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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| Marilyn Horne Country : U.S.A Date of Born: : January 16, 1934 City: : Bradford, Pennsylvania, USA Info: [ show or hide ] Most of the users of this Artsconverge site are probably well aware of Marilyn Horne. For around a quarter century after 1960 she was the leading American Mezzo-Suprano and argueably number one in that catagory worldwide. She is widely credited for being central to the current resergence of Baroque Opera that is still gaining stature in Opera Houses today. The Video of her Orlando Furioso on this site is an example of what she provided to get this ball rolling. But her career was far from limited to the Baroque repetoire and in fact was and is so diverse that we will not attempt to cover it here, except to say that she still prestent occaisionally a show of Stephen Foster pieces. It might also be claimed that she boosted somewhat the overall demand for the Mezzo-Soprano She still (2009) has a full active career as a teacher operating primarily in Santa Barbara, California, and her Marilyn Horne Foundation, based in New York, is very activenive in prompoting the careers of young American Singers - R.E.C. .
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