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Italian opera singer
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Giuseppe Valdengo)
- baritone
- Italy, Kingdom of Italy
- singer, opera singer
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2020-01-12 10:13:00
Verdi - Falstaff - Toscanini - RCA (1990 & 2000 remasterings)
Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)Giuseppe Valdengo, Herva Nelli, Nan Merriman, Cloe ElmoFrank Guarrera, Teresa Stich-Randall, Antonio MadasiNBC Symphony OrchestraArturo ToscaniniNBC Broadcasts of April 1&8, 1950RCA (1990) GD60251 ADD mono 2 CDsRCA (2000) 74321 ADD mono 2 CDs UV22 Super CD Encoding[cue & flac; inlays, booklet & cd scans) I offer here the two remasterizations that RCA made of these Falstaff broadcast in 1990 and 2000. I also leave Kenneth Meltzer’s review for Classicalcdreview on these two remasterings, where he writes among other things about the difference in sound between them as well as some editing detail. Review "The relationship between Giuseppe Verdi and Arturo Toscanini is well known and documented. It was in Rio de Janeiro on June 30, 1886 that a 19-year old Toscanini was pressed into service to make his last-second conducting debut. The opera was Verdi’s Aida. The following year, Toscanini […]
2017-05-24 14:36:26
Slightly unconventional
On this day in 1966 the Jerry Herman musical Mame opened at the Winter Garden Theatre, to run 1,508 performances. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6jvMXzcPk Born on this day in 1912 soprano Joan Hammond. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SjOQHnapQ Born on this day in 1914 baritone Giuseppe Valdengo. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp8HfEqg6g Born on this day in 1922 conductor András Kórodi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61f7-YS9ak Happy 65th birthday mezzo-soprano Fiona Kimm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEIhfo1d_PU ;
2017-01-24 15:58:25
Scritto in ciel
[…] the company’ stars, but was mainly a highly-regarded La Scala regular for many seasons beginning in 1940. Siepi most notably made his Met debut at age 26 on Rudolph Bing’s first opening night in 1950 as Filippo II in Don Caro and sang nearly 500 performances there until his final Don Basilio in Il barbiere di Siviglia with Marilyn Horne and Hermann Prey in 1973, having first sung the role with Lily Pons and Giuseppe Valdengo in his debut season. Not only a master of the Italian and French repertoire, Siepi delivered a stunning series of performances in his only German role, Gurnamenz in Parsifal, in the 1970 new production, hailed by critics as “revelatory.” His final performance was as Oroveso in Norma in Vienna in 1994. One of the Met’s all-time favorite artists, he died at 87 in 2010.
2016-05-24 14:29:58
It’s today!
On this day in 1966 Jerry Herman‘s Mame opened on at the Winter Garden Theatre, to run 1508 performances. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM6jvMXzcPk Born on this day in 1912 soprano Joan Hammond. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3SjOQHnapQ Born on this day in 1914 baritone Giuseppe Valdengo. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jhp8HfEqg6g Born on this day in 1922 conductor András Kórodi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=_61f7-YS9ak Happy 64th birthday mezzo-soprano Fiona Kimm. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=LEIhfo1d_PU
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