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Stella Roman
Stella Roman (23 August 1904 – 12 February 1992) was a Romanian operatic soprano whose career brought her leading roles in Italy and the United States. Background and training Stella Roman (née Florica Viorica Alma Stela Blasu) was born in 1904 in Kolozsvár, Austria-Hungary (now Cluj-Napoca, Romania). She came from a musical background, and studied singing for eight years before making her concert début in Cluj and then in Bucharest. She then won a scholarship to continue her training in Italy with the great verismo interpreter , of whom she later said: "her style did not really suit me".Rasponi, Lanfranco. ''The last prima donnas''. (London, Gollancz, 1984), pp.553-560. Roman moved on to study with Hariclea Darclée (who had created the title role of Tosca at the première in 1900), and was much happier under her guidance: "she taught me the value of every word and phrase". Career Her operatic début was, by her own account, at Bologna in 1934 in the role of Maddalena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romania
Romania ( ; ro, România ) is a country located at the crossroads of Central Europe, Central, Eastern Europe, Eastern, and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe. It borders Bulgaria to the south, Ukraine to the north, Hungary to the west, Serbia to the southwest, Moldova to the east, and the Black Sea to the southeast. It has a predominantly Temperate climate, temperate-continental climate, and an area of , with a population of around 19 million. Romania is the List of European countries by area, twelfth-largest country in Europe and the List of European Union member states by population, sixth-most populous member state of the European Union. Its capital and largest city is Bucharest, followed by Iași, Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Constanța, Craiova, Brașov, and Galați. The Danube, Europe's second-longest river, rises in Germany's Black Forest and flows in a southeasterly direction for , before emptying into Romania's Danube Delta. The Carpathian Mountains, which cross Roma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Un Ballo In Maschera
''Un ballo in maschera'' ''(A Masked Ball)'' is an 1859 opera in three acts by Giuseppe Verdi. The text, by Antonio Somma, was based on Eugène Scribe's libretto for Daniel Auber's 1833 five act opera, '' Gustave III, ou Le bal masqué''. The plot concerns the assassination in 1792 of King Gustav III of Sweden who was shot, as the result of a political conspiracy, while attending a masked ball, dying of his wounds thirteen days later. It was to take over two years between the commission from Naples, planned for a production there, and its premiere performance at the Teatro Apollo in Rome on 17 February 1859. In becoming the ''Un ballo in maschera'' which we know today, Verdi's opera (and his libretto) underwent a significant series of transformations and title changes, caused by a combination of censorship regulations in both Naples and Rome, as well as by the political situation in France in January 1858. Based on the Scribe libretto and begun as ''Gustavo III'' set in Stockho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Los Angeles Philharmonic Discography
This is a complete list of recordings by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, shown alphabetically by conductor, and then by recording label. John Adams DG Concerts — recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall * Adams: ''The Dharma at Big Sur'' (Leila Josefowicz, electric violin) (world premiere recording) *Kraft: Timpani Concerto No. 1 ( Joseph Pereira, timpani) * Rosenman: Suite from ''Rebel Without a Cause'' Stefan Asbury DG Concerts — recorded live at Walt Disney Concert Hall *Reich: Tehillim (with Synergy Vocals) *Reich: Three Movements for Orchestra *Reich: Variations for Winds, Strings and Keyboard Leonard Bernstein Deutsche Grammophon *Barber: Adagio for Strings *Bernstein: Overture to ''Candide'' *Bernstein: Symphonic Dances from ''West Side Story'' * Copland: Appalachian Spring *Donizetti: Messa di Requiem (Recorded live at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion) (Katia Ricciarelli, soprano; Agnes Baltsa, mezzo-soprano; Plácido Domingo, tenor; Samuel Ramey, bass; Rob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
