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Bizet: CARMEN - Beecham (Hi-Def)
[…] visited that country many times, and never once have I seen anyone there, gypsy or native Spaniard, who was a vulgarian.”He might well have been describing the performance of the protagonist in the recording he would go on to make 16 years later. A soprano rather than a mezzo Carmen, de los Ángeles first sang the title role on Beecham’s recording, and would not appear on stage as Carmen until starring in aproduction by the New Jersey State Opera in Newark, New Jersey on 4 November 1978, by which time she was 55 (she had been obliged to withdraw from an earlier planned production to be directed in Dallas by the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel due to pregnancy).Carmen’s foil, Micaëla, had long been de los Ángeles’s role on stage, including at the Met during Sir Rudolf Bing’s regime. Though she longed to take on the world’s most famous gypsy, “Mr […]
2017-07-27 19:11:06
Woman on the Vergy
[…] nearly a decade other than a pair of Luisas with Luciano Pavarotti after Katia Ricciarelli departed the run. Replacing Kiri Te Kanawa as Violetta and then Ricciarelli in Manon Lescaut brought her back to the Met in 1984, but after some performances as Alice Ford in Falstaff the next year (including Giuseppe Taddei’s acclaimed debut in the title role) she vanished from the Met forever, although many locals fondly recall her as Iris with the New Jersey State Opera in 1988, the year after this Gemma performance. Other than the Bernstein Carmen, the only other opera that Maliponte recorded is Puccini’s Le Villi with Barry Morell. It too has never been issued on CD. While one might not at first think of Maliponte as a bel canto singer, she did do Poliuto as well as Elvira in I Puritani and Antonida in Glinka’s Zhizn’za tsarya.. And fear not ottocento fans, […]
2016-08-05 02:22:51
[…] Singers on radio and television. She is a full time member of The San Francisco Opera Chorus and has covered and sung a number of small roles. Ms. Munro has sung as a soloist with Pocket Opera, Berkeley Opera, North Bay Opera, San Francisco Lyric Opera, and Lake Tahoe Festival. Tenor Colby Roberts has sung with opera companies throughout the country, including Orlando Opera, National Grand Opera, Connecticut Grand Opera, New York Grand Opera and New Jersey State Opera and has been part of the chorus with San Francisco Opera for over 30 years. His concert performances have taken him across the United States, and to Europe and Israel. Bay Area credits include performances with San Francisco Lyric Opera where he sang Alfredo in La Traviata, the title roles in Werther and Andrea Chenier, Rodolfo in La Boheme, Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Cavaradossi in Tosca. Frederick Matthews (baritone) has […]
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2013-02-21 01:50:09
Artistic Director Leaves New Jersey State Opera (None Too Happily)
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