Miliza Korjus News
Estonian-American coloratura soprano opera singer and actress (1909-1980)
- soprano
- Russian Empire, United States of America, Estonia
- musician, opera singer, stage actor, film actor
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2018-08-18 12:00:39
Variation on a theme
Born on this day sometime in the first decade of the 20th century, soprano Miliza Korjus.
2016-01-26 00:03:56
Things have gone spectacularly well for Ottawa soprano Joyce El-Khoury in the decade since her graduation from the University of Ottawa's School of Music. El-Khoury spent three years in the Metropolitan Opera's training program for young singers, where mentors included conductor James Levine and soprano Renata Scotto.
2016-01-04 20:00:00
Salute to Vienna Rings in 2016 in Grand Style
[…] choice, I would have chosen not to have any miking. Hungarian National Ballet Dancers (Photo: Joseph So) The program was made up entirely of warhorses. An early highlight was the dazzling showpiece Fruhlingsstimmen by Johann Strauss. This aria tests the stratospheric reaches of a coloratura soprano, the final high note is a B flat above high C. Historically, quite a few singers made a specialty of this, including Mado Robin, Erna Sack, and Miliza Korjus. More recent examples include the late Lucia Popp, Natalie Dessay, Diana Damrau, Sumi Jo, and Kathleen Battle. Well, Frau Dondalska could belt it out with the best of them. Also amazing is her violin playing, Gypsy style. Her website mentions she took up the instrument at age 5! She was partnered in duets from Die Fledermaus and Land of Smiles by the Austrian Gurtelschmied. His is a more modest if pleasant musical […]
2013-05-14 04:11:46
Hollywood Goes to the Opera – More Cinematic Disparities for Your Viewing Displeasure
[…] One; Tonight We Sing (1953), the musical life of famed impresario Sol Hurok starring David Wayne, who looked nothing at all like Hurok, with opera stars Jan Peerce and Roberta Peters, joined by Italian basso Ezio Pinza as Russian basso Feodor Chaliapin(!), in scenes from Act IV of Gounod’s Faust; a monstrously fictionalized account of composer Johann Strauss Jr.’s life, called The Great Waltz (1938), with a sparkling star turn by the dazzling coloratura Miliza Korjus (she’s also quite attractive). Capucine & Dirk Bogarde in Song Without End And then we have the execrable Song Without End from 1960, which purports to describe the amorous affairs of composer and concert pianist Franz Liszt. Featuring an uncomfortably bewigged Dirk Bogarde (who was gay), as Liszt, in his U.S. film debut, and French actress Capucine (who was bisexual) in her first-ever screen appearance, as Princess Caroline, his main love interest. […]
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