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unusual facts about opera singers



West Bay Opera

West Bay Opera is known for its world-class artistic standards and being a major stopping ground for future world-class opera singers, directors, and designers.


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2012 Vintage Yachting Games

Besides the Italian National Anthem two choirs of Italian Opera singers sung Va, pensiero from Verdi during the flag hoisting procedure.

Bijie Martin

Born Beth Martin, in New York City, she was the daughter of American Opera singers Riccardo Martin and Ruano Bogislav.

British Youth Opera

British Youth Opera was started by Denis Coe MP in 1987 as at that time he perceived a lack of experience on offer for opera singers who were completing their vocal training to actually perform.

Cecilia Maria de Candia

She was the daughter of two famous opera singers, Giulia Grisi and the Cavaliere don Giovanni Matteo de Candia, who sang under the popular name of Mario the tenor.

Central Military Club

The concert hall has also seen performances by actors and opera singers like Krastyu Sarafov, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Feodor Chaliapin, Boris Christoff, and bands like Ladytron etc.

Delme Bryn-Jones

If Delme Bryn-Jones is less well known than them today, it is perhaps because he was less adept at managing his career, for musically he was outstanding, as was his generation of Welsh opera singers, which included Stuart Burrows, Gwyneth Jones, Margaret Price, Elizabeth Vaughan, Robert Tear, Dennis O'Neill and Gwynne Howell.

Edgar Vincent

Vincent also worked for a handful of musicians other than opera singers, including conductors Erich Leinsdorf, Leopold Stokowski and Georg Solti; the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; and the violinist Isaac Stern.

He went on to specialize in being a publicist for opera singers, helping shape and forward the careers of major stars like Lily Pons, Anna Moffo, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, George London, Leonard Warren, Mirella Freni, Shirley Verrett, Cecilia Bartoli, Dolora Zajick, and Salvatore Licitra.

Elchin Azizov

Azizov is the winner of the 2nd Prize of The International Opera Singers Contest of Galina Vishnevskaya (2008), and the 4th Prize of The International Opera Singers Contest of Bulbul in Baku (2005).

George Aaron

He was born with the name Giorgio Aldighieri in Vicenza and is the great-grandson of opera singers Gottardo Aldighieri and Maria Spezia-Aldighieri.

Giulietta Simionato

She was featured in Daniel Schmid's award-winning 1984 documentary film Il Bacio di Tosca (Tosca's Kiss) about a home for retired opera singers founded by Giuseppe Verdi.

Giuseppe Ciccimarra

Among his pupils were Josef Tichatschek, creator of Wagner's Rienzi and Tannhäuser, the Austrian tenor Heinrich Kreutzer and Sophie Löwe, one of the most famous opera singers of her time.

Highlights from Porgy and Bess

While the opera was performed by an all-African American singing cast, the 1935 album featured mostly white opera singers attempting singing the Gullah-influenced words and music.

José Iturbi International Music Competition

Former Director of Columbia Artists Management vocal division Matthew Epstein (Chairman) and opera singers David Daniels, Marilyn Horne, Carol Vaness, and Peter Kazaras

Lisa Gasteen National Opera School

The Lisa Gasteen National Opera School is an intensive, three-week program of study for young-professional or advanced-student opera singers and repetiteurs, founded by Lisa Gasteen, Australian opera singer.

Live from the Metropolitan Opera

Some of the celebrated opera singers featured on Live from the Met have included Plácido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Beverly Sills, Samuel Ramey, Renée Fleming, Joan Sutherland, Marilyn Horne, Renata Scotto, Leontyne Price, and Sherrill Milnes.

Madama Europa

Madama Europa was the nickname, or perhaps the real name, of Europa Rossi (fl. 1600) sister of the Jewish violinist and composer Salamone Rossi, who was one of the first opera singers.

Music of Brisbane

Arts and culture in Brisbane, which includes information about classical music and opera singers, and jazz singers in Brisbane, and information about performing arts venues and Brisbane theatres.

Ottilie Metzger-Lattermann

In 1933, the American theatre impresario George Blumental (a former associate of Oscar Hammerstein I, who in 1917 had tried to set up theatres for American troops in Paris), tried to arrange with Georg Hartmann and Arthur Hirsch to bring over conductor Blech and a troupe of 12 Jewish opera singers to present Wagner's Ring in New York.

Oulunkylä

Opera singers Cynthia Makris and Raimo Sirkiä built their house on the lot where the house of Rautavaara was located.

Pappano's Essential Ring Cycle

Included in the programme are interviews with opera singers, notably John Tomlinson who has sung the principal character Wotan numerous times.

PromFest

The program of the festival concentrates mostly on young singers, the audience attend four different sections: the Klaudia Taev Competition for opera singers, opera production, master classes and concerts.

Santa Biondo

The June 14, 1936 issue of The New York Times states that she also performed with the Cincinnati Opera at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden with other opera singers such as Rosemarie Brancato, Anna Leskaya, Jean Pengelly, Norma Richter, and others.

Sing For Hope

Sing for Hope is a non-profit organization founded by opera singers Monica Yunus and Camille Zamora.

SING*ularity

Deriving its title from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night - "put thyself into the trick of singularity" - SING*ularity portrays the unique training approach of OperaWorks, an intense training program in Northridge, California for opera singers founded by Ann Baltz in which the entire body is engaged.