#christina verdi

[saturnsoiree]

Lottie~bear

#dec141998 #personal #doll #dollcore #christina verdi #porcelain

[rock-a-noodle]

This year I learned that "Dirrty" by Christina Aguilera samples "Requiem Dies Irae" by Giuseppe Verdi, which I will always associate with Battle Royale.

The more you know....

#shut up kelly #christina aguilera #battle royale #giuseppe verdi #two badass songs

[princesssarisa]

Opera on YouTube

I've shared links to complete opera performances before, but I love to share them, so I thought I'd make a few masterposts.

These list are by no means the only complete filmed performances of these operas on YouTube, but I decided that ten links for each opera was enough for now.

By the way, some of the subtitles are just a part of the video, while others require you to click CC to see them.

Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute)

Hamburg Philharmonic State Opera, 1971 (Nicolai Gedda, Edith Mathis, William Workman, Christina Deutekom, Hans Sotin; conducted by Horst Stein; English subtitles)

Ingmar Bergman film, 1975 (Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila, Håkan Hagegård, Birgit Nordin, Ulrik Cold; conducted by Eric Ericson; sung in Swedish; English subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 1982 (Peter Schreier, Ileana Cotrubas, Christian Bösch, Edita Gruberova, Martti Talvela; conducted by James Levine; Japanese subtitles)

Bavarian State Opera, 1983 (Francisco Araiza, Lucia Popp, Wolfgang Brendel, Edita Gruberova, Kurt Moll; conducted by Wolfgang Sawallisch; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1991 (Francisco Araiza, Kathleen Battle, Manfred Hemm, Luciana Serra, Kurt Moll; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

Paris Opera, 2001 (Piotr Beczala, Dorothea Röschmann, Detlef Roth, Desirée Rancatore, Matti Salminen; conducted by Ivan Fischer; no subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2003 (Will Hartman, Dorothea Röschmann, Simon Keenlyside, Diana Damrau, Franz Josef Selig; conducted by Colin Davis; no subtitles) – Act I, Act II

La Monnaie, Brussels, 2005 (Topi Lehtipuu, Sophie Karthäuser, Stephan Loger, Ana Camelia Stefanescu, Harry Peeters; conducted by René Jacobs; French subtitles)

Kenneth Branagh film, 2006 (Joseph Kaiser, Amy Carson, Benjamin Jay Davis, Lyubov Petrova, René Pape; conducted by James Conlon; sung in English)

San Francisco Opera, 2010 (Piotr Beczala, Dina Kuznetsoca, Christopher Maltman, Erika Miklósa, Georg Zeppenfeld; conducted by Donald Runnicles; English subtitles)

La Traviata

Mario Lanfrachi studio film, 1968 (Anna Moffo, Franco Bonisolli, Gino Bechi; conducted by Giuseppe Patané; English subtitles)

Glyndebourne Festival Opera, 1987 (Marie McLaughlin, Walter MacNeil, Brent Ellis; conducted by Bernard Haitink; Italian and Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1992 (Tiziana Fabbricini, Roberto Alagna, Paolo Coni; conducted by Riccardo Muti; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1994 (Angela Gheorghiu, Frank Lopardo, Leo Nucci; conducted by Georg Solti; Spanish subtitles)

Teatro Giuseppe Verdi, 2003 (Stefania Bonfadelli, Scott Piper, Renato Bruson; conducted by Plácido Domingo; Spanish subtitles)

Salzburg Festival, 2005 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón, Thomas Hampson; conducted by Carlo Rizzi; no subtitles)

Los Angeles Opera, 2006 (Renée Fleming, Rolando Villazón, Renato Bruson; conducted by James Conlon; English subtitles)

Opera Festival St. Margarethen, 2008 (Kristiane Kaiser, Jean-Francois Borras, Georg Tichy; conducted by Ernst Märzendorfer; English subtitles)

Teatro Real di Madrid, 2015 (Ermonela Jaho, Francesco Demuro, Juan Jesús Rodríguez; conducted by Renato Palumbo; English subtitles)

Teatro Massimo, 2023 (Nino Machiadze, Saimir Pirgu, Roberto Frontali; conducted by Carlo Goldstein; no subtitles)

Carmen

Herbert von Karajan studio film, 1967 (Grace Bumbry, Jon Vickers; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Vienna State Opera, 1978 (Elena Obraztsova, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; English Subtitles)

Francisco Rosi film, 1982 (Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo; conducted by Lorin Maazel; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1987 (Agnes Baltsa, José Carreras; conducted by James Levine; English subtitles)

London Earls Court Arena, 1989 (Maria Ewing, Jacque Trussel; conducted by Jaques Delacote; English subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 1991 (Maria Ewing, Luis Lima; conducted by Zubin Mehta; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Arena di Verona, 2003 (Marina Domashenko, Marco Berti; conducted by Alain Lombard; Italian subtitles)

Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 2006 (Anna Caterina Antonacci, Jonas Kaufmann; conducted by Antonio Pappano; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Metropolitan Opera, 2010 (Elina Garanca, Roberto Alagna; conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin; English subtitles) – Acts I and II, Acts III and IV

Opéra-Comique, 2023 (Gaëlle Arquez, Frédéric Antoun; conducted by Louis Langrée; English subtitles)

La Bohéme

Franco Zeffirelli studio film, 1965 (Mirella Freni, Gianni Raimondi; conducted by Herbert von Karajan; English subtitles)

Metropolitan Opera, 1977 (Renata Scotto, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by James Levine; no subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 1979 (Ileana Cotrubas, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Carlos Kleiber; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 1993 (Cheryl Barker, David Hobson; conducted by Julian Smith; Brazilian Portuguese subtitles)

Teatro Regio di Torino, 1996 (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti; conducted by Daniel Oren; Italian subtitles)

Teatro alla Scala, 2003 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcelo Alvarez; conducted by Bruno Bartoletti; Spanish subtitles)

Zürich Opera House, 2005 (Cristina Gallardo-Domâs, Marcello Giordani; conducted by Franz Welser-Möst; no subtitles)

Robert Dornhelm film, 2009 (Anna Netrebko, Rolando Villazón; conducted by Bertrand de Billy; no subtitles)

Opera Australia, 2011 (Takesha Meshé Kizart, Ji-Min Park; Shao-Chia Lü; no subtitles)

Sigulda Opera Festival, 2022 (Maija Kovalevska, Mihail Mihaylov; conducted by Vladimir Kiradjiev; English subtitles)

#opera #youtube #complete performances #die zauberflöte #the magic flute #la traviata #carmen #la boheme #wolfgang amadeus mozart #giuseppe verdi #georges bizet #giacomo puccini

[hazelestelle]

@occhi-verdi-come-il-mare tagged me, thank you <3

Rules: Shuffle your repeat playlist and post the first ten tracks, then tag ten people.

Leb deinen Traum - Digimon Opening

Things we lost in the fire - Bastille

Mizerable - Gackt

Roll Deep - Hyuna

Mi Reflejo - Christina Aguilera

C'est la vie - Shania Twain

In your arm - Kina Grannis

Stars - Collabro

Bi - Alizee

Under the Bridge - Scala & Kolacny Brothers

Tagging: @spacerhapsody @darlingjunebug @alyssalenko @wait-here if you want :)

#about me #isa talks #music

[operaportugues]

Requiem op.48 (Gabriel Fauré) - Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, 23/fevereiro/2024

Obra completa legendada em português: link.

Este requiem foi escrito entre 1887 e 1890, baseado na Missa dos Mortos da Igreja Católica. É a obra mais conhecida de Fauré; especula-se que tenha relação com a morte de seus pais em um período de apenas dois anos.

A única certeza que se tem são as palavras do compositor que declarou ser a peça dominada, do começo ao fim, por um verdadeiro sentimento humano de fé no descanso eterno. Esta visão torna este réquiem bastante diferente de outras composições no gênero, como os de Mozart ou Verdi, nos quais a morte é encarada com temor.

Fauré, ao contrário, imprimiu na obra um clima de paz e, contrariando o padrão, terminou o seu Réquiem com o texto In Paradisum, no qual sugere que a morte significa um encontro idílico com a eternidade.

Para atingir seu intento, Fauré omitiu o segmento da Sequência, que reporta à ira do Senhor e ao fogo do inferno e adicionou os textos Pie Jesu e In Paradisum, que, se não fazem parte do Requiem, têm como meta enfatizar a certeza do repouso eterno.

Coro Gulbenkian Orquestra Gulbenkian Matthew Halls, Maestro Christina Landshamer, Soprano Stéphane Degout, Barítono

- ECAI explica Requiem - Wikipedia - O Maestro Explica o Requiem de Fauré - Palestra sobre o Requiem op.48 de Fauré, 14/novembro/2021

#requiem #Fauré

[joarbalstad]

The Melody of Love En guide til å velge de perfekte bryllupssangene

Et bryllup er en feiring av kj￦rlighet, en forening av to sjeler som legger ut p￥ en livslang reise sammen. En av de mest fortryllende og minneverdige aspektene ved ethvert bryllup er musikken som f￸lger med den spesielle dagen. Fra seremonien til mottakelsen er det ￥ velge de riktige bryllupssangene som setter tonen og gir et magisk preg til hele feiringen. I denne artikkelen utforsker vi betydningen av bryllupssanger og gir veiledning om ￥ velge de perfekte melodiene for den store dagen.

Seremonien:

Prosessjonsmusikk: Opptoget markerer begynnelsen p￥ seremonien, da brude- og brudef￸lget tar veien ned midtgangen. Tenk p￥ tidl￸se klassikere som Pachelbels Canon in D eller den s￸te enkelheten til ﾫTusen ￥rﾻ av Christina Perri. Disse valgene fremkaller en f￸lelse av romantikk og forventning.

Brudeinngang: Brudens inngang er et ￸yeblikk med stor forventning. Velg en sang som resonerer med f￸lelsene dine og temaet for bryllupet ditt. Fra den tradisjonelle "Here Comes the Bride" til mer moderne valg som "Marry Me" av Train, finn en melodi som snakker til hjertet ditt.

Enhetsseremoni: Under ritualer som tenning av enhetslyset eller en sandseremoni, velg en sang som utfyller symbolikken i ￸yeblikket. "Perfect" av Ed Sheeran eller "All of Me" av John Legend er popul￦re valg som vakkert fanger essensen av enhet.

L￸ftene og ringene:

L￸fteveksling: Tilpass l￸ftene dine med en sang som har sentimental verdi. Enten det er en akustisk versjon av en favorittsang eller et stykke som gjenspeiler reisen din sammen, la musikken forsterke den f￸lelsesmessige utvekslingen av l￸fter.

Ringebytte: Utveksling av ringer er et sentralt øyeblikk i seremonien. Velg en meningsfull sang som «At Last» av Etta James eller «I Choose You» av Sara Bareilles for å understreke betydningen av denne symbolske gesten.

Nedgangstiden:

N￥r du gleder deg ut av seremonien som et ektepar, velger du en oppl￸ftende og festlig sang for lavkonjunkturen. ﾫHappyﾻ av Pharrell Williams eller ﾫYou Make My Dreamsﾻ av Hall & Oates er energiske valg som setter tonen for en festlig mottakelse.

Resepsjonen:

F￸rste dans: Den f￸rste dansen er et kj￦rt ￸yeblikk som fortjener en sang som gjenspeiler din unike forbindelse. Klassiske valg som "Unchained Melody" av The Righteous Brothers eller moderne hits som "Thinking Out Loud" av Ed Sheeran gir et vakkert bakteppe for denne intime dansen.

Foreldre danser: Hedre foreldrene dine med spesielle danser akkompagnert av hjertevarme sanger. "My Wish" av Rascal Flatts eller "What a Wonderful World" av Louis Armstrong er r￸rende alternativer for foreldredanser.

Dansegulvsang: Fyll dansegulvet med livlige, publikumsglede sanger som passer til en rekke smaker. Inkluder en blanding av gamle og nye hits for ￥ holde gjester i alle aldre underholdt.

ￅ velge de perfekte bryllupssangene er en kunst som inneb￦rer ￥ velge melodier som resonerer med f￸lelsene dine og utfyller de forskjellige ￸yeblikkene p￥ den spesielle dagen din. Enten du velger tidl￸se klassikere eller moderne hits, vil den rette musikken veve en vakker billedvev av minner som du og dine gjester vil verne om for alltid. S￥ la kj￦rlighetens melodi lede deg gjennom denne magiske ekteskapsreisen.

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[cointahmin]

Art arda sekiz kırmızı günlük mum çubuğunun akabinde Bitcoin fiyatı dün, günü yeşil bir günlük mumla tamamladı. Bitcoin ve kripto piyasası, makro manada gişe rekorları kıran bir hafta olmasa da kripto piyasası için trend belirleyici olabilecek bir haftaya giriyor. Bilhassa Cuma günü bir sefer daha haftanın en değerli günü olabilir. İşte detaylar…Bitcoin ve altcoinler için kritik vakitler geliyorGeçtiğimiz hafta ABD Dolar Endeksi (DXY) tarihi olarak değerli bir dayanak düzeyinden üst sıçrayarak Bitcoin ve kripto piyasaları üzerinde kıymetli bir baskı oluşturdu. Beklenenden daha zayıf tüketici beklentileri, azalan ABD tüketici itimadı ve yapışkan çekirdek enflasyon, bu hafta kilit bir odak noktası olmaya devam edecek olan DXY’yi artırdı.16 Mayıs’ta Avrupa Merkez Bankası Christina Lagarde TSİ 17’de bir konuşma yapacak. Öteki yandan yeniden 16 Mayıs Salı günü saat 15:30’da ABD Nüfus Sayım Ofisi, Nisan ayı ABD Perakende Satışlarına ait en son sayıları açıklayacak. Mart ayına ait en son sayı -%0,6 ile -%0,4’lük iddianın epeyce altında kaldı. Nisan ayı için tüketici hassaslığının %0,7 oranında toparlanması bekleniyor.  Güçlü tüketici harcamaları DXY için destekleyici olarak görülüyor ve ralliyi hızlandırabilir. Öte yandan, bilgilerin iddiaların altında kalması, tüketicilerin harcama konusunda isteksiz kaldığını gösterecektir. Buna nazaran, DXY’nin tekrar konsolide olması ve Bitcoin ve kripto fiyatları için bir dayanak sağlaması bekleniyor.17 Mayıs Çarşamba günü saat 15:30’da, ABD Nüfus Sayım Ofisi Nisan ayı ABD inşaat müsaadeleri için ön sayıları açıklayacak. Son vakitlerde, ABD borsası ve akabinde Bitcoin fiyatı beklenenden daha yeterli gelen konut datalarına olumlu reaksiyon verdi. Nisan ayında verilen yeni konut müsaadelerinin sayısı 1,430 milyon ile kestirimlerin biraz üzerinde gerçekleşti. Şayet 1.430 milyon konut müsaadesi beklentisi tekrar aşılırsa, bu durum piyasa için bir öbür katalizör olabilir. Tekrar 17 Mayıs’ta Avrupa Bölgesinde TÜFE dataları TSİ 12:00’de açıklanacak. Öteki yandan ABD’de ham petrol stoklarına dair bilgiler TSİ 17.30’da ortaya çıkacak.Haftanın sonuna gerçek kıymetli gelişmeler yoğunlaşıyorBir gün sonra, 18’i Perşembe günü (15:30’da), Philadelphia Fed en son imalat endeksini yayınlayacak. Philadelphia Fed imalat endeksi, çok değerli ISM satın alma yöneticileri endeksi için öncü bir gösterge olarak kabul edilmekte. Bu nedenle daha geniş finansal piyasa için kıymetli olabilir.  Endeksin üst üste dördüncü ayda da -19,0 olan iddiaların altında kalması halinde, finans piyasasındaki düşüş reaksiyonunun geçen ay olduğu üzere kendini tekrarlaması mümkündür. Öte yandan, kestirimlerin üzerinde bir okuma, yakın gelecekte bir sakinlik mümkünlüğünü azaltacağı için yükseliş olacaktır. Yeniden 18’inde ABD’de işsizlik haklarından yararlanma müracaatlarına ait bilgiler karşımıza çıkacak.19 Mayıs Cuma haftanın en değerli günü, zira FED Lideri Jerome Powell saat 18:00’de kameraların karşısına geçecek ve Fed’in önümüzdeki aylardaki faiz oranı ve para siyaseti duruşu hakkında yeni bilgiler sağlayabilir. Piyasa oynaklığının artması beklenen. Bilhassa, bu hafta her biri farklı bir bakış açısına sahip 14 Fed üyesinin konuşması planlanıyor.Bitcoin ve DXY ortasındaki ilişkiDXY kelam konusu olduğunda, bir karar yakında alınabilir. Teknik analist Gert van Lagen’in açıkladığı üzere, DXY 2020/2021’de görülene benzeri bir baş ve omuz dönüşü yaşayabilir – lakin bu sefer bir yükseliş trendinden fazla bir düşüş trendine işaret ediyor. Ayrıyeten analist Tony Spilotro’nun kısa mühlet evvel Twitter’da paylaştığı üzere, 2020’nin sonlarında DXY’nin aksine dönmesi Bitcoin boğa koşusunun başlangıcını işaret etti. Tarihin tekerrür edip etmeyeceğini vakit gösterecek.Kripto para alanında da kıymetli gelişmeler varSon olarak, kripto para alanına bakarsak, bugün Amazon’un NFT pazaryerini piyasaya sürmesi beklenmekte. Öteki yandan 18 Mayıs Perşembe günü, Bitcoin Miami aktifliği başlayacak ve 3 gün sürecek.  Ayrıca, tekrar Perşembe günü, kripto para alanını ABD Temsilciler Meclisi’nin Finansal Hizmetler Komitesi etkileyecek.

Çünkü komite, bu tarihte, stablecoinlere yönelik oturum düzenleyecek. cointahmin.com olarak da bildirdiğimiz üzere stablecoin’ler, ekseriyetle ABD dolarına sabitli kriptolardır.

[dakikamagazin]

Bilet fiyatı 1 milyon TL'yi bulmuştu! Türkiye'deki ilk konserini veren Christina Aguilera'ya yoğun ilgi

[personal-reporter]

Stresa Festival 2023

Stresa Festival 2023, che si svolgerà dal 14 luglio all’8 settembre, sarà un vero  arcipelago da scoprire, composto da isole con caratteristiche prese sia dai generi musicali che dai grandi artisti che le abiteranno. Tra le sedi di concerto la prima tra tutte sarà la Stresa Festival Hall, cui seguiranno La Catapulta, la sala da concerto portatile opera dell’architetto Michele De Lucchi, le splendide Isole del Lago Maggiore, l’Eremo di Santa Caterina del Sasso e la suggestiva chiesa cinquecentesca di Madonna di Campagna, San Leonardo e il Museo del Paesaggio a Verbania e la logistica Herno, main sponsor di Stresa Festival. Stresafestivaljazz, a luglio, vedrà due grandi star internazionali come  Arturo Sandoval e Nicola Piovani, oltre a musicisti internazionali tra i quali il chitarrista Matteo Mancuso, il gruppo vocale Accent e l’HalliGalli Quartet. Sempre a luglio gli ottoni del Billi Brass Quintet saranno all’isola Pescatori mentre un’esperienza unica e preziosa è il Rigoletto, ovvero l’opera di Verdi , in una versione da camera all’aperto, ideata dal regista Gianmaria Aliverta, con il pubblico che potrà seguire la vicenda entrando nel vivo della storia. Stresafestivalyoung invece proporrà  la Missa dux Ferrarie del rinascimentale Josquin Desprez che sarà interpretata da giovani cantori e strumentisti nella chiesa di Madonna di Campagna, oltre alla musica elettronica di Teho Teardo, per una performance in riva al lago dedicata a tutti quelli che vogliono sperimentare. Invece Stresafestivalbaroque  inaugurerà il Festival di agosto con le Quattro Stagioni di Vivaldi, reinterpretate dal geniale compositore Max Richter, suonate su strumenti antichi da Brixia Musicalis, diretto da Elisa Citterio, poi si potrà  rivivere la sera in cui Monteverdi ha cambiato la storia della musica con il Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda, ma anche l’esperienza di una matinée con i Madrigali al Museo del Paesaggio, con La Fonte Musica e Michele Pasotti. Ci sarà anche il gradito ritorno di Vincenzo Capezzuto, per una serata alle origini della musica popolare napoletana con l’Arpeggiata e Christina Pluhar e il doppio appuntamento con le Sonate e Partite per violino solo di Bach in un eremo a picco sul lago, interpretata da Mario Brunello al violoncello piccolo. Stresafestivalclassic è l’isola che comprende il repertorio classico, romantico, moderno, con un ciclo delle opere da camera più famose e originali di Schubert, il Grand Duo per violino e pianoforte, l’Arpeggione e l’Ottetto. Inoltre gli artisti del Festival regaleranno ai musicisti amatoriali l’esperienza del Minus One, cioè il piacere di  suonare insieme in trio o in quartetto, provando il brivido della grande esecuzione, nella chiesetta di San Vittore, un gioiello dell’Isola dei Pescatori, e alla Chiesa di San Michele a Stresa. Infine la musica sinfonica vedrà sul palco della Festival Hall la tastiera di  Yuja Wang alle prese con i due Concerti per pianoforte di Ravel assieme alla versione dello stesso Ravel dei Quadri di una esposizione di Musorgskij, eseguiti dall’Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France diretta da Tarmo Peltokoski. A conclusione della rassegna ci saranno la Sinfonia concertante e due Sinfonie di Mozart,  con L’Orchestre de la Loge diretta da Julien Chauvin. Read the full article

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Christine Nilsson as Violetta in Opera La Traviata by Giuseppe Verdi, 1864. Photo by Pierre Petit

#Violetta Valéry #La Traviata #Giuseppe Verdi #Christina Nilsson #Christine Nilsson #Christine Daae #Christine Daaé #The Phantom of the Opera #Swedish #Coloratura #Soprano #Opera #Singer #Violetta #Swedish Nightingale #Paris #CDV #Carte de visite #Sepia photography #Portriat Photograhy #Portriat #Antique #Sepia #Vintage #Photography #Theatre #Victorian Period #19th century #1800s #Crinoline

[opera-ghosts]

Christina (or Kristina − she also commonly wrote Christine) Nilsson was born on 20 August 1843 on a farm in Vederslöv’s parish in the region of Småland, and died on 22 November 1921 in Växjo. She worked as an opera and concert singer from 1864 until 1888. Nilsson was considered one of the foremost Swedish-born international opera singers during the 19th century − a soprano with an impressive high range. She also wrote a few musical works. Christina Nilsson was elected into the Royal Swedish Academy of Music in 1869. Christina Nilsson was the youngest of seven siblings and she was born on 20 August 1843 on a farm named Sjöabol in Vederslöv’s parish just outside of the town of Växjo. Her parents were Jonas Nilsson and Stina-Cajsa Månsdotter. The family was quite poor and in 1848 they were forced to move off the farm. Christina taught herself to play her older brother’s violin and at the age of eight she began visiting roadside inns, markets and dances where she earned money by singing and accompanying herself on the violin. As an 11 year-old, she was mentioned in the newspaper Fäderneslandet in 1855 by the editor Nils Munk af Rosenschöld. Christina Nilsson’s impoverished childhood was later romanticised and often written about. A large number of the early biographies made use of anecdotes about the poor, resourceful little girl. Her life was painted as a Cinderella story. In 1857 a 14-year old Christina Nilsson sang and played at a summer market in Ljungby. Among the audience were District Judge Fredrik Tornerhielm and the pharmacist Sven Edvin Berg who are considered to have discovered her. They arranged for her to have her first music education under the tutelage of the singing teacher Adelaide Valerius (later wed Leuhusen) in Halmstad. Valerius contacted the composer Frans Berwald and in September of 1859, Nilsson moved to Stockholm in order to continue her music schooling under him. It was through Berwald that Stockholm’s music scene was made available to Nilsson. She had her debut in a public concert on 28 February 1860. Criticism was sympathetic but not glowing. Journalist Oscar Patric Sturzen-Becker (pen name, Orvar Odd) wrote that she was artistically undeveloped. However, the sharpest criticism was aimed at Berwald, which led her patrons to arrange for Nilsson to continue her studies in Paris. In September of 1860 she began her studies with the renowned vocal teacher Nicolas Jean Jacques Masset (1811−1903). Masset was succeeded in 1861 by Pierre Francois Wartel (1806−1882) who was her singing teacher until 1864. Wartel arranged for Nilsson to audition for, among others, Thèâtre Lyrique’s director, Léon Carvalho (1825−1897), which resulted in several engagements. On 27 October 1864, Nilsson debuted as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La Traviata at the Théâtre Lyrique in Paris. She was well received but the debut was not much of a sensation. The critics remarked that her voice was still uneven and that she had a weak middle register. It was her second debut on 23 February 1865, as the Queen of the Night in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s The Magic Flute, which was to be the big breakthrough for her. In this role she was praised to the heavens. Nilsson said herself in the newspaper Ny Illustrerad tidning from 21 April 1894 that her portrayal of Violetta was childish and immature while the Queen of the Night role was better suited to her voice. It was particularly the big aria’s staccato passages in an enormously high tessitura that were an uncommonly good fit for her voice. Nilsson related that at the premier, the audience required her to sing the aria again − three times in total. In 1867 Christina Nilsson had a new breakthrough when she debuted at Her Majesty’s Theatre in London in the role of Margareta in Charles Gounod’s Faust. Between 1867 and 1870 Nilsson sang at both the Paris Opera and Her Majesty’s Theatre. On 9 March 1868 she debuted as Ophelia in Ambrose Thomas’ newly written opera Hamlet. The roll was designed specifically for Nilsson and as a nod to her

Scandinavian origins, a part of the folk tune ‘Näckens polska’ was written into one of Ophelia’s larger arias. The opera broke box office records. In 1869 Nilsson became a member of the Kungliga Musikaliska akademien (the Royal Swedish Academy of Music). In 1870 she did her first concert tour in the USA, and then in 1872, a second tour. During both of these tours she took part in various operas and gave concerts. In her concerts she sang opera arias as well as folk songs. Above all, the song ‘Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var’ became her signature piece. In July 1872 she married Auguste Rouzaud who henceforth accompanied her until he died in 1882. From 1872 until 1884 she did successive tours in Europe, the USA and Canada. She was named Imperial Chamber Singer in both Austria and Russia. New successes included, above all, Leonora in Verdi’s Il Trovatore, Valentine in Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots as well as Elsa in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin. On 22 October 1883, she sang Margareta at the Metropolitan Opera’s opening ceremony. Nilsson stopped performing opera in 1885 but continued to concertise. In September 1885 the so-called ‘Christina Nilsson accident’ occurred in Stockholm when Nilsson sang from a balcony at the Grand Hotel. Panic struck the crowd of 30,000. Sixteen women and two girls were trampled to death and around 70 others were hurt. In 1887 Christina Nilsson married Duke Angelo de Casa Miranda. Shortly thereafter she ended her career. The couple settled in Paris and Madrid, and in 1895 Nilsson bought the home Villa Vik in Småland. In 1902 she was widowed for a second time and after that, she spent her summers in Småland. She died in Växjo on 22 November 1921. Christina Nilsson’s vocal register stretched from low B natural to F above high C. She had an impressive high range and somewhat weaker low and middle ranges. The singer described how she early-on cultivated her high notes because as a child, the people she sang for found it impressive. Nilsson’s timbre is described as special. Phrases such as ‘crystal-clear’, ‘like a bell’ and ‘flute-like’ are often-repeated descriptions. Sofia Berfors in 1877 emphasised that among Nilsson’s contemporaries there were many female singers with larger voices but none more beautiful, while Arvid Ahnfeldt wrote in 1887: ‘Chr. N. has at her disposal, a voice that does not dazzle with impressive strength, does not set fire with passion’s glowing coals, but draws one in through her gentle, tender beauty.’ Christina Nilsson has written a few musical pieces, the songs ‘Ofelias klagan’, ‘Jag hade en vän’, as well as arrangements of the folk songs ‘Om dagen vid mitt arbete’ and ‘Spring and Autumn’ (an English reworking of ‘Fjorton år tror jag visst att jag var’). In ‘Ofelias klagan’ for song, piano and violin one can hear Nilsson’s background as a violinist. The song is expressive and the violin part has a relatively large ambitus. ‘Jag hade en vän’ for song and piano has the feeling of a Swedish folk song in a relatively quick triple metre. All the songs combine the style of Swedish folk song with a bit of vocal virtuosity.

#Christina Nilsson #Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart #La Traviata #Giuseppe Verdi #Die Zauberflöte #Her Majesty’s Theatre #Faust #Charles Gounod #Ambrose Thomas #Hamlet #Il Trovatore #Les Huguenots #Giacomo Meyerbeer #Lohengrin #Richard Wagner #Mignon #Mefistofeles #Arrigo Boito #Amilcare Ponchielli #Martha #Friedrich von Flotow #Don Giovanni #Robert le Diable #Le Nozze di Figaro #Lucia of Lammermoor #Gaetano Donizetti #Covent Garden #Otello #Gioacchino Rossini #Royal Albert Hall

[artofcinema]

opera (1987) dir. dario argento

i think it’s unwise to use movies as a guide for reality. don’t you, inspector?

horror | christina marsillach, ian charleson, daria nicolodi

#opera #opera 1987 #dario argento #christina marsillach #ian charleson #daria nicolodi #urbano barberini #antonella vitale #william mcnamara #verdi #macbeth #terror at the opera

[hazelestelle]

@occhi-verdi-come-il-mare tagged me to post my lockscreen, recently listened song and last picture of a celebrity I saved.

My lock screen is still the same as last time I posted it, and I do not have any pictures of celebrities saved.

A song I listened to recently is Maria by Christina Aguilera.

Tagging whoever wants to do this :)

#isa talks #about me #julia💙

[widevibratobitch]

Tag game yeaaaah

Rules: Put your music on shuffle and expose your first 10 songs

Tagged by @babinicz (moja autokorekta sama zasugerowała twoje url so XD)

Se al volto mai ti senti - Mozart's "La clemenza di Tito" (Barbara Frittoli, Elina Garanca, some... bass sorry dont know him lol)

Carlo ch'è sol il nostro amore - Verdi's "Don Carlo" (Mario Sereni)

Son io, mio Carlo...Per me giunto...O Carlo, ascolta - Verdi's "Don Carlo" (Mariusz Kwiecień)

Piano Concerto in B-flat Major - Mozart

Hurt - Christina Aguilera (wow would you look at that)

Der Vogelfänger bin ich ja - Mozart's "Die Zauberflöte" (Detlef Roth)

Vy mne pisali - Tschaikovsky's "Eugene Onegin" (Mariusz Kwiecień)

Casta Diva...Ah, bello a me ritorna - Bellini's "Norma" (Rosa Ponselle)

Ah, sii maledetto - Verdi's "Don Carlo" what a surprise (Cesare Siepi, Ettore Bastianini, Giulietta Simionato, Siena Jurinac)

Alla bella Despinetta - Mozart's "Così fan tutte" (Luca Pisaroni, Topi Lehtipuu, Miah Persson, Anke Vondung and two other singers whose names I don't know oops)

If you see this, consider yourself tagged.

#Tag game #Look imma be honest #I dont really use Spotify #I just. Download all songs to my phone because thats just what i do ok #So i just put all my over 700 songs on shuffle and wow look at that #Don carlo got in here three times #Wow #Who would have thought

[shakespearenews]

Krassen Karagiozov  and Christina Major in Verdi’s “Macbeth” at West Bay Opera. Photo: Courtesy West Bay Opera. 

#shakespeare #lady macbeth #macbeth #shakespeare and music #opera #verdi #shakespeare and opera #william shakespeare #music #do I hear