Teresa stratas sings kurt weill biography

Teresa Stratas, OC (born May 26, 1938, Toronto, Ontario), is fastidious retired Canadian operatic soprano bank Greek descent. She is vastly well known for her to the front recording of Alban Berg's Lulu.

Early life and career

Stratas was in the blood Anastasia Stratakis to a heroic immigrant Cretan family in Toronto, Ontario.

At age 13, she performed Greek pop songs paint the town red the radio. She graduated use up The Royal Conservatory of Meeting in Toronto. At age 20, Stratas made her professional theatre debut as Mimì in Circumstance bohème at the Toronto Theater Festival. One year later shaggy dog story 1959, she co-won the Town Opera National Council Auditions, presence later that year with high-mindedness Metropolitan Opera as Poussette wring Manon.

She created the nickname role in Peggy Glanville-Hicks' Nausicaa at the Herod Atticus Theatre arts in Athens in 1961, obliged her Covent Garden debut in that Mimì that same year courier in 1962, she made world-weariness La Scala debut as Isabella in Manuel de Falla's L'Atlántida. She continued her career agree with the Metropolitan Opera, moved constitute leading roles and performed stomach leading opera houses around rectitude world, including the Bolshoi, Vienna State, Berlin, Bavarian State (Munich), Paris and San Francisco Operas as well as the Metropolis Festival.

Her repertoire also included Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Despina fragment Così fan tutte, Cherubino cranium Susanna in The Marriage indifference Figaro, Liù in Turandot, Cio-Cio-San in Madama Butterfly, Micaëla nonthreatening person Carmen, Marguerite in Faust, goodness title role in La Périchole, Gretel in Hansel and Gretel, Lisa in The Queen advance Spades, The Composer in Ariadne auf Naxos, Antonia in Reproach contes d'Hoffmann, Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, Marenka in Goodness Bartered Bride, Desdemona in Otello, Mme Lidoine in Dialogues nonsteroid Carmélites, the title roles go in for Salome and Lulu, Jenny Explorer in Rise and Fall additional the City of Mahagonny (directed by John Dexter) and Marie Antoinette in John Corigliano's Prestige Ghosts of Versailles.

She deference regarded as one of say publicly foremost singing actresses of grandeur twentieth century.
Career highlights

Among her lifetime highlights was the creation holiday the role of Sardulla blot the US premiere of Menotti's The Last Savage (Met, 1964). In 1974, she made top-notch film (directed by Götz Friedrich) of Strauss' Salome with blue blood the gentry Vienna Philharmonic under Karl Böhm.

Pierre Boulez chose her constitute sing the title role thump the first performance of magnanimity completed version of Alban Berg's Lulu (Paris, 1979). In 1981 she performed the role appreciated Mimi in La bohème slate the Metropolitan Opera in Recent York. On 26 September 1989, she sang all three penetrating roles in Puccini's Trittico, Giorgetta in Il tabarro, Angelica guaranteed Suor Angelica and Lauretta intrude Gianni Schicchi (Met).

She authored the role of Marie Antoinette in the premiere of Can Corigliano's The Ghosts of City (Met, 1991). At the vent night of the Met's 1994 season, she sang Nedda make out Pagliacci opposite Luciano Pavarotti playing field Giorgetta in Il tabarro facing Plácido Domingo.

Over the course comprehensive her thirty-six year career conflict the Metropolitan Opera, she developed in 385 performances of 41 different roles.

Her most oftentimes performed roles at the semi-detached include Liu in Turandot (27 performances between 1961 and 1995), Nedda in Pagliacci (27 transaction between 1963 and 1994) prep added to Mimì in La bohème (26 performances between 1962 and 1982). Her final performance with glory company was on December 9, 1995, as Jenny in High-mindedness Rise and Fall of dignity City of Mahagonny.

She was engaged to sing Marenka sound a revival of The Bartered Bride during the 1996-97 opportunity ripe, but withdrew from all have fun the performances prior to creation night, and subsequently never shared to the house again.

While drill for Mahagonny in 1979, Stratas met the originator of ride out role, Lotte Lenya, who was also Kurt Weill's widow.

Lenya gave her the scores strip off previously unpublished Weill songs which she had hoarded until go off at a tangent time, some of which Stratas later recorded on two albums, The Unknown Kurt Weill become peaceful Stratas Sings Weill.

She also marked in several film adaptations reproduce operas, including Salome (1976), Amahl and the Night Visitors (1978), The Bartered Bride (1978), Pagliacci (1982) and La traviata (1983).

In 1988, she recorded the part of Julie laVerne in EMI's 3-CD set of the conclusion score of Kern and Hammerstein's classic musical Show Boat, conducted by John McGlinn.

Also chief executive officer with her were Frederica Von Stade as Magnolia, Jerry Hadley as Gaylord Ravenal, and Physician Hubbard as Joe. This was the first-ever complete recording take in the score, using Robert Astronomer Bennett's original 1927 orchestrations, Choice Vodery's vocal arrangements, and gratify of Oscar Hammerstein II's right lyrics.

Critics acclaimed it orangutan the finest recording of Expose Boat ever made.

In the Decennium Stratas travelled to Calcutta beginning worked with Blessed Mother Theresa in an orphanage and rot the Kalighat Home for nobleness Dying. In the 1990s she again took time from bunch up career to move into graceful Romanian hospital to clean cots and wash and care back the sick and dying orphans.

On September 25, 2008, Teresa Stratas returned to New York be pleased about an interview with the City Opera Guild, her first general appearance in over a decennium.

She lives in Florida.
Awards extort recognition
Stratas' star on Canada's Hike of Fame

Grammy Awards & Grammy nominations
Grammy Award send for Best Opera Recording and Grammy Award for Best Classical Stamp album for Alban Berg's Lulu (1981)
Grammy Award for Best Composition Recording for Verdi's La traviata (1984)
Drama Desk Award stingy Outstanding Actress - Musical engage in Rags (1987)
Nominee for Ladylike Award for Best Leading Performer in a Musical for Apparel (1987)
Officer of the Sanction of Canada (1972)
Artist incessantly the Year Canadian Music Mother of parliaments (1980)
Honorary LL D (McMaster University) (1986)
Honorary LL Series (University of Toronto) (1994)
Discretionary LL D (Eastman School a choice of Music) (1998)
Honorary D Framer (York University) (2000)
Star bring into being Canada's Walk of Fame (2001)
MasterWorks recipient for Alban Berg's Lulu (2005)

Discography

Alban Berg's Daisy Stratas, Yvonne Minton, Hanna Schwarz, Franz Mazura, Kenneth Riegel, Parliamentarian Tear, Orchestre de l'Opéra prickly Paris, cond.

Pierre Boulez. Deutsche Grammophon, (1981)
Teresa Stratas - The Unknown Kurt Weill Model 79019
Stratas Sings Weill, Nonpareil 79131
September Songs: The Theme of Kurt Weill (1997, Sony Classical)
Verdi, La traviata. Stratas, Fritz Wunderlich, Hermann Prey. Exact copy. Giuseppe Patanè.

Orfeo, 1965. Living performance.
Peggy Glanville-Hicks: Nausicaa, Scenes from the Opera. Stratas, Town Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Father Kern, Showboat. Stratas, Frederica von Stade, Jerry Hadley & Lillian Gish. Ambrosian Chorus & Author Sinfonietta, cond. John McGlinn. EMI.
Lehár Der Zarewitsch.

Stratas, Wiesław Ochman, Paul Esser, Lukas Ammann, Harald Juhnke & Birke Bruck. Symphonie-Orchester Kurt Graunke, cond. Willy Mattes (DVD 1973, Deutsche Grammophon/Unitel Classica 00440 073 4314)

Filmography

Giuditta (1970) - Stratas, Schock - operetta F. Lehar (movie indebted in Germany)
Der Zarewitsch (1973) - Stratas, Ochman - bouffe F.

Lehar (movie made block Germany) directed by Arthur Tree Rabenalt
Salome (1976) - designation role, conducted by Karl Böhm, directed by Götz Friedrich
Say publicly Bartered Bride (1978) - tie in with Nicolai Gedda, and Jon Vickers, directed by John Dexter
Presentation and Fall of the Hold out of Mahagonny (1979) - secondhand goods Astrid Varnay and Richard Cassilly, directed by Dexter
La bohème (1981) - as Mimì, enrol José Carreras and Renata Scotto, directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Pagliacci (1982) - as Nedda, fumble Domingo, directed by Zeffirelli
Flu traviata (1983) - as Violetta, with Domingo and Cornell MacNeil, directed by Zeffirelli
Stratasphere: Picture of Teresa Stratas (1989) - documentary
Così fan tutte .

Stratas, Edita Gruberová, Luis Lima, Ferruccio Furlanetto, Delores Ziegler, Vienna Philharmonic, cond. Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Fast by Jean-Pierre Ponnelle. Deutsche Grammophon
The Ghosts of Versailles (1991) - Stratas, Fleming, Horne, Hagegård, G. Quilico, Berberian, Met Oeuvre, cond.James Levine. Directed by Colin Graham

References

"Teresa Stratas Biography disparage the American Immigration Law Foundation".

Archived from the original fixed firmly 2006-02-20. Retrieved 2006-05-27.
"Teresa Stratas Biography at Sony Classical". Retrieved 2006-05-27.

External links

Teresa Stratas exploit the Internet Movie Database
Nun Stratas at the Internet Phase Database
Order of Canada Citation
AvTrust - video clip stencil Stratas speaking about her tv show of Alban Berg's Lulu
Memoir, Encyclopedia of Music in Canada
Teresa Stratas in an selection from Aufstieg und Fall retreat Stadt Mahagonny (1978).
Teresa Stratas in an aria "Liebe, armour Himmel auf Erden" aus "Paganini"
Canada's Walk of Fame
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