Marchesi, Blanche
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Marchesi, Blanche (
b Paris, 1863;
d London, 1940). Fr. soprano, daughter of Mathilde
Marchesi. Concert début Berlin 1895, operatic début Prague 1900 (Brünnhilde in
Die Walküre). Joined
Moody-Manners co. Sang Wagner roles at CG from 1902, toured USA (twice), Russ., and Eur. Settled in London to teach.
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Great Canadian musical figures: Georgina Stirling 1867-1935.
Magazine article from: Opera Canada; 3/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...arranged with famed vocal pedagogue Mathilde Marchesi in Paris. In a recently discovered...were more than enraptured... Marchesi said my voice was a true mezzo...for the minimum 13 months that Marchesi demanded and began lessons in French...
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The Extraordinary Operatic Adventures of Blanche Arral
Magazine article from: Opera News; 2/1/2003; ; 635 words
; ...grow any bigger, because you gave my milk to my niece, Valentine!" A pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, Arral had the clear, pliant tone typical of the Marchesi school: John Steane, in The Grand Tradition (1969), praises the "vivacity and...
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Julia Culp
Magazine article from: Opera News; 8/1/2000; ; 644 words
; ...floated in silver streams through the room" at a Berlin party given to honor the great singer and voice teacher Mathilde Marchesi. Silver characterizes Culp's sound in touching readings of Schumann's "Mondnacht" and "Du bist wie eine Blume...
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Will the real Lucia please stand up?
Magazine article from: Opera News; 10/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...cadenza in the mad scene, in which Lucia parries with a solo flute, is wholly anachronistic, perhaps composed by Mathilde Marchesi or even Nellie Melba. Donizetti's own simple cadenza, with its "dying fall" and choral accompaniment, is far...
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Clear, beautiful voice from the past
Newspaper article from: Sunday Star-Times; 11/30/1997; ; 699 words
; ...and studied music. In 1901 she went to London, then Paris, where she acquired her new name and became a pupil of Mathilde Marchesi, already famous as the teacher of Melba. Alda first sang at Covent Garden as a replacement for an indisposed Melba...
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Angels and Monsters: Male and Female Sopranos in the Story of Opera, 1600-1900.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...In three chapters, he focuses on the students of such important teachers as Giulio Caccini, Nicola Porpora, and Mathilde Marchesi. In other chapters singers are grouped according to their national tradition or by association with specific composers...
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BEVERLY SILLS
Magazine article from: Opera News; 9/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...brought her seven-yearold daughter to the attention of the brilliant teacher Estelle Liebling. A onetime student of Mathilde Marchesi, Liebling had in turn taught Amelita Galli-Curci, among others. Sills would study with Liebling until the latter...
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Another view
Magazine article from: Opera News; 4/5/1997; ; 531 words
; ...American parents, Eames was trained first in Boston, then at the Paris studio of the iron-willed bel canto doyenne Mathilde Marchesi. She arrived at the Met as Wagner's Elsa in 1891 and gave 439 performances with the company before she departed...
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For Melba, a Well-Deserved Toast
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 2/9/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...in Melbourne in 1861; she took the name Melba, in honor of her home town, when she was 26. After studies with Mathilde Marchesi (whose other pupils included Emma Eames and Emma Calve, two of Melba's later rivals) she made a spectacular...
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Marvelous Melba: The Extraordinary Life of a Great Diva
Magazine article from: Opera News; 8/1/2009; ; 700+ words
; ...s major-league careers in Europe and America get their due, as do her unhappy marriage, her legendary coach Mathilde Marchesi and her great love affair with Philippe, due d'Orlans. There is some new data from divorce papers and family...
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Mathilde Marchesi
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Mathilde Marchesi , 1821-1913, German mezzo-soprano whose maiden name was Graumann...the teacher of such singers as Melba, Eames, and Calvé. Marchesi taught at the conservatories of Cologne and Vienna and in Paris.
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Marchesi de Castrone (Graumann), Mathilde
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Marchesi de Castrone [Graumann], Mathilde ( b Frankfurt, 1821; d London, 1913). Ger. mezzo-soprano...barbiere di Siviglia ). Married It. bar. and teacher Salvatore Marchesi (1822–1908) in 1852. Prof. of singing Vienna...
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Marchesi, Blanche
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
Marchesi, Blanche ( b Paris, 1863; d London, 1940). Fr. soprano, daughter of Mathilde Marchesi . Concert début Berlin 1895, operatic début Prague 1900 (Brünnhilde in Die Walküre ). Joined Moody...
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Melba, Nellie
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...finally attended her first live opera. There, Madame Mathilde Marchesi became her opera teacher and sponsor. For her stage...singing style reflected the influence of her teacher, Marchesi. According to critics her vocals were the very definition...
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Manuel del Popolo Vicente García
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...stage to teach at the Paris Conservatory (1830-48) and the Royal Academy, London (1848-95). Jenny Lind and Mathilde Marchesi were among his pupils. He invented (1854) the laryngoscope. Bibliography: See biography by M. S. MacKinlay...
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