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2024-01-29 14:59:14
Schubery, Mendelssohn, 2024
[…] of 1924. We’ve never written about Dallapiccola even though he was a very interesting composer; we’ll do it next week. Also, yesterday was Arthur Rubinstein’s birthday (he was born in 1887, 137 years ago, but his ever-popular recordings evidence that he was one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century). Two wonderful singers were also born this week, the Italian soprano Renata Tebaldi on February 1st of 1922, and the Swedish tenor Jussi Björling, one of the few non-Italians who could sing Italian operas as well as the best of the locals, on February 5th of 1911.
2022-02-07 16:01:28
Renata Tebaldi, 2022
[…] is in Si. Mi chiamano Mimi, from the 1959 recording. The Orchestra of Santa Cecilia is conducted by Tullio Serafin. And here is a scene from another opera in which Tebaldi excelled: Pace, pace mio Dio, from Verdi’s La Forza del Destino. This recording was made in 1958 in concert; Leonard Bernstein conducts The New York Philharmonic. This week and the previous one were rich on singers’ anniversaries: last week we could’ve also celebrated Jussi Björling’s birthday, who was born on February 5th of 1911; this week there are two greats: the soprano Hildegard Behrens who excelled in the German repertoire, from Mozart to Wagner and Berg, and the incomparable Leontyne Price. Behrens was born on February 9th of 1937 and Price – on February 10th of 1927, so she will be celebrating her 95th birthday. Price deserves a full entry, which will be forthcoming. In the meantime, you may […]
2021-08-06 23:12:00
SantaFeNewMexican.com: Soprano Angel Blue promises to soar in Santa Fe [8 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 7 at the Santa Fe Opera]
[…] bottom.” Her talent and her warm spirit, very much apparent in a recent video interview, are both inherited traits. Blue’s father, a preacher, “was a beautiful, kind-hearted person. I looked up to him so much,” she says. “He was also a classically trained vocalist who studied at the Cleveland Institute of Music. He was always singing or playing opera around the house, especially Leontyne Price, Richard Tucker, and Jussi Björling.” Blue’s grandfather was also a fan, introducing her to an earlier generation of stars including Lily Pons, Emma Tetrazzini, and Enrico Caruso. While Blue’s opera career began with such lyric soprano roles as Mimì in La Bohème and Micaëla in Carmen, she’s now transitioning towards more dramatic parts. “I did my first Tosca in 2019, and I have role debuts as Aida and Leonora in Il Trovatore coming up,” […]
2021-07-05 14:11:37
Mahler and Gedda, 2021
[…] the famous actor Peter Ustinov). Gedda’s biological parents lived in the same house, but he thought they were his aunt and uncle. Gedda grew up bilingual, speaking Swedish and Russian; he would later turn into a veritable polyglot, learning (and performing operas in) French, German, Italian, English, and Czech, in addition to his native Swedish and Russian. He studied singing in Stockholm with Carl Martin Oehman, a Swedish tenor and singing teacher, who “discovered” Jussi Björling. Gedda made his debut in the Royal Swedish Opera in 1951. Two years later he was already singing in La Scala (Don Ottavio in Mozart’s Don Giovanni). Through his meeting with Walter Legge, who was extremely impressed by Gedda’s singing, he got a recording contract with HMV (His Master’s Voice). In 1954, Gedda moved to Paris, where he sung at the Opéra and in many concerts and festivals. His Covent Garden debut followed the […]
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