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Dorothy Kirsten, soprano, sings four pieces and discusses her long career with Robert Jacobson, music reviewer for Saturday Review Magazine. With a concert orchestra under Alfredo Antonini, conductor. Many photographs illustrate her career and life. Soprano Kirsten this year (1971) celebrated 25 years with The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Performance pieces: "Vissi d'arte" from "Tosca" by Puccini, "I'll See You Again," (Noel Coward), "You Go to My Head" (Cole Porter) and "Someone to Watch Over Me" (George Gershwin), and "Depuis le Jour" from Charpentier's "Louise." Comments on Kirsten's wide repertoire, her career from show business to opera, 25 years with the San Francisco Opera and 25 years with the Met: appeared in movies, and now directs operas. Interview themes: Jacobson calls Kirsten "a unique blend of glamor, artistry and show business." Kirsten talks about stage fright, how she never hoped to be an opera singer, discuss repertoire and her "vocal freshness." "Young singers must learn to say 'No' to roles they can't do. Puccini was just right for me..." Tells how she turned Rudolph Bing down when he asked her to do "Wozzeck." Kirsten's first love is the stage. Discusses directing opera at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Only does operas she knows well, Tosca, Boheme, Butterfly, and makes them "as realistic as possible." Points out changes in Tosca's last act to make death leap plausible. "Opera is antiquity...red velvet and crystal chandeliers...shouldn't be 'way out' (meaning "too doctored up"). Not many new roles left for her to do, but she'd like to do Desdemona and Andrea Chenier. Kirsten started out with popular music. Grace Moore befriended her. Kirsten knew Charpentier and inherited Moor's role in "Louise.". 1971. |
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| Title: Dorothy Kirsten, soprano, in performance | |
Reference: 710418 |
Categories: "OPERAS, OPERA SINGERS, SOPRANOS, DISCUSSION OF MUSIC" |
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