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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| Gaelyne Gabora Country : Canada Date of Born: : 1931 Info: [ show or hide ] Her operatic debut, in 1966, was at the Mozartsaal in Vienna. In Canada she appeared widely, including with the MSO, the NACO, the TS, the Groupe baroque and Musica Camerata (both Montreal), the Victoria International Festival and JMC Orford Festival, and sang on CBC radio and television. Gabora also performed in the USA and Europe, eg, with the San Francisco, National, and Milan Radio symphony orchestras, and she participated in the Barcelona International, Moscow Winter Nights, and Ravel (France) festivals. In 1965 on CBC radio she premiered Kelsey Jones' Songs of Innocence, which were composed for her. In 1972 she gave the first Canadian performance of Shostakovich's Vocal Instrumental Suite. With her husband, the violinist Taras Gabora, and the pianist John Newmark, she recorded music of Villa Lobos, Hovhaness, Joseph Marx, Murray Adaskin, and Brahms (1974, SM-277). She also recorded Alexander Brott's Songs of Contemplation with the McGill Chamber Orchestra (1967, CBC SM-6), Handel's 'Crudel tiranno amor' and Purcell's 'The Plaint' from the Fairy Queen with the Groupe baroque de Montréal (ca 1977, RCI 449), and for Melodia (Moscow). In 1996 she recorded two CDs of lieder with the Italian pianist Mario delli Ponti (LoveLieder G168-1 and G168-2). She was awarded the International Schubert Prize (Moscow, 1979) and the Living Images of Chamber Music International Prize (University of Milan, 1989). Recognizing her stature in the field of lieder performance, McGill University offers the Gaelyne Gabora Memorial Scholarship Fund for Outstanding Interpreters of the Art Song. |
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Fischer-Dieskau - Der Leiermann
Chernyje Podkovy
Der Freischütz - Leise, Leise
Recitative - Tenor
Verdi Requiem - Liber Scriptus
