Tatiana Troyanos' death
Millie Myers
Does anyone have any more information? This comes as a sad shock.
Millie Myers
adolphson
I'm surprised that no one has commented on the death
Saturday night of Tatiana Troyanos. Although she could
be frustratingly uneven, she had few equals. And I can't
think of anyone with a more wide-ranging repertoire.
She will be missed, especially by the Met. What are they
going to do without her?
--
Arne Adolphson "Man, you can't join the throng 'til you
adol...@mizar.usc.edu play your _own_ goddamn song."
ar...@ursa-major.spdcc.com -- Lester Young
Jon Conrad
>I'm surprised that no one has commented on the death
>Saturday night of Tatiana Troyanos.
I just read of this 1 minute ago, in the only other article posted here
on that subject. It was a horrible shock. Can anybody give more
details? Was she known to be ill and I missed hearing about it? She
was active at the Met just last fall, in the new Glass opera.
>Although she could
>be frustratingly uneven,
I didn't find her so, but I'm not the person to ask for objectivity on
her. Most opera lovers have one singer who just speaks to their soul
and who, for them, can do no wrong, and she was mine. From the first
time I heard her Dorabella on that wonderful COSI recording from 1967, I
fell in love, and my feelings never changed through the quarter-century
since.
>she had few equals. And I can't
>think of anyone with a more wide-ranging repertoire.
As tribute, I'll try to list all her repertory I can think of (some of
it only for records, but as vivid as the rest). Giulio Cesare (both
Caesar and Cleopatra). Ariodante. Cherubino. Composer (Ariadne).
Renata (Devils of Loudon). Dorabella. Donna Elvira. Sesto (Tito).
Marcellina. Carmen. Charlotte. Conception. Wood Dove (Gurrelieder).
Amneris. Eboli. Both Frickas. Waltraute? 2nd Norn. Brangaene.
Kundry. Marina? Idamantes? The Count in Finta Giardinera. Adalgisa.
Romeo (Bellini). Santuzza. Orsini (Lucrezia Borgia). Geschwitz. Baba
the Turk. Hansel. Clairon. Dido, both Purcell and Berlioz. More....
And let's not forget that she was in the Nuns' chorus in the original
production of The Sound of Music!
>She will be missed, especially by the Met. What are they
>going to do without her?
They didn't make best use of her all the time, either. They were late
acquiring her services -- wasn't her debut ridiculously late like 1975?
And then she was put into roles like Adalgisa (which weren't really her
home territory) at first. Nor did she ever do Carmen with them except
on tour.
I'm still reeling from the news. I don't think any other living
singer's death could have affected me so much, because I thought sure
she had a good decade or two ahead of her.
She will be missed, indeed.
Jon Alan Conrad
Tony Movshon
apparently singing until a month before her death.
A real loss. I've enjoyed her singing since I first heard her as
Octavian at Covent Garden in 1969.
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Robert Coren
|> In article <25b6g1$2...@mizar.usc.edu> adol...@mizar.usc.edu (adolphson) writes:
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|> >I'm surprised that no one has commented on the death
|> >Saturday night of Tatiana Troyanos.
|>
|> I just read of this 1 minute ago, in the only other article posted here
|> on that subject. It was a horrible shock. Can anybody give more
|> details? Was she known to be ill and I missed hearing about it?
I don't have details, but the newscast I heard said that she died of
cancer. This would suggest that she was ill for some time, but whether
this was public knowledge I couldn't tell you.
Steve R. Van Dien
This is very sad news. Like a previous poster (and I don't remember who,
sorry), I found Troyanos uneven, but superb at her best. R.I.P.
Steve Van Dien
eyo...@binah.cc.brandeis.edu
>Was she known to be ill and I missed hearing about it?
Just last weekend she was scheduled to sing in Mahler's 3rd at Tanglewood.
Maureen Forrester substituted. Radio announcements I heard mentioned only
that the substitution was happening, not even mentioning illness. Since
illness is the usual reason for cancellations I didn't think anything of it.
I heard the news on the radio while struggling to wake up this morning.
When I heard it my eyes sprang open in astonishment, and stayed so for
a long while....
The first time I saw T.T.'s face was on television, when she was Eboli,
all in black complete with eyepatch. I had turned the set on in the
middle of the opera, which I'd never seen. I was stunned then, too.
It taught me the meaning of "onstage presence".
But that was not all. Her strong profile was not all, her voice was not
all, the dress was not all, Princess Eboli was not all even. She took off
the eyepatch.
Ed Young
David Fox
about Tatiana Troyanos. I too am shocked, for I had no idea that she had
cancer. However, with the wisdom of hindsight, I may have had some clues.
Last May, she was scheduled to sing WINTERREISE as part of the Philadelphia
Chamber Music Society season. Just a week or so before this recital, I
received a postcard, announcing a program change to an evening of Mahler,
Ravel, some Schubert (nothing from WINTERREISE), etc. I was disappointed,
but even more so later -- the concert was cancelled the very afternoon when
it was supposed to take place. A few days later, I received another card
which promised that the recital would be reschuduled in the Fall; yet
another card a few days later stated that, regretfully, they would not be
able to reschedule after all.
Several weeks later, I asked a visiting friend who works at the Met about
all of this. He told me that Troyanos had persistent health problems,
including a serious case of tinitis (sp? -- persistent ringing in the ears)
which was especially worrying to her (and, he added, very difficult for
other singers with whom she worked). She was known to be a frequent
canceller, but on the occasions recently when I heard her (THE VOYAGE, the
Richard Tucker gala), I thought she looked well and sounded fine, if a bit
older.
What I gather from all of this is that Troyanos had significant health
problems, and that these problems were known in the music world. But I
suspect that no one -- perhaps not even she -- was aware that she was
terminally ill. I shall ask my friend (who also worked on the CAPRICCIO in
San Francisco) if he knows more details, and will report back.
I too had looked forward to new roles and new triumphs; this is a sad, sad
time for the music world.
David
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David Fox
University of Pennsylvania / College of General Studies
df...@mail.sas.upenn.edu
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