Ignacio Jassa Haro has posted a full Spanish report on the unveiled plans for the 2004-5 season - to which I've added a shortened English digest giving the...
On May 7, 8 and 9 of May, 2004, the Orlando Opera will be presenting "Luisa Fernanda" with Kirstin Chavez, Ana Rodriguez and Scott Piper, under the baton of...
... She certainly played Luisa (on Columbia under Fruhbeck de Burgos) but there's no defined vocal type in the notes. At what stage of her career did she bill...
I'll be there in Orlando for the performance. It will be my first zarzuela live performance! Looking forward to it. [Non-text portions of this message have...
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Apr 9, 2004 6:21 pm
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That's very interesting! I didn't know she was a soprano before being famous as a mezzo. I know that going back to 1963 she was already singing and recording...
Congratulations! I am sure you will enjoy it. If they do it right, it should be a very entertaining evening, but with Zinger's experience and the resources...
Her early recordings in zarzuela were in soprano roles, back in the early fifties. Many of them have been re-released by later companies. In addition to Luisa...
Thanks for the info. Very interesting. Do you happen to know when she started her career? Early 50's sounds a little early. ... From: latmarco@... To:...
... No, it's quite correct - she was very, very young. ... It is her very first record. The boy (Garibaldi) is a 'tiple' role with no notes above the stave at...
Did Berganza begin her career as a zarzuelera, turned opera singer later, or was she singing in both types of repertory at the time? I first heard of her...
Both Berganza and Lorengar were opera singers. I do not think they have performed zarzuelas on stage. They were hired for that big project of recording many...
According to this opera site: http://archivio.opera.it/English/Cantanti/Berganza.html , Berganza was born in 1935 so she must have been 19 (and still a student...
That's were I am confused, because if I remember correctly this big project with Ataulfo Argenta was when they were already famous opera singers, and not in...
Beats me. I believe there is a later recording of "Agua, azucarillos y aguardiente" where Berganza plays Pepa, not the Garibaldi. I do not know the distance in...
"Of the famous opera singers probably Alfredo Kraus was the first one to record and perform complete zarzuelas in the late 50's, at the beginning of his ...
Thanks for the info. Anyway, the whole thing started with my statement that the "Luisa Fernanda" in Orlando is going to be sung by a mezzo. The baritone is...
Luisa Fernanda is also going to be put on stage in Washington DC next year, by the newly named "Washington National Opera" (WNO, formerly Washington Opera). I...
So it's not TWO anymore? Now it's going to be WNO. Well, I guess it sounds better. Domingo taking the role of Vidal is another example that in zarzuela the...
Well....he's been experimenting with baritone roles lately. He has recorded Figaro in a Barber of Seville. I believe he has declared on some ocasions that he...
... * Argenta project: he died in Jnauary 1958, and the zarzuela recording project (not all conducted by him of course) started about 7 years earlier - the...
I think Placido Domingo will be great in the role of Vidal if he can get the baritone color in the voice. He did start as a baritone so I imagine it's there....
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Apr 10, 2004 1:49 pm
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... From: Christopher Webber To: zarzuela@yahoogroups.com Sent: Saturday, April 10, 2004 6:31 AM Subject: [zarzuela] Various notes ... * The "Argenta"...
... which she performed live? I know at least two zarzuelas she recorded. "El pajaro azul" and "Canço d'amor y de guerra" (this zarzuela is not in Spanish,...
Thanks for the information. As far as I know, she never performed a complete zarzuela from the standard repertoire. Now, she began her career much earlier...
... Add to these "La villana" (title role) and Rosa in "Maruxa". You can find notes on all these fine recordings on the website. They are all now available on...
... Yes, for me - though of course I never heard her live in opera. The pristine freshness of her early Spanish years (1951-1965) was never quite recaptured...
... It makes me very happy to hear that Scott Piper is going into zarzuela, a natural movement for a spanish speaking tenor. This very young tenor grew up in...
Hi all! About the great Berganza, her art is going to be shared soon with young zarzuela singers. The 150th aniversary year (2006/07) Teatro de la Zarzuela in ...
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