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French opera singer (1814-1862)
Commemorations 2024 (Birth: Marie Recio)
- mezzo-soprano
- France
- opera singer
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2018-11-02 07:01:00
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At the graves of Hector Berlioz, Harriet Smithson, and Marie Recio I got a smile when I told the florist that the single rose I'd bought was for Berlioz. Soulève ta paupière close Qu'effleure un songe virginal;Je suis le spectre d'une roseQue tu portais hier au bal.Tu me pris, encore emperléeDes pleurs d'argent, de l'arrosoir,Et parmi la fête étoiléeTu me promenas tout le soir.O toi qui de ma mort fus cause,Sans que tu puisses le chasser,Toutes les nuits mon spectre roseA ton chevet viendra danser.Mais ne crains rien, je ne réclameNi messe ni De profundis:Ce léger parfum est mon âme,Et j'arrive du paradis.Mon destin fut digne d'envie:Et pour avoir un sort si beau,Plus d'un aurait donné sa vie,Car sur ton sein j'ai mon tombeau,Et sur l'albâtre où je reposeUn poëte avec un baiserÉcrivit: Ci-git une rose,Que tous les rois vont jalouser. -- Theophile Gautier
2016-03-11 12:30:53
[…] St. Matthew Passion was performed in Berlin, conducted by Mendelssohn (his first time conducting). In 1848 Johannes Brahms records that he witnessed a stunning performance of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto, performed by 16-year-old Joseph Joachim. In 1860 French Emperor Napoleon III allows Richard Wagner’s Tannhäuser to be staged at the Paris Opera, ending the composers 11-year exile from Paris. In 1869 Hector Berlioz is interred in Montmartre next to both his wives, Harriet Smithson and Marie Recio. In 1876 Puccini – then seventeen years old – walked seven hours to Pisa to see Verdi’s Aida. He managed to beg his way into the theater hours before curtain-rise and was able to hide out in order to see the performance without paying for a ticket. In 1937 Frank Capra’s film “The Lost Horizon” opened at the Four Stars Theater in Los Angeles and featured a classic film score composed by Dmitri Tiomkin […]
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