Gertrude Kappel News
German singer and opera singer
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Gertrude Kappel)
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- opera singer
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2017-02-12 15:07:35
[…] sound coming from the brass section: all these, and singing, too! The opera ends as it began, with a repeat of the D minor intonation of Agamemnon’s name, followed by deathly silence. It took the Metropolitan an entire generation to present this piece. At the time, Elektra’s so-called immorality and overt hints of incestuous bisexuality were deemed “too sensational” for Met audiences. The opera’s debut finally came in 1932, with Arthur Bodansky conducting and Gertrude Kappel in the title role. Fritz Reiner led the Swedish-born Astrid Varnay in the 1950s, while Inge Borkh essayed the part in the early 1960s. Hailed as a conductor’s piece, the opera has been presided over by the likes of Dimitri Mitropoulos, Arthur Rodzinsky, Thomas Beecham, Eugen Jochum, Karl Böhm, Erich Leinsdorf, Herbert von Karajan, Carlos Kleiber, Georg Solti, and James Levine. Singers’ Roundtable Elektra is one of the most demanding roles in all opera, […]
2012-09-19 02:57:47
Ich kann nicht überspitzen
Frankly, the response to the Elektra quiz was uneven. La Cieca will explain after the jump. For the first time in parterre history, there was no clear winner of one of La Cieca’s quizzes: certainly no one got all the voices identified correctly, and there were only a few attempts at a complete list, with some very good guesses but (so far as your doyenne could tell) not one that passed the 50% mark. So, with your permission, La Cieca is going to reserve awarding the Solti Strauss set for a later date and another quiz. For the record, here are the 13 Mycenaean princesses: Lisbeth Balslev Katarina Dalayman Rose Pauly Christine Goerke Ursula Schroder-Feinen Inge Borkh Gerda Lammers (From a MET pirate – not her famous CG/Kempe performance) Evelyn Herlitzius Gertrude Kappel (From the MET premiere in ’32 and the oldest extant MET broadcast) Olivia Stapp Rita Hunter […]
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