Elisabeth Carron News
American operatic soprano
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2016-12-12 15:40:36
Wearing of the green
On this day in 1964 filming began for the first Star Trek pilot “The Cage.” //www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XtDk-d6fII Born on this day in 1900 tenor Arthur Carron. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMff4wPG524 Born on this day in 1906 tenor Ludwig Suthaus. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lSMWDDpFvQ Born on this day in 1915 singer and actor Frank Sinatra. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPzHYiiRgxA Born on this day in 1921 bass-baritone Toni Blankenheim. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWMMhfY3ulY Born on this day in 1927 soprano Hanny Steffek. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Sf2liCStcs Happy 68th birthday baritone Donald Maxwell. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q349rbQvgOw Happy 66th birthday soprano Adelaide Negri. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_zmjPpJZi4
2016-12-08 01:00:00
American soprano Elisabeth Carron died in December 2016
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2016-12-06 09:11:11
Death of a Met soprano, aged 94
The death has been announced of Elisabeth Carron, who sang Mimi at the Met and Madam Butterfly at City Opera, among many other leading roles. She sang opposite Callas, Vicker, Nilsson and other legends of the mid-century. From her official bio: The youngest of four children born to Sicilian immigrant parents, Elisabetta Caradonna grew up during the Great Depression, when most forms of entertainment were community-based and necessarily inexpensive. One of the most popular was the marathon dance contest, which would include ad-hoc intermission acts that popped up when the dance bands took their breaks; these entertainers were paid only with whatever money the audience cared to toss on to the stage. With her older brother Rosario as her impresario, Elisabeth began to sing at these events at the age of nine. She was a runaway hit, and soon she was doing well enough to be hired to sing […]
2016-04-25 15:00:42
Four conversations are three too many
[…] opera’s source. For Regina, originally written for Broadway, Blitzstein followed the input of Hellman and producer Cheryl Crawford, making cuts suggested by the two women. The scoring of the musical was beefed up for its opera house treatment which premiered at New York City Opera in 1953. It was subsequently revised several times and posthumously restored to Blitzstein’s original vision. This 1980 performance from Houston stars NYCO legend Maralin Niska (now 89), Giorgio Tozzi, Elisabeth Carron (still with us at 94), and Dan Garrard. Blitzstein, an openly gay, Communist composer and close friend of Leonard Bernstein, was born in Philadelphia in 1905, and was beaten to death by three sailors he picked up in a bar on Martinique in 1964 at age 58. His life and work are depicted in Tim Robbins’ 1999 film Cradle Will Rock, set in New York City in 1937 (taking its name from Blitzstein’s musical), […]
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