Rosa Raisa News
Operatic soprano (1893-1963)
- soprano
- opera
- Poland, United States of America
- opera singer, actor
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Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2019-07-06 05:17:07
Raisa from Bialystock who sang the first Turandot…
2019-04-15 03:30:00
Cassandra - Gnecchi - World Première
[…] Gnecchi offered Richard Strauss the piano-vocal score of Cassandra. When both Cassandra and Strauss's new Elektra both were performed in Dresden during the 1908-9 season, "surprising similarities" (as the booklet puts it) were noted between the two operas. Strauss's stature resulted in the Italian composer's being accused of plagiarizing Elektra, written four years later! Despite high-profile foreign advocacy -- a 1911 Vienna performance with Maria Jeritza, conducted by Mengelberg; the 1914 American premiere featuring Rosa Raisa - the damage was done, and both Gnecchi and his opera faded into obscurity.Radio France's 2000 exhumation of Cassandra indicates that the furore was not only unfair but unjustified. Perhaps the overlapping subject matter -- within Aeschylus's Oresteia, Strauss's opera represents the "sequel" to Gnecchi's -- predisposed listeners to exaggerate the musical resemblances. If you know Elektra, Gnecchi’s opening musical gesture -- an ominous three-note fanfare, followed by orchestral turbulence -- will seem shockingly […]
2019-04-04 23:00:00
Puccini TURANDOT - Stokowski 1961
Giacomo Puccini TURANDOTBirgit Nilsson, Franco CorelliAnna Moffo, Bonaldo GiaiottiMetropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorusdir : Leopold StokowskiBroadcast of March 4, 1961Pristine Classical PACO071, [P] 2012FLAC files, scansFanfare Review If one wants a souvenir of a great night at the opera, this new Pristine release will do quite nicely; it’s also superior to many of the studio recordings Although she seems to have fought a losing battle over the issue, Rosa Raisa, Puccini’s personal choice to sing the title role at the premiere of Turandot, insisted that neither Puccini nor Toscanini, who conducted the premiere, pronounced the final “t” in the title. Given how the text is laid out, this makes sense to me. After all, one of the advantages of Italian when it comes to […]
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2018-06-02 05:53:47
Solti: How I got chucked out of Budapest
Nancy Malitz tells us that the Library of Congress has digitised the Studs Terkel archive of years and years of celebrity interviews. The clips she has retrieved here include Georg Solti’s account of his escape from Hungary, Rosa Raisa’s memories of Puccini, Jerome Hines singing “Boris” in Moscow with Khrushchev in the audience during the Cuban […]
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