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GOUNOD: FAUST GEDDA - HARPER - GHIAUROV - GAVAZZENI - TEATRO COLON 1971
[…] no less spectacular: Marcel Journet (1916, 1918 and 1929), Vanni Marcoux (1919), Adam Didur (1921), Ezio Pinza (1927) and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni (1956), besides the aforementioned Boris Christoff. The 1971 season was the 12th season in which Gounod´s opera was included. Up until then, one of the most acclaimed version of Faust had been the one performed in 1949: Tullio Serafin conducted an all-star cast, which included the italian singers Mario Fillipeschi and Nicola Rossi-Lemeni and the argentinian ones Helena Arizmendi and Nilda Hoffmann, plus a young Carlos Guichandut, who was still singing baritone roles (he later became one of greatest Otello of his time) as Valentin. The 1971 performance, however, was simply breathtaking. In a way it could even be said that this very performance changed the way Gounod´s opera was perceived, at last if one is to believe what was said at the time. Even if Faust is still one of the top-30 […]
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2015-02-13 12:00:12
A Callas partner has died
The Argentine soprano Helena Arizmendi, a star of the Teatro Colón for 24 years, has died at the age of 87. Her limelight nights were singing Liu in Turandot with Maria Callas and Mario Del Monaco, conducted by Tulio Serafin.
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