Theodor Uppman News
American opera singer (1920-2005)
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Royal Opera House
2017-05-25 18:40:37
How The Royal Opera has kept opera looking forward for more than three hundred years
[…] Theodore Uppman as Billy Budd in the world premiere of Billy Budd performed by the Covent Garden Opera Company at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden © Royal Opera House/ROGER WOOD […]
2017-02-14 14:00:30
The right box
[…] Licia Albanese, Leontyne Price and Teresa Stratas had all inherited the role. Here we get Mirella Freni and she is glorious. Tender in Act I, though she does end “Signore, ascolta” with a case of the sobs, she goes gorgeous in the double arias of the last act. She gets a huge hand from the audience after she kills herself which sounds a mite incongruous today but I have to admit it’s well deserved. Theodore Uppman is luxury casting as Ping and my only quibble is that La Nilsson omits “Del primo pianto,” making a short role even shorter. Meanwhile Mehta, with all the faux Chinese tonalities appliquéd on that Italian romanticism, brings the firm hand to the proceedings that Leopold Stokowski didn’t quite manage. The orchestra and chorus had been performing Turandot every year since this production debuted so they all know what they’re doing. The piece de resistance […]
2017-01-12 14:00:38
Keep on using vibrato
Born on this day in 1910 actress Patsy Kelly. Born on this day in 1876 composer Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=wseA5MrNgsQ Born on this day in 1904 baritone Julius Huehn. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=sks5MxgXD18 Born on this day in 1908 conductor Leopold Ludwig. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7icuiPd8D8 Born on this day in 1920 baritone Theodor Uppman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjoSIRLnRTE Born on this day in 1926 composer Morton Feldman. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=0exs9F-888s Happy 82nd birthday soprano Margherita Rinaldi. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyMXdq2dJ-o Born on this day in 1937 baritone Vicente Sardinero. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzv-2SJoPXw Happy 76th birthday mezzo-soprano Anne Howells. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEZtX3LdP58
Norman Lebrecht - Slipped disc
2016-11-17 20:57:35
15 US singers win $12,000 grants
[…] the auditions were Susanne Mentzer, Bruce Donnell, and Evans Mirageas. The Sullivan winners Winners of $12,000 awards and continuing assistance starting in 2017 are: sopranos Alisa Jordheim and Claudia Rosenthal (pictured); mezzo-sopranos Samantha Gossard and Alyssa Martin; counter-tenor Siman Chung; tenors Miles Mykkanen, Jack Swanson, and Kang Wang; baritones Alex DeSocio, Ben Edquist, Joseph Lattanzi, and Robert Mellon; bass-baritone Davone Tines; and basses Alan Higgs and Christian Zaremba. Jack Swanson’s award is named for Theodor Uppman, the famed baritone who was a longtime member of the Board of the Foundation, and Alisa Jordheim’s award is named for soprano Rose Bampton, also a longtime member of the Foundation’s board. Davone Tines’s award is named for the late mezzo-soprano Betty Allen, Sullivan board member and famed leader of the Harlem School for the Arts, and Claudia Rosenthal’s for soprano Gail Robinson.
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