City Opera Singers who "disappeared."
Handelmaniac
he and I saw at City Opera who seem to have been 'lost" in the annals
of opera.
Some names were:
Athena Lampropolous, Carol Bayard, Joanna Bruno, Patricia Wells,Carmen
Gonzalez, Beverly Wolf,etc.
The next "level' would include more well-known artists, some of whom
sang at the Met, but who did not score a huge success, and they were
superb...Ruth Welting, Gianna Rolandi, Maralin Niska, Carole
Neblett,Marilyn Zschau,Ashley Putnam ,dear friend Elizabeth Carron,and
the great Johanna Meier
ey..no men in this list???????
There are so many perf.with most of these singers to be treasured and
yet, usually only "collectors' know these names.
We have also mentioned some artists who never got to the
Met...Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams, Adele Addison (those three
because of the racial problem), plus David Poleri, Chester
Ludgin,Gloria Lane,Frances Bible (MAGNIFICENT!),Richard Torigi, the
great Marisa Galvany (One Met perf. NY and a precious few on tour)
etc.
So many of these artists contributed to our "opera life' but I feel
they were not as well-appreciated as they should have been.
clem
> � A friend and I today were mentioning some names of wonderful atists
I had a subscription to the City Opera, before they decided to update
the plots, change the venues, and mistranslate the texts. I remember
Niska and Neblett, and particularly liked Niska.
Paul
Daniel Kessler
> > Some names were:
> > Carol Bayard
Carol Bayard lives in Massachusetts, not far from Boston. She was quite
attractive, as I recall and very pleasant on the telephone when I spoke to
her.
..Ruth Welting, Ruth Welting went "off the rails" with her "religion thing"
Gianna Rolandi,
married to Andrew Davis - right...and does occasional coaching for the LOC -
right?
Maralin Niska ... lives out in Santa Fe (I caught sight of her at the
Albuquerque airport apparently there to meet someone)...
Ashley Putnam ...has problems...but I won't go into what they are...
SarahCH
least two weeks, something of a record for you.
Sarah
clem
Sarah, please stop doing this for the week. Give peace a chance.
Thank you
Paul
LT
Among them were, as mentioned, Richard Torigi (sang there before 'my
time' of attending),
Hermann Malamood, Ermanno Mauro, Charles Long (now a conductor),
Clamma Dale, Maralin Niska, Dominic Cossa, Richard Fredricks, Gaetano
Scano, Kenneth Collins; many others.
Thanks for reminding those of us who enjoyed their performances.
Best
LT
Handelmaniac
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and i could go on.....so many artists..and they were as good as so
many "Met artists" of today....I left plenty out....the WORST omission
was that the Met NEVER got Bible and Treigle...that was a crime...ch
LT
>
Yes, and I'd also like to know what became of some world-class singers
from Stuyvesant Opera Company (though you did tell of of at least one
- a tenor turned baritone, MB), a budget-level outfit, but never
disappointing their fans.
Nevah Evah!!!
Best,
LT
SarahCH
Sarah
L T
Ah, that'd be you and any other alias of your.
L T
L T
From: LT <Leonar...@gmail.com>
On May 20, 9:42�pm, Handelmaniac <CharlesHandel...@cs.com>
wrote:
� A friend and I today were mentioning some names of wonderful
atists he and I saw at City Opera who seem to have been 'lost" in the
annals of opera.
Some names were:
Athena Lampropolous, Carol Bayard, Joanna Bruno, Patricia Wells,Carmen
Gonzalez, Beverly Wolf,etc.
The next "level' would include more well-known artists, some of whom
sang at the Met, but who did not score a huge success, and they were
superb...Ruth Welting, Gianna Rolandi, Maralin Niska, Carole
Neblett,Marilyn Zschau,Ashley Putnam ,dear friend Elizabeth Carron,and
the great Johanna Meier
� �ey..no men in this list???????
�There are so many perf.with most of these singers to be
treasured and yet, usually only "collectors' know these names.
� � � �We have also mentioned some
rmv...@gmail.com
go on this is sooooooooo interesting moron
Handelmaniac
> From: LT <LeonardT2...@gmail.com>> � A friend and I today were mentioning some names of wonderful
> atists he and I saw at City Opera who seem to have been 'lost" in the
> annals of opera.
> Some names were:
> Athena Lampropolous, Carol Bayard, Joanna Bruno, Patricia Wells,Carmen
> Gonzalez, Beverly Wolf,etc.
> The next "level' would include more well-known artists, some of whom
> sang at the Met, but who did not score a huge success, and they were
> superb...Ruth Welting, Gianna Rolandi, Maralin Niska, Carole
> Neblett,Marilyn Zschau,Ashley Putnam ,dear friend Elizabeth Carron,and
> the great Johanna Meier
>
>
> �There are so many perf.with most of these singers to be
> treasured and yet, usually only "collectors' know these names.
>
> artists who never got to the Met...Lawrence Winters, Camilla Williams,
> Adele Addison (those three because of the racial problem), plus David
> Poleri, Chester Ludgin,Gloria Lane,Frances Bible (MAGNIFICENT!),Richard
> Torigi, the great Marisa Galvany (One Met perf. NY and a precious few on
> tour) etc.
>
> So many of these artists contributed to our "opera life' but I feel they
> were not as well-appreciated as they should have >been.
>
> Among them were, as mentioned, Richard Torigi (sang there before 'my
> time' of attending),
> Hermann Malamood, Ermanno Mauro, Charles Long (now a conductor), Clamma
> Dale, Maralin Niska, Dominic Cossa, Richard Fredricks, Gaetano Scano,
> Kenneth Collins; many others.
>
> Thanks for reminding those of us who enjoyed their performances.
>
> Best
> LT
Sadly,,Malamood and Scano died rather young.
Pooh Bah
artistic directors and its chief conductor. His wife became the head of
the LOC Center upon the death of Richard Perlman. She is the main vocal
coach.
Pooh Bah
LT
She had, IIRC, an earlier marriage to Howard Hensel, a tenor of
NYCO. Does he still sing?
LT
Malamood, in his early '50s, and Scano, even younger, in a vehicular
tragedy, in Italy.
Daniel Kessler
much praise, Gianna Rolandi's Vixen for NYC Opera...one of her best
roles...but then...in late 2004 I flew to Chicago to witness the LOC's
production of Janácek's "Cunning Little Vixen" with Dina Kunznetsova in the
title role.
I rather imagine that because the role of the Vixen seemed to fit Kunzetsova
like a glove...could it have been a lot to do with Rolandi's coaching?
I'm saying this because the only other "Vixen" I had witnessed was Mary
Mills, whom I saw in that stunning Bill Bryden Covent Garden production seen
at the Washington Opera in the early 90s...I loved the Bill Bryden
production, but was disappointed in Mary Mills who couldn't seem to inhabit
the role the way Rolandi (or even Kunzetsova) did.
Bill Bryden's production, as some may recall, featured a lissome trapeze
artists who flew up into the flies in that early scene when the Vixen dreams
of freedom from her captivity...a magical moment that managed to express the
ineffable.
De mortuis nil nissi bonum and all that...but I cannot fail to report that
Christopher Keene who died so tragically of AIDS, the conductor in question
at the time, nearly ruined the show with is wrong-headed tempi. Whoever said
that Janáck is easy to conduct?
Its all too bad -- since Keene was reported to have been a great enthusiast
for Janácek's operas.
LT
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Mentioning Gianna Rolandi, I best remember her 'Lucia' and 'Lakme',
the latter with some of the best talent performing there at the time,
Macaulay/Dworchak/Reeve/etc..
And she did look good, VERY good, in that costume.
Handelmaniac
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Rolandi is a riot.....does an added aria in the cenerentola
Video...she steals it all..Love her.
Her logon name is ZERBINETTA...I wonder why????
L T
> > Mentioning Gianna Rolandi, I best remember her 'Lucia' and 'Lakme',
> > the latter with some of the best talent performing there at the
time,
> > Macaulay/Dworchak/Reeve/etc..
>
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> Rolandi is a riot.....does an added aria in the cenerentola
> Video...
Certainly better than omissions!
>she steals it all..Love her.
Who was her Edgardo in a televised Lucia, long ago?
> Her logon name is ZERBINETTA...I wonder why????- Hide quoted text -
Perhaps a role not in her rep? Good idea, using it online.
