cedricqu的个人资料

小美，还记得Roxana Briban吗？ Roxana Briban Romanian soprano. 1971, Bucuresti -- 20 Nov 2010, Bucuresti 据称是自杀，红颜薄命啊。国内外网也上不好，你看看有啥具体的消息没

【意外】Edda Moser sings Brünnhilde 真是什么事情都有可能发生：http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=zuAuRiw-Yts

【sad news】Soprano Teresa Stich-Randall Dies at 79 By Matthew Westphal 23 Jul 2007 Teresa Stich-Randall, an American lyric soprano who made her career in central Europe and was known for her Mozart and Bach, died in Vienna on July 17 at age 79. The Hartford Courant reported her death two days ago; though she made her home and based her career in the Austrian capital, the only mention of her passing in that country's press so far is a brief obituary on the website of the magazine Der neue Merkur. No cause of death was reported. Teresa Stich-Randall Born on Christmas Eve 1927 in New Hartford, Connecticut, Stich-Randall studied at the Hartt School of Music in Hartford and at Columbia University in New York. She made her operatic debut before she was 20, as Teresa Stich, in the 1947 world premiere of Virgil Thomson's The Mother of Us All; the following year she created the title role in Otto Luening's Evangeline. She was then discovered by Arturo Toscanini, who called her "the find of the century" and engaged her for a series of performances with his NBC Symphony. In 1951 Stich-Randall won the Lausanne Competition in Switzerland and began her European career; by the next year she had made a debut at the Vienna State Opera, where she would perform regularly for the two decades. (In 1963 the house conferred on her the honorary title of Kammersängerin; she was the first American to be so honored.) Stich-Randall went on to perform, in opera and concert, at the Salzburg Festival (1952-60), La Scala, the opera houses of Genoa, Turin and Naples, and widely in germany and Switzerland. She had a long association with the Aix-en-Provence Festival, where she sang every year from 1953 to 1972, notably in a cycle of Mozart operas under conductor Hans Rosbaud. Her American career seems to have been relatively brief. She made a Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in 1955 as Gilda in Verdi's Rigoletto; she first appeared at the Metropolitan Opera in 1961, as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and later sang Donna Anna in Don Giovanni, remaining on the roster until 1966. She wound her career down during the 1970s and had retired from the stage entirely by 1980, but for two brief return visits to her hometown in 1982 and 1983. She did continue to teach master classes, according to the Courant. Among Stich-Randall's notable recorded performances, in addition to the Rosbaud Mozart cycle from Aix, are Nanetta in Verdi's Falstaff under Toscanini, Sophie in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier under Herbert von Karajan (opposite Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Christa Ludwig), Euridice in Gluck's Orfeo under Charles Mackerras (opposite Maureen Forrester), and a series of Bach cantatas with conductors Felix Prohaska and Karl Ristenpart, in particular a Jauchzet Gott in allen landen (BWV 51) with Maurice André playing the trumpet solos. Her singing, by no means to every opera lover's taste, was marked by light tone and accurate pitch with minimal vibrato; she could thus be seen as a forerunner of the period-performance movement exemplified (among singers) by Emma Kirkby. One might even suggest that Stich-Randall was born about 20 years too early.

Beverly Sills has died! Beverly Sills, the acclaimed Brooklyn-born coloratura soprano who was more popular with the American public than any opera singer since Enrico Caruso, even among people who never set foot in an opera house, died Monday night at her home in Manhattan. She was 78.