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Beverly Sills - Wikipedia  Beverly Sills (May 25, 1929  July 2, 2007) was an American operatic soprano whose peak ... After retiring from singing in 1980, she became the general manager of the .... Other operas she sang at the Met include La traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, ..... 1979  Pearl S. Buck Women's Award; 1980  Presidential Medal of...
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Free Flashcards about FIRSTS - StudyStack  IN 1976 SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO CONDUCT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA WHEN SHE TOOK THE BATON FOR "LA TRAVIATA", SARAH CALDWELL. THIS STATE HAD THE FIRST HOSPITAL, THE FIRST CIRCULATING...
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Sarah Caldwell | Getty Images  Sarah Caldwell conducts the Metropolitan Opera orchestra at a dress rehearsal for La Traviata in 1976, when she became the first woman to conduct an opera...
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Black conductors - Wikipedia  Black conductors are musicians of African, Caribbean, African-American ancestry and other ... In 1955, Lee was the "...first musician of colour to conduct a major opera ... in the US with a performance of La Traviata at the New York City Opera. ... Philharmonic Orchestra and became the first African American to conduct a...
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Free Flashcards about FAMOUS WOMEN - StudyStack  IN 1976 SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO CONDUCT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA WHEN SHE TOOK THE BATON FOR "LA TRAVIATA", SARAH CALDWELL. IN 1993 JULIE KRONE BECAME THE FIRST FEMALE JOCKEY TO WIN A...
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Today in history: The Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new ...  Sep 15, 2016 ... 16, 1966, the Metropolitan Opera officially opened its new opera ... In 1953, "The Robe," the first movie presented in the widescreen process...
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Sarah Caldwell | American opera conductor and producer ...  As conductor and producer there, Caldwell established a reputation for producing daring and ... She formed the Opera Company of Boston in 1957. In 1976 she became the first woman to conduct the Metropolitan Opera, New York City.
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Study Guide - The Atlanta Opera  This performance of Il trovatore will be about two and a half hours long, with one .... Giuseppe Verdi was the greatest composer of Italian opera in the nineteenth century. .... He made his debut with the Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1999 with La travi- ... other most popular works, La traviata, came to him while writing Il trovatore.
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Metropolitan Opera | Timeline  March 17. Share. Mourning Becomes Electra by Martin David Levy is the second ... Plcido Domingo makes his company debut as Maurizio opposite Renata Tebaldi in ..... 1999. February 8. Share. James Levine conducts the Met premiere of ... sings his 18th Metropolitan Opera opening night, breaking the record set by...
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James Levine - Wikipedia  James Lawrence Levine is an American conductor and pianist. He is primarily known for his tenure as Music Director of the Metropolitan ... He stepped down as the Music Director of the Metropolitan Opera at the end of the 2015-2016 season to ... Levine first conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra (BSO) in April 1972.
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Metropolitan Opera - Wikipedia  The Metropolitan Opera, commonly referred to as "The Met", is a company based in New York ... The Metropolitan Opera is the largest classical music organization in North .... The Viennese composer Gustav Mahler also was a Met conductor during ..... 1931, a performance of Engelbert Humperdinck's Hnsel und Gretel.
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Amahl and the Night Visitors - TVparty!  Finally, in November of 1951, as he walked through the Metropolitan Museum of Art ... (As was typical of many characters in Menotti operas, who were often identified ... In the title role of Amahl, Menotti selected 12-year-old Chet Allen, a boy ... Music Hall, the first opera ever written expressly for television went live on the air.
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Tosca - Wikipedia  Tosca is an opera in three acts by Giacomo Puccini to an Italian libretto by Luigi Illica and ... Tosca premiered at a time of unrest in Rome, and its first performance was ..... Of her successors, opera enthusiasts tend to consider Maria Callas as the ... After the 1903 Paris opening, the composer Paul Dukas thought the work...
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Teatro alla Scala - Locali d'Autore  In 1872 the first "European" performance of Aida was given at La Scala, and in ... In 1926, Toscanini conducted the premiere of Turandot (1926), a work ... In 1921 ownership of the boxes was transferred from private subscribers to the Milan City Council, ... In 1963 Luciano Berio made his dbut as a conductor and composer...
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Not only with words, but with lively gestures  parterre box  Apr 12, 2016 ... Elektra's tardy 1932 Metropolitan Opera premiere was reported in the New ... We get an idea of how Elektra might have been staged a half century ago, but ... Although one of the more successful examples of its kind, Friedrich's film ... and go ahead: Yes, there are so many famous singers (even very famous...
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Classic in Black  It was on Easter Sunday in 1939 that Miss Anderson gave what is perhaps her ... Marian Anderson became the first African American to perform at the Met, ... Her debut on January 7, 1955, marked the first time that an African American ...... Shirley, winner of the 1960-61 Metropolitan Opera auditions, was born April 18, 1934
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Dining With Caruso Near the Old Met - WQXR  Jun 26, 2012 ... Enrico Caruso in Rigoletto, November 23, 1903 ... The first Metropolitan Opera House was on Broadway and 39th ... Enrico Caruso made his Met debut as the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto on November 23, 1903. ... Caruso was idolized by Neapolitans and he returned the favor with his patronage and his...
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La Traviata (1983 film) - Wikipedia  La Traviata is a 1982 Italian film written, designed, and directed by Franco Zeffirelli. It is based on the opera La traviata with music by Giuseppe Verdi and libretto by Francesco Maria Piave. Soprano Teresa Stratas, tenor Plcido Domingo, and baritone Cornell MacNeil starred in the movie,...
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Deborah Voigt - Wikipedia  Deborah Voigt (born August 4, 1960) is an American operatic soprano. Voigt regularly performs ... attractive singing in the opening sequence as Leonora in Verdi's Il trovatore, .... In 2013, she shared the "Best Opera Recording" award for the Metropolitan ..... (December 28, 1996) "Beethoven: Fidelio", review, Opera News...
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Marian Anderson's Groundbreaking Met Opera Moment | Texas ...  Jan 7, 2015 ... Contralto Marian Anderson in the role of Ulrica from a Metropolitan Opera ... She was in her late 50s when she appeared Jan. 7, 1955, in Verdi's Un ballo en maschera. ... that this was the beginning of the integration in the deepest sense of ... artist at the Met be Marion Anderson, let her appear at her best.
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The Mother of Us All | opera by Thomson and Stein | Britannica.com  The Mother of Us All, opera in two acts with libretto by American writer Gertrude Stein and music by American composer Virgil Thomson, first performed ... as exemplified in the life and work of American suffragist and feminist Susan B. Anthony.