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Italian opera soprano (1910-2014)
Commemorations 2024 (Death: Magda Olivero)
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On this day in 1975 soprano Magda Olivero made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca.
2022-08-29 13:53:16
Bruckner, 3 conductors, 2022
[…] he staged several first American productions of what’s now considered the staples of the operatic repertoire, for example, Simon Boccanegra and Turandot. In 1934 he returned to Italy and was appointed the artistic director of Teatro Reale in Rome. He remained there for nine years. After WWII he conducted the first season of the reopened La Scala. Serafin was famous for coaching several generations of singers, from Rosa Ponselle at the Met to Magda Olivero, whom he encouraged to sing in the bel canto repertoire, at La Scala. He also worked with the three greatest sopranos of the century - Joan Sutherland, while she was at the Covent Garden, Renata Tebaldi, and Maria Callas. With Callas he made several legendary recordings, such as the 1953 Tosca (which also featured Giuseppe Di Stefano and Tito Gobbi), the 1954 Norma, Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded in 1959, and other. Serafin continued conducting […]
2022-07-18 14:02:07
Fleisher, Pires, 2022
This Week in Classical Music: July 18, 2022. Instrumentalists and Singers. We’ll skip several anniversaries, such as Francesco Cilea’s, his opera Adriana Lecouvreur notwithstanding, even though the title soprano role has been sung by such luminaries as Magda Olivero, Renata Tebaldi, Leyla Gencer, Montserrat Caballé, Renata Scotto, Mirella Freni, Joan Sutherland and Angela Gheorghiu. We’ll also skip Ernest Bloch, a Swiss-Jewish-American composer mostly famous for his Schelomo: Rhapsodie Hébraïque, a large-scale work for cello and orchestra. And we’ll also leave out Adolphe Adam who wrote music for such popular ballets as Giselle and Le corsaire. All three of them were born this week, on July 23rd of 1866, July 24th of 1880 and July 24th of 1803 respectively. Instead, we’ll acknowledge several interpreters: the pianists, violinist, and singers. First, the pianists. Leon Fleisher was born on July 23rd of 1928. Fleisher lived a long life (he died two years ago) but his […]
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