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On Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Interpreters | Singers

Joan Sutherland

Soprano Australian who brings together a wide and powerful voice with an ethereal sound and amazing capacities of agility and flexibility. Married in 1954 with conductor Richard Bonynge, this one convinced it so that it was extending his repertoire wagneriano and was turning into coloratura soprano. The success in this company transformed it into one of the most finished voices of the world.

Born in Australia, Sidney, on November 17, 1926, this artist studied with John and Aida Dickens in Sidney until 1950. In 1950 it gains the Mobil Quest and continues his formation in London with Clive Carey. His career changed drastically when it met the pianist Richard Bonynge, whom he married on October 16, 1954. He was sure that Joan had a voice adapted to be a bel canto soprano and it helped him to develop this capacity.

His d�but oper�tico took place in Covent Garden in 1952 like the First Lady in The Magic Flute. This presentation was continued by Clotilde's interpretation in Norm of Bellini with Maria Callas in the titular roll. In the later years he sang secondary rolls in The Walkiria and in Elektra, as well as in 1955 it took part in the world premiere of Midsummer Marriage of Tippet and in the English premiere of The Dialogue of the Carmelite ones of Poulenc. Soon Covent Garden realized his potential as soprano bel cantista and entrusted to him rolls in Emilia de Liverpool de Donizetti and Alcina de Haendel.

On February 17, 1959 Joan Sutherland jumped to the reputation after realizing his first version of Lucia di Lammermoor. According to his career it was going in ascent, Joan was making debut in works that then would be the most famous of his repertoire: Elvira in The Puritans (May 24, 1960) and Norm (October 17, 1963). In the last one he shared scene with the the same way legendary mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

Quickly principal soprano was considered dramatic of coloratura of the epoch and it made debut successfully in Italy, France, the United States and Austria tackling the repertoire Rossini-Bellini-Donizetti. After his Italian d�but in The Fenice in 1960 The Stupenda was known. In the later years it appeared in The Daughter of the Regiment (June 2, 1966), Rosalinda in The Bat (September 8, 1973) and Anna Glavari in The Happy Widow (April 22, 1976).

Also it achieves reputation for his rolls in works of Haendel and the constant rescue of forgotten operas, which also it takes to the disc along with his husband the director Richard Bonynge. Works that are reborn in his versions are Beatrice di Tenda, Rodelinda, Esclarmonde, I gnawed Him of Lahore and I Masnadieri. Another milestone in his career was the interpretation of four rolls of soprano in a version of The Stories of Hoffmann realized in Sidney Opera House.

In 1979 it was named Give to me and in 1990 it moved back from the opera after almost four decades of career. His last performance in a finished opera was during a version of The Huguenots mounted in Sidney's Opera in October of this year. His final farewell was in the Scene of the Holiday of the second act of The Bat in the gala of New Year 1990-91 in Covent Garden. Da Joan Sutherland was declared May 6, 1998 the Day of me in the city of New York by mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

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Brief

On February 17, 1653: Arcangelo Corelli, musician and Italian composer is born. Grosso contributed to the crystallization of the concerto. Author of numerous instrumental works (Concert of Christmas, The Follia, sonatas), father of the sonata for violin and inspirer of a group of composers of this instrument like Varacini, Germiniani and Viotti.
On February 13, 1883: Richard Wagner dies in Venice. Composer of German origin, renovator of the romantic opera. His inclination towards the music did not wake up up to knowing the works of Weber and Beethoven. After a life lax and invested in the game and the women, he married and traveled to Paris and then to Dresden, where his work was recognized. The transfer of his remains was comparable to the funeral procession of a big sovereign one.
On February 13, 1976: the soprano Lily Pons dies. A voice crystalline and extended towards the sharp one, joined a graceful figure and personal friendliness, they constitute the props of the formidable success of Lily Pons. An exceeded publicity helped to do of her almost a sacred monster of the singing; so much it was so in the decade of '40 went so far as to consider her to be the best singer of the world.
On February 12, 1924: there is released "Rhapsody In Blue" of George Gershwin. Gershwin managed to unite in this work three fundamental elements of the music of his country: the piano popular tradition, the harmonic treatment of the music of the theater of varieties and all the ambience of the African American blues.
On February 10, 1881: I release in Paris of "The Stories of Hoffmann" of Jacques Offenbach. The opera is an adaptation of Jules Barbier and Michel Carr� of several stories of writer Ernst T.A. Hoffmann. The first one takes place with a mechanical doll, the second one with the victim of the conjuration of a magician, and the third one with a moribund sick person. The history begins with a prologue ambientado in a bar.

Appointments

Daniel Barenboim
"The director does not have physical contact with the music that his instrumentalists produce and at most he can correct the phrasing or the rhythm of the score but his gesture does not exist if it does not find a band that is receiving"
George Gershwin
"It would give everything what I have as a little of the genius that Schubert needed to compose his Ave Maria"
Gustav Mahler
"When the work turns out to be a success, when a problem has been solved, we forget the difficulties and the perturbations and feel richly rewarded"
Franz Schubert
"When one is inspired by something good, the musician is born fluently, the melodies sprout; really this is a big satisfaction"
Bedrich Smetana
"With the help and the God's grace, I will be a Mozart in the composition and a Liszt in the skill"

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