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New Orleans Opera Association
Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana. Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and companies. Earlier opera houses Operas were staged at a variety of theaters in the city, the first documented was André Grétry's ''Sylvain'' at the Theatre de la Rue Saint Pierre on 22 May 1796. On 30 January 1808, the Théâtre St. Philippe was opened with the U.S. premiere of Étienne Méhul's ''Une folie''. The U.S. premiere of Luigi Cherubini's '' Les deux journées'' took place at this theater on 12 March 1811. The city's most famous opera venue between 1819 and 1859 was the Théâtre d'Orléans. That theater was succeeded in 1859 by the French Opera House, located on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter. Living in a cosmopolitan city, New Orleans' inhabitants, whether high in st ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bidu Sayão
Balduína "Bidú" de Oliveira Sayão (11 May 1902 – 12 March 1999) was a Brazilian opera soprano. One of Brazil's most famous musicians, Sayão was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952. Life and career Bidu Sayão was born on 11 May 1902 to a family of Portuguese, French and Swiss heritage, in Itaguaí, Rio de Janeiro. Her father died when she was five years old and her mother struggled to support her daughter's pursuit of a singing career. At just eighteen, the Bidu Sayão made her major opera debut in Rio de Janeiro. Her performance led to an opportunity to study with the famous Elena Teodorini, first in Brazil, then in Romania; and then to study with Polish tenor Jean de Reszke, in Nice. During the mid-1920s and early 1930s, she performed in Rome, Buenos Aires, Paris, as well as in her native Brazil. While at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome, she met impresario Walter Mocchi (1870–1955). After his wife, soprano Emma Carelli, died in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thea Musgrave
Thea Musgrave CBE (born 27 May 1928) is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She has lived in the United States since 1972. Biography Born in Barnton, Edinburgh, Musgrave was educated at Moreton Hall School, a boarding independent school for girls near the market town of Oswestry in Shropshire, followed by the University of Edinburgh, and in Paris as a pupil of Nadia Boulanger from 1950 to 1954. In 1958 she attended the Tanglewood Festival and studied with Aaron Copland. In 1970 she became Guest Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, a position which confirmed her increasing involvement with the musical life of the United States. She married American violist and opera conductor Peter Mark in 1971. From 1987 to 2002 she was Distinguished Professor at Queens College, City University of New York. Among Musgrave's earlier orchestral works, the Concerto for Orchestra of 1967 and the Concerto for Horn of 1971 display the composer's ongoing fascinat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Norman Treigle
Norman Treigle (né Adanelle Wilfred Treigle (March 6, 1927February 16, 1975) was an American operatic bass-baritone, who was acclaimed for his great abilities as a singing-actor, and specialized in roles that evoked villainy and terror. Biography Treigle ( ) was born in New Orleans, the fifth and final child of a poor carpenter and his wife. Following his 1946 marriage to the former Loraine Siegel, the bass-baritone began vocal studies with the contralto Elisabeth Wood. In 1947, he made his operatic debut with the New Orleans Opera Association, as the Duke of Verona in '' Roméo et Juliette''. Between 1949 and 1951, he attended Loyola University of the South's College of Music, while performing various roles with the local opera company. ( Loyola's archives now preserve Treigle's personal papers.) In 1953, Treigle made his New York City Opera debut, as Colline in ''La bohème''. Three years later, the bass-baritone scored his first significant success, as the tormented Reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
