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Opera's production of Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera" opens on May 24th.
Get your tickets now as performances of this classic opera are going
quickly. Visit www.amoreopera.org to buy tickets or donate.
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Anna 
Yuryevna Netrebko was born in Krasnodar Russia on September 18, 1971. Her
family were Kuban Cossacks. While a student at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory,
she worked as a janitor at Saint Petersburg's Mariinsky Theater. She later
auditioned for the Mariinsky where conductor Valery Gergiev recognized her from
her prior work in the theater. He eventually became her vocal mentor. She holds
dual Russian and Austrian citizenship and resides in Vienna, Austria, and New
York City. She is a frequent guest of the Metropolitan Opera, Vienna State
Opera, Mariinsky Theatre, and the Royal Opera in London. The information was
provided by Wikipedia. In the video below she is singing Quando M'en Vo La
Boheme.
Dmitri Aleksandrovich Hvorostovsky (October 1962-November 2017) was a Russian operatic baritone. He was born in Krasnoyarsk in Siberia during a time when the city was mostly closed to foreigners. An only
child, he was raised mostly by his grandmother and a grandfather who,
according to Dmitri, was a war veteran suffering from alcoholism.
His father, an engineer, and his mother, a gynecologist, both had
extremely time-consuming careers and were often only around on the
weekends and holidays.
He studied at the Krasnoyarsk School of Arts under Yekaterina Yofel and
made his debut at Krasnoyarsk Opera House, in the role of Marullo in Rigoletto. He came to international attention in 1989 when he won the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition beating local favorite Bryn Terfel in the final round. His international concert recitals began immediately. The information was provided by Wikipedia. Below, I have provide you with two YouTube video. His performance at the Met in New York and his performance in Moscow with special guest Tania Vasileva. 
Angela Gheorghiu was bought to my attention by an African American Tenor (Colenton Freeman) who resides in Germany. She is a Romanian soprano who was born on September 7, 1965. Since her professional debut in 1990, she has performed in leading roles of several operas at New York's Metropolitan Opera, London's Royal Opera House, the Vienna State Opera, Milan's La Scala, and many other opera houses in Europe and the United States. She has a substantial discography primarily with EMI Classics and Decca and is especially known for her performances in the operas of Puccini.
She started singing opera at the age of 14. She begin to study and sang at the National University of Music Bucharest under the guidance of Mia Barbu. She graduated in 1990 which followed the overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu. This enabled her to seek an international career immediately. Her professional opera debut took place at the Clui-Napoca Romanian National Opera as "Mimi in La Boheme" in 1990. During the same year, she won third prize in the Belvedere International Competition. I have provided you with a selection from "La Boheme". The information was provided by Wikipedia.
Dame Kiri Janette Te Kanawa was born Claire Mary Teresa Rawstron, 6 March 1944). She is a New Zealand soprano. She has a full lyric soprano voice, which has been described as "mellow yet vibrant, warm, ample and unforced".
Te Kanawa has received accolades in many countries, singing a wide array of works in many languages dating from the 17th to the 20th centuries. She is particularly associated with the works of Mozart, Strauss, Verdi, Handel and Puccini, and has found considerable success in portraying princesses, nobility, and other similar characters on stage.
Though she rarely sang opera later in her career, Te Kanawa frequently performed in concert and recital, gave masterclasses, and supported young opera singers in launching their careers. Her final performance was in Ballarat, Australia, in October 2016, but she did not reveal her retirement until September 2017.in the vidio below, she sings "Quando Men Vo" The information was provided by Wikipedia.
R̩gine Crespin (23 February 1927 Р5 July 2007) was a French singer who had a major international career in opera and on the concert stage between 1950 and 1989. She started her career singing roles in the dramatic soprano and spinto soprano repertoire, drawing particular acclaim singing Wagner and Strauss heroines. She went on to sing a wider repertoire that embraced Italian, French, German, and Russian opera from a variety of musical periods. In the early 1970s Crespin began experiencing vocal difficulties for the first time and ultimately began performing roles from the mezzo-soprano repertoire. Throughout her career she was widely admired for the elegance, warmth and subtlety of her singing, especially in the French and German operatic repertories.
Crespin began her career in France, earning her first critical successes in the French provinces during the early 1950s and then becoming a fixture at the Opéra National de Paris in the mid-1950s. Her international career was launched in 1958 with a critically acclaimed performance of Kundry in Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. She soon appeared at most of the major opera houses in the United States and Europe and made a number of appearances in South America as well. She had a long and fruitful association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, making over 125 appearances at that house between 1962 and 1987. Crespin retired from the stage in 1989, after which she taught singing for many years at her alma mater, the Conservatoire de Paris, and gave numerous acclaimed master classes at conservatories and universities internationally.
Information provided by Wikipedia
Régine Crespin Au bord de leau avec lyrics Fauré
Crespin began her career in France, earning her first critical successes in the French provinces during the early 1950s and then becoming a fixture at the Opéra National de Paris in the mid-1950s. Her international career was launched in 1958 with a critically acclaimed performance of Kundry in Richard Wagner's Parsifal at the Bayreuth Festival. She soon appeared at most of the major opera houses in the United States and Europe and made a number of appearances in South America as well. She had a long and fruitful association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, making over 125 appearances at that house between 1962 and 1987. Crespin retired from the stage in 1989, after which she taught singing for many years at her alma mater, the Conservatoire de Paris, and gave numerous acclaimed master classes at conservatories and universities internationally.
Information provided by Wikipedia
Régine Crespin Au bord de leau avec lyrics Fauré
A celebration of Cuban Opera and Ballet. I hope you enjoy the videos I have downloaded. It is important for us to understand that art and culture is alive in Cuba in spite of all the negative things being said about the political situation and the death of Fidel Castro.
Uploaded on Apr 13, 2011
RAMON CHAVEZ LOPEZ, First Dramatic Tenor of cuban Opera. Studied in the Music Conservatory "Ciprian Porumbescu" in Bucarest, Rumania. He performed as first tenor in several dramatic operas, such as : "Pagliacci, Tosca, Il Trovatore, Aida, Carmen, Cavalleria Rusticana, Il Tabarro", among others.
For more information, please contact me at ramonchavezcu@gmail.com
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