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2016-09-23 09:20:27
Geh such dir die Stars vom vergangenen Jahr!
[…] grace in all its outlines. The severe decorations of the auditorium, which was destroyed by the big fire, have given place to brighter ornamentation, and, while the seating capacity of the house has been materially increased, the comfort of its patrons has been steadily kept in view in the arrangement of the changes. Surely, all thought of ornamentation and outlines was put to the side when Emma Eames and brothers Jean and Edouard de Reszke got their Goethe on. 1903: “Not that he is the greatest tenor ever heard in New York,” the Sun hastened to assure its readers about a new singer who was no Jean de Reszke or Francesco Tamagno. “He pretends to be such a singer in his part as [Marcella] Sembrich is in hers.” Such remarks were typical within the press’s generally complimentary notices for Enrico Caruso. The 30-year-old Neapolitan, acclaimed elsewhere in the world, […]
2016-03-09 16:29:06
Looking back to various "golden ages" in the Metropolitan Opera's past-say, the 1950s when Richard Tucker, Zinka Milanov and Leonard Warren trod the boards; or period right around World War I when Enrico Caruso sang here two or three times a week-you get the sense that audiences and critics didn't know how good they had it. Tucker was no Caruso, after all, and Caruso was hardly worthy to shine the shoes of Jean de Reszke.
2016-02-12 15:30:25
Il core vi dono
[…] 1942, for one). Here is a look back at just some of what you could have seen, and perhaps did see, on February 14th through the years at the Met. 1896: Dame Nellie Melba was always up for an encore, and in later years she would perform Lucia’s Mad Scene for those who stayed to the end of Puccini’s then-unfamiliar La bohème. On this night, following an all-star Faust with brothers Jean and Edouard de Reszke and Victor Maurel, she sang “Home Sweet Home” with piano accompaniment by her Faust (Jean). According to an unsigned review, “The crowd still cried for more, but the singer’s breath and almost her patience was exhausted, and she came back only once more to shake her fist. Then the ushers came in and gradually pushed the people out, but the house was not entirely clear until long after midnight.” 1919: Also shaking a fist […]
2016-02-06 18:10:19
[…] none other than Philip II of Spain, who we know from Verdi’s Don Carlos. An opera entitled Maria Tudor by the Brazilian composer Antonio Carlos Gomes, depicting Mary’s alleged love affair with the fictional Italian adventurer Fabiano Fabiani, premiered at La Scala in 1879 with an all-star cast headed by soprano Anna D’Angeri as Mary, mezzo Emma Turelli as Giovanna, tenor Francesco Tamagno as Fabiano, baritone Giuseppe Kaschmann as Don Gil, and bass Édouard de Reszke as Gilberto. Unfortunately, the opera was an abject failure at its first hearing, due mostly to a highly partisan local crowd. In dealing with King Henry VIII’s other daughter, the temperamental Elizabeth I (whose mother, you may recall, was the beheaded Queen Anne), we are not only faced with Donizetti’s two treatments — Maria Stuarda, i.e., “Mary Stuart,” from 1835, in which the Virgin Queen puts in a truly memorable appearance (even though the […]
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