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Giuseppe Verdi Giuseppe Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi , 1813-1901, foremost Italian composer of opera, b. Le Roncole. Verdi, the son of an innkeeper, showed a precocious talent for the organ but was refused entrance to the Milan Conservatory as having been inadequately trained. He studied with Lavigna of La Scala, and in 1839 his first... Read more
Lawrence Tibbett Lawrence Tibbett
Lawrence Tibbett , 1896-1960, American baritone, b. Bakersfield, Calif. He made his debut at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1923. After a successful appearance as Ford in Verdi's Falstaff, he was given leading roles and became especially noted for those he created in American operas, including... Read more
Leontyne Price Leontyne Price
Leontyne Price (Mary Leontyne Price) , 1927-, American soprano, b. Laurel, Miss. She studied voice at the Juilliard School of Music with Florence Page Kimball. Subsequently she appeared as Bess in Gershwin's Porgy and Bess on Broadway (1952-54), repeating her performance in a highly successful... Read more
Jan Peerce Jan Peerce
Jan Peerce 1904-85, American tenor, b. New York City as Jacob Pincus Perelmuth. Discovered by Arturo Toscanini, who chose him to be a soloist in a performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Peerce made his operatic debut in Philadelphia in 1938, singing the Duke in Verdi's Rigoletto. In 1941 he... Read more
Dies irae Dies irae
Dies irae [Lat.,=day of wrath], hymn of the Roman Catholic Church. A part of the Requiem Mass, it is a powerful description of the Judgment and a prayer to Jesus for mercy. Suggested in part by Zeph. 1.14-16, it was probably written by Thomas of Celano. In 16th-century polyphonic masses it was... Read more
Aida Aida
Aida (2000), a musical play by Linda Woolverton, Robert Falls, David Henry Hwang (book), Elton John (music), Tim Rice (lyrics). [Palace Theatre, still running.] Only the basic story of Verdi's celebrated opera is retained in this soft‐rock version of the tragic romance between the... Read more
Arrigo Boito Arrigo Boito
Arrigo Boito , 1842-1918, Italian composer and librettist. His opera Mefistofele (1868, rev. 1875), influenced by Wagner's music-drama, helped to bring about a new dramatic style in Italian opera. Its first performance, at La Scala, Milan, caused a riot, but it subsequently became very popular.... Read more
John Charles Thomas John Charles Thomas
John Charles Thomas 1891-1960, American baritone, b. Meyersdale, Pa., studied at the Peabody Conservatory, Baltimore. After a successful career in musical comedy he made his operatic debut in Washington, D.C., in 1924 and later sang with the Royal Opera, Brussels. He made his debut at the... Read more
Robert Merrill Robert Merrill
Robert Merrill 1917-2004, American baritone, b. Brooklyn, N.Y., as Moishe Miller. In 1945 he won the Metropolitan Opera's Auditions of the Air and in the same year made his debut as Germont in Verdi's La Traviata. Known for his smooth and powerful voice, he subsequently became one of the most... Read more
Shirley Verrett Shirley Verrett
Shirley Verrett 1931–Opera singer Shirley Verrett is an American soprano who performed on the stages of the world's most famous opera houses. Best known for her roles in Aïda and Macbeth—two works by the Italian composer Giuseppe Verdi—Verrett enjoyed a long career with the Metropolitan Opera of... Read more

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