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Bella Alten Aglaja Orgeni Brunswick Hans Richter Richter Emma Eames Marcella Sembrich Antonio Scotti Enrico Caruso Frances Alda Pol Plançon Nellie Melba Emmy Destinn Ernestine Schumann Heink Schumann Pasquale Amato Olive Fremstad Louise Homer Geraldine Farrar Hänsel Engelbert Humperdinck Roosevelt Bayreuth Koven Metropolitan Opera House Covent Garden Wiener Hofoper Volksoper 1877 1897 1904 1905 1906 1908 1909 1912 1914 1936 1941 1962
Bella Alten - Pagliacci - Ballata - International Record Collectors' Club IRCC 3025 enregistré le 22 avril 1909 Bella Alten (June 30, 1877 - December 31, 1962) was an operatic soprano who performed at the Metropolitan Opera House (39th St) during the early 1900s. Bella Alten was born in Zaskaczewo, Poland. She studied with Gustav Engel and Joachim at the Imperial Conservatory in Berlin, and later with Aglaja Orgeni in Dresden. Her first appearance in opera was as Aennchen in Der Freischütz in 1897 after which engagements followed in Berlin, Brunswick, Cologne and London. She was singing Cherubino in Marriage of Figaro, Nedda in Pagliacci and Eva in Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg under Hans Richter (conductor) when Heinrich Conried (then the Metropolitan Opera's General Manager) heard her at the Covent Garden and engaged her for the Met. Her New York debut took place in November 1904 as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro in a cast that included Emma Eames, Marcella Sembrich and Antonio Scotti. During her nine seasons at the Metropolitan (1904–1908 and 1909–1914) she sang 31 different roles and a total of 426 performances. She appeared in casts that included such singers as Enrico Caruso, Frances Alda, Pol Plançon, Nellie Melba, Emmy Destinn, Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Pasquale Amato, Olive Fremstad, Louise Homer, and Geraldine Farrar, among others. Her operatic career included six Metropolitan premiere performances – Adele in Die Fledermaus (1905), Gretel in Hänsel und Gretel (opera) (1905), Saffi in Der Zigeunerbaron (1906), Olga in Fedora (opera) (1906), Columbina in Le Donne Curiose (1912), and Lisetta in L'amore Medico (1914). In November 1905 when she sang Gretel in the premiere Metropolitan performance of Hänsel und Gretel, the composer Engelbert Humperdinck was in the audience. This opera received 11 performances that first season and was selected by Theodore Roosevelt's wife as a benefit for the Legal Aid Society. Alten sang Gretel in this opera every season she was with the Met (77 times.) The one season she was not there the opera wasn’t presented. Her other most frequently performed roles were Musetta in La Bohème (68 times), and Nedda in Pagliacci (34 times). From 1908 to 1909, Alten went to Braunchweig, Germany where she created Madama Butterfly for that city. She also appeared in Bayreuth. Her only recordings date from this period; three selections from Madama Butterfly and the Ballatella from Pagliacci recorded for the Grammophone Company and all sung in German. Alten also appeared on Broadway as Maid Marion in Reginald De Koven's Robin Hood with Wallace Hyde and Florence Wickham. This opened May 6, 1912 at the New Amsterdam Theatre and ran for 64 performances. The hit song from this work, Oh Promise Me, is still heard frequently at weddings today. During her Metropolitan career in 1912, Bella Alten married Hermann Deri, an Austrian State Banker, and became Bella Alten-Deri. She returned to Vienna and continued to sing at both the Wiener Hofoper and Volksoper. She gave concerts and radio broadcasts as late as 1936. When the Nazis came to power in Austria, she and her husband moved to London where she died December 31, 1962 following her husband's death in 1941 Source : Wikipedia
Mattiwilda Dobbs Jacques Offenbach Hoffmann Jean Morel Morel Nicolai Gedda Marian Anderson Leonard Warren Jan Peerce Eames Bessie Abott Hilde Gueden Bizet René Leibowitz Mozart Menuhin Maschera Birgit Nilsson Richard Tucker Doll Simoneau Konya Thomas Stewart Kraus Rossignol Stravinsky Rossini Sereni Callas Sutherland Hume Olympia Scala San Francisco Opera 1925 1952 1953 1956 1957 1958 1959 1962 1974 2015
Please open the bar to read more about this artist! Mattiwilda Dobbs, Soprano +••.••(...)) Jacques Offenbach LES CONTES D´HOFFMANN Les oiseaux dans la charmille Conducted by Jean Morel (Live recording 1959) My personal opinion: In December 1958, the African-American coloratura soprano Mattiwilda Dobbs sang the first of three performances as Olympia in LES CONTES D´HOFFMANN at the Met. Her partner was swedish tenor Nicolai Gedda. By a funny coincidence, both singers were born on July 11 in 1925. Dobbs came to the Met one year after Marian Anderson, the first black soloist. Dobbs´ first role was Gilda in RIGOLETTO (with Leonard Warren and Jan Peerce), the beginning of a long-term contract offered by Sir Rudolf Bing. After the performance, US-writer and photographer Carl van Vechten wrote, that she was "glorious: A warm and brilliant coloratura and the best Gilda in my experience, and I have heard Melba, Eames and Bessie Abott. And Hilde Gueden who always leaves me cold as a sardine in the icebox!" Dobbs sang Gilda twelve times at the Met. Dobbs´ soprano was small, but her vocal technique was refined and her interpretations very lively. She was predestinated to sing all this young lyrical opera girls. On records you can find her as Leila in Bizet´s PEARL FISHERS (enervating because of René Leibowitz´ unconventional conducting. He also was the conductor who gave us the most awful BALLO-recording ever. You must hear it to believe it!) and Cathérine in the rare opera LA JOLIE FILLE DE PERTH by the same composer, ZAIDE and Konstanze by Mozart (in an english sung performance of THE ABDUCTION OF THE SERAGLIO with Gedda under Menuhin), Zerlina in DON GIOVANNI and Oscar in UN BALLO IN MASCHERA opposite Birgit Nilsson and Richard Tucker. But her signature role was the doll Olympia with all the sparkling coloraturas: We have three live- recordings from the late 1950s with Simoneau, Gedda and the unknown David Garen as Hoffmann - and a 1962 highlights-version (with Sandor Konya as Hoffmann and Thomas Stewart as the villains under Richard Kraus. In this version, the german pronunciation is a problem for all performers). After winning an international music competition in Switzerland, Mattiwilda Dobbs made her operatic debut as LE ROSSIGNOL by Stravinsky in 1952. She quickly sang at major festivals and opera houses throughout Europe and came to the Glyndebourne Festival as Zerbinetta in 1953. She was Elvira in Rossini´s L´ITALIANA IN ALGERI at La Scala - the first time a black artist ever sang there. Other stations soon followed: London, Paris, Vienna, Hamburg and Stockholm. At the Met she was the first black LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR on December 21, 1957 (with Tucker and Sereni). She also sang at the San Francisco Opera. In 1974 she retired from the stage. She was married twice, but sadly both husbands died prematurely. Although critics praised her freshness and agility (her voice often was compared to the clear and resonant sound of a bell), it may be, that her singing delighted not everyone´s ear. It was a crystal clear, but also quivering singing, sometimes a little bit hectic. Again Carl van Vechten, who assumed, that if Dobbs has not received the popular attention her voice and accomplishments deserve, it is likely that she has been overlooked only because of the abundance of fine singers who were her contemporaries. "Sandwiched between the debuts of Anderson and Price, Dobbs' bow at the house in 1956 was greeted warmly but inevitably overshadowed." "Opera News" critic Ira Siff has said. "The impact was perhaps reduced even more by the advent of the big-voiced coloratura, personified by Callas (who arrived at the Met a few weeks before Dobbs) and later by Sutherland." Still, Dobbs is often celebrated for what Paul Hume has called the "singular purity and radiant texture" of her voice. Mattiwilda Dobbs died on December 8, 2015 aged 90.
Elmer Bernstein Bernstein Harden Eames Dow Merlin Bernard Herrmann Max Steiner Jerry Goldsmith John Williams 1922 1955 1956 1957 1960 1961 1962 1963 1965 1966 1967 1993 1996 1999 2001 2002 2004
Source: (http•••) The Ten Commandments (1956) Soundtrack: "Prelude" Composer: Elmer Bernstein Director: Cecil B. DeMille Stars: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Anne Baxter Awards: Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 7 nominations Genres: Adventure | Drama | History Country: USA Language: English Release Date: 3 December 1956 Runtime: 220 min Budget: $13,500,000 (estimated) Gross: $80,000,000 (USA) Production Co: Motion Picture Associates, Paramount Pictures Storyline To escape the edict of Egypt's Pharoah, Rameses I, condemning all newborn Hebrew males, the infant Moses is set adrift on the Nile in a reed basket. Saved by the pharaoh's daughter Bithiah, he is adopted by her and brought up in the court of her brother, Pharaoh Seti. Moses gains Seti's favor and the love of the throne princess Nefertiri, as well as the hatred of Seti's son, Rameses. When his Hebrew heritage is revealed, Moses is cast out of Egypt, and makes his way across the desert where he marries, has a son and is commanded by God to return to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery. In Egypt Moses's fiercest enemy proves to be not Rameses, but someone near to him who can 'harden his heart'. Written by Ron Kerrigan Elmer Bernstein Elmer Bernstein (April 4, 1922 / August 18, 2004) was an American composer and conductor best known for his many film scores. In a career which spanned fifty years, he composed music for hundreds of film and television productions. His most popular works include the scores to The Magnificent Seven, The Ten Commandments, The Great Escape, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Ghostbusters. Bernstein won an Oscar for his score to "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1967) and was nominated for fourteen Oscars in total. He also won two Golden Globes and was nominated for two Grammy Awards. Bernstein wrote the theme songs or other music for more than 200 films and TV shows, including The Magnificent Seven, The Great Escape, The Ten Commandments (1956), The Man with the Golden Arm, To Kill a Mockingbird, Robot Monster, and the fanfare used in the National Geographic television specials. His theme for The Magnificent Seven is also familiar to television viewers, as it was used in commercials for Marlboro cigarettes. Bernstein also provided the score to many of the short films of Ray and Charles Eames. Awards Over the course of his career, Bernstein won an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. In addition, he was nominated for the Tony Award three times and a Grammy Award five times. He received 14 Academy Award nominations and was nominated at least once per decade from the 1950s until the 2000s, but his only win was for Thoroughly Modern Millie for Best Original Music Score. Bernstein was recognized by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association with Golden Globes for his scores for To Kill a Mockingbird and Hawaii. In 1963, he won the Emmy for Excellence in Television for his score of the documentary The Making of The President 1960. He is the recipient of Western Heritage Awards for The Magnificent Seven (1960) and The Hallelujah Trail (1965). He received five Grammy Award nominations from the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and garnered two Tony Award nominations for the Broadway musicals How Now Dow Jones and Merlin. Additional honors included Lifetime achievement awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), The Society for the Preservation of Film Music, the USA, Woodstock, Santa Barbara, Newport Beach and Flanders International Film Festivals and the Foundation for a Creative America. In 1996, Bernstein was honored with a star on Hollywood Boulevard.In 1999, he received an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Five Towns College in New York and was honored by the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Bernstein again was honored by ASCAP with its marquee Founders Award in 2001 and with the NARAS Governors Award in June 2004. His scores for The Magnificent Seven and To Kill a Mockingbird were ranked by the American Film Institute as the eighth and seventeenth greatest American film scores of all time, respectively, on the list of AFI's 100 Years of Film Scores. Bernstein, Bernard Herrmann, Max Steiner, and Jerry Goldsmith are the only composers to have two scores listed, and are therefore in second place for the most scores on the list, behind John Williams, who has three. Other Bernstein scores for the following the films were nominated for the list: The Age of Innocence (1993) Far from Heaven (2002) The Great Escape (1963) Hawaii (1966) The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) Summer and Smoke (1961) Sweet Smell of Success (1957) The Ten Commandments (1956) Walk on the Wild Side (1962) Bernstein died of cancer in his sleep at his home in Ojai, California, on August 18, 2004
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