D'Angri?

RChamp7927

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Oct 22, 2001, 12:35:07 AM10/22/01

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Could anyone tell me anything at all about a singer from the early to
mid-nineteenth centry named D'Angri?

Bob Champ

David Melnick

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Oct 22, 2001, 1:02:22 AM10/22/01

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RChamp7927 wrote:

Nope. But the Villa D'Angri in the Amalfi Coast cliff town of Ravello,
where Wagner stayed once, was the inspiration for the original set for
Klingsor's garden in Parsifal. In the immortal words of Sidney Blackmer,
"I been there." I'd be intrigued to know who the singer was.

David

Mike Richter

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Oct 22, 2001, 1:13:33 AM10/22/01

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Are you perhaps thinking of the soprano Anna d'Angeri, born 14 November
1853? I have no other information about her at hand.

Mike
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http://www.mrichter.com/

Tom Kaufman

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Oct 22, 2001, 8:26:02 PM10/22/01

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>Are you perhaps thinking of the soprano Anna d'Angeri, born 14 November
>1853? I have no other information about her at hand.

No, he isn't. D'Angri was a fairly important Italian mezzo who sang in the late
1840s and 1850s. My memory is going, but I think her first name is Elena.

She sang in NYC in autumn 1858-winter 1859 including Arsace, Maddalena,
Azucena, Orsini, and Italiana.

Try Odell's Annals of the new York Stage or Brodsky Lawrence's Strong on Music
for more.

Cheers

Tenormaniac
Tom Kaufman
URL of web site:
<A href="www.geocities.com/Vienna/8917/index.html">Tom Kaufman's site</A>

Figaropcb

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Oct 22, 2001, 8:42:20 PM10/22/01

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Mike Richter wrote:

"Are you perhaps thinking of the soprano Anna d'Angeri, born 14 November
1853? I have no other information about her at hand."

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The only thing I know about d'Angeri is that she is the soprano who figures in
the story Gatti-Casazza tells of Victor Maurel's first performance of Carlo V
in ERNANI at the Scala.

First, Gatti discusses the fact that Maurel did not have a great voice but more
than compensated with a host of other attributes (acting, diction, musicality,
stsage presence, intelligence, etc.) He then relates how, on top of everything
else, Maurel had an attack of severe hoarseness the night of his first ERNANI.
Nonetheless he had a tremendous success, even with a cast of powerful and great
natural voices (Tamagno, Edouard de Reszke and d'Angeri). Gatti goes on to say
that many years later people still talked about Maurel's success as if it had
happened just recently. An old porter at the Scala told Gatti (in Milanese
dialect) that, "Maurel was the King of them all, even without a voice. The
other three, with their huge cannon voices seemed like his servants."

A) I would have loved to have been at that performance.
B) d'Angeri must have been hot stuff to hold her own in that august company!

Regards,

Paul

RChamp7927

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Oct 22, 2001, 10:40:00 PM10/22/01

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Thanks very much to Paul and Tom for their information.

I know D'Angri from only one source, Fitzhugh Ludlow's short story, "The Music
Essence." (This is on the 'net and is a highly enjoyable, if sad, tale of
music and deafness.) While the story is fiction, Ludlow's citations are not and
D'Angri is one of those I have not been able to trace down. I have some
interest in doing so now because I know a person who believes he may be related
to her--distantly--and may would like to find out something about her.

I would be glad to see anything else list members can come up with.

Bob Champ

Moira de Swardt

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Oct 23, 2001, 12:27:27 AM10/23/01

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Tom Kaufman <tomk...@aol.com> wrote in message

> No, he isn't. D'Angri was a fairly important Italian mezzo who
sang in the late
> 1840s and 1850s. My memory is going, but I think her first name is
Elena.

LOL. I had visions of you remembering back to the 1840's and I
wasn't surprised that your memory was going. :-)

Moira, the Faerie Godmother