Ernestine Schumann-Heink News
Austrian-American singer (1861–1936)
- mezzo-soprano
- opera
- Austrian Empire, United States of America
- opera singer
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On this day in 1898 contralto Ernestine Schumann-Heink made her Metropolitan Opera debut as Ortrud.
2016-04-12 15:00:43
Not only with words, but with lively gestures
“I will never sing the role again. It was frightful. We were a set of madwomen…There is nothing beyond Elektra. We have lived and reached the furthest boundaries in dramatic writing for the voice with Wagner. But Richard Strauss goes beyond him. His singing voices are lost. We have come to a full stop.” So claimed the first Klytämnestra, Ernestine Schumann-Heink. The 20th and 21st centuries would have much to say about the “nothing beyond” part, but Strauss and Hofmannsthal’s bloody one-act tragedy has never left the repertory. In a good performance, it can still grip, disturb, and haunt as it did in 1909. Elektra’s tardy 1932 Metropolitan Opera premiere was reported in the New York Times to have received 15 minutes of sustained applause. Critic Olin Downes wrote that in eight years of covering the Met, he had never witnessed such audience enthusiasm. Surprisingly, then, Elektra’s Met history […]
2014-12-14 23:55:28
Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy in New Moon A year or two back, I published a series of articles devoted to the incongruities of opera stars appearing or being featured in Hollywood movies (yes, you heard that right — even the silent variety), and of Hollywood movies employing said opera stars. I later realized, to my dismay, that a cluster of mini-pieces I had prepared on the subject of opera and moviedom never quite made it to the “final cut.” Whether for reasons of space, or most likely the failure of these pieces to fit into any specific group or category that I had been thinking about, I never got around to a definitive solution for their use. In all probability, they wound up on the proverbial cutting-room floor. Nevertheless, I’d like to make amends and take this opportunity to rectify my oversight by offering these “short takes, outtakes, […]
2011-12-28 00:33:00
DECEMBER 28 today in classical music history
Vicente ESPINEL1551 Baptismal of Spanish writer and guitarist Vicente ESPINEL. He added fifth string to guitar and it became popular through out Spain. 1731 Birth/Baptism of German composer Johann CANNABICH in Mannheim. d-Frankfurt, 20 JAN 1798. Search Johann CANNABICH.1732 Birth of castrato Giuseppe Aprile in Bisceglia Apulia. d-11 Jan 1813, Debut in Barone Deluso (Sciroli) 1752 Teachers:- Girolamo Abos, Gregorio Sciroli Pupils :- Gaetano Crivelli, Francesca Festa, Michael Kelly, Andrea Nozzari Created Rinaldo in Armida Abbandonata (Jommelli) Sang in premiere of Ezio (Traetta) Caio Mario (Cimarosa) […]
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