Margaret Price - W.A. Mozart "Idomeneo" Idol mio, se ritroso fairlytaleofnewyork

W.A. Mozart
"Idomeneo" Idol Mio, se ritroso
Margaret Price - Soprano (Electra)
Conductor - James Lockhart
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Painting/Print
- Print of Electra - Detail from "Electra and Orestes", from an 1897 Stories from the Greek Tragedians, by Alfred Church
- Painting of Electra - Electra at the Tomb of Agamemnon, Frederic Leighton c.1869


In memoriam of great soprano, Margaret Price (1941 - 2011)

(Article from BBC Wales South East)
Dame Margaret Price Opera star with a luminous voice

Born: 13 APR 1941
Died: 28 JAN 2011
Place of Birth: Blackwood
Trivia: At school, she was set on becoming a biology teacher - "I absolutely adored cutting up frogs".
Biography: Although she was born to a musical family, Dame Margaret's father did not want her to take up singing as a career. On the recommendation of her music teacher, she went to London to sing to Charles Kennedy Scott and at the age of 15 was awarded a scholarship to study with him at Trinity College of Music. Recognising his daughter's talent and ambition, Mr Price had a change of heart and wrote to several opera houses on her behalf. This led to her acclaimed debut with Welsh National Opera in 1962 as Cherubino in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro. Like her compatriot Dame Gwyneth Jones, Dame Margaret also became an overnight sensation due to a star's illness. She performed the same role at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, as understudy to Teresa Berganza. Since then Dame Margaret became renowned across the world as a performer of opera and Lieder, particularly of Mozart and Verdi. She was awarded the CBE in 1982 and was made a dame in 1993. Although she lived for many years in Germany, Dame Margaret returned home to Wales following her retirement in 1999. She died at her home near Cardigan in January 2011 at the age of 69.

More details see http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-12.... Moment of Glory: Achieving overnight fame in The Marriage of Figaro at the Royal Opera House when Teresa Berganza fell ill.

Margaret Price - W.A. Mozart "Idomeneo" Idol mio, se ritroso
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