September 15, 2022
Biography
The elder from the famous Konetzni sisters — both opera singers — from Vienna, Anny Konetzni was created in 1902. Though in old age, she specifically sang soprano tasks, Anny Konetzni started her career like a contralto. She was raised inside a musical family members and then visited the Vienna …
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September 15, 2022
Biography
This lyric soprano, lovely in both voice and presence, is most widely remembered for any recording of Der Rosenkavalier made following the many years of her prime. Her Marschallin, precious from the Viennese, was still appealing and well acted, but by 1954, it lacked the shimmer that experienced made her …
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September 15, 2022
Biography
Among the 3 potent Wagnerian heroic sopranos given birth to within a fifty percent year of every additional, Gertrud Grob-Prandl, according to varied co-workers, outshone both Astrid Varney and Birgit Nilsson in sheer amplitude. Soprano Irmgard Seefried swore that “the wall space shook” when Grob-Prandl sang Turandot, and even, the …
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September 15, 2022
Biography
The first line “home bass” for London/Decca records in the 1950s, Dutch bass Arnold van Mill wielded a virile basso cantante that shown ample bite for Wagner while being supple enough to create him a creditable singer of Mozart bass roles such as for example Osmin and Sarastro. His documented …
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September 15, 2022
Biography
American soprano Emma Eames was created in Shanghai, China, where her father was an attorney. Her mom brought her up in Portland and Shower, Maine. Emma initial examined with her mom, then examined in Boston with Clara Mungen and performed using the Boston Symphony. In 1886, she visited research in …
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September 14, 2022
Biography
Ferdinand Frantz was among the final of this extraordinary course of singers in a position to realize with vocal authority the heroic tasks compiled by Richard Wagner for bass-baritone. Frantz’s sizeable device provided a weighty lower register to anchor a company and javelin-like best, precisely the characteristics demanded by Wagner …
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September 14, 2022
Biography
Inside the Classical documenting industry, Cord Garben was for a long time better referred to as an archive producer than being a pianist or conductor. Actually, he earned eight Grammy honours for different recordings he created. Veteran record enthusiasts will keep in mind his name from the countless von Karajan, …
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September 14, 2022
Biography
While most widely known on her behalf Wagner and Strauss, soprano Leonie Rysanek was also significantly admired in the dramatic Verdi tasks, specifically Lady Macbeth. She got a rich, complete tone of voice that could lower through weighty orchestration, but was also with the capacity of good piano performing. Her …
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September 14, 2022
Biography
A fantastic singer and a force unto herself, Margarete Matzenauer sang dramatic jobs in both mezzo-soprano and soprano registers. Although some sensed that her huge, weighty device was at its greatest in the mezzo fach, she sang through a reasonably long profession with her tone of voice essentially intact regardless …
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September 13, 2022
Biography
American Drew Minter is among the world’s leading countertenors and it is energetic in early music (the organic era of this kind of voice), but also in modern music. He started performing at age nine being a guy treble in the Washington Country wide Cathedral in the country’s capital. He …
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