Teresa Stratas News
Greek-Canadian-American singer
- soprano
- opera
- Canada, United States of America
- opera singer, actor, stage actor
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2023-06-21 14:00:58
A divided duty
Today’s Chris’s Cache features live recordings of Otello most noteworthy for their Desdemonas: (in chronological order) Teresa Stratas, Julia Varady, Eva Marton and Karita Mattila.
2023-02-11 15:00:47
Cavalleria Rusticana and Pagliacci
A historic performance from 1970 featuring Leonard Bernstein conducting Grace Bumbry and Franco Corelli in Cavalleria Rusticana, and Fausto Cleva conducting Teresa Stratas and Richard Tucker in Pagliacci.
2022-07-13 00:55:00
Zachary Woolfe of the Times reported on the Aix-en-Provence Festival the other day, and said this; boldface by me:The most eyebrow-raising casting at Aix this year was the soprano Elsa Dreisig as Salome, a role usually taken by those who also sing Wagnerian heroines. Dreisig, just into her 30s, is better known for far lighter roles like Mozart’s Pamina and Zerlina.Well, I'm not so sure about that, and "Wagnerian heroines" also includes lyric roles such as Elsa. Here's a list of notable historic and recent or current Salomes, some of whom I grabbed from the San Francisco Opera's archive:Maria JeritzaLily DjanelBrenda LewisLjuba Welitsch Maria CebotariEmmy DestinnAstrid VarnayBirgitte NilssonLeonie RysanekInge BorkhAnja SiljaJosephine BarstowGwyneth JonesMontserrat CaballeHildegard BehrensInga NielsenKarita MattilaAsmik GregorianMarlis PetersenPatricia RacetteTeresa Stratas (video and recording studio only)Maria EwingThat's...quite a range of voices.
2022-05-26 19:15:40
Stratas was one of the controversial stars of the latter half of the twentieth century, and one whos
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- timeline: Lyrical singers (North America).
- Indexes (by alphabetical order): S...