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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
[…] stagecraft. The exhibition, on view through August 13, 2023, captures San Francisco Opera’s rich history through a selection of costumes, stage props, set models, video and archival photographs from the collections of San Francisco Opera, the Museum of Performance + Design and the Metropolitan Opera Archives. Costumes worn by operatic superstars who have graced San Francisco Opera’s stage during the past century are the focus of the presentation. Highlights include: The cape and hat worn by famed Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli in Gounod’s Roméo et Juliette during San Francisco Opera’s inaugural 1923 season.Legendary Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad’s Brünnhilde costume from Richard Wagner’s Die Walküre in the 1935 Company premiere of the composer’s four-opera cycle, The Ring of the Nibelung.The military outfit worn by French soprano Lily Pons in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment during the 1940s.A dress from Massenet’s Manon worn by soprano and inaugural recipient of the Company’s Opera Medal, Dorothy Kirsten.American soprano Leontyne Price’s costume from the 1981 production of Verdi’s Aida. An iconic interpreter of […]
2021-11-29 14:07:42
Maria Callas, 2021
[…] in Chicago, where she sung Norma on November 1st of 1954 to an adoring audience of 3,500) but already famous in Italy and beyond. The recording was made during the renowned “Grandi Concerti Martini & Rossi,” the series of concerts broadcast on Italian radio RAI. Concerti Grandi were launched in 1936 under the sponsorship of the vermouth makers Martini & Rossi and over the years featured all major Italian singers of radio era, from Beniamino Gigli, Toti Dal Monte to the great singers of the 1950-60. We’ll hear the Mad scene from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Orchestra Sinfonica di Torino della Rai is conducted by Oliviero de Fabritiis.
2021-07-26 13:25:14
Giuseppe Di Stefano, 2021
[…] Stefano fled to Switzerland, was interned there but then released. In Lausanne he made his first recordings. He returned to Italy in 1946 and soon after made his début at the Teatro Municipale, Reggio nell’Emilia, as Massenet’s Des Grieux. A year later, in 1947, he sang at La Scala. In 1948 he made his Metropolitan debut as the Duke in Rigoletto. He was noticed almost immediately, with a critic comparing the 27-year-old tenor with Beniamino Gigli and praising his warm, sensual timbre. A lyric tenor, in his early career he sang mostly lighter roles. By 1957 he moved to heavier “spinto” and even dramatic tenor roles, such as Don José in Carmen, Canio in Pagliacci, Turiddu in Cavalleria rusticana, and Radames in Aida. With this, his voice lost some of its shine and got rougher; still, it was spectacular. Rudolf Bing, the General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera, who knew […]
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