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Hungarian singer and opera singer
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- soprano
- Hungary
- opera singer, vocal coach, music teacher
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2017-03-09 21:09:14
Happy ending
Domenico Cimarosa (1749-1801) wrote over 60 operas during his relatively short life, but his fame rests primarily on just a single work–Il Matrimonio Segreto. This week Trove Thursday endeavors to broaden his exposure with a bubbly performance of another of his delightful buffas: Il Marito Disperato starring Sylvia Geszty. Like his near-contemporary Paisiello, Cimarosa bounced back and forth between opera seria and opera buffa. In the former genre, he dutifully wrote several works to (revised) libretti by Metastasio including Alessandro nell’Indie, Artaserse and the inevitable L’Olimpiade. The latter features a dizzily florid duet for the lovers Aristea and Megacle, sung here by Patrizia Ciofi and Anna Bonitatibus. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=pxbbH0MUHqw Late in his career he composed a grand azione teatrale (based on a play by Pierre Corneille) Gli Orazi e i Curiazi which has occasionally been revived. Carlo Maria Giulini led a performance featuring Giulietta Siminato for RAI in 1952, […]
2017-02-28 14:06:13
She can pull all the stops out
On this day in 1862 Gounod’s La Reine de Saba premiered in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEGcAiHUrQM Happy 90th birthday tenor Ragnar Ulfung. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz6nUKPvRuo Happy 88th birthday bass Joseph Rouleau. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrEQI-AmT0o Happy 83rd birthday soprano Sylvia Geszty. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jF0K0uTwc Happy 75th birthday bass Alexander Malta. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnpif4mny8 Not to forget our Leap Year birthdays and anniversaries: Born on this day in 1792 composer Gioacchino Rossini. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCUq5JqyJBU On this day in 1836 Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots opened in Paris. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6D4Inc031Y Born on this day in 1916 singer Dinah Shore. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=3dqoJxjQn-Y Happy 85th birthday soprano Reri Grist. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVgCmti3mBU
2016-02-28 14:00:18
Neither was there any such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave King Solomon
On this day in 1862 Gounod’s La Reine de Saba premiered in Paris. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEGcAiHUrQM Happy 89th birthday tenor Ragnar Ulfung. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bz6nUKPvRuo Happy 87th birthday bass Joseph Rouleau. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=odH8Tr4qLEk Happy 82nd birthday soprano Sylvia Geszty. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7jF0K0uTwc Happy 74th birthday bass Alexander Malta. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGnpif4mny8
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