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La Vestale (Spontini) Giulia: Leyla Gencer; Cinna: Renato Bruson; Licinio: Robleto Merolla; Il Sommo Sacerdote: Agostino Ferrin; La Gran Vestale: Franca Mattiucci; Un Aruspice: Sergio Sisti; Un Console: Enrico Campi. Orchestra e coro del Teatro Massino di Palermo; Fernando Previtali. 4 December 1969. Act 1 Act 2 Act 3 Francesca da Rimini (Zandonai) Francesca: Leyla…
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“La Diva Turca” died this morning in Milan. In tribute to the art of Leyla Gencer, here is the soprano in the final scenes of Bellini’s Norma at La Scala on January 13, 1965. She is joined in this performance by Bruno Prevedi (Pollione) and Nicola Zaccaria (Oroveso); Gianandrea Gavazzeni is the conductor. UPDATE: The…
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Next month in Bergamo Plácido Domingo takes on his zillionth—and possibly final—new role, so Trove Thursday previews it by returning to the same venue 50 years earlier for Donizetti’s Belisario with Leyla Gencer and Renato Bruson, a real baritone as its titular hero.
Chris’s Cache previews Donizetti’s Poliuto, with a broadcast starring Sondra Radvanovsky, Gregory Kunde and Gabriele Viviani, along with Les Martyrs, the opera’s French grand opera revision, with Leyla Gencer, Mario di Felici and Renato Bruson.
Born on this day composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813) and soprano Leyla Gencer (1924).
Born on this day composer Giuseppe Verdi (1813) and soprano Leyla Gencer (1924).
Born on this day in 1813 composer Giuseppe Verdi. Born on this day in 1924 soprano Leyla Gencer.
parterre saturday afternoon presents Leyla Gencer in an opera she really should have done far more often, Verdi’s Macbeth.
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Leyla Gencer and Shirley Verrett star in Maria Stuarda, this week’s offering in the returning series “saturday afternoon parterre” hosted by Our Own JJ.
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Born on this day in 1924 soprano Leyla Gencer, represented after the jump singing music by Giuseppe Verdi, born on this day in 1813.
In attempting to get a little bit of everything onto my Mixcloud page, I realized that I inadvertently neglected some essentials: 1) Leyla Gencer 2) La Gioconda.
Yes, there were other Giocondas if not of quite the same distinction. Chronologically…
By Andrew Knapp
It’s time to discuss Zinka Milanov.
By Andrew Knapp
A trio of live Bellini recordings featuring Mirella Freni, June Anderson, and Angela Meade in the title role
Zachary Woolfe reflects on the legacy of parterre box founder James Jorden and three decades of “remembering when opera was queer and dangerous and exciting and making it that way again”
To get right to the point, the performance did not come together despite some good elements and was a major missed opportunity.
By Eli Jacobson
Several opera companies across the globe are marking the 100th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas with performances of operas identified with her.
Born on this day in 1813 composer Giuseppe Verdi
Despite the diminishing returns of her vocal means, Edita Gruberova‘s last years of her career were if anything more successful than ever.
By Niel Rishoi
In an era when the Metropolitan Opera cannot cast an Aida, Trovatore or Forza consistently, New Amsterdam Opera managed to cast large, attractive and fully technically capable voices in all the cruelly demanding principal roles in I Vespri Siciliani!
By Eli Jacobson
Trove Thursday offers two very different live recordings of Halévy’s grand opera La Juive.
Live opera returns to Lincoln Center when Teatro Nuovo presents Il Barbiere di Siviglia on July 27 and 28.
Pauline Tinsley, who died May 11, made few commercial recordings; Trove Thursday offers the thrilling English soprano in excerpts over nearly two decades from nine works ranging from Handel to Richard Strauss.
