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Elektra is a one-act opera by Richard Strauss, to a German-language libretto by Hugo von Hofmannsthal, which he adapted from his 1903 drama Elektra. The opera was the first of many collaborations between Strauss and Hofmannsthal. It was first performed at the Dresden State Opera on January 25, 1909. Elektra is musically complex and difficult, […]

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• 29 Apr 2012

Leopoldine “Leonie” Rysanek (November 14, 1926 – March 7, 1998) was an Austrian dramatic soprano. Rysanek was born in Vienna and made her operatic debut in 1949 in Innsbruck. In 1951 the Bayreuth Festival reopened and the new leader Wieland Wagner asked her to sing Sieglinde. He was convinced that her unique, young and beautiful […]

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• 23 Apr 2012

Die beste Elsa (“Lohengrin”, R. Wagner).

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• 22 Apr 2012

Josef Metternich (2 June 1915, Cologne – 21 February 2005, Feldafing) was a German operatic baritone. Metternich was born in Hermühlheim, near Cologne, he studied in Cologne and Berlin, and sang with the Cologne and Bonn choruses, before making his solo debut in 1941 with the Berlin State Opera in Lohengrin, but his career was […]

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• 19 Apr 2012

Maybe the best Lohengrin of 1900s. Charles Kullman (January 13, 1903 – February 8, 1983), originally Charles Kullmann, was an American tenor who enjoyed a wide-ranging career, both in Europe and America. Charles Kullman was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and began performing in church choir at age eight. He attended Yale University, studying medicine. […]

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‎”Lohengrin” is a romantic opera in three acts composed and written by Richard Wagner, first performed in 1850. The story of the eponymous character is taken from medieval German romance, notably the Parzival of Wolfram von Eschenbach and its sequel, Lohengrin, written by a different author, itself inspired by the epic of Garin le Loherain. […]

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• 13 Apr 2012

Dame Montserrat Caballé (born 12 April 1933) is a Spanish operatic soprano. She sang a wide variety of roles, but is best known as an exponent of the bel canto repertoire, notably the works of Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi. Caballé’s international breakthrough came in 1965 when she substituted for an indisposed Marilyn Horne in […]

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• 05 Apr 2012

Agostino Steffani (25 July 1654 – 12 February 1728) was a great Italian ecclesiastic, diplomat and composer, one of greatest of Late Baroque Age (1680-1720). Steffani was born at Castelfranco Veneto. At a very early age he was admitted as a chorister at San Marco, Venice. In 1667 the beauty of his voice attracted the […]

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• 01 Apr 2012

(Pietro) Antonio Cesti, byname Marc’ Antonio (baptized Aug. 5, 1623, Arezzo, Tuscany [Italy] — died Oct. 14, 1669, Florence), composer who, with Francesco Cavalli, was one of the leading Italian composers of the 17th century, known today primarily as an Italian composer of the Baroque era, he was also a singer (tenor), and organist. He […]