Elena Nikolaidi Vidéos
artiste lyrique, compositeur ou compositrice
- soprano
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2024-05-11
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Zinka Milanov Kunc Ezio Pinza Siepi Ilic Sayao Bruno Walter Blanche Thebom Arturo Toscanini Nikolaidi Bellis Kunz Rosen Bohm 1943 1951 1952 1954 1956 1966 1983
This is the first part of a bio-interview with one of the twentieth century's most esteemed and beloved singers, Zinka Kunc Milanov. Filmed in her Belgrade home in 1983, this prequel to part II of the TV portrait ((http•••) appears for the very first time anywhere with English subtitles, hence, making what was formerly a precious video document accessible only to "Serbo-Croatian" speakers, now available to opera nerds everywhere. Still photos include: Elvira - Met, "Ernani", 1956 Gioconda - Met, "La Gioconda", 1950s Maddalena di Coigny - Met, "Andrea Chenier" Donna Leonora - Met, "Forza", 1950s: Convent Scene; "Pace" Scene; Act I, Scene 1 (dressing room, in front of full-length mirror) Desdemona - Met, 1950s, Act IV (dressing room shot) Donna Leonora - Met, "Forza", Convent Scene, 1943, with Ezio Pinza as Guardiano; Hermit garb, 1952, with Siepi as Guardiano, Warren as Don Carlo; Scene 1, studio portraits With Ljubo Ilic on board a luxury liner Donna Anna - Met, "Don Giovanni" rehearsal, 1940s, with Walter, Sayao, Pinza Bruno Walter, studio portrait Publicity still, 1950s, wearing her favorite diamond-studded music staff brooch. "One night at some sort of reception, Zinka, Blanche, and the latter’s then husband, Richard Metz, were chatting over cocktails. Metz couldn’t keep his eyes off Zinka’s extraordinary brooch, a diamond-studded treble clef perched on a platinum music staff and pinned at the edge of her very décolleté gown. He kept questioning her about it and leaning over to look at it more closely. Batting her eyelashes, in her most honeyed, coquettish tone, she asked at last, “Richard — vhich one of my treasures are you admiring?” [Blanche Thebom, as told to Bruce Burroughs] With Maestro Walter With a photo of Toscanini, 1940s Toscanini, autographed studio portrait. "To Zinka Milanov, very cordially ... Arturo Toscanini" Aida - Met, "Aida", circa 1951, studio portraits; Act II, Scene 1, with Nikolaidi as Amneris Donna Leonora en travesti, "Forza" Inn Scene and first part of Convent Scene, portrait painted from the famous De Bellis photo Zinka's parents - Ljubica Smičiklas, Rudolf Kunc (Kunz van der Rosen) Zinka with brothers Božidar Kunc and Milivoy Kunc Zinka with brother Božidar Gioconda - Met, 1950s, Act II. The mask was offered as a prize to the winner of the ZMMC Annual Social "opera quiz" Santuzza - Met, 1950s Program, Met Farewell, 1966 Maddalena di Coigny - Met, 1954, studio portraits; Met, 1954, with Del Monaco as Chenier, Act II Duet; Act I; Act III, "La mamma morta", with Warren as Carlo Gerard; Act III, curtain call, with Warren et al. Brother and Karl Bohm, a great admirer of Zinka, sighted in the wings after the Silver Jubilee anniversary "Chenier"
Set Svanholm Anny Konetzni Konetzni Moralt Richard Strauss Höhle Reich Dora Komarek Elena Nikolaidi Adele Kern Kern Wiener Staatsoper 1941
Richard Strauss Ariadne auf Naxos Ich grüsse dich, du Bote aller Boten! ... Du schönes Wesen? ... Sprach ich von einem Trank ... Bin ich ein Gott, schuf mich ein Gott ... Gibt es kein Hinüber? ... Die Höhle deiner Schmerzen ... Durch deine Schmerzen bin ich reich [with interruption] Ariadne - Anny Konetzni Bacchus - Set Svanholm Najade - Dora Komarek Dryade - Elena Nikolaidi Echo - Elisabeth Rutgers Zerbinetta - Adele Kern Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Rudolf Moralt, conductor Wiener Staatsoper, October 16, 1941
Giuseppe Verdi Set Svanholm Daniza Ilitsch Hans Hotter Vittorio Gui Heil Niles Heim Stein Manowarda Marjan Rus Elena Nikolaidi Wiener Staatsoper 1941
Giuseppe Verdi Aida Excerpts (in German): a) Preludio b) ....del Nilo la valle ... Se quel guerrier io fossi ... Celeste Aida (...und das Nilgestade ... O wäre ich erkoren ... Holde Aida) c) Le sacre armi ... Su, del Nilo al sacro lido (Legt die heil'ge Wehr an ... Auf! des Niles heil'ges Ufer) d) [Ritorna vincitor ...] Vincitor de' miei fratelli ([Als Sieger kehre heim ...] Sei Besieger meiner Brüder) (fragment) e) Gloria all'Egitto, ad Iside (Heil dir, Ägypten, Isis Heil) f) Dunque tu sei? ... Questa assisa ch'io vesto (Also du bist? ... Dies Gewand, das ich trage, bezeuge) g) ...Del Nilo i cupi vortici ... O patria mia (...des Niles dunkle Tiefe ... O Vaterland) (with interruption) h) [Mio padre! ...] Di Faraoni la figlia è tua rivale ... Rivadrai le foreste imbalsamate ([Mein Vater! ...] Ein Königskind ist deine Rivalin ... Wiedersehen wirst du die duft'gen Walder) (with interruption) i) [Pur ti riveggo, mia dolce Aida ...] dell'amor mio dubiti ... Di Napata le gole ([Ich seh' dich wieder, meine Aida ...] An meiner Liebe zweifelt Aida? ... Die Schluchten bei Napata) (with interruption) j) La fatal pietra sovra me si chiuse ... O terra addio (Es hat der Stein sich über mir geschlossen ... Leb wohl, o Erde) (with interruption) Ramfis - Josef von Manowarda Radamès - Set Svanholm Il Re - Marjan Rus Aida - Daniza Ilitsch Amonasro - Hans Hotter Amneris - Elena Nikolaidi Chor der Wiener Staatsoper Orchester der Wiener Staatsoper Vittorio Gui, conductor Wiener Staatsoper, October 25/November 4, 1941
Elena Nikolaidi Montana Sutherland Gravel Moss Shepherd Chest Metropolitan Opera 1937 1945 1954 1956 1971 1989
Both performers featured in this video are alums of Westminster Choir College, as was George Lynn (who also taught on the faculty and who was music director there during the 1960s). He would have been delighted to hear them perform these songs. George Lynn wrote 288 songs over fifty-two years. His first song, Ars Poetica, was written in 1937; his last song, The Way of the World, was composed in 1989, just eight days before his death. In 1954 Elena Nikolaidi, a Greek contralto with the Metropolitan Opera, was on tour in the western United States for Community Concerts when her accompanist developed pneumonia. George Lynn was asked to play her program in Cheyenne on six hours notice. This concert was followed by several recitals in Montana. The two musicians became lifelong friends. Three Songs for Nikolaidi were written for and dedicated to the singer as a tribute to her rich and agile voice. The texts for the songs were translated by Donald Sutherland, professor of Classics at the University of Colorado from 1945-1971. He became a close friend and frequent collaborator, providing the libretto for Lynn's opera From Time to Time, his oratorio Hippolytus, and the texts for many songs. The Nikolaidi pieces were first performed in 1956 by CU alumna Martha Opdycke with the composer at the piano. Texts for the songs: Clear Spring Clear Spring, forever from today May neither finest gravel pave your shining bed. Not grass, nor moss as now: Instead may all your bubbling eddies toss and chevy many a pearl Away in whirling round And ruby, turquoise, diamond, blue sapphire shine beneath your wave. And may the shepherd’s idle hand no branch in to your waters throw And may no rough ox, goat, nor ram with heavy hoof trample and tread your crystal stream, But as the finest crystals stand undimmed and fair May you, forever calm and clear, Among the flowers, eternal, flow. Danäe’s Song My child what pain I have! And still you sleep as nurslings will and slumber here locked in this grim bronze bolted chest, in starless darkness deep and azure gloom as in a tomb, nor do you care how high the passing wave heaves the deep brine above your hair nor how the loud winds rave. Nestling in purple robes you rest And drowsily turn your fair face to me. But if this terror were terror to you, You would lend that pretty ear to what I say. But sleep, my child, and may the sea sleep too, And sleep, sleep my immeasurable woe! Yet may our fortune clear, Some change appear, O Father Zeus from thee, And if I dare too bold a prayer and wrong, Forgive it me. Fleet Hours Fleet hours, retard your flight! Stay in the gleaming dawn! And while the heavens rapidly fly on, With caroling delay those early fires that leap up from the eastern deep. Fleet Hours retard your flight. Make human life run slowly, and the day! And you, oh rapid airs carry my many sighs wherever Laura is and carry back what her clear voice declares, only for my delight. For mine and yours and loves who guides our power, Oh tenderest airs and hours!
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