Italian opera soprano Carmen Giannattasio photographed in Milan, January 2013 by Francesco Maria Colombo.
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Feb
06
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Feb
04
Maria Callas – unpublished pix from Lebrecht Music & Arts
Maria Callas – outstanding unpublished photos from Lebrecht photographer Brian Seed to celebrate the 90th birth anniversary of Maria Callas, the great opera diva, on 2nd December 1923.
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Maria Callas and Ferrucio Tagliavini during a playback session of a recording they were making of Donizetti’s opera Lucia di Lammermoor, the second time they had recorded this opera together. EMI were recording the opera in 1959 at the Kingsway Hall, London.
Soprano Maria Callas during a rehearsal of the Donizetti opera Lucie di Lammermoor, Kingsway Hall, London, 1959.
Soprano Maria Callas listening and singing back to recording she had just made of Donizetti’s opera, Lucia di Lammermoor.
Dec
14
Vishnevskaya’s lying in State in Moscow from Lebrecht
No one can beat the Russians at arranging a full blown dramatic Lying in State and Funeral Service. Galina Vishnevskaya, Russian opera singer who died this week, and who was awarded countless awards by the Soviety Union,is receiving full honours. Probably very different from the Swiss opera singer, Lisa Della Casa, who also died this week.
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Pictures by RIA Novosti/Lebrecht Music & Arts.
Dec
12
Lisa Della Casa Obituary photos from Lebrecht Music & Arts.
Lisa Della Casa, Swiss soprano, known as ‘the most beautiful woman on the operatic stage’ passed away on 10th December 2012. Her famous roles included the part of Zdenka in the performance of Richard Strauss’ ‘Arabella’ at Zurich Municipal Opera House in 1946 and made her debut In 1949, at La Scala, Milan as Sophie in Strauss’s ‘Der Rosenkavalier’. The photographer is Sabine Toepffer who worked for many years at the Munich Opera House.
Lisa Della Casa as Marschallin in Richard Strauss opera ‘Rosenkavalier’, at Bavarian State Opera, Munich, 1962.
© Sabine Toepffer/DeutschesTheater Museum/Lebrecht Music
Lisa Della Casa as Arabella in Richard Strauss opera Arabella at Bavarian State Opera, 1963.
© Sabine Toepffer/DeutschesTheater Museum/Lebrecht Music
1940s with Inge Borkh as Elektra and Lisa Della Casa as Chrysothemis.
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Lisa Della Casa in title role of Richard Strauss’s opera Salome.
© Sabine Toepffer/DeutschesTheater Museum/Lebrecht
Lisa Della Casa in title role of Richard Strauss ‘s opera Arabella, at Bavarian State Opera, 1963.
© Sabine Toepffer/DeutschesTheater Museum/Lebrecht
Dec
11
Obituary pictures of Galina Vishnevskaya
Russian soprano opera singer who was married to cellist Mstislav Rostropovich – born 25 October 1926 – died 11 December, 2012 . She was named People’s Artist of the USSR in 1966. They left the Soviet Union in 1974.
In her long career she sang many great operatic roles including Violetta, Tosca, Cio-cio-san, Leonore and Cherubino. Benjamin Britten wrote the soprano role in his War Requiem (completed 1962) specially for her.
More photographs by Nigel Luckhurst of Vishnevskaya and Rostropovich at Aldeburgh available on our website at www.lebrecht.co.uk
© Nigel Luckhurst/Lebrecht Music & Arts
© S.Lauterwasser/Lebrecht Music & Arts
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© S.Lauterwasser/Lebrecht Music & Arts
© Nigel Luckhurst/Lebrecht Music & Arts
Mar
08
Obituary image for Austrian soprano, Ruthilde Boesch, now online at www.lebrecht.co.uk
Dec
05
Images of Montserrat Figueras, Catalan soprano who died on 23 November 2011
Montserrat Figueras, a Spanish soprano whose magical voice helped her husband, musician Jordi Savall, resurrect and popularize forgotten European music from the Renaissance and earlier eras, died on 23 November at her home in Bellaterra, Spain.
Dec
02
Surprising Soprano in Finland
Never underestimate the joie de vivre of sopranos in Finland. Watch Sirkka Lampimäki as she sings with the Lahti Symphony Orchestra.