Louise Homer Vídeos
contralto estadounidense
- mezzosoprano
- música clásica
- Estados Unidos
- actor, cantante de ópera, actor de teatro
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2024-04-27
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Louise Kirkby Lunn Kirkby Lunn Greenwood Jacques Bouhy Louise Homer Schumann Drury O Brien Massenet Gluck Clara Butt I Sang Henry Wood Carl Rosa Opera Company Covent Garden 1899 1901 1902 1904 1914 1921 1922
From Cantabile-Subito Louise Kirkby Lunn "She was born in Manchester and studied with J.H. Greenwood, afterwards with Alberto Antonio Visetti in London. Further studies with the renowned Jacques Bouhy in Paris (Louise Homer was also a student of him). She made her early debut as Margaretha in Schumann’s Genoveva at the Drury Lane Theatre in London. Later she appeared in Délibes’ Le Roi l’a dit (!). She considered her real debut as Nora in Charles Standford’s opera Shamus O’Brien. She also sang at the Harris Opera Theatre and at the Carl Rosa Opera Company. From the very beginning she loved to sing on the concert platform. After her marriage in 1899 she had planned to terminate her career, but in 1901 she continued singing and signed a contract with Covent Garden. She was an important member at this famous opera house until 1914 (and again in the season 1921/22). She participated in some first opera performances: Massenet’s Hérodiade, Saint-Saëns’ Hélène and Gluck’s Armide. In 1902 she was invited to the Metropolitan where she debuted as Ortrud. Within the next two years she also sang Brangäne and Amneris. She toured America in 1904 where she was heard as Kundry (first performances of the opera in English) and this role was one of her greatest achievements. She created the role of Dalila in Saint-Saëns’ opera Samson et Dalila in the first English performance at Covent Garden. Despite her great success on stage she made many concert appearances and she became even more popular on the concert platform than in opera. She became THE great British oratorio contralto besides Dame Clara Butt. She was not only heard at the festivals of Birmingham, Sheffield and Norwich but also toured widely (USA, Australia and New Zealand). Her last opera appearance (as Amneris) took place in 1922 at Covent Garden. She continued to give concerts and recitals. At the end of her career she became a renowned singing coach." “A singer with a glorious voice and an even tone throughout a compass of well over two octaves, a singer with whom I never found fault in so much as a quaver all the years I worked with her, and who never sang out of tune. Her Brangäne at Covent Garden, her fine acting and singing as Kundry in America, and a marvellous rendering of Isolde’s Liebestod ... are among my most cherished memories of her” Sir Henry Wood, conductor
Rimsky Korsakov Mariner Kenai Peninsula Orchestra 2011
Kenai Peninsula Orchestra Summer Music Festival Gala Concert 8/13/2011 at 7:30pm Conducted by Maestro Tammy Vollom-Matturro Homer Mariner Theater, Homer, Alaska
Giuseppe Verdi Johanna Gadski Marchi Marcel Journet Louise Homer Giuseppe Campanari Adolph Mühlmann Luigi Mancinelli Metropolitan Opera House 1903
Giuseppe Verdi Aida Excerpts (Mapleson Cylinders): I) Su! del Nilo al sacro lido II) Ma tu, Re, tu signore possente III) [Venga or la schiava ...] Gloria all'Egitto Aida - Johanna Gadski Radamès - Emilio De Marchi Amneris - Louise Homer Amonasro - Giuseppe Campanari Ramfis - Marcel Journet Il Re - Adolph Mühlmann Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus Luigi Mancinelli, conductor Metropolitan Opera House, January 31, 1903
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- cronología: Cantantes líricos (Norteamérica).
- Índices (por orden alfabético): H...