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Audrey Schuh
Audrey Schuh (born June 11, 1931) is an American operatic soprano. She studied at Loyola University of the South. Schuh was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. Her first leading role with the New Orleans Opera Association (at the age of eighteen) was the page-boy Oscar in ''Un ballo in maschera'', opposite Jussi Björling, in 1950. She starred there in ''Don Giovanni'' (as Zerlina), ''Carmen'' (as Micaëla), ''Amelia al ballo'', ''Falstaff'' (as Nannetta), ''Die Fledermaus'' (as Roselinde von Eisenstein), ''Hänsel und Gretel'' (as Gretel), ''La bohème'' (as Musetta), ''La traviata'', ''La bohème'' (as Mimì), ''Markheim'' (world premiere), ''Turandot'' (as Liù), ''Elektra'' (as Chrysothemis), ''Pagliacci'', and ''Il tabarro''. Schuh also sang Nannetta in ''Falstaff'' for the San Francisco Opera. She sang with the Houston Grand Opera (''Madama Butterfly''), the New England Opera Theatre (''La traviata'' and ''La rondine''), the Jackson Opera Guild (''Pagliacci'', then ''Die Fled ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Loyola University Of The South
Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, and is a member of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities. History Founding In the early 18th century Jesuits first arrived among the earliest settlers in New Orleans and Louisiana. Loyola University in New Orleans was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1904 as Loyola College on a section of the Foucher Plantation bought by the Jesuits in 1886. A young Jesuit, Fr. Albert Biever, was given a nickel for street car fare and told by his Jesuit superiors to travel Uptown on the St. Charles Streetcar and found a university. As with many Jesuit schools, it contained both a college and preparatory academy. The first classes of Loyola College were held in a residence behind Most Holy Name of Jesus Church. Fr. Bieve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julius Rudel
Julius Rudel (6 March 1921 – 26 June 2014) was an Austrian-born American opera and orchestra conductor. He was born in Vienna and was a student at the city's Academy of Music. He emigrated to the United States at the age of 17 in 1938 after the country was annexed by Germany. He studied conducting at the Mannes College of Music in New York City. After completing his music studies, he joined the New York City Opera. He died on 26 June 2014 at the age of 93. Professional career New York City Opera After 1944, he began a 35-year career with that company which continued until 1979. After rising to Principal Conductor and General Director in 1957, he brought the company international acclaim with his innovative programming (including three seasons of all-American operas in 1958, 1959, and 1960), and formed a partnership with Beverly Sills, who became the leading soprano of the NYCO. He led the company to its new home at the New York State Theater in Lincoln Center, where it opene ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singers From Louisiana
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Loyola University New Orleans Alumni
Loyola may refer to: People * St. Ignatius of Loyola * Loyola (surname) * Etsowish-simmegee-itshin, indigenous man whose baptismal name was Loyola Places * Loyola (CTA), a station on the Chicago Transit Authority's 'L' system, in Chicago, Illinois, US * Loyola (Montreal), a district of Côte-des-Neiges–Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Montreal, Quebec, Canada * Loyola, California, an unincorporated town in Santa Clara County, California, US * Loyola, San Sebastián, a neighborhood in San Sebastián, Guipúzcoa, Spain * Sanctuary of Loyola, Azpeitia, Guipúzcoa, Spain Education Secondary schools Asia & Oceania = India = * Loyola High School (Goa), Margao * Loyola High School, Patna, Bihar * Loyola High School (Pune), Maharashtra * Loyola High School, Hindupur * Loyola High School, Karimnagar * Loyola High School, KD Peta * Loyola High School, Vinukonda * Loyola Higher Secondary School, Kuppayanallur * Loyola Public School, Nallapadu, Andhra Pradesh * Loyola School, Baripada, Odisha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Musicians From New Orleans
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American Operatic Sopranos
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1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Metropolitan Opera
The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. The company is operated by the non-profit Metropolitan Opera Association, with Peter Gelb as general manager. As of 2018, the company's current music director is Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The Met was founded in 1883 as an alternative to the previously established Academy of Music opera house, and debuted the same year in a new building on 39th and Broadway (now known as the "Old Met"). It moved to the new Lincoln Center location in 1966. The Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North America. Until 2019, it presented about 27 different operas each year from late September through May. The operas are presented in a rotating repertory schedule, with up to seven performances of four different works staged each week. Performances are ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kirk Redmann
Kirk Redmann (born December 27, 1961) is an American operatic tenor and the son of Audrey Schuh and Kerry P. Redmann. Born in New Orleans, he graduated from Jesuit High School (New Orleans) in 1979 and then from Tulane University, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. While there, he participated in productions of ''The Saint of Bleecker Street'' (conducted by Thomas Fulton), ''La rondine'' (conducted by Maurice Peress), and the role of Camille in ''The Merry Widow'' for Tulane Summer Lyric Theatre. On December 24, 1983, three days before his twenty-second birthday, Redmann became the youngest tenor to debut with the Metropolitan Opera, as the Sailor in the Christmas Eve broadcast of ''Tristan und Isolde'', conducted by James Levine. Brought to the Met by Fulton, he joined the Metropolitan Opera's Young Artist Development Program, his career there consisted of secondary roles in ''Manon Lescaut'' (as Edmondo), ''Khovanshchina'' (as Kuzka), ''La traviata'' (as Gastone), '' Roméo et Juliet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Corsaro
Frank Corsaro (December 22, 1924, New York City, New York – November 11, 2017, Suwanee, GeorgiaRobert ViagasNight of the Iguana Director Frank Corsaro Is Dead at 92/ref>) was one of America's foremost stage directors of opera and theatre. His Broadway productions include ''The Night of the Iguana'' (1961). Career A graduate of De Witt Clinton High School, he made his operatic directing debut at the New York City Opera in 1958 with a staging of Carlisle Floyd's ''Susannah''. It was this production that the company took to the Brussels World's Fair that year, starring Phyllis Curtin, Norman Treigle and Richard Cassilly. He became one of the City Opera's leading directors, creating such important productions as Prokofiev's '' The Fiery Angel'', Verdi's ''La traviata'' (with Patricia Brooks and Plácido Domingo), Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'', Robert Ward's ''The Crucible'' (featuring Chester Ludgin), Gounod's ''Faust'' (with Beverly Sills and Treigle), Borodin's ''Prince Igor'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Orleans, Louisiana
New Orleans ( , ,New Orleans Merriam-Webster. ; french: La Nouvelle-Orléans , es, Nueva Orleans) is a Consolidated city-county, consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With a population of 383,997 according to the 2020 U.S. census, it is the List of municipalities in Louisiana, most populous city in Louisiana and the twelfth-most populous city in the southeastern United States. Serving as a List of ports in the United States, major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast of the United States, Gulf Coast region of the United States. New Orleans is world-renowned for its Music of New Orleans, distinctive music, Louisiana Creole cuisine, Creole cuisine, New Orleans English, uniq ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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