Tosca (1900) was arguably Puccini's first foray into verismo, the realistic depiction of many facets of real life including violence. The opera is generally considered of major importance in the history of opera because of its many significant features.
Enriched by her strong Greek-American heritage, she was honored to sing the Verdi Requiem, at the foot of Acropolis, at Greece's week-long remembrance of Maria Callas broadcast on Greek National Television.
This Opera has never been produced in the U.S.A. although it is a first rate comic piece. The main character can be thought of as female counterpart to Don Quixote in that she has similar delusions, specifically, that in her Garden she can preside as Armida, a major romantic character of Tasso. Many...
This should be an expanding album. A bit could be written about every one of Schubert's 800 songs. For now let us just note that "Die Forelle" is the basis of the great "Trout Quintet". The singable English translation by R.E.C. is a deveiation from the norm Artsconverge pres...
Leyla Zaloustkaya has a two set audio CD of her performing works of her own composition, in addition to this one of these traditional Gypsy songs. She is originally from Sebastapol on the Crimean penninsula jutting into the Black Sea. Her higher education was in Moscow and in St. Louis, Missouri.
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| Otto Ackermann Date of Born: : 1909 City: : Berne Info: [ show or hide ] Otto Ackermann (18 October 1909, Bucharest - 9 March 1960, Wabern (Berne)) was a Romanian conductor who made his career mainly in Switzerland. He studied at the Hochschule, Berlin, and then held many important appointments as operatic conductor, beginning with Dusseldorf Opera, 1928-1932. Then he was at Brno, Berne and Vienna, with much travelling and concert-giving all over Europe, and recordings made with the Vienna Philharmonic, the Netherlands Philharmonic and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra. Ackermann was a close friend of Franz Lehár and made Columbia Records recordings of his operettas which are distinguished by their typical Viennese lilting and phrasing, despite being made with an English orchestra (the Philharmonia Orchestra). Ackermann conducted the earlier recording of the Four Last Songs of Richard Strauss with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. He died in March 1960, at 50 years old. |
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Mariettalied - Lotte Lehmann & Richard Tauber
Fischer-Dieskau - Der Leiermann
Gestillte Sehnsucht - Brahms
