Mafalda Favero News
singer (1905-1981)
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- soprano
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- opera singer
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2024-03-28
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2019-11-24 17:22:01
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lkqirt1qjsc Born on this day in 1848 soprano Lilli Lehmann. On this day in 1938 tenor Jussi Bjoerling made his Met debut as Rodolfo. Mafalda Favero also made her debut as Mimi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OajZ9SCQO8 //www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXY3IoMWPfw
2018-11-24 12:55:35
Poesia
On this day in 1938, two Met debuts in La bohème: tenor Jussi Bjoerling and soprano Mafalda Favero.
2017-01-06 20:58:33
I used to think I needed a man to define myself
Born on this day in 1928 actress and model Capucine. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDJSM5ZUhDo Born on this day in 1412 martyr and saint Jeanne d’Arc. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlBC1ftGxbI Born on this day in 1838 composer Max Bruch. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJzyL3aJTdg Born on this day in 1894 bass André Pernet. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gf2TlsazXvs Born on this day in 1903 conductor Maurice Abravanel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpNzAWOPZsk Born on this day in 1903 soprano Mafalda Favero. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2DKI2iQMfI Born on this day in 1907 baritone Francesco Valentino. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvUbY2YRh2Q Born on this day in 1913 actress Loretta Young. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRn_xnRYcGo Born on this day in 1927 baritone David Ohanesian. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkNNPtQ8aQI Happy 77th birthday mezzo-soprano Shirley Love. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Pg0_x7KQG0
2016-09-12 16:00:58
Devil’s advocate
[…] Turridu in Cavalleria rusticana, which he recorded for Columbia in 1929 with Giannina Arangi-Lombardi, and later performed with Pietro Mascagni conducting a legendary performance, recorded live in 1938, with Lina Bruna Rasa, which can be found on my Mixcloud site. His only other complete opera recordings, also for Columbia and the forces of La Scala, are Ernani and Fedora. In his indispensible book The Last Prima Donnas published in 1982, Lanfranco Rasponi placed soprano Mafalda Favero in the section devoted to “The Small Voices that Traveled Far” along with Bidù Sayão and Rita Streich. Favero’s success lay in her dramatic abilities to so embody a role that the lightness of her voice could be forgiven in heavier repertoire such as Eva in I maestri cantori di Norimberga (the role of her 1929 La Scala debut under Arturo Toscanini), Charlotte in Werther, and Adriana Lecouvreur. Margherita in Mefistofele was among her […]
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