by emailing [email protected]'s some very cool stuff at this exhibit!Kirsten Flagstad's Brünnhilde costume and winged helmetPhotos courtesy of SFO MuseumSan Francisco, CA (December 20, 2022) — SFO Museum at San Francisco International […]
2021-11-29 14:07:42
Maria Callas, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: November 29, 2021. Callas. Maria Callas – La Divina, as she was called by her adoring fans – was born on December 2nd of 1923 in New York. Without a doubt the most famous soprano of the 20th century, she was triumphant in the bel canto repertoire. Considering her tremendous legacy, it come as a surprise that at the best level of singing her career was short, not more than 10 years. Even though Callas was an American, her talent was first recognized in Italy when, in 1947, the conductor Tulio Serafin engaged her in the production ofPonchielli’s La Gioconda in Verona. Soon after she was singing in many Italian opera theaters, performing an unusually broad range of soprano roles, from Isolde, Kundry and Brünnhilde in Wagner’s operas to the bel canto role of Elvira in Bellini’s I puritani. Eventually she dropped the heavier roles, […]
2021-07-26 13:25:14
Giuseppe Di Stefano, 2021
This Week in Classical Music: July 26, 2021. Di Stefano. We missed a big date, Giuseppe Di Stefano’s 100th anniversary, by two days: he was born in a small village of Motta Sant’Anastasia, near Catania in Sicily on July 24th of 1921. His family moved all the way north to Milan when Giuseppe was six. At the age of 20 he began voice studies with Luigi Montesanto, a fine baritone and teacher. The war interrupted his career as Di Stefano was conscripted. The regiment’s doctor, having heard him singing, gave him a medical dispensation, saying that he would better serve Italy as singer than a soldier. The regiment was sent to the Russian front where most of the soldiers, including the doctor, were killed. In 1943 Di Stefano fled to Switzerland, was interned there but then released. In Lausanne he made his first recordings. He returned to Italy in 1946 […]
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