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American soprano singer (1925-2016)
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2020-12-31 05:02:51
On this day in 1950, the Metropolitan Opera performed their new production of Fledermaus with a cast including Patrice Munsel, Risë Stevens, Ljuba Weltisch, Set Svanholm and John Brownlee.
2017-07-27 19:11:06
Woman on the Vergy
To correct the relative dearth of serious bel canto here “Trove Thursday” offers the 92nd of Donizetti’s 137* operas, Gemma di Vergy, from Bergamo the composer’s birthplace with the lovely, largely now forgotten Adriana Maliponte in the title role. Gae and I go way back: when I was Opera Pre-Teen one of my favorite tv shows was The Wild Wild West (gee, I wonder why?). I was intrigued by the episode where Patrice Munsel guest starred as a temperamental (of course!) Italian diva who sang about a minute of the Lucia di Lammermoor Mad Scene. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO_kQxUJoMI Maybe that’s why the next year Lucia became the first opera I attended—I was 12 and went by myself clad in my sports jacket and clip-on tie on a $2 student ticket. Apparently I was not impressed as neither the opera nor its prima donna (Roberta Peters) became favorites. More recently I’ve OD’d […]
2017-05-14 19:20:07
“Children need pets,” Miss Munsel believes
Born on this day in 1925 mother of four and soprano Patrice Munsel. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcRahDJu9-4 Born on this day in 1885 conductor Otto Klemperer. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmO6qQRM8F8 Born on this day in 1917 composer Lou Harrison. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=l393EGdD6Pc Happy 69th birthday soprano Carmen Arlen Balthrop. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukgWU6JCZkg Happy 66th birthday soprano Helen Field. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWIz-LSYMO4 Born on this day in 1957 soprano Daniela Dessì. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMlZIuy2PNw On this day in 1957 the Bob Merrill musical New Girl in Town opened on Broadway. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=eegLHtpIO-k
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