Curved Air presents:
Fall Fund Drive Fever feat. “LA STUPENDA”: The Voice of Joan Sutherland [1926-2010]
Dame Joan Sutherland was an Australian coloratura soprano who specialized in the bel canto operatic repertoire. Today we listen to scenes and arias from Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor, Bellini’s Norma, and Offenbach’s Tales of Hoffmann and more. Click here for NPR’s 2010 tribute.
From The Charlie Rose Show in 1998:
From The Dinah Shore Show in 1963, with Ella Fitzgerald:
DJbob Curved Air October 24th, 2023
Posted In: Fund Drive, Music, Music Shows, Website
Tags: anna moffo, joan sutherland, maria callas
Curved Air presents:
The Music of Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) feat. Leontyne Price
Today we hear highlights from Verdi’s 1871 grand opera ‘Aida’…also arias and songs by Puccini, Bellini, with performances by Anna Moffo, Anna Netrebko, and Rosa Ponselle.
[Illustration of Verdi By Théobald Chartran – Vanity Fair, 15 February 1879. Photo of Leontyne Price By John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA – LEOTYNE PRICE, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=75843377]
Leontyne Price’s final opera performance, from The Met in 1985:
DJbob Curved Air October 10th, 2023
Posted In: Music Shows
Tags: anna moffo, anna netrebko, georg solti, giuseppe verdi, leontyne price, rosa ponselle, verdi, verdi aida
Curved Air presents:
WOMEN SINGING feat. Rosa Ponselle, Bidu Sayão, and a historic 1935 Met broadcast
[Above: Rosa Ponselle in 1919; Below: Bidu Sayão as Manon]
[Below: Anna Moffo in 1962]
DJbob Curved Air March 14th, 2023
Posted In: Blogging, Music, Music Shows, Volunteering, Website
Tags: anna moffo, janet baker, jessye norman, rosa ponselle