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American opera singer (1915–2010)
Commemorations 2025 (Birth: Blanche Thebom)
- mezzo-soprano
- opera
- United States of America
- opera singer, opera director, teacher, secretary, actor, talk show host
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2024-04-24
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2019-12-26 17:00:15
Classical music deaths of the decade
2010 Singers Philip Langridge, Blanche Thebom, Bass Cesare Siepi, Anthony Rolfe Johnson Joan Sutherland Ondes specialist Yvonne Loriod Conductors Charles Mackerras,...
2019-11-23 10:09:00
Mozart - The Da Ponte Trilogy - Fritz Busch at Glyndebourne - Warner new remastering
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART (1761 - 1791)Le nozze di Figaro - Così fan tutte - Don Giovanni (1934-1936)Così fan tutte (1950, excerpts) Idomeneo (1951, excerpts)Audrey Mildmay, Luise Helletsgrüber, Aulikki RautavaaraWilli Domgraf-Fassbaender, Roy Henderson, Ina SouezHeddle Nash, John Brownlee, Salvatore BaccaloniIrene Eisinger, Richard Lewis, Sena Jurinac, Erick KunzBlanche Thebom, Mario Borriello,Dorothy McNeil,Alexander Young .Glyndebourne Festival Chorus and Orchestradir: Fritz BuschWarner Classics ( 2017) 0190295201748 9 CDsRemastered 2017 Parlophone Records Limited.[flac & cue; box cover, inlays, booklet & disc scans]The excellence of these recordings conducted magnificently by Fritz Busch (the first ever made of Mozart’s operas), especially Don Giovanni, and the wonderful Così fan tutte, is already well known. They were already remastered from 2001 to 2004 by Ward Marston with the quality that characterizes his remasterings.In 2017 the division of Warner Music, Parlophone remastered them again notably improving the sound of already very good editions of Naxos.Sound is now more clean and clear, […]
2018-06-17 23:00:00
Tristan und Isolde - FURTWÄNGLER 1952
WAGNER Tristan und Isolde Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden Philharmonia Orchestra conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler Pristine Classical PACO 067, [P] 2012Recorded 10-21 & 23 June 1952, Kingsway Hall, London Digitally downloaded FLAC files, scansCAST Tristan Ludwig SuthausIsolde Kirsten FlagstadBrangäne Blanche ThebomKönig Marke Josef GreindlKurwenal Dietrich Fischer-DieskauMelot Edgar EvansSeemann Rudolf SchockHirt Rudolf SchockSteuermann Rhoderick Davies Fanfare Review The orchestral colors are richer, the voices bloom more, and the whole is more satisfying than it has ever been In Fanfare 28:1 I reviewed two reissues of this 1952 HMV recording, one on EMI, the other on Naxos. I noted that like the Callas Tosca, since it was first issued this has been defined as a classic of the recording industry by just about every commentator who has written about it. It is, quite simply, one of […]
2017-09-19 13:25:33
Carte Blanche
Born on this day in 1918 mezzo-soprano Blanche Thebom (some sources say 1915.)
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