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During her job, Swiss-born soprano Lisa della Casa was known on her behalf interesting portrayals of Mozart and Strauss roles, particularly Strauss’ Arabella. She started her research at age 15 with Margarete Haeser, who continued to be her only instructor. Della Casa produced her debut as Cio-Cio-san in 1941 in …

Using a curious melding of the bright vocal timbre and a somewhat-reserved temperament, Suzanne Danco became a respected artist among the lyric sopranos from the 1940s and 1950s. She was a regular visitor towards the documenting studio and still left an appreciable legacy on disk, each one reflecting her high …

An musician of consistently high standards, Otto Edelmann sang the key bass and bass-baritone assignments in the Wagner, Strauss, and Mozart repertories through the 1950s and 1960s. If he lacked the really handsome build quality of predecessors such as for example Schorr, Bocklemann, and Nissen, he non-etheless offered a tone …

Bass Cesare Siepi was, seeing that mezzo-soprano Giulietta Simionato seen in Lanfranco Rasponi’s reserve THE FINAL Prima Donnas, “the ruler from the bassos, a grand seigneur for the stage.” For 23 periods, he was the Metropolitan Opera’s leading basso cantante, as adept in the style of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and …

Arpád Sándor was a significant Hungarian pianist, well known as an accompanist to great worldwide singers and violinists. He was students on the Royal Academy of Music in Budapest, where he examined structure with Zoltán Kodály and piano with Béla Bartók. He graduated in 1922. His initial trip to america …