Suzanne Juyol

[Ancona21]

Each year on this date I celebrate the birthday of the loverly Suzanne
Juyol and lament the fact that she opted for early retirement at the
age of forty. She has come out of retirement briefly for a special
performance at The RMO Birthday Channel:

http://groups.google.com/group/the-rmo-birthday-channel/files?hl=en

From Wiki:
Suzanne Juyol (January 1, 1920, Paris - July 20, 1994, Paris) was a
French opera singer, the leading dramatic soprano of her era in
France.
Suzanne Juyol studied at the Paris Conservatory, and made her
professional debut at the Palais Garnier, in 1942, as Margared in Le
roi d'Ys, followed by Fauré's Pénélope, Dukas's Ariadne, Marguerite in
Berlioz's La damnation de Faust and in Gounod's Faust. Her debut at
the Opéra-Comique took place in 1946, as Charlotte in Werther, other
roles included: Carmen, Tosca, Santuzza in Cavalleria rusticana, etc.
She made her debut at the Monte Carlo Opera in 1947, where she began
singing Wagner roles such as Kundry, the two Brunhildes and Ortrud.
The success was such that she was invited to sing at the Berlin
Staatsoper in Tristan und Isolde, opposite Max Lorenz, in 1951.
Just as an international career was in the making, Suzanne Juyol
retired from the stage in 1960, aged only 40. She was married to
Victor Serventi, a voice teacher at the Paris Opera.

Selected recordings:

1951 - Bizet - Carmen - Suzanne Juyol, Libero de Luca, Janine Micheau,
Julien Giovanetti - Choeur et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique, Albert
Wolff - DECCA

1953 - Massenet - Werther - Charles Richard, Suzanne Juyol, Agnes
Léger, Roger Bourdin - Choeur et Orchestre de l'Opéra-Comique, Georges
Sebastian - URANIA

Cheers,
A21

[rich...@gmail.com]

This is terrific. Thanks, Ancona. I at some point in my first 100
years had that Carmen, and I thought I still had it on my shelves - I
would swear I can still visualize the lp box, which (I think) was
bound at the left side, the way the early ones were, and I thought had
a yellow and red (?????) cover, but I don't have it now, and I had
forgotten what a completely vivid performer she was. What French! (I
wonder what Stefano thinks of her, and of the tenor - who? - whom I
rather like in the Trovatore).

Very nice way to start out a Sunday. I will let you know more after
the Jets game.

[Ancona21]

On Jan 3, 12:29 pm, "richer...@hotnail.com" <richer...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> This is terrific. Thanks, Ancona. I at some point in my first 100
> years had that Carmen, and I thought I still had it on my shelves - I
> would swear I can still visualize the lp box, which (I think) was
> bound at the left side, the way the early ones were, and I thought had
> a yellow and red (?????) cover, but I don't have it now, and I had
> forgotten what a completely vivid performer she was. What French! (I
> wonder what Stefano thinks of her, and of the tenor - who? - whom I
> rather like in the Trovatore).
>
> Very nice way to start out a Sunday. I will let you know more after
> the Jets game.
>

And an even nicer way to end it:

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CIN (10-6) 0 0 0 0 0
NYJ (9-7) 7 20 3 7 37

A21