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Romanian operatic soprano (1894-1985)
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2018-09-16 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 61 - 76]
[…] pro-Nazi activities and because of them forbade him from appearing in public until 1947. They also found that he had frequently acted to assist a number of individual Jews escape the Third Reich machine. When his ban was lifted he resumed frequently conducting the Vienna Philharmonic, including its famous New Years Day concerts.He conducted at Covent Garden in London (1951 to 1953) and in the 1953 Bayreuth Festival. He was married to the soprano Viorica Ursuleac. He was in Mexico on vacation when he died there in 1954.Artist Biography by Joseph Stevenson
2018-08-23 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 29 - 60]
[…] realities of wartime. Goebbels was subsequently forced to supress details of the Strauss family’s Jewish ancestry, recording in his journal that he had ‘no desire gradually to undermine the entire German cultural patrimony.’ However, Krauss did not quell rumours that he himself had Jewish ancestry, and he supposedly helped to protect Richard Strauss’s Jewish daughter-in-law, Alice, from persecution. During the 1930s Krauss and his second wife, Romanian soprano Viorica Ursuleac, performed at Covent Garden and met the Mills & Boon writer and opera fan Ida Cook (pen-name Mary Burchell) and her sister Louise. Krauss and Ursuleac later asked the sisters to look after their Jewish friend Mitia Meyer-Lismann, who thus became the first person the sisters helped emigrate to the UK to escape Nazi persecution. From 1937 until August 1939 the sisters helped at least twenty-nine families to […]
2018-08-12 23:00:00
Clemens Krauss: The Collection 1929-1954 [CDs 1 - 28]
Clemens Krauss: THE COLLECTION 1929-1954 [97 CDs]First installment : Discs 1 - 28Venias VN033 (mono) - No publication date givenDetails of works performed below, and in scanned booklet FLAC image files, cuesheets, logs, scans, bookletEnigma and paradox surround the life of Austrian conductor Clemens Krauss (1893-1954). Was he really the love child of a high-up Viennese churchman and a teenage dancer in the Imperial Opera Ballet? Did he accept Nazi dictats to take his own career to the highest positions in Vienna, Berlin and Munich while secretly running – in tandem with two English sisters and his soprano wife Viorica Ursuleac - a Scarlet Pimpernel-style escape chain for Jewish fugitives? And did he actually die, not from lack of oxygen in Mexico City’s altitudes, but of grief and frustration (rather like Erich Kleiber) at being passed over for the chief conductorship of […]
2017-03-26 18:19:36
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Born on this day in 1894 soprano Viorica Ursuleac. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6gF1PvhN8M Born on this day in 1905 conductor André Cluytens. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=INDTaAwqgp8 Born on this day in 1921 bass Arnold van Mill. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJEgzDsi6Q On this day in 1964 the Jule Styne–Bob Merrill musical Funny Girl opened on Broadway. //www.youtube.com/watch?v=WguDhvXExvY
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