Nico Castel News
American opera singer
Commemorations 2025 (Death: Nico Castel)
- tenor
- United States of America
- opera singer, diction teacher
Last update
2024-03-28
Refresh
2021-12-14 12:37:52
[…] to Rome, but the city’s celebrations were cut short when a later report revealed that Napoleon had mustered reinforcements and inflicted a crushing defeat. Anna Pirozzi (Floria Tosca) © The Royal Opera, 2021. Photos by Tristram Kenton Tosca is set around the hours when the conflicting messages arrive in Rome. Angelotti, a consul of the city when it was a republic but a prisoner since Neapolitan forces occupied it, escapes from the Castel Sant’Angelo and turns to the painter Cavaradossi to hide him. Rome’s Chief of Police, Baron Scarpia, attempts to squeeze information as to Angelotti’s whereabouts from Cavaradossi’s lover, the celebrated singer Floria Tosca. She is naturally prone to jealousy and Scarpia taps into this, but in the process he becomes obsessed with possessing her. After Scarpia sentences Cavaradossi to death for hiding a fugitive, Tosca promises the Chief to give herself to him if […]
2021-04-18 23:16:00
Cynthia Cozette Lee: Black Classical Firsts Honored in April: Day 16 – Sylvia Olden Lee, Acclaimed Vocal Coach, Pianist and Music Educator
[…] Il Trovatore, La Forza del Destino, Thais, Don Pasquale, La Serva Padrona, Riogoletto, etc. Mrs. Lee also assisted her husband in his Columbia University Opera Workshop for two semesters.” “From 1952 to 1953, Sylvia Olden Lee studied Italian opera, oratorio and song literature at St. Cecilia Conservatorio. She coached Italian and American singers under the supervision of Maestra Maragliano, Maestro Piccozzi and Maestro Savagnoni. Mrs. Lee accompanied recitals at Perugia for opera, a concert at Castel Sant’Angelo and prepared a student who became a prize-winner in 1953 in Lausanne, Switzerland. Mrs. Lee in 1952 became a Fulbright Scholar. In 1954 Max Rudolf, the artistic administrator of the Metropolitan Opera, invited Sylvia Olden Lee to join the opera company as a vocal coach. She was the first African American professional musician hired at the Metropolitan Opera. Later, Mrs. Lee was instrumental in having the acclaimed Marian Anderson, hired at the opera […]
2020-03-10 08:00:00
Rating: 0 Martyn Heyne: Carry Martyn Heyne is a Berlin-based guitarist and composer who builds echoing layers of sound upon each other. This track is a good warm-up, because it has a steady rhythm but it's also quite sparse. It’s a reverberating, immersive track to set your mind on the task ahead. Robin Richards: Gefail Yr Ynys Robin Richards is a Manchester-based composer, whose new album Castel was written during an artist residency in the Welsh town Caernarfon. The beats in this track were fashioned out of field recordings made in […]
or
- timeline: Lyrical singers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): C...