tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21039818947494746792024-03-27T09:36:54.032+03:00Leyla Gencer ArchiveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger440125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-41192655040954843932020-06-11T13:00:00.084+03:002024-02-27T12:34:45.698+03:00<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">P R E F A C E </span></b><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p></div><div><br /></div><span style="font-family: times;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;">First of all; I would like to state that this is not a conventional blog. My purpose is to create a sort of an archive where one can access to all kinds of information about Leyla Gencer’s art which can be found separately in various websites.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span>
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there’s a biography consisting of eight main chapters that I wrote including
some information given to me by Leyla Gencer herself. And in the column on the
right there’s a chapter containing information about Gencer’s opera
performances, concerts and recitals that I gathered from various press and
opera archives. The content of the mentioned column is based mainly on the
biographical books of Franca Cella and Zeynep Oral; whereas I added the “cast
lists” which I personally gathered from opera house archives and some websites.
I’m certainly not hundred percent sure about the reliability of each data. I
accessed too many articles about Gencer’s concerts in Turkey and abroad in the
archive of Cumhuriyet newspaper; which I added to the blog. If you find out any
inaccuracies in the blog or retain some more data about Leyla Gencer; I’d be
delighted if you could share them with me. For instance; in the book “A story
of passion”; Zeynep Oral wrote about Gencer’s performances of Luisa Miller and
Manon Lescaut; but yet I was unable to find out at which opera houses or venues
these operas were performed. Information that I’ve been searching is that as
Leyla Gencer had told me herself, she had attended the rehearsals of Wagner’s
Tannhauser but due to a strike at the opera house, the performances were
canceled. I still haven’t found out the name of the mentioned opera house and
the year in which the production was supposed to be realized.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">The lists
containing Gencer’s recordings, press reviews, awards and the memorial
ceremonies can also be found in the column on the right. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">I have attached
the Youtube links of all her recordings under each opera title to which they
are related.</span><b style="font-family: "times new roman", "serif"; font-size: large;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: IT;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>Deh! non volerli vittime</i> from Norma</span></b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(250, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Video </span><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: left;">© Selçuk Metin / Borusan Sanat</span></div></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: medium;">I have tried to
do my best in mentioning the copyright owners of the photographs that I used
from the internet; nevertheless it’s not been possible to name each
photographer. I’d be delighted if anyone who has such information or claims
that some photographs should be excluded from the blog because of copyrights
could contact me.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">Sadly I haven’t
been able to access to articles about Gencer published in the German, Polish, French and Norwegian press due to my limited knowledge in those languages. I’d again be
delighted if you could share your knowledge regarding this necessity. I sincerely
hope </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">that this “Blog” will be improved by time and it<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>will turn into a website in the future.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">HÜRRİYET DAILY NEWSPAPER</span></b></p>
<div style="background: rgb(250, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2021.07.07</span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif";">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-7635777763453476182020-06-11T12:45:00.052+03:002024-02-27T12:35:32.414+03:00<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A D I V A W I T H A D I F F E R E N C E </span></b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDJJFP3b8-w1Sc6fGlweey5IJSeECdG3SH4pi_7WWujfr7VbU8chlx9VI6UdYnZrgO7lVDIt6Iv65KbHSOEDr68E4itkfRcr9xCtx_gSvkJY8AKWvwHV-2fT8wQjft7f6DR-na0C2iswc/s1469/001-+Giannina+Arangi-Lombardi+1949.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1469" data-original-width="901" height="1092" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVDJJFP3b8-w1Sc6fGlweey5IJSeECdG3SH4pi_7WWujfr7VbU8chlx9VI6UdYnZrgO7lVDIt6Iv65KbHSOEDr68E4itkfRcr9xCtx_gSvkJY8AKWvwHV-2fT8wQjft7f6DR-na0C2iswc/w666-h1092/001-+Giannina+Arangi-Lombardi+1949.jpg" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Giannina Arangi-Lombardi as Aida (Teatro alla Scala) 1927<br />A signed photo for Gencer in 1949</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">The exact year of Leyla Gencer’s birthday has always been a mystery. She was born in Istanbul. Based on various records; her year of birth might be 1919, 1924 or 1928. According to her school archives she was born in 1919. Being an Italian High School graduate, the artist started her vocal training at the Istanbul Municipal Conservatory. </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-align: justify;">Subsequently she went to Ankara where she had the opportunity to study with the famous Italian soprano Giannina Arangi-Lombardi and Apollo Granforte. </span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqQW2VP4QO5QGFA2_Re3O6UfW-vPJhAcOh0PanUVDkDI1eZsa2-ZYWtDTO7mF0Q2rDR-wBBCmrz5QPQBD9EAooe2TgGzZIaG4MKuiB_I0PbN0crt5dxjsD26jun7iWIu4slqwfcuZKq8B/s2048/002-+Apollo+Granforte+Ankara+1953.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1413" data-original-width="2048" height="461" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtqQW2VP4QO5QGFA2_Re3O6UfW-vPJhAcOh0PanUVDkDI1eZsa2-ZYWtDTO7mF0Q2rDR-wBBCmrz5QPQBD9EAooe2TgGzZIaG4MKuiB_I0PbN0crt5dxjsD26jun7iWIu4slqwfcuZKq8B/w666-h461/002-+Apollo+Granforte+Ankara+1953.jpg" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">with Apollo Granforte in 1953, Ankara</span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Being 20th century’s one of the most unique divas and
having a major importance in the opera history, Leyla Gencer sang 71 operas at 76 different opera houses. Not only she was one of the most active artists of
her time, she was also renowned for reviving long-neglected operas and making
major contributions to today’s opera repertoire. Her interpretations so called
“Gencerate” are appreciated even more today than they were at the time. During
her career, except for a few roles, Gencer sang only the roles that she loved
and wanted to sing which she always interpreted in her own way. There were two
people whose art she trusted and respected; Tullio Serafin and Gianandrea
Gavazzeni.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="513" data-original-width="1035" height="333" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiGl1EyWYXsjwzqLE9RmeTwoszVb3GD_Wtbwbc_UHbutJE_LZzKLpCtISJhnSXh-97tpOXdLn6GLm3GQ_Mrx1dX22xvvE64EzxN2-O34v5ZmxEKdy_MDEYb0uuMLv8R_1i5aAlSvmaav46S/w670-h333/003-+with+serafin+Palermo+1955.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="670" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">with Tullio Serafin during the rehearsals of Yevgeny Onyegin, 1954<br /><i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;">Photo</span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span style="text-align: center;"> © FOTO TRONCONE,</span></span> Napoli</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span>On all occasions Gencer fulfilled the requests of these two great conductors of the Italian opera and executed them on the stage unconditionally. Gencer often had arguments with opera conductors and directors regarding her stage performances and was sidelined by many directors because of her attitude. During the rehearsals of her first production at La Scala in the opera <i>Dialoghi delle Carmelitane</i>, she had arguments with the director Margherita Wallmann and the composer Françis Poulenc. Such arguments might have led to the cancellation of the production but in the end, she won. Although her Mozart interpretations were not fully appreciated by the critics in the 60’s, Gencer’s new approach to Mozart’s Italian operas are today considered among the best Mozart interpretations. And her “noble” way of interpreting <i>Leonora</i> in the opera <i>Il Trovatore</i> is considered one of the best Il Trovatore interpretations.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjii0rJmgKovEvxckXfx7iaA5P_LUStJHP3vtwznVgo3BwBZRoZERxgCjfYvd2F30a4J8zr0OD4s-Um1zMxIf5125SO8qlpXPFsXKIs83cJafEQt18NjpBAM36H0T1yMF9JNsCUgAmRInbG/s2048/1981+MusicaViva+%2528with+Raimondi%2529+Milano+%25282%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1359" data-original-width="2048" height="441" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjii0rJmgKovEvxckXfx7iaA5P_LUStJHP3vtwznVgo3BwBZRoZERxgCjfYvd2F30a4J8zr0OD4s-Um1zMxIf5125SO8qlpXPFsXKIs83cJafEQt18NjpBAM36H0T1yMF9JNsCUgAmRInbG/w665-h441/1981+MusicaViva+%2528with+Raimondi%2529+Milano+%25282%2529.jpg" width="665" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">from photo shooting "Musica Viva" 1981 <br /><i>Photo</i><i><span><span style="text-align: center;"> © </span></span></i><i>LELLI E MASOTTI, Milano</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Gencer differs from the sopranos who just sing on the stage. Besides her singing capacity, she also had the acting potential to fulfill the requirements of her roles. Thanks to the combination of her acting talent, voice and interpretation; Gencer achieved the acting singer title which had associated with Maria Callas in the 20th century.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">During her career, Gencer sang 71 different operas in 255 different productions and 8 choral works in 10 concerts. She gave 167 recitals and and concerts and appeared on the stage approximately 1.150 times. The majority of these performances were of 15 operas which she sang very often. Gencer performed <i>La Traviata </i>57 times, <i>Macbeth</i> 42 times, <i>Aida</i> 39 times, <i>Norma</i> 33 times, <i>Madama Butterfly </i>35 times, <i>Don Carlos</i> 33 times, <i>Tosca</i> 89 times, <i>Le nozze di Figaro</i> 29 times, <i>Alceste</i> 27 times, <i>Il Trovatore</i> 32 times, <i>La Gioconda</i> 24 times, <i>Simon Boccanegra</i> 20 times and <i>Lucrezia Borgia</i> 17 times. You can see her performance details in Index II. Unfortunately, it’s not been possible to define the exact number of her performances since among all opera houses, La Scala and La Fenice were the only ones to register the further dates of performances after the premieres.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGB9giPC513lGeBgqPkHGhX00VZkXh5Xk2qINjxt-Mcd_8jnyCVMeQXB_DlHjvXmWNvNvAQG3eIKRqUDNoxtnQNSAzeVZLUvRIauK3DzR953yfWwXYfD3aYn23VbyDAndFuatYnPhIBM0m/s860/Untitled.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="455" data-original-width="860" height="346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGB9giPC513lGeBgqPkHGhX00VZkXh5Xk2qINjxt-Mcd_8jnyCVMeQXB_DlHjvXmWNvNvAQG3eIKRqUDNoxtnQNSAzeVZLUvRIauK3DzR953yfWwXYfD3aYn23VbyDAndFuatYnPhIBM0m/w657-h346/Untitled.png" width="657" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">from photo shooting "Musica Viva" 1981 <br /><i>Photo </i><i><span><span style="text-align: center;">© </span></span></i><i>LELLI E MASOTTI, Milano</i></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-51637634540719879652020-06-11T12:30:00.043+03:002024-02-27T12:35:02.048+03:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">V O Y A G E </span></b></p><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5o9xqFbAA52YAWcluVpDRNapt5Tz6lxhpK7OM80SfgXIsguWK7Hu21dDjzwkfF1XaQ60t6Gdk54nX4nMwqHgPc1EyJUJ06WstWHh8J4sMOKfmaYTNMPYsi2_PwttbcNDBcYdC4Faw2dp/s875/01+-Newark+Airport+1972.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="492" data-original-width="875" height="373" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjV5o9xqFbAA52YAWcluVpDRNapt5Tz6lxhpK7OM80SfgXIsguWK7Hu21dDjzwkfF1XaQ60t6Gdk54nX4nMwqHgPc1EyJUJ06WstWHh8J4sMOKfmaYTNMPYsi2_PwttbcNDBcYdC4Faw2dp/w664-h373/01+-Newark+Airport+1972.jpg" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">New York JFK Airport, TWA Terminal, 11.04.1973<br /><i>Photo <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="text-align: center;">© ASSOCIATED PRESS, New York</span></span></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-size: 12pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></div></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;">Gencer’s voyage with opera started in 1943 as she began participating concerts and radio programs. Her first orchestral concert was in Istanbul on May 9</span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">,</span><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> 1947.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">It was the premiere of Cemal Reşit Rey’s stage cantata <i>Özsoy</i> where she sang the brief soprano part under the baton of the composer himself. After leaving the Istanbul State Conservatory and going to Ankara, Gencer made her opera debut at Ankara State Opera in 1950 in Mascagni’s <i>Cavalleria Rusticana.</i><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Gencer had her first experiences abroad by giving recitals on radios. She gave recitals in Holland (in 1948), on BBC Radio (in December 1951), on Radio-Diffusion Française (1951). Her first radio recital in Italy was in July 1953 at Rai-Roma.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; margin-bottom: 0pt;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhkxWbuuhQMl3IMlCi30yS3O3JGVxF4HPCRvYqxVhrc494wPyf3HPpfVBiQ9bsV-Uip71g_y_Yp1u3Fu_zIlGzyg1T7jcwj_yMT5s1PUtbYF6k4LLB4GQCwYRtwEbEt8tUhxPmL_yBxAF/s2048/00.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1203" data-original-width="2048" height="393" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjNhkxWbuuhQMl3IMlCi30yS3O3JGVxF4HPCRvYqxVhrc494wPyf3HPpfVBiQ9bsV-Uip71g_y_Yp1u3Fu_zIlGzyg1T7jcwj_yMT5s1PUtbYF6k4LLB4GQCwYRtwEbEt8tUhxPmL_yBxAF/w669-h393/00.png" width="669" /></a></div><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;">S</span><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">he was
accompanied by pianist Giorgio Favoretto. In the same year she gave her first
orchestral concert with Orchestra del Rai di Torino under the baton of Arturo
Basile. She sang duets and arias from the operas Un <i>ballo in maschera, Faust</i> and <i>La
forza del destino</i> with Agostino Lazzarini, one of the most significant
tenors of that period. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">After her succesful
performances as <i>Santuzza</i> in <i>Cavalleria Rusticana</i> at ten
thousand-seat Arena Flegrea of Naples on the 16th and 19th of July 1953; Gencer
caught the attention of the famous conductor Tullio Serafin. She was invited to
perform <i>Madama Butterfly</i> and <i>Eugene Onegin</i> the following year at
Teatro San Carlo - Naples in February and May of 1954. On February 11</span><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1954, Gencer performed in the 50th year anniversary production of <i>Madam Butterfly</i> under the baton of
Gabriele Santini and subsequently on March 17 1954, she sang <i>Tatiana</i> in <i>Eugene Onegin</i> under the baton of Tullio Serafin. The recordings of
these two operas are available on CDs.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div>
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<span lang="" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Until the year 1957 when she
made her debut at Teatro alla Scala in Milan; Gencer sang <i>Madam Butterfly</i> (Torino, Napoli, Belgrad), <i>Tosca</i> (Munich, Lozan), <i>La
Traviata</i> (Warsaw, Lodz, Poznan, Ankara, Reggio Emilia, Trieste, Palermo), <i>Kerem ile Aslı</i> (Ankara), <i>Die Freischütz</i> (Trieste) and <i>The Consul</i> (Ankara). In the same period
she caught the public’s attention as <i>Charlotte
</i>in the opera <i>Werther</i> which was
broadcast in Rai television on April 23 1955. The recording is available on
DVD.</span></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-56574350742598456302020-06-11T12:15:00.040+03:002024-02-27T12:36:17.460+03:00<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">A M E R I C A </span></b><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 16pt;"> </span></b></p><br /><div><span style="font-size: medium;">Gencer’s first major breakthrough beyond Europe was in San Francisco in September 1956. It was the production of Francesca da Rimini where she stepped in for Renata Tebaldi.</span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUFD1nMe_SiI552RDdM-oXstGQj32miYXjGrKxQn7aBSMMmqfi3-G54hTPLhwivqwK6JfmsQkuKX-5ED3_TLBP1W1k9zYTJZQ7oL2N5x1J222vkCfJtyNAiC1LmGKaAjcs9XOG5NDcpqCFWpCL8ZFdN9juZZeIaqWohJ7XH44AxHy5YBbDmRCwfXiSCw" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3554" data-original-width="2396" height="984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjUFD1nMe_SiI552RDdM-oXstGQj32miYXjGrKxQn7aBSMMmqfi3-G54hTPLhwivqwK6JfmsQkuKX-5ED3_TLBP1W1k9zYTJZQ7oL2N5x1J222vkCfJtyNAiC1LmGKaAjcs9XOG5NDcpqCFWpCL8ZFdN9juZZeIaqWohJ7XH44AxHy5YBbDmRCwfXiSCw=w664-h984" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Curtain Call</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Francesca da Rimini San Francisco 1956</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photo © ROBERT LACKENBACH, San Francisco</span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></span></div><div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEpN4yxSPwM3SLsLQFUZP7C4c53CdBA7AXDlWO6Aa1oehlISWub5nYnvWcLaLO5Hnexbcx5wvfEfEmfzUtGH0hBqBRIecfY8DAHGhlqpHd2wGJyQEoiFx0YZljEdpvg24kqRZeKNy4Z9V/s2048/001-+Francesca+1956+San+Francisco+%25280e%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1400" height="971" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkEpN4yxSPwM3SLsLQFUZP7C4c53CdBA7AXDlWO6Aa1oehlISWub5nYnvWcLaLO5Hnexbcx5wvfEfEmfzUtGH0hBqBRIecfY8DAHGhlqpHd2wGJyQEoiFx0YZljEdpvg24kqRZeKNy4Z9V/w664-h971/001-+Francesca+1956+San+Francisco+%25280e%2529.jpg" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Curtain Call</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Francesca da Rimini San Francisco 1956</span></div><span><span style="font-style: italic; text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: left;">Photo © ROBERT LACKENBACH, San Francisco</span></i></div></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div>Upon the invitation of Kurt Herbert Adler, Artistic Director of San Francisco Opera, she went to the USA and inaugurated San Francisco Opera House with this opera that she hadn’t studied and sang before. Although the opera, performed for the first time in San Fransisco, was found rather dull by the audience because of its static style, Gencer was highly acclaimed and she was invited to Los Angeles to sing the same role.</div><div><br /></div><div>After the performances of Francesca, Time magazine wrote “The voice of Gencer is strong, sweet, beautiful and moving. America will hear her voice a lot in the future. And Call-Bulletin wrote: “<i>Mrs. Gencer has proved that she’s as great as the artist Eleanor Duse to whom she resembles.</i>” In the same period Gencer’s negotiations with the Metropolitan Opera, North America’s biggest opera house, for the role of <i>Tosca </i>were in vain. Rudolf Bing, Metropolitan Opera’s Artistic Director of the time later mentioned in one of his speeches that he never forgave Gencer to have chosen the West Side for her American debut.</div></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiOvgP3kU9I60sHowt0cMyqR2AWf_ZbkIU8YUJHMTkxctYjbXbUwySn34JSRA2lcSveUx_xRPhXdd-zrpTxm8np7zaqVn3qO5CTgILV7ez4CVfpQL2qXQefqDRo2Ww8-06GV5IGaQRRYt/s2048/005-+Adler+-+La+Traviata++SF+1957+%2528Robert+Lackenbach%2529.JPG" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1172" data-original-width="2048" height="382" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPiOvgP3kU9I60sHowt0cMyqR2AWf_ZbkIU8YUJHMTkxctYjbXbUwySn34JSRA2lcSveUx_xRPhXdd-zrpTxm8np7zaqVn3qO5CTgILV7ez4CVfpQL2qXQefqDRo2Ww8-06GV5IGaQRRYt/w668-h382/005-+Adler+-+La+Traviata++SF+1957+%2528Robert+Lackenbach%2529.JPG" width="668" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span><span style="text-align: left;">with Kurt Herbert Adler in 1957 </span></span><span style="text-align: left;">during a rehearsal of La Traviata </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photo © ROBERT LACKENBACH, San Francisco</span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Her close relations with San Francisco opera continued yet in 1957 when Maria Callas cancelled her performance of <i>Lucia di Lammermoor</i> in the last moment. Within five days Gencer had to learn the opera that she barely knew and of which she had studied only one aria in Turkish. Her performances during the arias were often interrupted with applause.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><br /></a></div> <div style="text-align: justify;">Between the years 1956 – 1978 Gencer sang <i>La Traviata, Lucia di Lammermoor, Turandot, Don Carlos, Manon, Rigoletto, Lucrezia Borgia, Attila</i> and <i>La Gioconda</i> mainly in San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego, Philadelphia, Pasadena, Sacramento, New Jersey, Dallas and Chicago. On April 15, 1973, she performed successfully in the American premiere of Donizetti’s <i>Caterina Cornaro</i> at New York’s famed Carnegie Hall. Gencer’s last performance in the USA was in San Fransisco in the Gold Jubilee concert of the world-renowned General Manager of San Francisco Opera Kurt Herbert Adler. At the gala concert she sang the aria <i>Al dolce guidami .....Coppia iniqua.</i> from the opera Anna Bolena.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div> <table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLimjSG7xNY7B76VYYUe7qg-Cs-4cQb4RfNDdUHvQeiOfrkTmZAVa-1hWAN44C905CAWsq18ds52hDsL6EKa9H0kY-LSrh1XP_xQslUA-ZoCazkgcIan187pdpm_ztr9lrnDnMbt3AFE3x/s613/006-+Manon+-+SF+1958+%2528Bill+Cogan%2529.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="580" data-original-width="613" height="632" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLimjSG7xNY7B76VYYUe7qg-Cs-4cQb4RfNDdUHvQeiOfrkTmZAVa-1hWAN44C905CAWsq18ds52hDsL6EKa9H0kY-LSrh1XP_xQslUA-ZoCazkgcIan187pdpm_ztr9lrnDnMbt3AFE3x/w667-h632/006-+Manon+-+SF+1958+%2528Bill+Cogan%2529.jpg" width="667" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Manon, San Francisco, 1958</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><em>Photo </em><em>© BILL COGAN, San Francisco</em></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">Just like most significant artists of her time, Leyla Gencer visited South America and performed at Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires), the most important opera house of the region where she sang <i>Rigoletto </i>(1961), <i>I Puritani</i> (1961), <i>Norma</i> (1964) and <i>Simon Boccanegra</i> (1964). On July 3, 1964; Gencer was expected to inaugurate Rio de Janeiro Teatro Municipal Opera with Mario del Monaco in <i>Otello </i>but because of del Monaco’s health issues all his performances were cancelled. So she prepared Verdi’s <i>La Traviata</i> in a very short period of time and performed on the 7th of August for the first time in Rio. Jose Faro from the Opéra Magazine was present at the premiere of <i>La Traviata</i> in Rio and he described her performance with terms such as “near to disaster, overdosed pianissimos, unfortunate performance, non-existent breath control and audience voiced their displeasure after the first aria.” But the recording of that performance proves us the opposite. Gencer’s performance of the first aria in the first act <i>Ah forse lui... Follie, follie!... Sempre libera</i> was greeted with applause, her line <i>Amami Alfredo </i>in the first scene of the second act was greeted with cheers whereas her performance of the aria <i>Addio del passato</i> received a very big round of applause by the audience in the last act. Although <i>La Traviata </i>was one of the operas that she sang very often, her performance in Rio is her only recording of the opera although one hour of performance is missing.</div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"></p></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: medium;">After the success obtained in
America, Gencer stepped into La Scala where she would later call “home”. She
worked at La Scala for more than 50 years. Gencer spent the first half of fifty
years on the stage and later she worked continuously at “her” La Scala until
May 10 2008, the date she passed away.</span></div></div>
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stage was on January 26</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1957. She sang in the world
premiere of Poulenc’s <i>Dialoghi delle
Carmelitane. </i>However she had been offered to sing Aida<i> </i>by Victor de Sabata, former artistic director of La Scala.
Unfortunately, due to his health problems, De Sabata retired and
the new opera management gave the role of Aida to the Italian soprano
Antonietta Stella. Consequently, Gencer was asked to perform <i>Dialoghi delle Carmelitane</i> at La Scala
even though she didn’t get along well with the composer and the stage director.
Gencer’s first years at La Scala passed under the shadows of a myth such as
Callas and of Italian artists such as Tebaldi and Stella. Having said “I’ll
sing at <i>La Scala </i>otherwise I’ll never
sing” Gencer unwillingly performed the contemporary opera only because it was
at La Scala. </span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Other than </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Dialoghi della Carmelitane, </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Gencer sang
various contemporary operas such as Pizzeti’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">L’Assassino nella Catedrale </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Milan 1958) and </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Lo Straniero</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> (Naples 1969), Prokofiev’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">L’Ange de Feu </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Spoleto, Trieste 1959), Britten’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Albert Herring </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Milan 1979, Reggio
Emilia, Modena, Ferrara 1980), Rocca’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Monte
Ivnor </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Naples 1956 – Rai 1957), Weinberger’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Schwanda </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Rai 1958), Menotti’s </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">The
Council</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> (Ankara 1954), d’Albert </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Tiefland
</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">(Ankara 1951). But as she declared in some interviews, she wasn’t very
happy about singing them, yet she felt much happier singing operas of Verdi and
Donizetti.</span></span></div>
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Despite her great desire to
work with Arturo Toscanini Gencer never had the chance. However she sang “<i>Libera me</i>” in Verdi’s <i>Messa da Requiem</i> in the great
conductor’s funeral service which took place at the Duomo Cathedral of Milan </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">on</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> February 18</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> 1957. She was accompanied by the Orchestra and
Choir of La Scala and her successful performance was highly praised.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Along with Giuseppe di
Stefano, Gencer sang <i>La forza del destino
</i>at<i> </i>Cologne Opera which was La
Scala’s first tour to Germany after the war. Between the years of 1957 – 1980
she sang leading roles in Verdi's <i>Don
Carlos, La forza del destino, Aida, Macbeth, Simon Boccanegra, I Vespri
Siciliani</i>; Bellini's <i>Norma</i>;
Donizetti's <i>Poliuto, Lucrezia Borgia</i>;
Mozart's <i>Idomeneo</i>; Monteverdi's <i>L'Incoronazione di Poppea</i>; Gluck's <i>Alceste</i>; Tchaikovsky's <i>Queen of Spades</i> and Britten's <i>Albert Herring</i> at La Scala. She also
sang the leading role in the world premiere of Pizzetti’s <i>L'Assassinio nella Cattedrale </i>at La Scala in 1958.</span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><div style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 14pt;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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primadonna of La Scala for over 25 years, an era during which legendary names
such as Maria Callas, Renata Tebaldi, Monserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland and
Beverly Sills reigned in the opera world. About her extraordinary career, it
would only be moderate to reiterate the words of Michel Parouty from Opéra
Magazine: "She was the last diva of the 20th century, an embodiment of
perfection. </span></span></span></span></span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">"<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; line-height: 115%;">Having achieved an
international career in a very short time and performed with distinguished
Italian maestros such as Vittorio Gui, Tullio Serafin, Gianandrea Gavazzeni and
Riccardo Muti, Gencer's outstanding performances of Donizetti's forgotten
operas inscribed her name in all opera books identifying the great soprano with
the "<i>Donizetti Renaissance</i>."</span></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9VPnZJTWnmJOSzXptAx0FlXTtfNfJ5GLHQa75RSkKLOo_v_Nbj6LPrPdB0MX5wc-HeJIk20jDeuig3Qja0iGf4waTCLeDEIkBJThY4o3u2oBCK4RgJY8aeWqdpT62oWIrConltlxPqgS0/s2048/1969+with+Wally+Toscanini+%2528La+Scala%2529+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1510" data-original-width="2048" height="493" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg9VPnZJTWnmJOSzXptAx0FlXTtfNfJ5GLHQa75RSkKLOo_v_Nbj6LPrPdB0MX5wc-HeJIk20jDeuig3Qja0iGf4waTCLeDEIkBJThY4o3u2oBCK4RgJY8aeWqdpT62oWIrConltlxPqgS0/w668-h493/1969+with+Wally+Toscanini+%2528La+Scala%2529+%25281%2529.jpg" width="668" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">with Wally Toscanini, her daughter Emanuela Castelberco and Filippo Acquarone, 1969<br /><i>Photo </i><i>© </i><i>Teatro alla Scala / </i><em>ERIO PICCAGLIANI, Milano </em></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"><br /></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-4597686081015598312020-06-11T11:45:00.055+03:002024-02-29T11:05:10.251+03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: #C12637; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="PT-BR" style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24.0pt; mso-ansi-language: PT-BR; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: TR;">D O N I Z E T T I R E N A I S S A N C E </span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6fRSbaM54MxpERFbD9s-Dd8oqJ3L2hM9cv-Sl_rhf9aJqsDyF0LhNKAAZD_MctjZGE7WZG3s9wSGuz1EakT6khQoznaBIpQc0eCJ5ucicd0BRLIRz4OM9JMfLTtYreaM4InFjp0zQMcx/s1575/001-+Tudor+Trilogy.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="285" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm6fRSbaM54MxpERFbD9s-Dd8oqJ3L2hM9cv-Sl_rhf9aJqsDyF0LhNKAAZD_MctjZGE7WZG3s9wSGuz1EakT6khQoznaBIpQc0eCJ5ucicd0BRLIRz4OM9JMfLTtYreaM4InFjp0zQMcx/w665-h285/001-+Tudor+Trilogy.jpg" width="665" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">TUDOR TRILOGY</span></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Leyla
Gencer as Anna Bolena, Elisabeth I in <i>Roberto Devereux</i> anda as Maria Stuarda</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photos (from left)</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">1965 Anna Bolena, Glyndebourne<i> © GUY GRAVETT, Sussex</i></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">1966
Roberto Devereux, Roma<i> © TIEGHI, Roma</i></span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">1969
Maria Stuarda, Edinburgh<i> © D.G. KIRGSTON, Edinburgh</i></span></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Primarily the “trend” of
reviving neglected operas started in 1957 when Maria Callas had a sensational
success at La Scala in </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Anna Bolena</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">.
In one of her interviews Gencer said that </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">“It
was a trend and I followed it”.</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> However it was actually Gencer who
succesfully carried on this trend. Callas “revived” </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Anna Bolena</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> and Gencer introduced the opera to bigger audiences. In
1958 right after Callas, Gencer sang on the Rai’s radio broadcast of the opera.
In 1965 she performed the opera 12 nights at Glyndebourne Opera Festival.
Gencer’s last performance of </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Anna Bolena </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">was
in Rome in 1977. In the era “</span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Donizetti
Renaissance</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">” that began with </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Anna
Bolena, </i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Gencer also sang Donizetti’s other neglected operas such </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Maria Stuarda, Poliuto, Les Martyrs,
Lucrezia Borgia, Belisario, Roberto Devereux, Caterina Cornaro</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> and she
proved to be the invincible queen of belcanto. Nevertheless the recordings of
these operas were made by </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">recording
artists</i><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> such as Montserrat Caballé, Beverly Sills and Joan Sutherland.</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large;"> </span></p><p></p><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: center;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimh-atcZqEuIgTHaqVrC-IlUVdSYuuFcAf0ec7HlZyYphEcLWT8v6bfrTWs58wjLn-2BZ3fVmp94cwQ32-1wf1RUFRU27PvYI0ACy6Zlr4mE9ivbQI9CO6UDVwVSuhu4zLs6_07lLPo7gF/s2048/Lucrezia+Borgia+-+La+Scala+70++Photos+La+Scala+Archive+%25C2%25A9+ERIO+PICCAGLIANI%252C+Milano.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1666" data-original-width="2048" height="544" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimh-atcZqEuIgTHaqVrC-IlUVdSYuuFcAf0ec7HlZyYphEcLWT8v6bfrTWs58wjLn-2BZ3fVmp94cwQ32-1wf1RUFRU27PvYI0ACy6Zlr4mE9ivbQI9CO6UDVwVSuhu4zLs6_07lLPo7gF/w669-h544/Lucrezia+Borgia+-+La+Scala+70++Photos+La+Scala+Archive+%25C2%25A9+ERIO+PICCAGLIANI%252C+Milano.jpg" width="669" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">as Lucrezia Borgia, La Scala 1970 <br /><i>Photo © Teatro alla Scala / ERIO PICCAGLIANI, Milano</i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Gencer’s career reached its
climax in the 60’s. In this period she began to perform vocally challenging
roles in operas such as </span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Norma, Macbeth, I
Puritani, Gerusalemme, Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, Alceste, Maria
Stuarda, Un ballo in maschera, Le nozze di Figaro, Beatrice di Tenda, Medea,
Belisario, La Vestale, La Gioconda </i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">and </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">I
vespri Sicilianni</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">. </span></span></span></div>
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<div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpKkQGjm7-jgxMWAwsp0J4CNyAWs86ePIOPAAmhp36k6ubYx-AxTsCj7XLhuU0iC66b_NuzqJWpTK4QEDfurnHLTdP4oyR1zea5u-0hQKAAQ_-ht4HIukAvM9YnyFC3plBdtPRXjXDxR5X/s2048/1965+Anna+Bolena+%2528Glyndebourne%2529+Photos+%25C2%25A9+GUY+GRAVETT%252C+Sussex.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1636" height="826" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpKkQGjm7-jgxMWAwsp0J4CNyAWs86ePIOPAAmhp36k6ubYx-AxTsCj7XLhuU0iC66b_NuzqJWpTK4QEDfurnHLTdP4oyR1zea5u-0hQKAAQ_-ht4HIukAvM9YnyFC3plBdtPRXjXDxR5X/w661-h826/1965+Anna+Bolena+%2528Glyndebourne%2529+Photos+%25C2%25A9+GUY+GRAVETT%252C+Sussex.jpg" width="661" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">with Gianandrea Gavazzeni 1965 Anna Bolena (Glyndebourne) </span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photo © GUY GRAVETT, Sussex</span></i></div></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Talking about her major
performances in Gencer’s career, one must say a few words about </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Macbeth. </i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Being undoubtedly the most
impressive </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Lady Macbeth </i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">after Callas,
Gencer performed the opera succesfully in Palermo for the first time in 1960.
She later sang the opera at La Scala, Venice, Florance, Rome, Cagliari,
Treviso, Montova, Como, Livorno and Maggio Musicale di Fiorentino Festival
under the baton of Riccardo Muti where she had an outstanding success. In fifty
years time no such soprano has yet out outshone Gencer’s interpretation of </span><i style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">Lady Macbeth</i><span style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif;">. Unfortunately Gencer sang
the opera only in Italy, European and American audiences didn’t have the chance
to see her live performances of Lady Macbeth. </span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">One of the other most
important operas of this period is Bellini’s masterpiece <i>Norma</i>. In 1962 Gencer sang the role for the first time in Barcelona
and two years after she sang the opera in Buenos Aires. In the 1964-1965 seasons
La Scala took a major risk and put both <i>La
Traviata</i> and <i>Norm</i>a in the
program, the operas which were identified with Maria Callas. Karajan<i> </i>was scheduled to conduct <i>La Traviata</i> and Gavazzeni was scheduled
to conduct <i>Norma. </i>Franco Zefirelli’s
new production of <i>La</i> <i>Traviata</i> with soprano Mirella Freni
premiere</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">d on</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> December 17</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1964. It was a big failure and the artists were
harshly booed. Consequently Callas fans reached their goal; Mirella Freni left
the role after two performances and Anna Moffo who had taken over the role
could sing only one night. After three performances, the production was removed
from the opera calendar. Gencer’s mission in <i>Norma</i> was even harder to accomplish. She would appear in the
Margherita Wallmann’s production in which Callas had sung in 1955. Besides,
Giulietta Simionato would sing Adalgisa as she had sung ten years ago. Even the
costume</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">s would be</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> the same. Briefly, every detail that would remind of Callas would be
featured in the production. On the premiere date January 9</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1965</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">;</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> the only difference from the previous production would be Gencer. Callas
fans were present in the lodges waiting for the performance to start. Gencer’s
interpretation of the famous aria <i>Casta
Diva </i>didn’t receive much applause but except for a few grumbling, it wasn’t
even booed either. The premiere was being carried on succesfully. Even La
Scala’s Management was surprised. Because of <i>La</i> <i>Traviata</i>’s big<i> </i>failure, a major protest was expected
that night. When the opera ended, the audience gave a huge round of applause.
Gencer succesfully passed the test and sang <i>Norma</i>
in January and Fabruary</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">9 nights as planned and she
became one of the very few sopranos who sang Norma at La Scala.</span></div><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">In the 60’s Gencer continued
exploring the <i>unknown</i>. This time she
sang Verdi’s neglected opera <i>Gerusalemme</i>
in Italy and Germany. Not only it was Gencer’s, it was also Donizetti’s golden
era. Some of his operas were performed for the first time and revived by
Gencer. On May 2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1964</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">; </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Donizetti’s neglected opera <i>Roberto Devereux </i>was performed in Naples
after a long period of time. Gencer sang the role of Elizabeth and won the
heart of the tough Neapolitan audience with her usual enchanting interpretation</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">especially with the final aria <i>Quel
sangue versato</i>. The audience gave her a standing ovation for several
minutes.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Probably Lucrezia Borgia was
Gencer’s most favored and successful Donizetti performance. Gencer sang the
opera for the first time in 1966 in Naples. Later she sang the opera in Rome
(1967), Milan-La Scala (1970), Bergamo (1971), Dallas (1974) and Florence
(1979). Once again she introduced another neglected opera to the opera
audience. The recordings of this opera were</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> also</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> m</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">ade </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">by Monserrat Caballé and
Beverly Sills. <o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">After her success as Lucrezia;
Gencer achieved a sensational success on May 2</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">196</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">7;</span><span lang="EN-US"> in the opening night of
Maggio Musicale di Fiorentino Festival with her performance in <i>Maria Stuarda</i>. The famous line <i>Figlia impura di Bolena</i> had a shocking
impact on the audience and yet the audience gave her a standing ovation in the
final of the second act. After the succesful performances of <i>Maria Stuarda,</i> another unknown opera was
once again in Gencer’s agenda; Donizetti’s <i>Belisario</i>.
It was a rarely performed opera which takes place in Byzantium. Gencer sang the
role of Antonina and achieved another major succes. Her interpretation of the
aria <i>Egli è spento</i> in Venice is
considered to be one of her best performances</span><span lang="EN-US">.</span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiN6_aDVv5yl4tbDhrjxaKRUp39sd23JAqCAK2LfnA28Km83vWpJ2QkbHVk2N1HHkAW4G9VRYIseDs1k6qD7qONLt89mU45um6QIY5AfEle_WuUwUtPwHG9MSTOKtTb7uLoU4GiX0wY66V/s2048/1970+Belisario++Foto+Flash+Bergamo.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1530" data-original-width="2048" height="497" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiN6_aDVv5yl4tbDhrjxaKRUp39sd23JAqCAK2LfnA28Km83vWpJ2QkbHVk2N1HHkAW4G9VRYIseDs1k6qD7qONLt89mU45um6QIY5AfEle_WuUwUtPwHG9MSTOKtTb7uLoU4GiX0wY66V/w666-h497/1970+Belisario++Foto+Flash+Bergamo.jpg" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: left;">with her fans after a </span>Belisario performance, Bergamo 1970 </span></div><i style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photo: © FOTO FLASH, Bergamo</span></i></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="text-align: start;"><br /></div></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-20761855203917727722020-06-11T11:30:00.047+03:002024-02-29T10:25:54.102+03:00<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q U E E N O F P I R A T E S - I </span></b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer was asked only
twice </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">to record </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">for major recording companies. Both offers came directly from the famous
conductor Tullio Serafin. He was planning to make two opera recordings (<i>La Traviata</i> and <i>Simon Boccanegra</i>) for two major recording companies. At first
Serafin was planning to work with Maria Callas in <i>La Traviata</i> but since </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">she</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> had recorded the same opera
in 1953 for Cetra label, according to her contract she didn’t have the right to
record it for another label. Knowing Gencer’s success as <i>Violetta, </i>Serafin wanted to collaborate with Gencer but according
to her, both offers were prevented by Callas. In the end Serafin recorded <i>La Traviata</i> with Anonietta Stella for
the label Emi in 1956.</span></span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div>Gencer may not be considered
one of the <i>recording artists </i>but<i> </i>today<i> </i>her numerous (over 150) opera, concert and recital
recordings are available in the music markets on LPs, CDs and DVDs even single vinyls. Such high
number of recordings gave her the title of “Queen of Pirates”.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Here’s a list of her recordings: <i>Macbeth </i>(12
recordings), <i>Lucrezia Borgia </i>(<i>1</i>0
recordings), <i>Norma </i>(8 recordings), <i>La Gioconda</i>, <i>Aida</i>, <i>La Forzadel destino </i>(6
recordings), <i>Anna Bolena</i>, <i>Belisario</i>, <i>Simon Boccanegra </i>(5 recordings)<i>, Maria Stuarda</i>, <i>Le Martyrs</i>,
<i>Alceste, Don Carlo</i>, <i>Don Giovanni</i>, <i>La Battaglia di Legnano, Ernani </i>(4 recordings)<i>, Un ballo in maschera, Rigoletto,
Gerusalemme, Il trovatore, I vespri Siciliani, Agnese di Hohenstaufen,
Elizabetta Regina d’Inghilterra, Medea in Corinto, Caterina Cornaro, Medea, I
Puritani </i>(3 recordings), <i>I due
Foscari, Attila, Tosca, Les dialogue des Carmelites, Idomeneo, L’Incoronazione
di Poppea, Werther, Cavalleria Rusticana, La prova di un’Opera seria, Roberto
Devereux, Lucia di Lammermoor, Francesca da Rimini, La Vestal </i>(2 recordings) and single recordings of <i>La
Traviata, Pikovaya Dama, Yevgeny Onyegin, La Falena, Guillaume Tell, Monte
Ivnor, Turandot, Suor Angelica, madama Butterfly, Il Tabarro, L’ange de feu, Lo
Straniero, Lassasinio nella Catedrale, Saffo, Adriana Lecouvreur, Albert
Herring, Beatrice di Tenda. </i></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><em></em><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Gencer’s recordings of
Verdi’s <i>Messa da Requiem</i>, Rossini’s <i>Stabat Mater</i> and Donizetti’s <i>Requiem per Bellini </i>and the recordings
of </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">her recitals and concerts, famous for their highly
distinguished programs; (1956, 1974 and 1976 in Torino, in 1975 and
1979-Venice, 1975-Spoleto, 1976- Trieste, 1958 and 1978-Milan, 1979-Treviso,
1980, 1981 and 1985-Paris, 1981-Palermo and 1984-Naples) are available on CDs.
Her Masterclass <i>Scuola della Regine</i>
about Donizetti Queens (<i>Anna Bolena,
Maria Stuarda</i> ve <i>Roberto Devereux</i>)
which she gave for Rai television in 1982 is also available on DVD.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Only a very few of these
recordings were made at studios. The majority of them so called “pirate
recordings” were made under bad circumstances at opera houses where the artists
didn’t receive any copyright fees. Rumour has it that, there are many recordings
of Gencer such as <i>Manon</i> (1958 San
Francisco), <i>Rigoletto </i>(1958 San
Francisco/Los Angeles), <i>Lucia di
Lammermoor </i>(1957 San Francisco/Los Angeles), <i>Aida</i> (1963, 1966 La Scala Milan), <i>Les Contes d’Hoffmann</i> (1957 Palermo), <i>Mefistofele</i> (1958 La Scala Milan), <i>Tosca</i> (1961 Vienna), <i>La
Traviata</i> (1957 Vienna/San Francisco/Los Angeles/San Diego/Sacramento, 1958
Philadelphia), <i>Francesca da Rimini</i>
(1956 San Francisco/Los Angeles), <i>Otello</i>
(1962 Genova) and <i>La Sonnambula</i> (1959
Naples) which are still hidden in archives. The role of <i>Elsa</i> in <i>Tannhauser</i> is
also in Gencer’s repertoire but due to a strike at the opera house, the
performances were postponed to further dates on which Gencer had other opera
engagements. Consequently she couldn’t sing the role. BBC Television also broadcast her Glyndebourne <i>Figaro</i> on 29 August 1963.</span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Depite her decleration of
“British and American ciritics never liked me”, England’s biggest opera
festival Glyndebourne released the recording of Mozart’s <i>Le Nozze di Figaro</i> of 1963 through its own record label. Gencer’s
brilliant <i>Contessa</i> performance is
worth listening. Again through its own recording label, Covent Garden Opera of
London released the recording of the mythical <i>Don Giovanni</i> production conducted by Georg Solti and directed by
Franco Zeffirelli in which Gencer sang <i>Donna
Anna</i>. Speaking of Mozart, one must mention <i>Idomeneo </i>premiered at La Scala in 1968. Gencer’s performance under
the baton of Wolfgang Sawallisch was undoubtedly one of Gencer’s most powerful
Mozart interpretations. Gencer’s interpretation of the role <i>Elettra </i>in the Italian style received
the best reviews from Italian opera critics. This performance can be found in
La Scala’s 1968 recording. </span></span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"></span></span></span></span></span></span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Among Gencer’s recordings
there are also DVDs in black and white. Verdi’s <i>Il Trovatore</i> in which she sang with legendary tenor Mario del
Monaco is a masterpiece. And two DVDs of Verdi’s <i>Aida</i> recorded in 1963 and 1966 at Arena di Verona are some of
Gencer’s best performances. Her interpretation of <i>Donna Elvira </i>in <i>Don Giovanni</i>
DVD which was recorded for Rai TV in 1960 is absolutely remarkable. Despite her
great success as <i>Charlotte</i>, <i>Werther </i>was unfortunately performed in
Italian as it was very common at that time, but this recording didn’t become
popular because of today’s opera standards.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Q U E E N O F P I R A T E S -<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>II </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Renato Caccamo: A judge, a music lover, a collector or a pirate?</span></b></div>
<div style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPikbWB6IfweWMr8kXspMX9w8DXhn3TJ-rRYxq9vsaPhPKDQ6TEr_y7rfyRMg69rkB9-FtTTGs27J7YJ7lceMoVmow7LyJGe0OiHnT7KVp4F2WKQDbCdGuS6NfgVp8Sp7oJ8PUkjXKZkEu/s1870/Untitled.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="655" data-original-width="1870" height="232" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPikbWB6IfweWMr8kXspMX9w8DXhn3TJ-rRYxq9vsaPhPKDQ6TEr_y7rfyRMg69rkB9-FtTTGs27J7YJ7lceMoVmow7LyJGe0OiHnT7KVp4F2WKQDbCdGuS6NfgVp8Sp7oJ8PUkjXKZkEu/w664-h232/Untitled.png" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Caccamo, Gencer and Pizzi</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div><div style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If you’re not interested in the Italian
politics, you haven’t probably heard of Renato Caccamo. Apart from being a
serious prosecutor, he’s also a great music lover, a collector who possesses thousands
of records, but he’s also a person that made pirate recordings. But he never
sold any of those recordings; he just gave them to his friends and companions
as gifts.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I first heard of Renato Caccamo from Leyla
Gencer during one of our conversations in the 90’s when I met her. Actually,
she hadn’t said his name, she’d just mentioned that the “Milan Prosecutor” was
a fan of hers. And after many years, I
found out about the importance of the Prosecuter Renato Caccamo on Leyla
Gencer’s career.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtN3FXMAQXJbbrD8UAKfXUAXE7Dd7pmvTxHkW7k1X3mDjKyMKcnUQJAmWxcSP-hUOBcT4350E-QIGTN6p0hfdsSXfcN0f1bHzYnkcRwBCEpHtKl6lIi5LvtALU29Z8fIwDwP6sHEvxZp2/s2048/IMG_9558.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1416" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjCtN3FXMAQXJbbrD8UAKfXUAXE7Dd7pmvTxHkW7k1X3mDjKyMKcnUQJAmWxcSP-hUOBcT4350E-QIGTN6p0hfdsSXfcN0f1bHzYnkcRwBCEpHtKl6lIi5LvtALU29Z8fIwDwP6sHEvxZp2/s320/IMG_9558.JPG" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">DVD recording of Paris Concert</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"></span>As far as I remember, I first met Renato
Caccamo in Istanbul, when we were at Leyla Gencer’s apartment (I guess it was in
2006) and when he found out that I was a fan of hers as well, he took a DVD out
of his pocket and gave it to me hastily. It was the video recording of Gencer’s
Paris recital in 1985 and I was extremely happy about acquiring that record
which was absolutely rare.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Gencer had mentioned Caccamo only a few
times as “The Milan Prosecutor” but she’d never talked about their friendship
or shared information about him. As I later found out from Gencer’s friends,
Caccamo had a major importance on Leyla Gencer’s career. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Caccamo recorded all of Gencer’s
performances. By the way, Renato Caccamo didn’t record only Gencer’s concerts;
his hobby was to record almost all the concerts that he attended, make
collections and then give those recordings to his friends as gifts. Thereby,
most of Leyla Gencer’s concerts that weren’t broadcasted in radio or television
were somehow passed on and consequently, those recordings were released by the labels,
later giving Leyla Gencer the nickname: “The Queen of the Pirates”.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Certainly, the mentioned pirate recordings
have poor sound quality, but they are critically important since they’re the
evidences of Gencer’s long and succesful career.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Recently, I saw this recording in Youtube
whilst doing a research on Gencer, which I’m also sharing in the below. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s an extremely interesting recording
and it also contains information about Leyla Gencer. Especially, it’s thrilling to know that Domingo,
Gencer, Caccamo, Pollini and Dino Ciani interpreted the whole La Traviata all
together after a concert, until morning. There’s also a short audio recording
available. Of course, I suggest you to listen to it considering that it was
recorded after midnight.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: Times, serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Apart from his relationship with Leyla
Gencer, I find Renato Caccamo’s life and personality quite interesting and I
suggest you to watch the related Youtube link that I’m sharing with you. </span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/6oHzgKVKHlc" width="320" youtube-src-id="6oHzgKVKHlc"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; text-align: left;">
<div style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">JEFFREY SWAN REMEMBERS RENATO CACCAMO</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(250, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2018.01.18</span></div></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: times;">Presented by Jeffrey Swann</span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: times;">ARSC New York / Chapter Januaary Meeting</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times;">West 140th Street & Convent
Avenue, New York Or enter at 138th Street off Convent Avenue Shepard Hall (the
Gothic building) – Recital Hall (Room 95, ground floor). An elevator is in the
centre of the building.</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The New York
Chapter of the Association for Recorded Sound Collections presents its January
2018 program:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Renato Caccamo was
born 26 August 1934 in Siderno, Calabria in Italy's deep South. His love of
music began early and was centred on the piano. In Rome, he studied Law and
also studied piano at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia. He was he was in his mid-20's
when he moved to Milan in the late 50s. He became both a criminal judge and a
devotee of that city’s concert life, his interest focused on the Teatro alla
Scala. Because of unique opportunities stemming from his important social
position, his persistence and an indefatigable energy, he became La Scala's de
facto archivist in the early 60s. For the next 20 years he recorded (or had
recorded for him on first class sound equipment) not only everything at La
Scala — operas and concerts — but also virtually everything of substance in all
of Italy's major venues: RAI, Rome, Florence, Venice, Naples, various
festivals, etc. He recorded almost everything, but his chief interests were
opera (originally Wagner) and piano, his own instrument. He became close
friends with many major musical celebrities during this period, e.g. Abbado,
Pollini, Muti, Weissenberg, Leyla Gencer, Nikita Magaloff, Dino Ciani, and many
others, due, at least in part, because he was so useful to them in making
copies of performances from his ever-growing collection. I myself became his
friend in 1975 when I won the first Dino Ciani piano competition at La Scala.
Ciani had tragically died in an auto accident the year before at the age of 32,
and for the next 36 years Renato's apartment in Piazza Borromeo was my chief
European residence. During the first part of this period, hardly a day passed
without a call from someone such as Abbado or Muti or Pollini or Accardo to
request a copy of some specific performance. And every day recordings from
Europe and America and, occasionally, Japan would arrive in exchange for
recordings that he had made. So, the collection became gigantic (and rather out
of control). In the meantime, Renato had become an increasingly powerful and
important judge. His position at retirement was President of the Court of
Appeals, Fourth District (Milan). Due to the temporary liberalization of piracy
laws in the late 80s, many of Renato's tapes were becoming commercial records.
With the loss of exclusivity, Renato’s zeal to record substantially diminished.
By the mid 90's his passion for collecting was mostly in the realm of books, of
which he possessed 80-90,000 volumes. At his death, on 6 September 2011,
Renato's collection of recordings was in a sadly confused state. The catalogues
were long out of date, and not all of the older recordings had been migrated to
more durable formats. The entire collection is now housed at La Scala, but
inaccessible because the lack of resolution of privacy and copyright issues.
The collection also includes something like 10,000 hours of video recordings
(many informal) made between 1995 and his death. There are extraordinary
treasures buried there, some of which I will describe.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"></span></b></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSlu1g59d_IDSkENPYeLcPiNC8gvI6r4EeDtGWzXTrD2NOw02pEwctRDcCZPO-vQzABYm4z25tfbQ2cPHX3rDSh3qoKZND0roPa6Q62cCDE25tWkRpaKxtrhvhybTx8i7P-ehkXjaN5-J/s700/Jeffrey+Swann+%25281%25C2%25B0+Premio+Dino+Ciani+1975+%2529.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="692" data-original-width="700" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjjSlu1g59d_IDSkENPYeLcPiNC8gvI6r4EeDtGWzXTrD2NOw02pEwctRDcCZPO-vQzABYm4z25tfbQ2cPHX3rDSh3qoKZND0roPa6Q62cCDE25tWkRpaKxtrhvhybTx8i7P-ehkXjaN5-J/w327-h322/Jeffrey+Swann+%25281%25C2%25B0+Premio+Dino+Ciani+1975+%2529.png" width="327" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Jeffrey Swann </span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span>(Winner of 1° Premio Dino Ciani 1975 )<br /></span><span style="font-style: italic;"><i><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © Teatro alla Scala / </span></i></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small; font-style: italic;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>ERIO PICCAGLIANI, Milano</span></span></i></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: small; font-style: italic; text-align: center;"> </span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><b style="font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Jeffrey Swann</b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is currently Artistic Director of the Dino Ciani Festival & Academy
in Cortina d’Ampezzo, Italy; Professor of Piano at New York University; and the
President’s Distinguished Artist-in-Residence at Northern Arizona University.
Himself a native of Northern Arizona, he studied with Alexander Uninsky at
Southern Methodist University, and with Beveridge Webster and Adele Marcus at
The Juilliard School, where he received the B.M., M.M. and D.M.A. Degrees. He
won first prize in the Dino Ciani Competition sponsored by Milan’s La Scala; a
gold medal at the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels; and top honours at
the Warsaw Chopin, Van Cliburn, Vianna da Motta and Montreal Competitions, as
well as the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York City. His large and
varied repertoire embraces more than 60 concertos and solo works ranging from
Bach to Boulez. His performing career has taken him throughout the United
States, Europe, Latin America and Asia, appearing with major orchestras and
conductors. He lectures regularly at the Bayreuth Festival, and at Wagner
Societies in the United States and Italy, and is a frequent judge at
competitions. He has recorded for DG, RCA Italiana, Fonit-Cetra, Replica,
Agorà, and Music and Arts.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span><span><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; font-family: "Times New Roman"; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><div style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/2103981894749474679/2076185520391772772"><span style="font-family: times;">http://www.arsc-audio.org/index.php</span></a></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b>MORTO CACCAMO, IL MELOMANE CHE CONDANNO CRAXI</b></span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(250, 230, 228); font-family: times, "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;">2011.09.07</span></div><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">L’uomo che ha condannato Bettino
Craxi a un decennio di reclusione nei processi Eni-Sai e per le mazzette della
metropolitana milanese si è spento a Milano la mattina di martedì 6 settembre,
al termine di una lunga malattia. Renato Caccamo, presidente della quarta
sezione della Corte d’Appello di Milano negli anni di Tangentopoli, si era
costruito, condanna dopo condanna, una fama di inflessibilità, sempre
rivendicata con orgoglio contro il “generale lassismo”. Pochissimo incline a
dichiarazioni, Caccamo aveva comunque raccontato alla stampa di aver fatto
parte dei giovani socialisti e di aver sempre votato Psi prima di trasformarsi
nell’incubo della classe dirigente del partito.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Di lui si diceva che si vantasse
di non aver mai assolto nessuno: leggenda smentita dalla discussa sentenza
del 2006 sulla strage di Linate a favore dei direttori degli aeroporti milanesi
e anche, anni prima, dall’assoluzione di Berlusconi per la compravendita dei
terreni di Macherio. Alle costanti, inevitabili critiche di chi gli contestava
di ragionare come un pubblico ministero più che come un giudice o lo liquidava
come “talebano” opponeva le numerose conferme ottenute in Cassazione e la
certezza che nessuno avrebbe mai contestato la limpidezza delle sue
motivazioni.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">La vita di Caccamo, però, era
un’altra. Trascinato da una passione musicale insaziabile, ha frequentato per
decenni tutti i concerti e tutte le serate d’opera non solo milanesi stringendo
amicizie profonde con gli artisti che spesso, finiti gli applausi, si intrattenevano
a cena a casa sua. E lui, un po’ ossessivamente, registrava, riprendeva tutto:
la musica, ma anche la calca in camerino, le discussioni. Le sue registrazioni,
autorizzate o no (alla Scala era stato Paolo Grassi a fornirgli un
lasciapassare), nell’ultimo periodo erano spesso solo un doppione di quelle
realizzate dai teatri. Ma in anni non troppo remoti costituivano l’unica
documentazione esistente di esecuzioni anche eccelse. Basta ricordare Leyla
Gencer, il grande soprano che nessuna major discografica aveva messo sotto
contratto.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Anche nella passione e nella
sacrosanta partigianeria musicale Caccamo conservava un giudizio
indipendente e aggiornato sera per sera: apprezzava una buona esecuzione anche
se veniva da un artista di cui aveva poca stima e riservava stroncature
sprezzanti alle “serate no” dei suoi prediletti. Vita pubblica e passione
musicale si sono intrecciate nel 2004, quando Caccamo ha vigorosamente preso le
parti del Sovrintendente scaligero Carlo Fontana nel conflitto con il Direttore
musicale Riccardo Muti raccogliendo un dossier sull’operato di Mauro Meli,
fortemente voluto dal Maestro alla Sovrintendenza, nelle precedenti esperienze
di gestione. Negli ultimi anni la lotta contro la malattia è stata soprattutto
una lotta per continuare ad essere ai concerti: nel 2007 a Philadelphia
Riccardo Chailly dovette spiegare personalmente alla security della Verizon
Hall che “sì, questo signore può registrare”. Solo pochi mesi fa l’ultima
trasferta, al Festival Mahler di Lipsia.</span></p></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-952006588590272422020-06-11T11:29:00.025+03:002024-02-10T09:45:41.174+03:00<p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">G E N C E R & C R I T I C S </span></b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 8pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;">
</p><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLISgDEoSpP5E7LCy1XhHyUQ_N-cAgF3Y8JFTuRxe1N4ZD0MSGBeGODRvV0k6qDmG48kyA7YjE1S1CaNl2IwmnZOY17Vu7vb-xO7PBtVz8s9FNryqPqtDK9RmVlLP-LubPPT6aHymxwkIz/s755/000.png" style="background-color: transparent; clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="341" data-original-width="755" height="303" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhLISgDEoSpP5E7LCy1XhHyUQ_N-cAgF3Y8JFTuRxe1N4ZD0MSGBeGODRvV0k6qDmG48kyA7YjE1S1CaNl2IwmnZOY17Vu7vb-xO7PBtVz8s9FNryqPqtDK9RmVlLP-LubPPT6aHymxwkIz/w667-h303/000.png" width="667" /></a></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>- <i>When you
sing, you have to feel what you are saying.... I actually cried on stage. Once
in a while a note would issue forth that was not orthodox. That’s why the
American critics don’t like me. But I don’t care. They want a music with water
and soap.</i></b> (Leyla Gencer)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>- <i>I gave more
bad performances than good ones</i>. </b>(Leyla Gencer)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">Along with reviews such as “<i>brilliant, perfect, extraordinary</i>” Gencer
also received negative reviews such as “<i>a complete disaster, wrong casting, not
her role</i>” regarding her interpretations</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Yet she didn’t
take them seriously. </span></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">QUOTATIONS </span></b><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="line-height: 106%;"> </span></b></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">© Translation:
Ayşen Zülfikar</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">In the “Gencer and Critics” section; you can find the English
translations of some reviews gathered both from Turkish and foreign press. You
can also find the same articles in the opera performance section.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I’ve paid special attention to put each review below the related topic.
For example, if a review is about an Aida performance that took place at La
Scala Theater in 1966, the related articles shall be found right below the page
dedicated to that production. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Meanwhile, the articles that are not about Gencer’s performances, but
contain general information on her life can be found in the “Press Clippings”
Section.</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Here are some of the reviews and anecdotes that I’ve gathered from press:</span></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL MATTINO
(05.1954)<br /> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Madam Butterfly (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Naples / Rapola)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">San Carlo management
made a right choice of inviting Leyla Gencer- who was the revelation of the
previous season’s “Cavalleria Rusticana”, to sing the role of Cio-Cio-San.
Thanks to her artistic sensibility and her noble interpretation, Gencer has
been a remarkable Butterfly. With her unique style, the young yet famous
soprano conquered the audience. After a big round of applause, Leyla Gencer
sang once again the famous aria. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: accent6; mso-background-themetint: 153; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL PICCOLO (13.07.1955)
</span></b><span lang="IT" style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>G. Del Basso</b></span></span></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">La Traviata (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Palermo / Serafin)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Leyla Gencer often
excels herself and her voice comes to a level which many “singing artists”
can’t reach. With the deep, shadowy and soft frequencies of her voice, she
definitely “sings”. Her inexplicable and indescribable ascents and descents of
the voice excite the public immensely. Leyla Gencer’s voice and personality
reach the public within deep emotionality and yet she never sounds artificial.
The sympathy that she receives from the public is undeniable. Leyla Gencer is a
unique, extraordinary personality of the opera world.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">OPERA Magazine
(09.1955)</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Libera Danielis</b><br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">La Traviata (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Palermo / Serafin)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s been a long
time since I saw a La Traviata of this high quality. And that also includes the
performance of Maria Callas at Arena di Verona that I saw three years ago.</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">HAKİMİYET Newspaper (04.11.1955)
</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Sadi Gürel</b><br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Un ballo in maschera (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ankara / Alnar)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s become a
national right to boast about Leyla Gencer who performs enthusiastically even
in her smallest concert. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The praise and
the fame that she has deservedly obtained abroad in the artistic countries is rather
immense.</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL GIORNALE (13.07.1955)<br /></span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">La Traviata (</span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Palermo / Serafin)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The young Turkish
soprano Leyla Gencer has an outstanding voice and a very powerful breathing
technique. </span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">She interpreted La Traviata perfectly in accordance with
Italian tradition.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> <br /></o:p></span><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SICILIA DEL POPOLO
(13.07.1955)<br /></span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">La Traviata (</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Palermo / Serafin)<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Leyla Gencer is
not only Turkey’s but also the Europe’s best soprano. </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">TIME Magazine (10.1956)</span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Francesca da Rimini (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">San Francisco / de Fabritiis)</span></div><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Leyla Gencer who
is a 29-year-old graceful lady, took the rehearsal stage after the Italian
artists who have charming smiles and inviting glances. She was engaged in this production
of “Francesca” by Adler, when Tebaldi was no-show. San Francisco audience found
this opera rather boring and stagnant, despite its abundant arias. But they considered
Gencer as an artist worthy of listening. The voice of Gencer is strong, sweet,
beautiful and capable of arousing emotions. America will definitely be hearing
her voice more in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SES Magazine (05.03.1956)
</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Sadi Gürel</span></div></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">La Traviata (Ankara / Alnar)</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">“Spectacular
Traviata”</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div></b><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">YARIN PAZAR Magazine
(10.03.1956)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Müjgan Kutucular</span></div></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">La Traviata (Ankara / Alnar) </div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Thanks to her
voice and technique, Leyla Gencer’s operatic talent is approved even by the
most picky music enthusiasts.</div></span></span><span><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICILE
(1957)</span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Alfred Frankenstein</b></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Lucia di Lammermoor (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">San Francisco /
Molinari-Pradelli)</span></div><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">If Leyla Gencer
continues to be as successful as she was in Lucia, then she clearly will earn
the right to be extremely proud as the famous primadonnas of whose names will not
mentioned in these columns for the first time. Her vocal artistry, which
possesses a robust and smooth tone quality of a lyric soprano and the
lightness, agile qualities of a coloratura soprano must be appreciated and taken
into serious consideration. She sang the bright lacy music warmly with
considerable ease and control. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In addition
to her extremely potent vocal mastery, her acting skills made the performance
even more appealing. To sum up, Leyla Gencer absolutely won her case.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">OAKLAND TRIBUNE (1957)</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> Cifford Gessler</span></div></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">La Traviata (San Francisco / Curiel)</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Gencer found
herself in an extremely difficult situation as she had to substitute the
legendary and highly beloved singer Maria Callas. But she was so successful
that she nearly made the audience forget about the presence of the great artist
Umberto Berghi- a baritone with a rich timbre and personality who also made his
debut before San Francisco audience. Gencer who had attained almost the same
level of success singing La Traviata a week before, might as well be described
as “one of the most credible and most suitable Violettas”. La Traviata is
Gencer’s opera from the beginning until the end.</div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SAN FRANCISCO NEWS
(1958)</span></b></div><span lang="ES" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Don Carlos (San Francisco / Sebastian)</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She represented
Queen Elizabeth in all her splendour.</div> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SAN FRANCOSCO CALL-BULLETIN
(1958)</span></b></div></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Don Carlos (San Francisco / Sebastian)</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">A rare beauty on
the stage, a rich voice and perfect pianissimos.</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SAN FRANCISCO
CHRONICLE (1958)</span></b></div></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">Don Carlos (San Francisco / Sebastian)</div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;">She interpreted
the Spanish queen perfectly thanks to her perfect vocal technique and great
musical approach.</div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><a name="_Hlk63100125"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100125"></a><a name="_Hlk63100125"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">VATAN Newspaper (08.11.1959)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b> Ahmet Emin Yalman</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Concert (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Ankara / Camozzo)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">During an interview in USA with a famous critic she had following dialogue:</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“You are Italian, right?”</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“No, I’m Turkish.”</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“What? Turkish? You must be a Christian Turk I
suppose.”</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“No, I’m a Muslim Turk.”</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“I wish you had told me this before I wrote about you.
I used to have sympathetic feelings and admiration for you. Now, not any more.”</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And Gencer
answered like this:</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100125;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“I don’t need the sympathy of such a narrow-minded
person.”</span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100228"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">OPERA Magazine (1962)</span></b></a></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100228;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Un ballo in maschera (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Verona / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100228;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Gencer’s interpretation of Amelia's role was
first-class.</span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100276"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL MATTINO (25.09.1963)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100276;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Alfredo Parente</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100276;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Gerusalemme (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Venezia / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100276;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It seems to me that Leyla Gencer has now reached to a
very high level of technical knowledge, confidence, dramatic capacity and
competency. She can use her voice with an elegant and brilliant clarity. She can
accentuate nuances between dark and light tones and has an agile, clear way of transitioning
between passages. She renders her roles lively and passionate through her
interpretation. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In addition to her
aestethic and noble gestures, she renders a monumental appearance to the
protagonist especially in the white costume that she wears in the last
act.</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100329"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL MATTINO (03.05.1964)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100329;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Alfredo Parente</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100329;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Roberto Devereux (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Napoli / Rossi)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100329;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Gencer interprets the personality of Elizabeth with
full mastery by expressing the queen’s sharp edges as well as the delicate
conjunctions of lightness and darkness in her character. </span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100379"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">SUNDAY TELEGRAPH (06.1965)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100379;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b> John Werrack</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100379;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Anna Bolena (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Glyndebourne / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100379;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Glyndebourne has succeeded in reviving this opera and
undoubtedly Leyla Gencer deserves the most credit among all the artists.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100436"><b>THE OBSERVER (06.1965) Peter Heyport</b></a></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100436;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Anna Bolena (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Glyndebourne / Gianandrea Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100436;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">After a rather shy entrance, Leyla Gencer interpreted
a long memorable character with her mastery in her voice and acting skills.</span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100497"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">OPERA Magazine (1968)</span></b></a></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100497;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Macbeth (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Venice / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100497;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Leyla Gencer who sang Lady Macbeth, is the best Lady
Macbeth that Verdi could have wished for.</span></div></span><b><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div></b><a name="_Hlk63100559"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100559"></a><a name="_Hlk63100559"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL GAZZETTINA (10.04.1968) </span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100559;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Marrio Messinis</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100559;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Macbeth (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Venice / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100559;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">It’s the first time that the world sees a such a
magnificent Lady Macbeth after Maria Callas. Gencer’s interpretation exceeds Birgit
Nilsson, Leonie Rysanek and Inge Borgh’s performances.</span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100624"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">LA STAMPA (05.03.1969) </span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100624;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Massimo Milla</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100624;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Alceste (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Torino / Capuana)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100624;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Anyone who wonders why this Turkish lady whose voice
isn’t even beautiful, has become indispensable for the Italian opera in only ten
years, whose name is found on the opera posters that vary from Cherubini to
Donizetti and Verdi operas and without whom it seems like all will collapse; should
come here and listen to her. In the dramatic high notes, her voice vibrates
like an over revving engine and gives us the feeling that it’s likely to burst
but however, her low tones are extremely beautiful, warm, thrilling, sweet and
soft. Yet she sings passionately as if she possesses a beautiful voice, she
pushes the boundaries and since she has all the rest such as musical and
dramatic intelligence; she succeeds…Gencer touches the audience deeply: she
presents Gluck’s classical image in such a natural and up-to-date way, far from
the intimidating cultural manipulation. She presents it as if it comes from an antic
or mythological memory of common knowledge.</span></div></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63100781"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">LE MONDE (23.12.1971)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100781;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Eric Dechamps</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100781;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Elisabetta, Regina d’Inghilterra (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Palermo / Sanzogno)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63100781;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">A few days after his article was published in Le
Combat, Eric Dechamps wrote another article for Le Monde where he stated
similar comments and gave the title of “Is the Massimo Theater of Palermo a
rival to La Scala Milano?”. And at the end of the article he advised the opera
enthusiasts to go visit Sicily to witness “The Miracle of Palermo”.</span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></div><a name="_Hlk63101005"></a><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63101005"></a><a name="_Hlk63101005"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">IL GIORNO (09.05.1972) </span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63101005;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Lorenzo Arruga</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63101005;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Alceste (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Milano / Gavazzeni)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63101005;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“The Voice that makes the choir cry”</span></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"> </span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63103982"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">L’OPERA INTERNATIONAL (10.1981)</span></b></a><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63103982;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <b>Michel Parouty</b></span></span></div><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63103982;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Recital / Scalera (</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Athenée Theatre / Paris)</span></div></span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk63103982;"><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Her interpretation is proper: The perfection of the
phrases, the right usage of the voice colours and nuances, intelligence of the
singing. Gencer knows how to emphasize the perfecty dramatic effects of the Bel
Canto, to interpret melodic phrases sensitively like noone else.</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><a name="_Hlk63104237"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">NEW YORK TIMES (03 April 2015) </span></b></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">An anecdote from New York Times </span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">If a music critic’s passions run high, the passions of
his readers can run higher still, as Mr. Porter learned — vicariously — after
an incident in Milan. The scene was La Scala, and the time was not long after
he had written a review criticizing the Turkish soprano Leyla Gencer, whom
opera fans around the world revered with a proprietary zeal.</span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In La Scala’s lobby that night was a man who had the
spectacular misfortune to resemble Mr. Porter. As the real Mr. Porter recounted
in the Opera News interview, a crowd of operagoers seized the man, threw him to
the floor and, shouting, “How could you say what you said about our Leyla
Gencer!” commenced kicking him.</span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></div></span><span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“I’m not Andrew Porter!” the man cried in self-defence.
“I’m not Andrew Porter!”</span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></div></span></span><span style="font-size: x-small;"><div style="text-align: justify;">
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Leyla Gencer bid her farewell
to the opera scene in 1985 with her performance of Francesco Gnecco's <i>La Prova di un'Opera Seria</i> at La Fenice
Theatre, though she continued singing at concerts and recitals until 1992.</span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">
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dedicated herself to the education of young opera artists. She worked as the
Didactic Artistic Director of As.Li.Co. of Milan between 1983-88 and was appointed
by Maestro Riccardo Muti to run La Scala's School for Young Artists (Academia
Teatro alla Scala) between 1997-98. Until her passing in 2008, Gencer was the
Artistic Director of the academy for opera artists in Teatro alla Scala, where
she was also teaching opera interpretation. She also served as the president of
Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts' board of trustees.</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtrAsMhHYS0p4uH6dQQJOy05SWWDvA2jvnZJLXAuOVHfI3QW4pE8qGVBHjTMkRfGNI39HozleQEK7Cg58dX7YcoaePpE3uV9G0Hh5UqiCJwZC95yMZkJM3v7pEGHeNaCLJHf1qe5MJmFx/s2048/001-+Recital+Rai+1982+%2528Pozzar+Trieste%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1416" data-original-width="2048" height="459" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgBtrAsMhHYS0p4uH6dQQJOy05SWWDvA2jvnZJLXAuOVHfI3QW4pE8qGVBHjTMkRfGNI39HozleQEK7Cg58dX7YcoaePpE3uV9G0Hh5UqiCJwZC95yMZkJM3v7pEGHeNaCLJHf1qe5MJmFx/w664-h459/001-+Recital+Rai+1982+%2528Pozzar+Trieste%2529.jpg" width="664" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Scuola della Regine, RAI Trieste 1982</span></div><div class="separator" style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: left;"><em><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;">Photo © POZZAR, Trieste</span></em></div></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer achieved her
remarkable presence in the opera world not only by the variety of her
repertoire, but also with the dramatic nuances that she attributed to the roles
she performed. A dedicated researcher and teacher, she reintroduced many
forgotten works of the romantic period to the opera stages.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">During her activity at
As.Li.Co. and La Scala, Gencer contiuned searching for the unkown. Vivaldi’s
opera <i>Il Giustino</i> was revived after
so many years thanks to her researches. At La Scala Academy she worked on
neglected or lesser staged operas and trained many singers. Being the president
of the of Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts' board of trustees, Gencer
worked as the consultant and coordinator of two opera productions realized in
Istanbul Music Festival. One of them was Bertoni’s <i>Orfeo </i>(1997) conducted by Claudio Schimone and directed by Pier
Luigi Pizzi. The second opera was
Vivaldi’s long neglected</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> opera</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <i>Bajazet </i>(1999) conducted by Fabio Biondi and once again directed by
Pier Luigi Pizzi at Hagia Eirene Museum- a Byzantine church from the 5th
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">During her career Gencer gave
many seminars. Some of them are: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">1976 Gerssan,
Aosta- <i>Seminar on Il Trovatore</i>,
Venice- <i>Seminar on Donizetti</i>, 1982
Trieste- <i>Donizetti Seminar</i>, 1985
Montpellier Singing Academy- <i>Seminar on
Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti</i>, 1985 Savona-<i>Donizetti Conference</i>, 1987 Teatro La Fenice Venice- <i>Seminar on Italian Opera</i>, 1989
Istanbul -<i>Seminar on Donizetti</i>, 1989
Arenzano-<i>Seminar on Donizetti</i>, 1990 Istanbul -<i>Seminar on Rossini.</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">SOME OF HER SEMINAR NOTES</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"> </span></b></p><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoviGMz2JRpAFg_sFhkSkMJj1C8FHRtvjDv4L-F-5sI4XBuBuvRNYISGptQK8EaGYCg_WH3-mzxOOedUmPvNf1P6ge_cKhJEXyWPz_7Xe66YiUlu_W8RZY5Aq_kEKrDCZhqbl0ArSROKv/s1593/01.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="858" data-original-width="1593" height="344" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXoviGMz2JRpAFg_sFhkSkMJj1C8FHRtvjDv4L-F-5sI4XBuBuvRNYISGptQK8EaGYCg_WH3-mzxOOedUmPvNf1P6ge_cKhJEXyWPz_7Xe66YiUlu_W8RZY5Aq_kEKrDCZhqbl0ArSROKv/w640-h344/01.png" width="640" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8hA1TDxWN5o8yyKd6qjreDrz3gb90zKjO-SJxbt5rZctnnqtGt2OhHBMvLxTBslfHkPQG_UBiF6d3bgVP3sb8lUYDe0LXaA2b-ncCm-0mcvYVtafORHHrbHewRAVeJzIa1rdPJDP-aH2Q/s1328/05.png" style="clear: left; 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-27537669514568937042020-06-10T03:52:00.010+03:002023-10-14T10:59:48.170+03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F A C E S [S t a g e]</span></b></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiairNXajdvERLwGlUrSZiuR8bqZEKK7niRO7RElUbdLDPovn0c9J9C2UQBB59eGKWaEbKrPfEQjzVoifqya6xcAl8drukZaOGBxUzwl04sQLDu5Fjz0q_2gd16MpQnbXXpAm14TlMmQE/s758/0.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="575" height="874" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWiairNXajdvERLwGlUrSZiuR8bqZEKK7niRO7RElUbdLDPovn0c9J9C2UQBB59eGKWaEbKrPfEQjzVoifqya6xcAl8drukZaOGBxUzwl04sQLDu5Fjz0q_2gd16MpQnbXXpAm14TlMmQE/w664-h874/0.png" width="664" /></a></div><div style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">F A C E S [O f f - S t a g e]</span></b></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0IBBI1BIS69flXEur6Hw8UaivwD2Fn8Zy1TWfZMbF2tBzydjhCme2zGBfux2DL2yVUN7mFVcRuIejGD_QcS7ubaaIxnc-20FdHOynsv9S4-Y8v3vQ3in1gKg5LjvxVXn6_9ehWkM61tA/s927/0+%25281%2529.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="927" data-original-width="590" height="1042" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL0IBBI1BIS69flXEur6Hw8UaivwD2Fn8Zy1TWfZMbF2tBzydjhCme2zGBfux2DL2yVUN7mFVcRuIejGD_QcS7ubaaIxnc-20FdHOynsv9S4-Y8v3vQ3in1gKg5LjvxVXn6_9ehWkM61tA/w664-h1042/0+%25281%2529.jpg" width="664" /></a></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-54742694442281492322020-06-10T03:00:00.040+03:002024-02-27T12:42:18.990+03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">L E Y L A G E N C E R
& I </span></b><b style="font-size: large;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></b></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-diwq_1oCM6Q5cAZ9G4IngdPhGdm-Oic45AQVeKTJB6YFO7V2YTA_uvzChVAw7Kflx6-KRAqaA8_UrsaJnBSno1PxY_jL4RaNgl9kuV-chCqWnRatU6SDm8UWu_hMj0WUOYDFomc5fT51SpMfbQWIVWSZCpXeAxaFgt92qmonDue9hJXusVAvdJ5Na_KE" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="628" data-original-width="433" height="521" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi-diwq_1oCM6Q5cAZ9G4IngdPhGdm-Oic45AQVeKTJB6YFO7V2YTA_uvzChVAw7Kflx6-KRAqaA8_UrsaJnBSno1PxY_jL4RaNgl9kuV-chCqWnRatU6SDm8UWu_hMj0WUOYDFomc5fT51SpMfbQWIVWSZCpXeAxaFgt92qmonDue9hJXusVAvdJ5Na_KE=w358-h521" width="358" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2021.05.20</span></b></div></div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 217;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">© Ahmet Etem Erenli </span></b></div></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">My first encounter with Leyla Gencer was
in 1986 at the “Tower Records” which was London’s biggest record store in that
period.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Considering that the national press often
exaggerated the international reputation levels of the Turkish artists, I
wasn’t very much interested in Gencer at that time and I hadn’t listened to any
of her recordings. I wasn’t even aware that there were records of Leyla Gencer
until that very day. Seeing numerous longplays of Gencer at the opera section
of Tower Records definitely caught my attention.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Initially, I bought two of her records.
One of them was <i>Rigoletto</i> and the
other one was <i>Simon Boccanegra</i>. Since
I had just begun listening to opera just a few years before, I found <i>Simon Boccanegra</i> rather intense, dark
and boring. So I quit listening to <i>Boccanegra
</i>and began<i> </i>listening to <i>Rigoletto</i>. When I first listened, it didn’t
quite inspire me so I didn’t pay much attention to it. I can now say that, it was the second time
that I’d made a similar mistake. I’d found Callas “extravagant” in <i>Lucia di Lammermoor </i>and quit listening
to it. But then I kept hearing her voice in my head for many days and eventually
I became a true Callas fan. Exactly like how I couldn’t get Gencer out of my
head and how <i>Simon Boccanegra </i>became
one of my favourite operas in the following years. <br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In the course of time, I collected all
official and pirate recordings of Gencer and Callas and I’ve achieved a quiet prominent
collection. But being somehow addicted to these two artists and “as a third artist
I may also add Caballé to the ensemble”, I’ve not been much sympathetic towards
the contemporary opera artists. I still prefer listening to the exciting live
recordings of these three artists rather than listening to the contemporary
recordings that are realized with optimum technical equipments.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I have never loved the perfection. Meanwhile,
the world is filled with perfect singers. Yet, rather than listening to those
perfect voices, I have always prefered listening to singers who made perfect
impacts. An effective accentuation of
maybe just one word in the libretto is enough to take me to a whole different
world. Who can easily forget <i>Figlia
impura di Bolena</i> (<i>Maria Stuarda</i> /
Florence)? What about <i>Vivi ingrato, Quel
sangue versato </i>(<i>Roberto Devereux</i>)?
I guess a very few people have the record of her recital in Naples (1984) where
she sang </span><a name="_Hlk39083895"></a><i><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">Tu che voli già spirto beato...No, qui morir degg’io </span></i><span color="windowtext" lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">from
Donizetti’s opera <i>Fausta </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-decoration-line: none;">as an encore. The aria was
interrupted in the middle by applauses and its finale was cheered with
enthusiastic shouts and ovation. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Just like Callas,
Gencer is also one of the artists who possessed the <i>perfect imperfection</i>. She had many flaws but she had the ability to
embrace and invade you with her voice and never let you go. But it’s not easy
to like her either. You must know well the opera that you’re listening to. You
must know the libretto, you must read it and you should also be informed about
the history of it a little bit, if the opera is based on historical events. And
of course, you must be a fan of the Italian opera too. Neither Callas’, nor
Gencer’s voices were suitable for the German operas. But one must definitely mention
Gencer’s interpretation of Mozart operas. <i>Idomeneo,
Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni</i> (Donna Anna and Donna Elvira) are the
operas where she stood up for her interpretation of Mozart; especially as Contessa,
Elettra and Donna Elvira. I also believe that she was unopposed as Elettra in <i>Idomeneo</i>. Her interpretation of the
Contessa at Glyndebourne in 1962 is also one of the performances that impressed
me the most. Although she sang only one aria of Konstanze from <i>Die Entführung aus dem Serail</i> which was
in Italian, I still find it rather fabulous.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Since I have
started mentioning Gencer’s opera interpretations, I would also like to write
my opinions of some of the operas that she sang:<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Aida</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> is one of the
operas that Gencer recorded the most. It was recorded and broadcasted three different
times on television. Today we have two TV recordings from Verona. Unfortunately,
the recording of her performance at Caracalla (1970) isn’t available in video
form, but it’s available as an audio record. In 1966, the audio recording of the
La Scala production was criticised rather harsly. And despite my thorough researches, I haven’t
been able to find that recording. It’s
interesting that not only Gencer, but all the artists of the cast were harshly
criticised for that production. Frankly, <i>Aida</i>
isn’t among my favourite operas so I don’t wish to write so much about it, but
Gencer’s interpretation of <i>O Cieli
azzurri</i> has always seemed to me as if it comes from another dimension.
Especially, her extraordinary <i>piannisimo</i>s
are utterly exquisite.<br /> <o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Now it’s time to
write about <i>Anna Bolena</i>. There are three
recordings of Gencer as Anna Bolena. They are from her Young age (1958), Middle
age (1965) and Mature Age (1977) periods; so it’s exciting to witness how her
interpretation changed through the years. The first and the second recordings
are exquisite but I would like to especially write about her performance in
Rome (1977). I think that Gencer, who was at the age of 58, achieved top class
dramaticism in that production. Although she once personally told me that she
wasn’t much pleased with her performance there and it was recorded when she was
seriously sick. Her best interpretation of Anne Boleyn, who was a very young
woman, would be considered as the one in 1958, “because of the age factor”, but
my heart will always be set on her performance in 1977.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I personally find <i>Belisario</i> as one of the milestones of
the Donizetti Renaissance. It might have affected me since the story is set in
Byzantium, in the terrain of my homeland.
I have all three records of her Belisario performances and I might say
that I’m very much attached to all three. Although I’m not actually a fan of Donizetti’s
“saving the best for last” habit (apart from some exceptions), <i>Egli</i></span><em><b><span face=""Arial",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #5f6368; font-style: normal;"> </span></b></em><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">è <i>spento</i> is without any doubt,
one of the most impressive arias that Gencer ever sang. Even though the name of
the opera is <i>Belisario, </i>Gencer sings
her part with absolute perfection and makes the opera her own.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">And <i>Caterina Cornaro; it’s </i>another Donizetti
opera that I absolutely love. I agree with all my heart to the New York
audience that enthusiastically applauded Gencer’s triumph. It’s an authentic
Donizetti interpretation: from the beginning, until the end. I think it was a
big mistake for MET to have never included her in their program, even after
that amazing performance. They did the same thing to Piero Cappuccilli who was
one of the most important baritones of the 20<sup>th</sup> century.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Gencer was the
most prominent person of the Donizetti Renaissance, but I think that she was
also a major Verdi interpreter. Since she was an <i>Acting Singer, </i>Verdi’s operas provided her great opportunities to show
all her skills. One of those operas was <i>Don
Carlos</i>. Gencer sang Don Carlos for four seasons at La Scala (1961,
1963,1964, 1970) and in Vienna, Rome, London, San Francisco, Los Angeles and
Bologna. Corriere della sera defined her performance as a <i>major triumph</i> but the Opera Magazine called Gencer <i>a wrong choice </i>for the premiere. This
irony also demonstrates perfectly how Anglo-Saxon preferences differ from the
Italian gusto. The British producers who majorly dominated the recording industry
never much appreciated Gencer’s interpretations. The difference between the interpretative
styles of these two cultures caused a disadvantage for Gencer, since the British
were the patrons of the recording industry. As I stated at the “Queen of
Pirates” section which you can find at the first page of the blog, even though
a great conductor such as Tullio Serafin had wanted Leyla Gencer for his
recording sessions, unfortunately the major “labels” of the industry excluded her
anyway. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I don’t know if
you’ve ever listened to Rossini’s <i>Elisabetta
Regina d’Inghilterra</i>. Unfortunately, there are so few of its recordings.
But it’s an exquisite opera. There are three recordings of this opera sung by
Gencer. But the British critics didn’t like her performance at Edinburgh either.
Nevertheless, this opera is a real miracle where we can hear Gencer’s strong
interpretation when her voice was at its peak. This opera requires strength,
sensibility and flawless pianissimos, which Gencer delivers even better than
expected. After her performance in Milan, Le Monde wrote: <i>The Miracle of Palermo</i>.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I Lombardi</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> (Verdi) was overshadowed by other Verdi operas of that era such as: <i>Nabucco,
Ernani</i> and <i>I due Foscari</i>, so it
wasn’t performed much. There’s a second version of this opera called <i>Jérusaleme</i>, which was written for the
audience of Paris. And its Italian name is<i>
Gerusalemme</i>. Although it’s almost unknown, it’s still a very powerful opera.
Gencer sang this opera in Venice (1963) for the first time and it was so
successful that, the following year the opera was once again included in the
seasonal program. In 1965, the same production was also staged in Münich and
then in Wiesbaden (1965).<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of my
favourite interpretations of Gencer is undoubtedly <i>Il Trovatore</i>, the one which was recorded for RAI in 1957. It’s
still one of the recordings that I listen to the most and which I still haven’t
got tired of. Even del Monaco wasn’t at his best and I would have preferred
Corelli instead of him; but Ettore Bastianini and Fedora Barbieri were
fabulous. Gencer’s interpretation of <i>D'amor sull'ali rosee...Miserere </i>is peerless. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;">During some of my conversations with Gencer, she often mentioned that
she’d sung <i>La Traviata</i> perfectly at Moskow’s Bolshoi Theatre and even
though she’d searched for a recording of it, she wasn’t able to find one. Her
performance of <i>La Traviata</i> that was recorded in Rio wasn’t perfect, but I
personally think that it’s much better than many studio recordings of the opera.
Especially her impaccable interpretation of the aria <i>Addio del passato</i>
and the reaction of the audience after the executions of both Addio del passato
and <i>Amami Alfredo </i>contradict with the opinions of the critics of that
era. Even though Gencer sang in many productions of <i>La Traviata, </i>unfortunately
it’s an opera of which we have the least recordings. We only have the recording
from Rio de Janeiro.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-style: italic;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hereby, I would
like to take a break from writing my opinions of Gencer’s opera performances
and I’d like to share some personal information about her.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Having lived mostly
abroad; one of the things that Leyla Gencer missed the most was the Turkish
cuisine; especially the vegetable dishes. Therefore, every time that she
visited Istanbul, Mr. Şakir Eczacıbaşı; the President of the Istanbul
Foundation of Culture and Arts, invited her to his house where he served
extremely delicious Aegean vegetable dishes. Here you can find some photos taken
during some one of those dinners.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yekta Kara, me and
Gencer; looking at something, but I currently don’t remember what it was. The photos were of course taken by Şakir
Eczacıbaşı. The other dinner guests were Görgün Taner and Ömür Bozkurt. </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw18lSSvobz1o-so9-12vcc3BAce-z0_4KUpkriTGGoia8x4sxBbRc3fCTNC_b_BgGuY8JQFbV7kou2PYzzB_DNUc50J_xsRTL3RQwv0Ca9mGNiDY_M4zzr7cgSXbJACIAALwnZN4pVkUQ/s2048/1-+2006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528Ist%2529+01.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1471" data-original-width="2048" height="483" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhw18lSSvobz1o-so9-12vcc3BAce-z0_4KUpkriTGGoia8x4sxBbRc3fCTNC_b_BgGuY8JQFbV7kou2PYzzB_DNUc50J_xsRTL3RQwv0Ca9mGNiDY_M4zzr7cgSXbJACIAALwnZN4pVkUQ/w672-h483/1-+2006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528Ist%2529+01.jpg" width="672" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2006 Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Yekta Kara</span></div><i style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Photo © ŞAKİR ECZACIBAŞI, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vZf6i4y1RgqTm78jnafom1JkRL8zWk_2-9ZPneanT9G81mleQQ87L-1ss9qDFdMHUyKEfwoW77-8HwtCYpV-na5fJzEqsIDG562JaWXGBn1ClPuvP4HoJ3-rP-I_d-xjKfoLPylODQjE/s2048/2-+20006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528%25C4%25B0st%2529+03.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1471" data-original-width="2048" height="485" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg5vZf6i4y1RgqTm78jnafom1JkRL8zWk_2-9ZPneanT9G81mleQQ87L-1ss9qDFdMHUyKEfwoW77-8HwtCYpV-na5fJzEqsIDG562JaWXGBn1ClPuvP4HoJ3-rP-I_d-xjKfoLPylODQjE/w675-h485/2-+20006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528%25C4%25B0st%2529+03.jpg" width="675" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2006 Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Yekta Kara</span></div><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © </span></i><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ŞAKİR ECZACIBAŞI</span></i><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></span></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRKELcOx-KbjWuVHBThzQgvCdzu0V_ZjgZLgx7ZpoKnPUw97Vnj9Q1h4qIlW08obfJYc8Mw4rOj-8WAU8-U4SUNRpB-SjKB39j1Qgp5EDp5J0E3AWYIT3Pyz9bzvDZ9DSjxjYJ0tzunra/s2048/3-+2006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528%25C4%25B0st%2529+02.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1471" height="937" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiZRKELcOx-KbjWuVHBThzQgvCdzu0V_ZjgZLgx7ZpoKnPUw97Vnj9Q1h4qIlW08obfJYc8Mw4rOj-8WAU8-U4SUNRpB-SjKB39j1Qgp5EDp5J0E3AWYIT3Pyz9bzvDZ9DSjxjYJ0tzunra/w674-h937/3-+2006+with+Aee+%2526+YKara+%2528%25C4%25B0st%2529+02.jpg" width="674" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2006 Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Yekta Kara</span></div><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © </span></i><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ŞAKİR ECZACIBAŞI</span></i><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></span></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><br /></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETmQH2GYpZ-xpn6NGROZpu7YRgZfx5SBPYDtOT7rVmjOSaiNFB1D0Oby9a8-jLdcIPzgg7ttWQfk5jVEjZDleD0MkA1W6OW8ndU4EDEM37S31ms0rOTU1huFa7U5OhNhvM6U4-uPFUjY8/s2048/4-+2000s+with+Aee+%2526+GT+%2528Milano%2529+a.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="503" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiETmQH2GYpZ-xpn6NGROZpu7YRgZfx5SBPYDtOT7rVmjOSaiNFB1D0Oby9a8-jLdcIPzgg7ttWQfk5jVEjZDleD0MkA1W6OW8ndU4EDEM37S31ms0rOTU1huFa7U5OhNhvM6U4-uPFUjY8/w671-h503/4-+2000s+with+Aee+%2526+GT+%2528Milano%2529+a.jpg" width="671" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2005 Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Görgün Taner</span></div><i style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Photo © ÖMÜR BOZKURT, Milano</span></i></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-B4leTuRbfM22xcl5Jk9uycL9xZeKfXW5RE6qHvxpXF9XfbQXK2DUa4MQzaSbhVMNofergZgrgXTKByPiVeVMHzFNdAVWrd-SaDTWIR-gfax0KAfVOEs5DKMLPHDXYBiszWSE-6OoUYW/s2048/4-+2000s+with+Aee+%2526+YG+%2528Milano%2529+b.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" height="504" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2-B4leTuRbfM22xcl5Jk9uycL9xZeKfXW5RE6qHvxpXF9XfbQXK2DUa4MQzaSbhVMNofergZgrgXTKByPiVeVMHzFNdAVWrd-SaDTWIR-gfax0KAfVOEs5DKMLPHDXYBiszWSE-6OoUYW/w672-h504/4-+2000s+with+Aee+%2526+YG+%2528Milano%2529+b.jpg" width="672" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2005 Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Yeşim Gürer Oymak</span></div><i style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">Photo © ÖMÜR BOZKURT, Milano</span></i></div></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Another
photograph; taken at Leyla Gencer’s apartment in Milan. I was there with Görgün
Taner, Yeşim Gürer and Ömür Bozkurt. I guess the photo was taken by Ömür Bozkurt.
During one of our gatherings in Milan, she told me a noteworthy memoir: Gencer
and Mr. </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">Lissner</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-size: medium;">who was the Artistic Director of La Scala in that
period, were at a table during a reception at La Scala. Angela Gheorghiu and Roberto
Alagna; the most admired opera couple of that era, were also among the
guests. The famous couple came to
Gencer’s table and Roberto said: <i>Signora, I would like to introduce you my
wife.</i> Gencer looked at Angela and said: <i>Young
lady, you are very pretty. Are you also a singer? </i>Of course her question was
followed by a moment of silence. I asked her <i>Signora, why did you ask him such thing? Didn’t you know that Gheorghiu
was a very famous soprano?</i> And her answer was phenomenal: </span><i><span style="font-size: medium;">Ahmet, my dear, as sopranos we sometimes do
things like this. </span><o:p style="font-size: 13.5pt;"></o:p></i></span></span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></i></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZak13XggIuml5uJdMxTiIMpgt_8jPQAad39M0D0knWYePXjO_9SejhxcwOSrdqGTfVJX7pUl3-IaRDpUKLMyL57xljtfKF2gTHsmKwrE6O9gLB3uMt5K41uMZ4PN1rVzxN5_V34FYH-wj/s1195/5-+2007+with+%25C5%259Eule+Soysal+01.PNG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="917" data-original-width="1195" height="512" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZak13XggIuml5uJdMxTiIMpgt_8jPQAad39M0D0knWYePXjO_9SejhxcwOSrdqGTfVJX7pUl3-IaRDpUKLMyL57xljtfKF2gTHsmKwrE6O9gLB3uMt5K41uMZ4PN1rVzxN5_V34FYH-wj/w666-h512/5-+2007+with+%25C5%259Eule+Soysal+01.PNG" width="666" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">2007 Şule Soysal, Leyla Gencer, Milano</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"></p><div><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span> <br /> <br /><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">In 1995, Yapı Kredi Bank used to organize a festival similar to Istanbul Music Festival, for some reason named “The Youth Festival” in the months of May and June. The organization of two very similar festivals at the same time was very challenging for both parties. The classical music audience was divided in half and both festivals were negatively affected by the consequences. That year Mr. Aydın Gün, who was the Artistic Director of the Yapı Kredi Festival announced that they were going to organize a voice competition named after Leyla Gencer. I was working at the Istanbul Music Festival in that period and I remember very well that I was very upset by that news. Sure it was a well-intentioned initiative but I believed that the corporations that weren’t originally oriented towards art, could only support that kind of demanding projects only for a limited period and the project should have been realized by IKSV. And in time, my idea was proven to be right. The management changed, budget cuts were made and the first cut was in culture&arts. So the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition was annulled only after three editions.</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Yapı Kredi organized
the competition for the last time in 2000 and finally in 2004 it was
transferred to IKSV thanks to the major efforts of the Ambassadress Şule Soysal
who was the head of the Department of Cultural Affairs within the Ministry of
Foreign Affairs. That transfer made us think that the competition <i>finally came to its home</i> but it also
came with its challenges because it was organized in the name of a living
person. As I was the Director of the Music Festival in that period, I was put
in charge for the competition’s organization and I became the Director of the
Competition also. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">From that day and
on, the phone calls between Milan and Istanbul never stopped. The competition
was scheduled for 2006 and Leyla Gencer was following every step of it. She sometimes
complained in ways that demoralized some of the people who were working for the
competition. And since Accademia della Scala was also one of the partners, she was
concerned even more. She wasn’t happy about almost anything and kept saying
that the organization would fail. Meanwhile the Festival was being held, the
date of the competition was approaching and Signora Leyla whom I was always supposed
to calm down, kept on calling me. I was also in my last three month period at
IKSV and I would later become the General Manager of Borusan Sanat in
September-2006.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In such a chaotic
environment, it was actually very challenging to work with Leyla Gencer but
strangely, I enjoyed talking to her on the phone too; especially when we were talking
about opera and her personal life. She had such beautiful anecdotes. Of course
it wouldn’t be appropriate to share each of them in this blog. Nevertheless all
her difficulties, Leyla Gencer knew very well how to make amends. One sentence
of her was enough to melt our hearts and forget about her past caprices; so we
could keep on working. During our visits
to her apartments both in Istanbul and Milan, she served us exquisite food and
sometimes we just enjoyed eating ham sandwiches together...<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Down below, you
can find some of the photos that were taken before and after the competition.
The final date of the competition was on August 30<sup>th</sup> which is also
my birthday. </span></span></div>
</div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pmWeB1KViu49xcWNH7jG0_O4j3BkJ2nuKElqf0YNp_Mri-TRhDDNi6P2a3fwG149M3oOnt2AlQrX5omwcuWXz2lj2xI4FBtm9kA3GAo7TTezOuuO8vbBdwt-bgPaI50r8x-9-04o_WkG/s2048/8a-+DSC_7173.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi8pmWeB1KViu49xcWNH7jG0_O4j3BkJ2nuKElqf0YNp_Mri-TRhDDNi6P2a3fwG149M3oOnt2AlQrX5omwcuWXz2lj2xI4FBtm9kA3GAo7TTezOuuO8vbBdwt-bgPaI50r8x-9-04o_WkG/w672-h451/8a-+DSC_7173.JPG" width="672" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Şakir Eczacıbaşı, Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli, Stephen Lissner, Yekta Kara</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><i style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / ILGIN ERASLAN, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="color: #cc0000;"><br /></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXraBpTZwjroYjBe1m50ku5wIKD313rlL88RzxDGOJh3fXcfB2jlaAF2dnysFmxJ53Mq9xR6ZUqQW_sgNrCrVlhsIdBeXAYBGk2zFbegWFRW65ytDG6b-nFwNt7avIPzvgYJJWXq-q3AGC/s2048/9-+DSC_7167.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiXraBpTZwjroYjBe1m50ku5wIKD313rlL88RzxDGOJh3fXcfB2jlaAF2dnysFmxJ53Mq9xR6ZUqQW_sgNrCrVlhsIdBeXAYBGk2zFbegWFRW65ytDG6b-nFwNt7avIPzvgYJJWXq-q3AGC/w673-h450/9-+DSC_7167.JPG" width="673" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;">L</span><span style="text-align: justify;">eyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli, Stephen Lissner</span></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p><br /></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2jTX0gZ17M-sTNTnp8aWx8oEZnA8ExiZrvD6ZmZ3d34e-nyJOMgFDFcjBjgSOoxlcEfQZgEIyfZFO8T0oV-rkpe3gb6Mrzyoda2E-6BlGONtfilbYCsgHmIvXperQVZ8jGzGzHiYdcWv/s2048/10-+DSC_7168.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEji2jTX0gZ17M-sTNTnp8aWx8oEZnA8ExiZrvD6ZmZ3d34e-nyJOMgFDFcjBjgSOoxlcEfQZgEIyfZFO8T0oV-rkpe3gb6Mrzyoda2E-6BlGONtfilbYCsgHmIvXperQVZ8jGzGzHiYdcWv/w674-h451/10-+DSC_7168.JPG" width="674" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli, Stephen Lissner</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9SwhyphenhyphenUZOMcVyUA3Qtu1pBZq4ysdIx40WtjKE1TZqoKxrdRPNaKUSQeNXsCRLDUBdVKpgwC4StBRneHVDL7sD-8FRvKHctAkx1cspqgoyiVw28c-ekmcPDP7RJCw1cntmFS8u83A4sUYs/s2048/12-+DSC_7170.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiL9SwhyphenhyphenUZOMcVyUA3Qtu1pBZq4ysdIx40WtjKE1TZqoKxrdRPNaKUSQeNXsCRLDUBdVKpgwC4StBRneHVDL7sD-8FRvKHctAkx1cspqgoyiVw28c-ekmcPDP7RJCw1cntmFS8u83A4sUYs/w672-h449/12-+DSC_7170.JPG" width="672" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli, Stephen Lissner</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div><div style="text-align: left;"><i>Photo © IFCA / </i><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i>, Istanbul</i></div></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-Pcs2DZd2Fd1s3K-8Ldj-Zfpy7rfdN9v-zss-MgVBb5pgdFaL6SIboM-14V4_37zhBmyb3Ks1LTIG1I8zz6aeHj1qkdMGbrsfGoy1Yd2zk7d1fG7w9lL0xC9xtT13ybRALeoJlVXMHFg/s2048/13-+DSC_7171.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-Pcs2DZd2Fd1s3K-8Ldj-Zfpy7rfdN9v-zss-MgVBb5pgdFaL6SIboM-14V4_37zhBmyb3Ks1LTIG1I8zz6aeHj1qkdMGbrsfGoy1Yd2zk7d1fG7w9lL0xC9xtT13ybRALeoJlVXMHFg/w672-h450/13-+DSC_7171.JPG" width="672" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli, Stephen Lissner</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><i><br /></i></o:p></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /><br /></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqumsSyMy0n7gw5dR66PKpYUyRJNJ0I_sjyA0GE5p2WLSBD2-D0BKqVcorbrLJIM5519C7j5OrxQrHi6pTALXCQi-Vg5BPhRy4YX9JHiA2O6iK2hecwpWJ26paDwln7OeteZrTR50CzG_d/s2048/14-+DSC_7172.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgqumsSyMy0n7gw5dR66PKpYUyRJNJ0I_sjyA0GE5p2WLSBD2-D0BKqVcorbrLJIM5519C7j5OrxQrHi6pTALXCQi-Vg5BPhRy4YX9JHiA2O6iK2hecwpWJ26paDwln7OeteZrTR50CzG_d/w673-h450/14-+DSC_7172.JPG" width="673" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /><br /></o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8eOXyhuifMEglKucFS-jY-Cfqbq-oncQefM6_J-vlKCAjsswqVgeljtY7pi9d3WilaU0DsejCW4YQS_aNSbyVhy9PoMbIX2npane1LueR-Y7q9b6UbQHKvxpO9WbOjk0v6-SPqccmmzg/s2048/6-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25282%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="451" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC8eOXyhuifMEglKucFS-jY-Cfqbq-oncQefM6_J-vlKCAjsswqVgeljtY7pi9d3WilaU0DsejCW4YQS_aNSbyVhy9PoMbIX2npane1LueR-Y7q9b6UbQHKvxpO9WbOjk0v6-SPqccmmzg/w674-h451/6-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25282%2529.JPG" width="674" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Melahat Behlil</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hagia Irene Museum, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuJGx3O-Dsun9PCnCdMD_qwqUDx2lgGkbG291s9r5084NQRLkdEwhppgazu61SnuyJ5mFchr57UiXm4TRvZf-fHoY4nWpcW1Non0LirJiJchxNZjLhFcHShQpCZ9BXjoV-s9RYqLLj6cv/s2048/7-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25283%2529.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1114" data-original-width="2048" height="366" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNuJGx3O-Dsun9PCnCdMD_qwqUDx2lgGkbG291s9r5084NQRLkdEwhppgazu61SnuyJ5mFchr57UiXm4TRvZf-fHoY4nWpcW1Non0LirJiJchxNZjLhFcHShQpCZ9BXjoV-s9RYqLLj6cv/w673-h366/7-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25283%2529.JPG" width="673" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Ahmet Erenli, Leyla Gencer, Melahat Behlil</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hagia Irene Museum, Istanbul</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo ©IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHRHKVP3WAg6yBJgtHMQAyJAQn2oGaT2ATVid-z8bsxp_4VxYgAG2EeYC2oRRBNSGNJNdUOyLks4l63o31cv1EjlaOSXbXQ3HDHEj7I8LxdaoOiUyHJiBCc3IKWPqQV1ggR9hvaNINsmI/s720/8-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25284%2529.bmp" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="720" height="538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcHRHKVP3WAg6yBJgtHMQAyJAQn2oGaT2ATVid-z8bsxp_4VxYgAG2EeYC2oRRBNSGNJNdUOyLks4l63o31cv1EjlaOSXbXQ3HDHEj7I8LxdaoOiUyHJiBCc3IKWPqQV1ggR9hvaNINsmI/w672-h538/8-+LG+%2526+I+%25282006.08+%25284%2529.bmp" width="672" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small; text-align: justify;">Görgün Taner, Leyla Gencer, Ahmet Erenli</span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span>2006.08.30 Hagia Irene Museum, Istanbul</span></div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FdqtCceIpIUn0YxSXaTaXXakGSmmx0HqW00OfUArtTP0LtEMfalh9lxbUFak2O75tK3N3_Telc6zAT1fmqZLkffdqKPlYMomSFCTM3_iQT9ZROAQL34RnjCLvWGMUchCblcdqgLNz-X4/s2048/15-+DSC_7162.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="My birthday celebration" border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi9FdqtCceIpIUn0YxSXaTaXXakGSmmx0HqW00OfUArtTP0LtEMfalh9lxbUFak2O75tK3N3_Telc6zAT1fmqZLkffdqKPlYMomSFCTM3_iQT9ZROAQL34RnjCLvWGMUchCblcdqgLNz-X4/w673-h450/15-+DSC_7162.JPG" width="673" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">My birthday celebration</span></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Melahat Behlil, Melis Behlil, Yeşim Gürer Oymak</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /><br /></o:p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA077AdLpKB66347lTGUdM4E9bCVg5efLxBULjWgLpxNUvUp5NzfCOu-yHWemwdMqQ5DU24OMJfWvJcuA2O703jcGK-UdQ225SEmvT5_GcjjaFhHKtOerkTOoAuj4xym3gdw6qi9NXVOgi/s2048/16-+DSC_7163.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgA077AdLpKB66347lTGUdM4E9bCVg5efLxBULjWgLpxNUvUp5NzfCOu-yHWemwdMqQ5DU24OMJfWvJcuA2O703jcGK-UdQ225SEmvT5_GcjjaFhHKtOerkTOoAuj4xym3gdw6qi9NXVOgi/w671-h449/16-+DSC_7163.JPG" width="671" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">My birthday celebration</span></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Melahat Behlil, Melis Behlil, Yeşim Gürer Oymak</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMvxAlBBMybsZZQ6qlnmfqF8mus5bTrG5svNSipRzSD5lzBo5pJSShG-PObX_UE1robX334CeIY5DLu-qujCl0eCJ-l-GRErfHQK-27ZemTyCBMzsVm4MW97dmbU1J4saavzGAjtU_fK0/s2048/17-+DSC_7164.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="450" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsMvxAlBBMybsZZQ6qlnmfqF8mus5bTrG5svNSipRzSD5lzBo5pJSShG-PObX_UE1robX334CeIY5DLu-qujCl0eCJ-l-GRErfHQK-27ZemTyCBMzsVm4MW97dmbU1J4saavzGAjtU_fK0/w673-h450/17-+DSC_7164.JPG" width="673" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">My birthday celebration</span></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Melahat Behlil, Melis Behlil, Yeşim Gürer Oymak, Nilgün Mirze, Görgün Taner</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><o:p><br /></o:p></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><br /></span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p><br /><br /></o:p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxi6rg65kIwcqtAV1hTPTPiRN6GL9JkSu49UMXhdggyHYEjRkHNijicDo20XO4djBqY8i2tv5TLzc9um5FbSiS2SWNhx9zVlJhkxQ0CXE4yBqvAuL7uOr1mZzckrcb04SzxfR8jeA2UCfa/s2048/18-+DSC_7165.JPG" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1371" data-original-width="2048" height="449" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxi6rg65kIwcqtAV1hTPTPiRN6GL9JkSu49UMXhdggyHYEjRkHNijicDo20XO4djBqY8i2tv5TLzc9um5FbSiS2SWNhx9zVlJhkxQ0CXE4yBqvAuL7uOr1mZzckrcb04SzxfR8jeA2UCfa/w671-h449/18-+DSC_7165.JPG" width="671" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-small;">My birthday celebration</span></span></div><span style="color: #cc0000; font-size: x-small;"><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">2006.08.30 Hotel Armada, Istanbul</div></span><span style="text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;">Melahat Behlil, Melis Behlil, Yeşim Gürer Oymak, Nilgün Mirze, Görgün Taner, Üstüngel İnanç</div></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Photo © IFCA / </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">ILGIN ERASLAN</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">, Istanbul</span></i></div></i></span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></span><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 13.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Now I would like to take a break from
writing my souvenirs and I’ll continue from where I’d left. If you ask me what
my least favourite opera interpretation of Gencer is, I’d briefly say that it’s
<i>Werther. </i> I don’t know if my dislike is caused by my
antipathy towards this opera in general, or because it wasn’t sung in its
original language. Or maybe just because Gencer didn’t much like this opera
either. Contrary to <i>Manon</i>, <i>Werther </i>always seemed dull, stagnant and
boring to me. When Gencer was asked to sing Werther, she wanted to reject it at
first, but Tullio Serafin told her to sing it and said <i>You should definitely sing this opera. It’s a very important step for
your career and you must learn it.</i> Consequently, Gencer sang it in Italian
first for RAI in 1955 and in 1959 she sang it again in Trieste.<br /></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I may say that the other Donizetti Queens
(apart from <i>Anna Bolena</i>) have now
become Gencer’s brands. Her interpretations of <i>Maria Stuarda</i> and Queen Elizabeth in <i>Roberto Devereux</i> are still appraised by the opera fans of Florence
and Naples although it’s been almost 50 years since she performed them. Although
the production of <i>Maria Stuarda</i> was
enthusiastically cheered and applauded in Florence, when the same cast
performed the opera in Edinburgh (1969), Gencer still wasn’t appreciated by the
British critics. Gencer has a major dominance over <i>Roberto Devereux</i>. She easily delivers all the challenging vocal
acquirements that the role of Elisabeth demands. She reaches the peak of
perfection in all arias. She’s the only one ruling the opera. There’s Queen
Elizabeth; a woman torn between love, vengeance and duty, yet Gencer revives
her every word: </span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Quel sangue
versato… al cielo s’innalza… giustizia domanda…. reclama vendetta </span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">and the
cheering of the audience is indescribable.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In 1960, Gencer was cast along with Maria
Callas for the production <i>Poliuto</i> at
La Scala. Callas sang in the first five performances and Gencer sang in the
following three. Both sopranos sang with the tenor Franco Corelli.
Unfortunately we don’t have a recording of that production but we have the
record of <i>Poliuto</i> that was performed
in Barcelona (1975). <i>Les Martyrs</i>;
which is the French version of this opera was wonderfully staged at La Fenice
in 1977. Gencer sang both of these operas at a very mature age but they are critically
important because these operas were therefore revived in the opera repertoire.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Some people who believe that Gencer was
born in 1928 may be surprised whilst reading the sentence above “Gencer was at
a mature age”. As stated in the book “I, Leyla Gencer” written by Evin
İlyasoğlu in 2018, according to the records of Liceo Italiano; Gencer was born
in 1919. Considering the accuracy of the high school documents, we can clearly
say that Gencer had a very long career. <br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">And now, one of my favourite operas: <i>Attila</i>. Gencer was a perfect Odabella.
There are 3 recordings of this opera: The ones made in Florence on 19<sup>th</sup>
and 31<sup>st</sup> of December 1972 and the one that was recorded in New
Jersey. I like the recording of Attila that was performed on December 19<sup>th</sup>
1972 and released by Maggio Musicale in 2019. There you can hear the perfect
syntony achieved by young Riccardo Muti, Gencer and Ghiaurov. Since this record
is rather new, it’s not available on Youtube yet. I can say that it’s the best <i>Attila</i> recording ever made.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">The first <i>La Gioconda</i> performance of Gencer that I listened was the record of
her performance in Rome (1971). After that, I acquired the recordings made at La
Fenice, Palermo, San Francisco and Macerata. And everytime I listened to them,
I found Gencer very suitable for this opera no matter what the critics said.
Some say that this opera is a bit too dramatic for Gencer’s voice, but I
disagree with them. If you compare her performance with some artists who
recorded it in the studio, you’ll easily see the difference. That includes
Tebaldi’s recording of the opera too. Hereby, I would like to write another
opinion of mine; frankly, I prefer comparing artists based on their live
performances. You can feel their true energy in the live recordings. Meanwhile,
the studio recordings are repeated many times, among which the best takes are
chosen. So they don’t reflect the opera’s natural flow.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">For people who would like to listen to a
very good Amelia in <i>Un ballo in maschera,
</i>I’d primarily suggest them to buy the record of Gencer that she sang
fabulously at Bologna Theater (1961). After that performance, the British Opera
Magazine wrote: <i>A first class Amelia</i>.
They somehow appreciated her finally. In my opinion; Callas and Gencer were the
best Amelias. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Gencer sang<i> Norma</i> in 8 different productions and fortunately we have almost
all the recordings of them. And of course the La Scala production of <i>Norma</i> had a unique importance since it
was the first Norma interpretation there after Callas’ absence. When I asked Leyla
Gencer about its premiere, she said <i>They
didn’t do much, they complained a little bit at first but in the end everybody
was giving me a standing ovation. </i>She was talking about the fanatic opera
audience so called <i>I Loggionisti; </i>who
watched every opera performance in the gallery and who booed severely when they
disliked a singer. But when <i>Deh! Non
volerli vittime</i> ended, they were all giving a standing ovation. Below, I’ve
attached the mentioned aria: you can listen and witness the emotions that she
brings out while singing it: </span></span></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RECORDING EXCERPT</span></b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(250, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><i>Deh! Non voleri vittime</i> from Norma</span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(240, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Selçuk Metin’s Doumentary </span><i style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">© </span></i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">“La Diva Turca”</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; mso-tab-count: 4;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/kLTs6E6XwC0" width="320" youtube-src-id="kLTs6E6XwC0"></iframe><br /><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">La Stampa: <i>Leyla Gencer: Ah, that voice!<br /> <o:p></o:p></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Il Giorno Newspaper: <i>A voice that makes the choir cry.<br /></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Journal d’Orient: <i>A very
big success.<br /><o:p></o:p></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">L’Avanti: <i>The strongest part of the night was Gencer</i>.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Il Seccolo: <i>Endless ovation clearly proved Gencer’s and Gui’s success.<br /> <o:p></o:p></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">L’Unita: <i>It’s impossible to imagine anybody else rather than Leyla Gencer to
portrait Alceste more majestically.<br /> <o:p></o:p></i></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">All these praiseful articles were about
Gencer’s interpretation of <i>Alceste</i>.
In 2003 Cecilia Bartoli was in Istanbul to give a concert and she was
accompanied by her </span><span lang="EN-GB"><span style="font-family: times;">mother Silvana Bazzoni who’s also her voice teacher.</span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> During one
of our conversations, she talked enthusiastically how magnificent Gencer’s performance
as </span></span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Alceste</i><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span> in Rome was.</span></span><br /> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">I saved my favourite Gencer interpretation
for last: <i>Macbeth</i>. She sang this
opera at 13 different theatres. Lady Macbeth, who’s one of the two main
characters of the opera can’t get any more impressive than that. Gencer was
awarded with endless applauses when she sang the opera at the age of 56 at the
Theater of Florence in 1975 under the baton of Muti. Her voice was an absolute
match for this opera. When compared to Gencer’s Lady Macbeth, Birgit Nilsson’s
interpretation of the opera,<i> </i>that
she’d sung and recorded by the persuasion of the record labels, seems like a
joke. It was a major mistake for such an important singer. Ghena Dimitrova and
Maria Guleghina who stood out as Lady Macbeth in the 80’s can’t fulfill this
role’s acquirements either. But in 1980, Leyla Gencer overconfidently sang <i>Macbeth, </i>which was a thing that she
shouldn’t have done. One of Gencer’s close friends, Baritone Renato Bruson with
whom she shared the stage numerous times and who can be called as the best <i>Macbeth</i> of the 20<sup>th</sup> century,
once told me that he forgot to enter the stage whilst watching Gencer during a <i>Macbeth</i> performance. And in one of his
interviews with <i>Corriere della sera, </i>he
said that Leyla Gencer was the best Lady Macbeth that he’d sung with. The great
opera and theatre director Giorgio Strehler wished to stage Macbeth for Leyla
Gencer, but unfortunately that project wasn’t realized. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Unfortunately we don’t have any recordings
from the opera performances, concerts or recitals of Leyla Gencer that she’d
performed before 1974 in Turkey. She did performances of <i>Cosi fan tutte, Tosca, The Consul, Un ballo in maschera, Cavalleria Rusticana,
Don Giovanni, Madama Butterfly, La Traviata, Kerem ile Aslı</i> and numerous
recitals, concerts. However, we have the recordings of the recitals and the
concerts that she gave at the Istanbul Music Festival from 1974 and on. TRT
(Turkish Radio and Television) has these recordings in its archive and occasionally
broadcasts them. I could only listen to her once in the recital that she gave
in 1989, when she was in her seventies. I’d heard about her successful
performances of Tosca and The Counsul from my family members. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In the paragraphs above, I’ve written
about some of the operas that Gencer sang. I would like you to know that when
this blog is complete, you’re going to find all of my notes about each opera
that she performed. </span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MY ARTICLES ABOUT LEYLA GENCER </span></b></p></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">2006 June</span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>Last of Divas</b></span></div><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Leyla Gencer is certainly one of the greatest divas of the 20th century, and the last one…. Not only did she endow and entirely new and different air to the characters of the classical opera, but also dewed into a search for the unknown, unearthed them and subscribed her presence as a performer and a researcher on many works which are include in today’s opera repertoire.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">People learned and loved <i>Beatrice di Tenda, Belisario, Lucrezia Borgia, Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda</i> with Gencer, thanks to whom these works have become a part of today’s opera. It is her who sang Anna Bolena for long years after Maria Callas. Her performance of Lady in Macbeth marks one of the many zeniths in her career which also extended towards Elisabetta in <i>Roberto Devereux, Alceste </i>and <i>Norma</i>. Singing <i>Norma</i> nine times in a season at the La Scala alone is a phenomenon. Should one speak romantic Italian repertoire’s shift from oblivion to stages, her extraordinary musical intelligence and full control of her instrument needs to be justifiably mentioned.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">More than fifty of her opera performances exceeding eighty in number have taken their places on the music market thanks, strangely, to pirate recordings and are in extremely high demand. Gencer’s unparalleled charisma and stage presence is instantly felt even in these recordings.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">She has pioneered in the staging of Vivaldi’s Bajazed at the 27<sup>th</sup> Istanbul Music Festival for the first time since 1735. Recorded afterwards by Europa Galante and Fabio Biondi, the opera received great critical acclaim.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; line-height: 19.26px;">Following her performance at the famous Athénée Theatre of Paris on October 20, 1980, music critic Sergio Segalini wrote People were bent on their knees, watching her lips. Opera has never been as impressive as it was in her time, and it shall never be so.</span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div></div>
<div style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2011.01.12 </span></b></div>
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span style="font-family: times;"><b>Commemorating the Great Diva </b></span><br /></span></div><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As soon as she set
foot in Italy with the determination to perform at the stage of La Scala, she
adorned the European stages; thanks to her voice, dramatic power and true diva
like manners. She reached even beyond her dreams; became a primadonna of La
Scala where she sang for thirty years and engraved her name in the 20<sup>th</sup>century’s
opera history as a pioneer artist. She quit singing when she was at the peak of
her career, but since she’s always felt responsible, she continued working for many
years as a teacher to train young opera singers for the opera stages. The world acknowledged her as <i>La Diva Turca</i>. Italy, the core of opera
accepted and appreciated her as a queen but she never forgot her homeland. And
when she passed away, according to her will, her ashes reunited with the waters
of the Bosphorus which she loved. And we commemorated her as well as we were
supposed to. Borusan Culture and Arts, has also been and will go on
commemorating the great diva with the concerts where the young opera stars meet
the classical music audience...</span></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2013.03.28</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Leyla Gencer</b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">She was given so
many names: La Diva Turca, The Queen Leyla, The Fiancée of the Pirates...but
she was undoubtedly one of the revolutionary divas of the opera world. She was different.
Many operas which are staged today were brought back to the opera repertoire
because of her efforts. She wasn’t just an artist with a beautiful voice but an
artist who could act with her voice; she could revive and give meaning to every
word that she said. She maybe didn’t possess a big voice, but she sang
magnificently both coloratura and dramatic roles thanks to her perfect vocal
technique. I believe that it’s not easy to find a singer today who could sing
Lucia and Lady Macbeth one night after another.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Today, there are
over 120 live opera records of Gencer which are available in music stores and
she is still one of the best selling artists of the pirate recording music industry.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Why do opera fans
still mostly prefer buying the poorly recorded, scratchy CDs of Gencer instead
of the DDDs that are the current technological miracles? Because she was
different! How come we can easily find five different recordings of <i>Norma</i> and <i>Lady Macbeth? </i>Because each time she sang them, she’d tried to
portrait a different<i> Norma</i> or a <i>Lady Macbeth</i>. She once told me that she
was still learning about opera. And when I asked who she was learning from, she
told me that she was learning from her students to whom she was teaching. I
believe that it’s exactly what made her special: Her passion for opera.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer
passed away five years ago. Her death was announced in the newspapers all around
the world. She never performed at MET, but the news of her death was announced
at the MET’s website as <i>Breaking News</i>.
The great conductor Lorin Maazel announced her death right before his
performance at La Scala Theater and there was a moment of silence in the whole
theatre. 50 of the most prestigious newspapers of the world wrote about her
death in their websites and shared information about her life and career. And
of course the Turkish press wrote about her too.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Before organizing
our first concert dedicated to Leyla Gencer, we discussed for a long time about
how we should commemorate her. Actually, the answer was quite easy. We decided
to commemorate her with opera; to what she was so passionately dedicated. But
which operas would we choose? Would it be appropriate to choose the operas that
she’d made famous or could we choose any opera from the repertoire? We chose
the second option. And once again one of Leyla Gencer’s quotes inspired us to
do so: “Never be steady, don’t listen to only opera, be open to all kinds of
music. You can listen to classical music, contemporary music, jazz, folk music
or pop. All genres have good and qualified examples among them, so don’t limit
your choices.” So this quote of hers gave us courage to not to limit ourselves
within the repertoire, but we decided to commemorate her only with “Opera”.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer made
great differences in our lives; in the lives of those who loved her. I hope
that tonight’s concert will also remain as a good memory for you...</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2014.03.20</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>The Year of 1952</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer sang <i>Tosca </i>in Ankara...Exactly 62 years
ago...Her glamorous career started in the 50’s. And Gencer reigned in the
stages for fourty years. Among her contemporaries, there have been only a few
singers who managed to achieve such long and active opera careers. Once she quit
singing, she dedicated her life to the education of young talents, almost until
the end of her life. Everything she did was for opera and art. When she passed away, along with numerous
fans, she also left a precious history behind. <i>La Diva Turca, La Regina, The Fiancée</i> <i>of the Pirates </i>are some of the nicknames that<i> </i>honoured her. Among everything else, she was an excellent artist
who deservedly engraved her name in the opera history of the 20<sup>th</sup>
century. A true artist finds and reveals the unseen and revives it in a new
environment. I guess the best part is that; as long as the world keeps turning,
she will always be remembered as an artist who was ahead of her time. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2015.05.14</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Dear Music Lovers</b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b><br /></b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra’s tribute concerts dedicated to Leyla Gencer began in
2009 and they have become annual. And this year’s edition is even more glorious
than the previous years. Along with renowned artists from all over the world
who have achieved major success in <i>Aida</i>
productions, tonight we’ll also have the chance to listen to the Chorus of the
National Santa Cecilia Academy from Italy.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Aida</span></i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">, which is one of Verdi’s
masterpieces, was undoubtedly a very important milesone in Leyla Gencer’s
career. Between the years 1963-1973,
Gencer sang <i>Aida</i> numerous times; first
at Milan’s La Scala, then at Caracalla Theater of Rome, Macerata Opera
Festival, San Carlo of Naples and also at Arena di Verona under the baton of
the major conductors of the era, such as Gianandrea Gavazzeni and Tullio
Serafin.<br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As now, there are
over 100 pirate recordings of Gencer. Luckily we also have the DVD recordings
of her most splendid <i>Aida</i>
performances (1963 and 1966) that were recorded by RAI Television. She left a
notable mark in the opera history with the <i>pianissimos</i>
that she executed at the end of the famous aria <i>O cieli azzurri, </i>during one of<i>
</i>her rare studio recordings that she did with <i>Gavazzeni</i> for RAI.<i> </i>A few
years ago, The Opera News Magazine mentioned Gencer among the best sopranos who
sang <i>Aida</i> at the <i>Arena di Verona.<br /> </i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer’s
first <i>Aida</i> performance was at Milan’s
famous La Scala Theater on May 3<sup>rd</sup> 1963. After 42 years, we
commemorate the great diva in Istanbul with the same opera. </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2016.05.12 </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>Leyla Gencer's Golden Era</b></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The opera lovers
of Istanbul couldn’t watch performances of Bellini’s masterpiece <i>Norma </i>often<i>.</i> It wasn’t performed since it was last staged at the Maksim Stage
by the Istanbul State Opera and Ballet in 1972. Finally after 44 years, <i>Norma</i> will once again be performed
before the Istanbul audience in the memory of Leyla Gencer. <br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">The role of Norma
was one of the milestones of Gencer’s career and she performed it during the
most triumphant decade of her life. In the 60’s, she went through major changes
and had revelations in her career. She
added more than twenty five operas to her repertoire between the years 1960-1970
and sang some operas for the first time such as; <i>Roberto Devereux, Maria Stuarda, Lucrezia Borgia, Macbeth, Belisario,
Alceste, Elisabetta, Aida, Norma...</i> which<i> </i>would soon be remembered along with her name.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actually, if we examine
Gencer’s repertoire between the years 1960 and 1970, we see that it’s rather
impressive. <i>Poliuto</i>, <i>Un Ballo in
Maschera,</i> <i>I Puritani, Pique Dame,
Otello, Le nozze di Figaro, Gerusalemme, Aida, I vespri Sicilianni, Beatrice di
Tenda, Guillaume Tell, Anna Bolena, Lucrezia Borgia, Idomeneo, L’Incoronazione
di Poppea</i> and <i>Medea</i> are some of
the operas that she debuted during that decade. In the same period, she also
sang the leading roles of the major operas such as <i>La Traviata, Madama Butterfly, Don Giovanni, Tosca, Turandot, Il
Trovatore and La forza del destino</i>.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">During her career,
Gencer sang<i> Norma</i> nearly fourty times
and her first performance was in 1962 at the famous <i>Liceu Theater</i> in Barcelona. Thanks to the success that she attained
there, she consequently performed <i>Norma</i>
in 1964 at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires under the baton of Bruno Bartoletti.
Her performance of <i>Norma</i> at La Scala
Theater was one of her greatest career achievements. Gencer sang <i>Norma </i>nine times at La Scala, in 1965
(January and February) under the baton of the great Italian conductor Gianandrea
Gavazzeni. She sang<i>
Norma </i>the same year, also at the Verona Opera Festival and at Teatro San
Carlo of Naples. And in 1966, she sang it at the Théâtre de Beaulieu of
Lausanne under the baton of Fernando Previtali, as part of Bologna Opera
Company’s tour in Switzerland. In 1967, Gencer sang Norma for the last time at
the Theater of Torino under the baton of Oliviero de Fabritiis. Today the CDs
of her <i>Norma </i>performances from
Verona, Naples, Milan, Lousanne and Buenos Aires are available.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In some of these
annual tribute concerts that we do to show our respects to Leyla Gencer’s art
and life, we also performed some operas that weren’t from her repertoire. And
actually, she was the reason for that. Because we see these tribute concerts as
a way to celebrate her love towards music and opera. And this year with <i>Norma</i> which was one of her signature
roles, we think that it will be quite a special way to commemorate her... </span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2018.05.17 </span></b></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>In memory of Leyla Gencer</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">As Borusan Sanat,
we always spare a special place for Leyla Gencer in our seasonal programs.
We’ve been commemorating her every year since 2009, for all the great things
that she did for the opera and for us. Each year, we celebrate her love for
music and opera. In the past 10 years: we commemorated her with some of her
signature operas such as <i>Tosca, Aida, La
Traviata, Norma;</i> and also with operas like Salome that hadn’t been
performed in Istanbul since long time and last season; with Der Rosenkavalier
of Richard Strauss, which was performed for the first time in Turkey. We
thought that performing these operas before the Istanbul audience would be a
special way of celebrating Gencer’s artistic career...</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In tonight’s
concert, we’ll pay our respects to Leyla Gencer first with Puccini’s Gianni
Schicchi which will be performed by the young singers of Academy BIPO. Academy
BIPO was founded two years ago and its young members have been trained mainly
by Sascha Goetzel- the chief conductor and Artistic Director of Borusan
Philharmonic Orchestra and director Mrs. Yekta Kara. And they’ve also attended
masterclasses of opera stars such as; Luciana Serra, Renato Bruson, Giuseppe
Sabbatini and Eva Mei. During these trainings they were accompanied by pianists
such as Vincenzo Scalera, Fügen Yiğitgil and Barış Büyükyıldırım. As we
acknowledge how much importance Leyla Gencer gave to education, we would like
to thank all our teachers and Academy BIPO members for all their dedicated
efforts.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">One of the turning
points of Leyla Gencer’career was when she revived Donizetti’s forgotton operas
and rebrought them into the opera repertoire. Gencer sang 10 operas of
Donizetti between the years 1957–1975: <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">1957-<i>Lucia di Lammermoor</i>, 1958-<i>Anna Bolena</i>, 1960-<i>Poliuto</i>, 1964-<i>Roberto Devereux</i>,
1966-<i>Lucrezia Borgia</i>, 1967-<i>Maria Stuarda</i>, 1969-<i>Belisario,</i> 1970-<i>Messa di
Requiem per Bellini</i>, 1972-<i>Caterina
Cornaro</i> and 1975-<i>Les Martyrs</i>...Almost
all of these operas were reincluded in the opera repertoire thanks to the
efforts of Leyla Gencer. Tonight, at the second part of our concert: we’ll
perform excerpts from some of Gencer’s signature operas such as <i>Maria Stuarda, Roberto Devereux and Anna
Bolena </i>with the presence of very special Turkish opera singers who’ve been
singing at theatres all around the world and that had the chance to work with Leyla
Gencer. Whilst we commemorate Leyla
Gencer at the tenth year of her passing by, we also wanted to share the
recordings of these three operas that engraved her name gloriously in the opera
history, with a very special presentation. We’re very happy to present the new
CDs of <i>Anna Bolena, Maria Stuarda </i>and
<i>Roberto Devereux</i> that were prepared through
our cooperation with A.K. Müzik. Of course that’s not all we did to commemorate
Leyla Gencer and to share her life and art with the upcoming generations....The
book named <i>Romanzo vero di una primadonna</i>
which is based on Leyla Gencer’s life, written in 1986 by Franca Cella in
Italian, will now be published in English thanks to Borusan Sanat’s contributions.
And we’re also happy to announce that through the cooperation of Borusan Sanat
and Yapı Kredi Culture and Arts Publishing, another book about Leyla Gencer is
being written by Evin İlyasoğlu and will be published soon. The 9<sup>th</sup>
edition of the International Leyla Gencer Voice Competition organized by the
cooperation of Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts, Borusan Sanat and
Accademia della Scala, will once again be held in September to present new
stars into the opera world. And we’d be more than happy, if we can manage to commemorate
and honour Leyla Gencer well, through all these concerts, books, CDs and
cooperations.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">2018.10.09 </span></b></p>
<div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: justify;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Turuncu]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><b>An Opera Diva: Leyla Gencer</b></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I met Leyla Gencer
in England for the first time. This encounter wasn’t in person of course. I
bought a record of hers from the Tower Records store in London. It was a
longplay of Verdi’s <i>Rigoletto</i> where
Gencer was singing the leading soprano role. That performance, which was
recorded live in Buenos Aires (1961), is still one of my favourite recordings. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">I met Gencer in
person in the beginning of the 90s when she became the head of the Board of the
Trustees of the Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts, where I used to work.
Thanks to my knowledge of her records also, we became very close in just a few
years. Our close relationship continued
until her passing away. We used to make phone calls between Milan and Istanbul
almost everyday and we mostly talked about her recordings that were transferred
from LPs to CDs. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer who
was a unique diva of the 20<sup>th</sup> century, had a very special place in
the opera history. She performed 74 operas at 66 different theatres. Not only
did she perform more than 800 times and became one of the most active artists
of her time, but she was also known as a pioneer artist thanks to all the
operas that she revived and brought back into the current opera repertoire. Her
interpretation style called “Gencerate” is even more appreciated today than before.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer was
different from the other 20<sup>th</sup> century’s divas and she held a very special
place among them. She introduced the <i>Gencerate
</i>style to opera interpretation.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Apart from being
an excellent singer, Gencer also had a wonderful ability to act and she
fulfilled all the requirements of the roles that she played. Since she could
easily combine her great acting skills with her voice and interpretation, she
also earned the title <i>acting singer</i> that
had become popular in the 20<sup>th</sup> century thanks to the achievements of
Maria Callas.</span></span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(240, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The Unforgettable Success Stories of
Leyla Gencer</span></b></p><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Actually the
“trend” of reviving forgotten operas began when Maria Callas’ performance of <i>Anna Bolena</i> at La Scala attained a
sensational success in 1957. During an interview Gencer said that “It was a
trend which I followed”. Gencer was the person who managed to carry out this
trend with great success. Although it was Callas who revived <i>Anna Bolena </i>at La Scala, it was Gencer
who made the opera popular among greater audiences. During that period
which began with <i>Anna Bolena</i> and
so called <i>The</i> <i>Donizetti Renaissance, </i>Gencer proved herself to be the obvious
queen of the belcanto repertoire, by singing not only <i>Anna Bolena, </i>but also Donizetti’s forgotten operas such as <i>Maria Stuarda, Poliuto, Les Martyrs,
Lucrezia Borgia, Belisario, Roberto Devereux </i>and<i> Caterina Cornaro </i>at the major opera houses. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In the 60’, when Gencer
was at the peak of her career, she began singing operas such as <i>Norma, Macbeth, I Puritani, Gerusalemme,
Roberto Devereux, Lucrezia Borgia, Alceste, Maria Stuarda, Un ballo in
maschera, Le nozze di Figaro, Beatrice di Tenda, Medea, Belisario, La Vestale,
La Gioconda </i>and <i>I vespri Siciliani,
</i>so each role that she sang was even more challenging from the other.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Hereby, we must
definitely mention <i>Macbeth</i>; an opera
that was very important in Gencer’s career. Gencer, who was absolutely the most
impressive <i>Lady Macbeth</i> after
Callas, successfully sang the role at the Palermo Theater for the first time in
1960; which was then followed by performances at La Scala, Venice, Florence,
Rome, Cagliari, Treviso, Montova, Como, Livorno and at the Festival of the
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino where she sang fabulously under the baton of
Riccardo Muti. Although it’s been 50 years since Gencer’s last <i>Lady Macbeth </i>performance<i>, </i>there hasn’t been another soprano who
could overshadow her in all these years. Unfortunately, Gencer sang this opera
only in Italy; the other European audiences and the American audience couldn’t
witness that magnificent interpretation live. <i> <br /></i></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Probably Gencer’s
most loved and appraised Donizetti performance was <i>Lucrezia Borgia</i>. After
singing it for the first time in Naples (1966) she performed it in Rome (1967),
La Scala-Milan (1970), Bergamo (1971), Dallas (1974) and Florence(1979) and so
once again she managed to introduce a very less known opera to the classical
music audience.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After the success
of <i>Lucrezia Borgia</i>, Gencer attained
another sensational success at the opening night of the Maggio Musicale
Fiorentino Festival on May 2<sup>nd</sup> 1967 with her performance as <i>Maria Stuarda</i>. Her performance was so
powerful that, the famous phrase <i>Figlia
impura di Bolena </i>almost had a shocking effect on the audience and the whole
audience gave her a standing ovation at the end of the second act. After the
succesful performance of <i>Maria Stuarda, </i>she
was once again involved in another unknown opera: Donizetti’s <i>Belisario</i>. By singing the role of
Antonia in this opera, which was almost never performed and is set in
Byzantium, she once again gained another career victory.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Currently, there
are over 200 opera, concert and recital recordings of Gencer in LP, CD and DVD
formats. This high number of records brought her the famous title <i>Queen of Pirates</i>.<br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1957, Gencer
first set foot in La Scala Theater, which later she would refer as “home”,
where she worked for more than 50 years. She spent the most of those years on
stage and she worked there continuously until May 10<sup>th</sup> 2008, the
date of her death. Her last opera performance was Francesco Gnecco’s <i>La Prova d’un Opera Ser</i>ia at La Fenice
Theater of Venice in 1985; but she continued to give recitals until 1992. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1982, Gencer
focused more on teaching; she worked as the Artistic Director of As.Li.Co. between the years</span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;">1983-1989</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">. And in 1997, she became the Artistic Director of
Accademia della Scala where she continued to work until her death. <br /><o:p></o:p></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">While Gencer was
teaching at As.Li.Co. and at Accademia della Scala, she continued working on
forgotten operas. Thanks to her thorough researches, Vivaldi’s opera <i>Il Giustino </i>was staged after so
many years. She worked on less popular operas and she trained many young
singers. As she was the Head of the Board of Trustees of Istanbul Foundation of
Culture and Arts, that organizes Istanbul Music Festival, she worked as a
consultant and the artistic director for Bertoni’s <i>Orfeo</i> which was conducted by Claudio Scimone and staged by Pier
Luigi Pizzi in 1997 and also for Vivaldi’s <i>Bajazet</i>, another forgotton opera, which was conducted by Fabio
Biondi and staged once again by Pier Luigi Pizzi in 1999.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Leyla Gencer was
an artist who stood up for her revelations of forgotton operas which were once
again included in the opera repertoire. <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Throughout her
career, Gencer also gave many seminars. <br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">Here are some of
them: Gerssan, Aosta (Il Trovatore<i>)</i>,
Venezia (Donizetti), 1982 Trieste (Donizetti), 1985 Montpellier
Singing Academy (Rossini, Bellini and Donizetti), 1985 Savona (Donizetti),
1987 Teatro La Fenice Venezia (İtalian Opera), 1989 Istanbul (Donizetti),
1989 Arenzano (Donizetti), 1990 Istanbul (Rossini)<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">In 1995, the first
edition of Leyla Gencer Voice Competition was realized in Istanbul thanks to
the initiative and hard work of Mr. Aydın Gün, who was Leyla Gencer’s close
friend and the Artistic Director of Yapı Kredi Festival. The competition was
planned to be biennial but in 1999 its third edition had to be postponed
because of the major earthquake in Turkey and it was then realized in 2000.
After that, Yapı Kredi Bank quit sponsoring the competition and the competition
couldn’t be realized until 2006, when Istanbul Foundation of Culture and Arts
took over its organization in collaboration with Accademia della Scala. Since
that year, Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra also became the resident orchestra of
the competition. Some of the past prize winners such as; Pretty Yende, Anita
Rachvelishvili, Nino Machaidze, George Gagnidze, Enkelejda Shkosa and Marcello
Álvarez have became celebrity opera singers.</span><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /> </span></b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(240, 230, 228); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">In Memory of Leyla Gencer</span></b></p> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">After Leyla Gencer’s
passing away on May 10<sup>th</sup> 2008, she was commemorated every year by
Borusan Sanat with a seasonal concert of Borusan Philharmonic Orchestra (BIPO).
Having performed operas such as <i>La Traviata, Carmen, Salome, Tosca, Aida,
Der Rosenkavalier, Norma and Gianni Schicchi, </i>the orchestra also
accompanied the winners of the Leyla Gencer Voice Competition in various
concerts. In addition to these activities, Borusan Sanat also ordered two
books; one in English and one in Turkish, to be relased in 2018; on the 10<sup>th</sup>
anniversary of her death. Both books
will be released in October 2018. Also, an exhibition entitled “Primadonna and
Solitude” was curated by Yekta Kara in collaboration with IKSV and it was held
at the Borusan Music House between 11 September and 10 October.<br /> </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"> <br /></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;">There are several
books written for Leyla Gencer: Romanzo vero di una primadonna (Franca
Cella, 1986; English version, 2018), A Gift to Leyla Gencer
Armağan (Zeynep Oral, 1995), Leyla Gencer: A Story of
Passion (Zeynep Oral, 1995; English version, 2008; İtalian version,
2011), Leyla Gencer and the Opera World (Ünal Öziş, 2006), Leyla
Gencer 50 Years at La Scala (Franca Cella, 2008).</span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB;"><span><br /></span></span><div style="border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<div style="border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><a href="https://borusanturuncu.com/opera-sanatinda-bir-diva-leyla-gencer/">https://borusanturuncu.com/opera-sanatinda-bir-diva-leyla-gencer/</a></span></div>
</div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><div style="background: rgb(255, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span lang="SV"><span style="font-size: medium;">2023.05.25</span></span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(235, 230, 228); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="EN-GB">© Ahmet Etem Erenli [Borusan Sanat]</span></b></div></span></span></div></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><br /></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;">Değerli Sanatseverler,<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Leyla Gencer, 2008 yılındaki vefatından bu yana yurtiçinde ve yurtdışında çeşitli etkinliklerle anıldı. Başta operanın başkenti Milano’nun La Scala Operası olmak üzere birçok opera evi, etkinliklerini ona adadı; kendisinin anısına festivaller gerçekleştirildi ve bazı kültür kurumları, kütüphanelerinin adını “Leyla Gencer Kütüphanesi” olarak değiştirdi. Rusya, Brezilya, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, İtalya ve birçok ülkede adına hazırlanan radyo programları yapıldı.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Bu geçen sürede Borusan Sanat olarak Gencer’i pek çok etkinlik ile andık. Her yıl bir başka yapıtı programımıza aldığımız anma konserlerimizde Tudor Kraliçeleri Üçlemesi (Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux), Gianni Schicchi, Güllü Şövalye (Der Rosenkavalier), Norma, Aida, Tosca, Salome ve La Traviata operalarına yer verdik. Borusan Sanat olarak Gencer’in yaşamöyküsünü okuyucuyla buluşturan Evin İlyasoğlu’nun “Ben, Leyla Gencer” (Yapı Kredi Yayınları iş birliğiyle), Zeynep Oral’ın “Tutkunun Romanı” kitabının İngilizce baskısı “A Story of Passion” (İKSV iş birliğiyle), Franca Cella’nın “The Story of a Primadonna” (Bolis Edizioni iş birliğiyle) kitaplarına destek olduk.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>AK Müzik ile birlikte Donizetti Queens (Maria Stuarda, Anna Bolena, Roberto Devereux) albümünü CD olarak piyasaya çıkardık. İKSV, La Scala Akademisi ve Borusan Sanat olarak “Leyla Gencer Şan Yarışması”nı ortak yapmaya başladık. Bununla birlikte Borusan Müzik Evi olarak, Yekta Kara’nın küratörlüğünde İKSV tarafından gerçekleştirilen “Leyla Gencer: Primadonna ve Yalnızlık” adlı serginin mekân sponsoru olduk. Bu yıl ise kendisini Rossini’nin Stabat Mater’i ile anıyoruz.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Leyla Gencer, kariyerinde Donizetti ve Verdi’nin Requiem’lerinin yanı sıra Rossini’nin başyapıtlarından biri olarak kabul edilen Stabat Mater’i de seslendirdi. 15 ve 16 Şubat 1968 tarihinde dünyanın önde gelen orkestralarından biri olan Bavyera Radyo Senfoni Orkestra ve Korosu ile gerçekleşen bu konserler, Münih’te Herkulessaal’de seslendirildi. Konseri, İtalyan şef Mario Rossi yönetti. Konserin diğer solistleri ise Bianca Maria Casoni (mezzosoprano), Luigi Alva (tenor) ve Forbes Robinson (bas) idi.<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Borusan Sanat olarak programlarımızda Leyla Gencer’e her zaman özel bir yer ayırıyoruz. 2009’dan bu yana Leyla Gencer’i bize ve opera dünyasına kattığı değerler için anıyor; onun müziğe ve operaya olan sevgisini her yıl bir kez daha kutluyoruz…<br /><o:p> <br /></o:p>Ahmet Erem Erenli<br />Borusan Kocabıyık Vakfı<br />Genel Koordinatör</div></span></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mino Bordignon <i>chorus master</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mirna Pecile <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Armando Moretti <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Alessandro Casis <i>bass</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Agostino Ferrin <i>bass</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Orchestra and choir also performed Pizzetti's <i>Introduzione all’Agamennone di Eschilo per coro e orchestra</i></span></div>
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<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1971.03.28</b></span></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="730" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh7Xryzk1Ba9G20Mxxc9g9LsKXnkX5ragiizpGJxcJAvX0yOcfyuNjGYAEZxw42nMUy8RcA5zaI61GNbZt5oTRPcEA21yiriSAX2WGyPbh48JfMK10FCutxnTruE3pw-dBww9JYO1uo3yCg/w326-h730/requiem+donizetti+Rai+28.03.1971.png" width="326" /></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: background1;">RADIOCORRIERE.TV </span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1971 April 04 - 10</b></span></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisk-rPGMki7eyPGm_AlqyHZ-C0KVRHcyInJAy8n9VFmtbTXsgVeuCV-xTnGGM3knovXxI0STG6xfKuqTfD41_DfA51hYb5TEJEYy1F4Ck_b2e_Al6TuQqmgew57wbvPAFBgwbOzAw5QEI3/s2048/1971+-+RADIOCORRIERE+N.+14+PAG.+90.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1590" height="753" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisk-rPGMki7eyPGm_AlqyHZ-C0KVRHcyInJAy8n9VFmtbTXsgVeuCV-xTnGGM3knovXxI0STG6xfKuqTfD41_DfA51hYb5TEJEYy1F4Ck_b2e_Al6TuQqmgew57wbvPAFBgwbOzAw5QEI3/w584-h753/1971+-+RADIOCORRIERE+N.+14+PAG.+90.jpg" width="584" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: background1;">RADIOCORRIERE.TV </span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><b>1982.09.03</b></span></span></div></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="788" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlPVNrBiuM201wGUgqSL7X1eFDoJ22x5CQ-RObFecM2VYgOAbdr_hoV74kxo0sG6gNG0eTikejOM99icWGvQk7PcGGJE9I4QFCbNTpyRWhyphenhyphen_MnzegnPnEihYIm2zW9U9R5UOpmW3wbNtAv/w584-h788/1982+-+RADIOCORRIERE+N.+35+PAG.+123.jpg" width="584" /></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-77098103397682553082016-10-04T17:00:00.028+03:002024-03-18T15:53:44.116+03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MESSA DI REQUIEM per BELLINI </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Gaetano Donizetti (1797 - 1848)</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Premièr </span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Chiesa di Santa Maria
Maggiore, Bergamo</span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">28 April 1870 </span></div>
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<div style="background: rgb(251, 228, 213); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Teatro La Fenice,
Venezia </span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="background: rgb(255, 229, 153); border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">100th ANNIVERSARY OF THE MESSA DI REQUIEM per BELLINI (1870 - 1970)</span></div></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Gianandrea Gavazzeni <i>conductor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Corrado Mirandola <i>chorus master</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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</span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Mirna Pecile <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Armando Moretti <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Alessandro Casis <i>bass</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Eftimios Michaopoulos <i>bass</i></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times new roman, serif;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Orchestra and choir also performed Pizzetti's </span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;">Introduzione all’Agamennone di Eschilo per coro e orchestra</i><br />
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</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span lang="IT" style="color: #cc0000; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">† </span></b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Recording date</span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: #c12637; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">GENCER
ALLA FENICE</span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> <i>CONCERTO STAGIONE 1969 – 1970 </i></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-24769414754131130232016-10-04T15:00:00.013+03:002022-10-07T16:07:41.140+03:00<div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 24pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">MESSA DA REQUIEM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 24pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); font-size: x-large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: 18pt;">Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Premièr</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Chiesa di San Marco, Milano</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">22 May 1874</span></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">24, 26</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">†</span></span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> November 1967 </span></b></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(251, 228, 213); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Teatro Margherita, Genoa</span></span></b></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Orchestra e Coro del Sinfonica di Teatro Comunale di
Genoa</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></span></div>Sir John Barbirolli <i>conductor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Bruno Pizzi <i>chorus master</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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</span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Franca Mattiucci <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-US"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">David Hughes <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Marius Rintzler <i>bass</i></span></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-67660574639157378532016-10-04T14:00:00.022+03:002024-02-03T13:02:37.867+03:00<div class="MsoNormal"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">STABAT MATER </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Giacchino Rossini (1792 - 1868)</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Premièr </span></div>
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Salle Ventadour, Paris</span></div>
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January 1842</span></div></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><b><span><span>15</span><span style="color: #cc0000;">†</span><span>, 16 February</span></span></b><b><span> 1968 </span></b></span></div><div style="background: rgb(251, 228, 213); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Herkulessaal, Munich </span></span></b></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(191, 191, 191); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;">BR Broadcast</div></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><b><span lang="DE" style="color: #cc0000; mso-ansi-language: DE; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: TR;">† </span></b>Recording date</span><o:p></o:p></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(253, 103, 103); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="font-family: times;"><span>COMPLETE RECORDING</span><span> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"> </span></b></p></span></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-13762204840176177282016-10-04T12:00:00.014+03:002022-10-07T17:25:59.406+03:00<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Orchestra e Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa
Cecilia di Roma</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Fernando Previtali <i>conductor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Giorgio Krischner <i>chorus master</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><i><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Anne Reynolds <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Flaviano Labo <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Bonaldo Giaiotti <i>bass</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: background1;">L'UNITA </span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1967.06.20</b></span></span></div></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdB48z7Id9yJ2bvAt1_yWQB6j5fg7aPRmTLA1A83qBbPI73pQf4Sch3nHXzjOHpS7nxjm0cU3HD62BYCFqHuNImOfUM2xF2sCMiyQLwTpgyuJjKE_JDnn2oq9MxOI59HCwF6LVObtU3_t/s613/Requiem+Roma+%252820+June+1967%2529.png" style="clear: left; font-family: "times new roman", serif; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="613" data-original-width="199" height="991" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcdB48z7Id9yJ2bvAt1_yWQB6j5fg7aPRmTLA1A83qBbPI73pQf4Sch3nHXzjOHpS7nxjm0cU3HD62BYCFqHuNImOfUM2xF2sCMiyQLwTpgyuJjKE_JDnn2oq9MxOI59HCwF6LVObtU3_t/w322-h991/Requiem+Roma+%252820+June+1967%2529.png" width="322" /></span></a></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: background1;">AVANTI </span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><b>1967.06.23</b></span></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3CZfQc1MLDGsjotSe8tOrjoMclj1JTcVEKVemcnmTn3XfZibxFUwUE6HZZOEEyuvfDuiIKDxP5tc6ACHxhKawIybvkhD2FYSD6FEcr8uXVlOn6Z_n0InBNAdKWXb3vNk0MhXjtUh_ZoFG/s375/requiem+verdi+roma+23.06.67.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="375" data-original-width="254" height="476" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3CZfQc1MLDGsjotSe8tOrjoMclj1JTcVEKVemcnmTn3XfZibxFUwUE6HZZOEEyuvfDuiIKDxP5tc6ACHxhKawIybvkhD2FYSD6FEcr8uXVlOn6Z_n0InBNAdKWXb3vNk0MhXjtUh_ZoFG/w323-h476/requiem+verdi+roma+23.06.67.png" width="323" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">AVANTI </span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><b>1967.06.28</b></span></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKz7iGLDuOiMKeZv474s9AzcLFa5KXjhqPUlEkXljLtHzL4bBlOe7pOn0ULp4yGvbESS8_Mb1V2ycCAD0iX9aHXtD3klEnwy21G6SdOjC_Zc-JTQ01ArsjWF4DSPCfAmfV2vDaqE8_kKy/s601/requiem+verdi+roma+28.06.67.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="601" data-original-width="443" height="628" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuKz7iGLDuOiMKeZv474s9AzcLFa5KXjhqPUlEkXljLtHzL4bBlOe7pOn0ULp4yGvbESS8_Mb1V2ycCAD0iX9aHXtD3klEnwy21G6SdOjC_Zc-JTQ01ArsjWF4DSPCfAmfV2vDaqE8_kKy/w463-h628/requiem+verdi+roma+28.06.67.png" width="463" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">L'UNITA </span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span><b>1967.06.29</b></span></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: #741b47; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: large;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZ7IkqECgkMEOuEPmBRvToH74fbe6Jgh8xZvRMRevpg44Et2wxCLONLFNpp4bPjmIkl2IRK_uU-OWIyYKrYqs0ri2adnwTESiydZ2qTAKpreBaiVUhVeoQqpLS_biW5jhGMYYQakYTO0B/s753/Requiem+Roma+%252829+June+1967%2529.png" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="753" data-original-width="183" height="1348" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgdZ7IkqECgkMEOuEPmBRvToH74fbe6Jgh8xZvRMRevpg44Et2wxCLONLFNpp4bPjmIkl2IRK_uU-OWIyYKrYqs0ri2adnwTESiydZ2qTAKpreBaiVUhVeoQqpLS_biW5jhGMYYQakYTO0B/w328-h1348/Requiem+Roma+%252829+June+1967%2529.png" width="328" /></a></div><br /><b><br /></b></span></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-35676043995036493662016-10-04T11:00:00.023+03:002024-02-03T13:31:54.197+03:00<div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: #741b47;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">MESSA DA REQUIEM </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Premièr</span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>Chiesa di San Marco, Milano</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>22 May 1874</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">09 August 1966 </span></b></span></div><div style="background: rgb(251, 228, 213); color: black; font-size: large; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>Arena di Verona, Verona</span></span></b><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-themecolor: background1;"> </span></b></span></div></span></div>
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<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Arena di Verona Premiér</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black;">Orchestra e Coro del’Arena di Verona</span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black;">Antonini Votto <i>conductor</i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Giulio Bertola <i>chorus master</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black;">Anne Reynolds <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black;">Carlo Bergonzi <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Bonaldo Giaiotti <i>bass</i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div></div></div> <span style="font-size: medium;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="811" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjXp1STvjzD3Xc14X8zRhAIDkD-e2TSFv4RG34V1o7WI4RuCAPnDdzY-PYEJ0JKy1BHcO8Bq18hxGff1XLz_ERBaq4yl9n7vR7ykU-WnMFa_KBYUkxSK_f-5Jpe7E6PUD4f-SfpG9fftnsK/w557-h811/1966+Verona.jpg" width="557" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrctFm8_Si4c6stqW0Jpgt_NUMxxcY47a27opO78ucUpR89JGJOEE25pvKKCG7nVOYT2SSYCkZzXeS_qGFQ3nAcBLzrJASZA515vao35jq8qQSk9ErXr0WAJlHWWXLarcrVQ7MzBKkGWwmIFEG4rNmn9CUX1LAr0zN1LpvE_r6s6YZNkt8aQkH3kYKn5D1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="416" data-original-width="286" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhrctFm8_Si4c6stqW0Jpgt_NUMxxcY47a27opO78ucUpR89JGJOEE25pvKKCG7nVOYT2SSYCkZzXeS_qGFQ3nAcBLzrJASZA515vao35jq8qQSk9ErXr0WAJlHWWXLarcrVQ7MzBKkGWwmIFEG4rNmn9CUX1LAr0zN1LpvE_r6s6YZNkt8aQkH3kYKn5D1=w275-h400" width="275" /></a><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#" style="font-size: large;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhu9gTN9zo6f7uBRoR8zsWuijMLceN4_3slmbPKtcb7dxt2sAbCaHumQaauj0zDFGc1Eq3JiqHF7mDAtSyiZc6GSa3gh00DjRNrso88CnJEESfG2HmWdhu0Md-RtRWXK1WONwvqaQmPmWV_/w269-h400/Concert+-+Verona+66+%2528Requiem%2529+03.jpg" width="269" /></a></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span><div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2KwklrjjLSet7GfBG8mlvuzYQF8xqmARUQ1GghGbx9cjx56G30MwadAzqnuL5qrovrtII2LvusnkrSoYM_ZgeXiP3RqmVFcFcIvkgF7oUuzYvlQyoyvBisnJi5euGgySiReTNRM5g4AxgTfHYcIFl8zPlsZ_wMRmSiobI9KXVDY3JVgSwP_bRv3ztXdRQ" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="532" data-original-width="445" height="560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj2KwklrjjLSet7GfBG8mlvuzYQF8xqmARUQ1GghGbx9cjx56G30MwadAzqnuL5qrovrtII2LvusnkrSoYM_ZgeXiP3RqmVFcFcIvkgF7oUuzYvlQyoyvBisnJi5euGgySiReTNRM5g4AxgTfHYcIFl8zPlsZ_wMRmSiobI9KXVDY3JVgSwP_bRv3ztXdRQ=w469-h560" width="469" /></a></div><br /></div><div><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: background1;">AVANTI </span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1966.08.07</b></span></span></div></div><div><a href="https://www.blogger.com/#"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" height="610" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgx5YLoLPeoLBWmygsWddYiXvGKrY9MVtQ8qPUr0P-ZhD-nRjsES7FPh6Ui_8T4GBQsMKLM6sNAF6N07yqhXtD0ZXLFQluWYBw2ojpm9ZMo4hP_m3zMlRFJrf3bglnhLLB6AhS7OESoDKgM/w587-h610/Requiem+Verdi+Arena+07.08.1966.png" width="587" /></span></a></div><div><br /></div><div><div><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: background1;">CORRIERE DELLA SERA </span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>1966.08.10</b></span></span></div><div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcn7WrT7iTQH-YK4sB34uoa7DwWs9cWDDUG6RP6MxayjlP_mSFJUjUBKtO1Ul1n7dHjh2uD7Giub5s4VB_nYs2321JZSWasDSuBoBOVULQYg8IEW-qWNoFbhMahl2R988ePwa_Zq_r2_u9/" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1998" data-original-width="820" height="1141" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcn7WrT7iTQH-YK4sB34uoa7DwWs9cWDDUG6RP6MxayjlP_mSFJUjUBKtO1Ul1n7dHjh2uD7Giub5s4VB_nYs2321JZSWasDSuBoBOVULQYg8IEW-qWNoFbhMahl2R988ePwa_Zq_r2_u9/w466-h1141/1966.08.10+Corriere+%2528Messa+da+Requiem%2529+1966+Verona.png" width="466" /></a></div>
</div></div></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-40099539335971358282016-10-04T10:00:00.043+03:002024-02-03T13:36:43.981+03:00<div class="separator"><span><span><span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>MESSA DA REQUIEM </b>[LIBERA ME]<b style="font-weight: 400;"> </b></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-weight: 400;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Premièr</span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Chiesa di San Marco, Milano</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">22 May 1874</span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); color: black; font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">18 February 1957 </span></b></span></div><div style="background: rgb(251, 228, 213); font-weight: 400; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><span><span>Duomo Cathedral, Milano</span></span><span style="color: white;"> </span></span></b></div></span></div></span></span></span></div><div class="separator"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div><div class="separator">
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FUNERAL</span></span></b></div></div></div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times;"><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
Coro del Teatro alla Scala di Milano</span></span></span></span></span><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Coro del Conservatorio di Parma <br />Victor de Sabata <i>conductor</i></span></span></span></span><div><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height: 107%;"><span lang="EN-US"><span><span style="color: black;"><span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /><span>Soloist: Leyla Gencer </span><i>soprano</i><br /></span><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Leyla Gencer sang “<i>Libera me</i>” from Verdi’s <i>Messa da Requiem</i> in the great conductor’s funeral service which
took place at the Duomo Cathedral of Milan on February 18, 1957. She was
accompanied by the Choruses of Teatro alla Scala and Parma Conservatoire. Her successful performance was highly
praised.</span></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="font-family: "times new roman", serif; font-size: large; text-align: justify;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJU77hJXPLDEIlGYJMfV96MBHuQlIpRWu1EpVsmjgtiqDUnb8WYi0i-uAnsgQcyHQRgJ9TZmYJzIpfv5QzAH5IDICDPPJ78D9lGsAbp9V2GnfKmPdPi4_1eaSjUyJ8fzV9QK2gblPxc1Pv/" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1070" data-original-width="887" height="564" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJU77hJXPLDEIlGYJMfV96MBHuQlIpRWu1EpVsmjgtiqDUnb8WYi0i-uAnsgQcyHQRgJ9TZmYJzIpfv5QzAH5IDICDPPJ78D9lGsAbp9V2GnfKmPdPi4_1eaSjUyJ8fzV9QK2gblPxc1Pv/w468-h564/Messa+da+Requiem+%2528Verdi%2529+1957+Milano+%25280%2529.PNG" width="468" /></a></div><br /></div></span></span></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<div style="background: rgb(253, 103, 103); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Toscanini's Funeral </span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Bandiera avvrunata per la musica (RAI) </span></b></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dw2z3LqrBWM-_qsQA8O37EVJcf8W9HYRia_TLBlxyARrwgJ4Z6GiYiRIaBQqDm5brNVdkshQXQIRg0iBU_Img' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></div><br /></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>UNKNOWN NEWSPAPER </span></span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><b>1957.02.19</b></span></div></div></span></span><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9rV2hvfje0S7joQGfpMw2T_iBTdKdnuzQJm4vmRv-bGAlC3hkioI7WADiQUNPH1IwX0ubcbKPVVtNO94FubvHbieKcVYYczvtWhUf165dpsPDZ4wOsBlnutSBwtev07SLN1TJaJBP7L2/" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="3864" data-original-width="888" height="1414" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhV9rV2hvfje0S7joQGfpMw2T_iBTdKdnuzQJm4vmRv-bGAlC3hkioI7WADiQUNPH1IwX0ubcbKPVVtNO94FubvHbieKcVYYczvtWhUf165dpsPDZ4wOsBlnutSBwtev07SLN1TJaJBP7L2/w324-h1414/1957.02.00+Unknown+%2528Messa+da+Requiem%2529+1957+Milano.PNG" width="324" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></div><div><span style="color: #741b47;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); color: black; font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MİLLİYET DAILY NEWSPAPER </span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>1957.02.19</b></span></div></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc01riB0MbXvR4bF2ZbM-ApZWpQKlM9VxpKsRJMLCn4JM_N4gFD2N-vF0OXh5CuyrY5Tt6SDXZ89Yyjj4cT5ndif6V3A7uFEbjp8W_R6BgqNdj_Oh1UKfHc4l4PtjJ9DyGmdop2dr2uBT/" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1208" data-original-width="800" height="703" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDc01riB0MbXvR4bF2ZbM-ApZWpQKlM9VxpKsRJMLCn4JM_N4gFD2N-vF0OXh5CuyrY5Tt6SDXZ89Yyjj4cT5ndif6V3A7uFEbjp8W_R6BgqNdj_Oh1UKfHc4l4PtjJ9DyGmdop2dr2uBT/w466-h703/1957.02.19+Milliyet+%2528Messa+da+Requiem%2529+1957+Milano.png" width="466" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></span></div><div><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); font-family: "times new roman", serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">THE TOSCANINI MYSTIQUE </span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;"><b>1957.02.19</b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7mGRomVrDuIbwxIrvC3zkQwEy-jBFOTfJbt2E9FxmFVj5dQRs2lt5E_FwKemj5mJyJgqHOAnBHqXGBwXucmxdIGvgt8kiGioOeZUIYlGCpBobLja2lP5wowo1ConVVp6mf4BC6B9zIymENRMJYl7leiS9lGVzOaMA7Nr3zzVQFaH85_6Vo-Z49VNk8A=s778" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="778" data-original-width="515" height="442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj7mGRomVrDuIbwxIrvC3zkQwEy-jBFOTfJbt2E9FxmFVj5dQRs2lt5E_FwKemj5mJyJgqHOAnBHqXGBwXucmxdIGvgt8kiGioOeZUIYlGCpBobLja2lP5wowo1ConVVp6mf4BC6B9zIymENRMJYl7leiS9lGVzOaMA7Nr3zzVQFaH85_6Vo-Z49VNk8A=w293-h442" width="293" /></span></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6sePCliCJIBo2O6dHLiZ7244YlWaX9VknIS-4JYqmxqUpiRdS-5UGNi7jmkwKCo4OhBBLZqSmmH2yh01HILJXEcT25Sw1L3WSavAqzZ9SGBQzP4eIvOC_GcYt39Dq16CeEkTQ-7Imxr729EoSUnL2bLeYgnDedvxadMtyLayec3_x6OzrpqdqnHVicQ=s768" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="522" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg6sePCliCJIBo2O6dHLiZ7244YlWaX9VknIS-4JYqmxqUpiRdS-5UGNi7jmkwKCo4OhBBLZqSmmH2yh01HILJXEcT25Sw1L3WSavAqzZ9SGBQzP4eIvOC_GcYt39Dq16CeEkTQ-7Imxr729EoSUnL2bLeYgnDedvxadMtyLayec3_x6OzrpqdqnHVicQ=w301-h443" width="301" /></span></a></div></div><div style="text-align: left;">
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<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">2007.01.16</span></span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(208, 206, 206); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">ANGELO FOLETTO</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Il vecchio maestro di etica e energia</span></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Il 2 febbraio di cinquant' anni fa, nel trigesimo della
morte, Arturo Toscanini fu ricordato a New York attraverso un' esecuzione della
Sinfonia n.3 «Eroica» di Beethoven (quella con la «Marcia funebre») diretta da
Bruno Walter alla Carnegie Hall. In ideale staffetta il 16 febbraio a Milano,
per i funerali solenni, fu ancora la Sinfonia n. 3, diretta da Victor de Sabata
per l' ultima volta sul podio dei complessi scaligeri, a accompagnare l' uscita
del corteo col feretro dalla Scala, che aveva trasformato il foyer in camera
ardente (dieci anni dopo avvenne per De Sabata: l' orchestra, senza direttore,
suonò la «Marcia funebre») mentre in Duomo e al Cimitero Monumentale
risuonarono «Va pensiero» e finale del Requiem di Verdi, solista Leyla Gencer.
Le note di Beethoven e Wagner occuparono invece la giornata del 16 gennaio
1957: la notizia della scomparsa, data dalla radio, suscitò spontaneo lutto
nazionale. Chi aveva l' età, lo ricorda: la radio rivoluzionò i programmi
trasmettendo a intervalli regolari «Eroica» e Marcia funebre di Sigfrido. E in
molte case italiane, non solo a Parma e Milano, per alcune ore si parlò
sottovoce e si respirò aria cupa: come fosse morto uno di famiglia. Ci pensi
chi oggi avrà la ventura di assistere alla Scala all' esecuzione, inevitabile
visti i precedenti, della Sinfonia «Eroica», nel 50enario di quel 16 gennaio.
Una volta presa consapevolezza della buona sorte per avere in mano uno dei preziosi
(e non di numero adeguato) biglietti d' ingresso ottenuti dal proprio consiglio
di zona, e della fortuna di entrare (magari per la prima e unica volta) alla
Scala in un' occasione per varie ragioni storica. Il ricordo di Toscanini
suscita ancora un' ondata di emozioni: non solo nei musicisti che ebbero la
fortuna di conoscerlo professionalmente o per gli appassionati che non persero
le preziose apparizioni del dopoguerra. La figura del maestro parmense, «primo
direttore d' orchestra moderno» condensano e non sbagliano le enciclopedie, è
anche tra le poche uscite con naturalezza dalla competenza e dall' affetto
degli specialisti. La sua morte, come quella di Verdi, seppe unire la
popolazione milanese senza bisogno di chiamate cittadine ufficiali. Forse
perché il suo modo di interpretare il ruolo del musicista, sia nelle scelte
ampie ma non frettolose né facilmente influenzabili di repertorio sia nello
slancio meditato delle esecuzioni (le prime sinfoniche firmate da un italiano a
cui la giovane industria discografica si interessò), oltrepassò le capienze dei
teatri e delle sale da concerto. Rendendo familiare il precetto toscaniniano di
genio e regolatezza che non ha ancora esaurito l' energia emotiva e la
carismatica spigolosità etica.</span></span></div></div>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-39826999861706758962016-10-04T09:55:00.024+03:002024-02-26T07:47:22.624+03:00<div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal"><span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><b>ÖZYURT STAGE CANTATA</b> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Cemal Reşit Rey (1904 - 1985)</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Text by Faruk Nafız Çamlıbel</span></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">09 May 1947, İstanbul </span></span></b></span></div></span></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;">
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Cemal Reşit Rey <i>conductor</i></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br />
<span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Muhiddin Sadak <i>choir master</i></span><i><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></i><br /><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano </i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: times;">[Debut]</span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Melike Aktok <i>mezzo-soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Haşmet Sıcakkan <i>baritone</i></span><i style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"> </i></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><br /></div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-66647232011986305632015-10-08T19:42:00.045+03:002024-02-25T10:14:54.562+03:00<div style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">RECITAL – ISTANBUL</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Hagia Eirene Museum</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">13 July 1992</span></b></div><div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><span><div style="background: rgb(193, 38, 55); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span style="color: #e8e6e4; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">C A N C E L L E D </span></b></div></span></div></div><div><span style="font-family: times;">
<div style="background: rgb(217, 217, 217); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent;">The concert was planning as her farewell concert to the stage but she had to cancel the performance due to her husband's illness who passed away on January 3rd, 1993.</span></div></span></div></span></span><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="font-family: "Times New Roman";"><br /></div></span></span></div><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><div style="background: rgb(59, 56, 56); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><a name="_Hlk92685462"><span style="color: white;">XX. ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL </span></a></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span><br /></span></div></div></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Leyla Gencer </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">soprano<br /></i></span><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Roberto Negri </span><i style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">piano<br /></i></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Vivaldi <i>Sposa, son disprezzarata</i> Bajazed<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Tchaikovsky <i>Net, tol'ko tot, kto znal</i> (None but the lonely heart) op.6 no.6<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rossini 8 ariette "Soirées musicales" 3.<i> La partenza<br /></i></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Rossini 8 ariette "Soirées musicales" 6.<i> La pastorella dell’Alpiondola<br /></i></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Bellini Composizioni da Camera<i> Vaga luna, che inargenti </i>Romance<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Donizetti <i>A mezzanotte<br /></i></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Gretry <i>Rose chérie </i>Zemire et Azor<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Berlioz Les nuits d'été (Summer Nights), op.7 <i>Le spectre de la rose<br /></i></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Poulenc <i>Fleurs </i>Fiançailles pour Rire, Op.6<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chopin Polish Songs op.74 No.1 <i>Zyczenie</i> (The Wish)<br /></span></span><span><span style="font-weight: normal;">Chopin / Viardot 12 Mazurkas I.<i>Seize ans</i></span><i> </i></span></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><br /></i></span></div><div><span style="font-size: medium;"><i><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_x2L7WxfTb5VY01KgjIa4XsdYOmyYY26xByHK8ObyML4aaLg_8BIQmXT591L4qajtHljozErbSItp3nRb78CNMrLmNeQx8rP8a9hXm-y7PW4IGCRQaeiqiIwm_MGt6C37t0pk2vOekPSqfKyJQb8OlK6GCjEwEEW3OKAT9bNB6-jETX8_ELKtDILv9w" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1183" data-original-width="789" height="626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh_x2L7WxfTb5VY01KgjIa4XsdYOmyYY26xByHK8ObyML4aaLg_8BIQmXT591L4qajtHljozErbSItp3nRb78CNMrLmNeQx8rP8a9hXm-y7PW4IGCRQaeiqiIwm_MGt6C37t0pk2vOekPSqfKyJQb8OlK6GCjEwEEW3OKAT9bNB6-jETX8_ELKtDILv9w=w417-h626" width="417" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: justify;"><i style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Festival Poster Design by Mengü Ertel</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></i></span></div></div><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/#"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEglanQo2FOgTMF_OxIoLsRcb5TAjpUMM27Ddvr8UTihMN8XHwrA9lxdeiK9wYhsSZm70ytOGSrFaGvmZRcxwgWIEI_kEfdiMxXXEjB6wS_Fif-kKNOuV4a6rRf_zzDSLX2ToF2TmRlabS_V/w285-h400/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+01.png" width="285" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9wOvd0x3-1kdOxNWehchNzGv-_rytP_SEzsq6X28hZ9JTiHHiYDjorcxdVS7DIujc0leXwfBKAvw48faBeNZe8C2rULVunylvSuTiBMs9YZ0cX6aRCjAkim4Ru3uINV7Gin7UXpgXDfI/s942/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+02.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="942" data-original-width="668" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgf9wOvd0x3-1kdOxNWehchNzGv-_rytP_SEzsq6X28hZ9JTiHHiYDjorcxdVS7DIujc0leXwfBKAvw48faBeNZe8C2rULVunylvSuTiBMs9YZ0cX6aRCjAkim4Ru3uINV7Gin7UXpgXDfI/w284-h400/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+02.png" width="284" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3Ixx4XKdy8a-JooKIv3NI-3Hkwcg75pvQpc_OPhhrhEa9pumHXSkaLv2mRteJ0hbJJfEE7Rj7vUVmXnvyv03x3blG_uIOca1TFQYSnopUGOzdwhAMKM7tzRp7dDBUfjMD0jz5ILTx3P9/s941/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+03.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="941" data-original-width="669" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiI3Ixx4XKdy8a-JooKIv3NI-3Hkwcg75pvQpc_OPhhrhEa9pumHXSkaLv2mRteJ0hbJJfEE7Rj7vUVmXnvyv03x3blG_uIOca1TFQYSnopUGOzdwhAMKM7tzRp7dDBUfjMD0jz5ILTx3P9/w285-h409/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+03.png" width="285" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjM6wR-rr02dzPtyMfA5k8ee2pkhmoPat1o1hf4lLKcSjfmkuY0n0N8Nqn8qaBBqjaHs6I7W3N4jRsSlSzu7dHtb4oPn7ekqGjltHm5zpsbT2U2DZv1e9Vhz8JUUjyPpman1p8b7LqqXIR/s946/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+04.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="946" data-original-width="660" height="409" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjM6wR-rr02dzPtyMfA5k8ee2pkhmoPat1o1hf4lLKcSjfmkuY0n0N8Nqn8qaBBqjaHs6I7W3N4jRsSlSzu7dHtb4oPn7ekqGjltHm5zpsbT2U2DZv1e9Vhz8JUUjyPpman1p8b7LqqXIR/w285-h409/1992+%252820.%25C4%25B0F%2529+04.png" width="285" /></a></div><div><br /></div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuj4jibuYcDSy4hbTjWs9w6Rp39AUMEuAO-9dSJOS5VpyV0PapmZjPGPh8nGguSf7SygTSLcp7HIu8fZ5kJKl86LricnxghxYN-P9zDrko8nA7ySCNRBspR0rTVaerMapwiuT7UzaOrrgx/s2048/LG+1981+MILANO+EVDE001.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1664" data-original-width="2048" height="375" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhuj4jibuYcDSy4hbTjWs9w6Rp39AUMEuAO-9dSJOS5VpyV0PapmZjPGPh8nGguSf7SygTSLcp7HIu8fZ5kJKl86LricnxghxYN-P9zDrko8nA7ySCNRBspR0rTVaerMapwiuT7UzaOrrgx/w462-h375/LG+1981+MILANO+EVDE001.jpg" width="462" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">with İbrahim Gençer 1981, Milano</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div><div><br /></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">MİLLİYET DAILY NEWSPAPER </span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">1992.04.16</span></b><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></b></span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf6PkmMi_uE9mxApVe0PK7KHzinDd-oxhTUhAnm86i0cIHL31HwwQo1Q27LxR9Vv0XUbslxco1MMFU_c5yIzAp32qZKRfNJ92ZR34KIRWrSbwfwIGr55dNHdnNXaYpANKqqIZXJ23MUwWw1eJXH-MDtzyc4pfS7-G2ijgcnycw4pahlALGR3n1eYllbg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1058" data-original-width="499" height="984" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhf6PkmMi_uE9mxApVe0PK7KHzinDd-oxhTUhAnm86i0cIHL31HwwQo1Q27LxR9Vv0XUbslxco1MMFU_c5yIzAp32qZKRfNJ92ZR34KIRWrSbwfwIGr55dNHdnNXaYpANKqqIZXJ23MUwWw1eJXH-MDtzyc4pfS7-G2ijgcnycw4pahlALGR3n1eYllbg=w463-h984" width="463" /></a></div></div><br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-65372033789635231872015-10-08T19:40:00.059+03:002024-02-03T14:30:38.791+03:00<p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: TR;">NAPOLI – CONCERT </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Teatro Mercadante,
Napoli</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">04, 05, 08, 09 October
1989 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"> </span></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(166, 166, 166); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">COCTEAU – OPIUM</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(166, 166, 166); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">Due tempi di poesia, musica e danza ideati da Beppe Menegatti</span></div></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></b></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Beppe Menegatti <i>stage
director</i></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Luisa
Spinatelli <i>scene</i></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Anna
Maria Morelli <i>costume</i></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-ansi-language: IT;">D. Deane, W. Eagling, L. Gay, C. Whittingham, <i>c</i></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><i>oreografie</i></span></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-ansi-language: IT;"> </span></div></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium; text-align: justify;">“Cocteau-Opium”, per le celebrazione di Cocteau,
Musiche di Stravinsky, Poulenc, Satie, Millhaud, Auric, Piaf, Leyla Gencer (La
Poetessa) recita e canta liriche di Poulenc, su testi di Louise de Villermorin,
amici di Cacteau.</span></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Con la partecipazione di Virginio Gazzolo (Poeta),
Carla Franci (Morte, Principessa, Natalie), Franca Valeri (Attrice).</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div>
<div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">Photo © LUCIANO ROMANO,
Napoli</span></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1f6OljM5YHFI6_TR8hwPXx65ql1meXzstJmtIip_BAfLYgIC33yoUmSBCCwf0rHIdGXMZsR2E42MAJqq0k4eKSReXVbEGswRCYFPRItqNylCsZKDKus5SiHsOEdjV4okKL5Jiap_-aPm4/s1254/1989+Recital+%2528Napoli%2529+%25281%2529.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="920" data-original-width="1254" height="486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi1f6OljM5YHFI6_TR8hwPXx65ql1meXzstJmtIip_BAfLYgIC33yoUmSBCCwf0rHIdGXMZsR2E42MAJqq0k4eKSReXVbEGswRCYFPRItqNylCsZKDKus5SiHsOEdjV4okKL5Jiap_-aPm4/w661-h486/1989+Recital+%2528Napoli%2529+%25281%2529.png" width="661" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">with Virginio Gazzolo (Poeta)</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br /></span></span></div>
<div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><br /></div>
<div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: background1;">LA STAMPA</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium;">1989.11.03 </span></b></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLKPIWV1QNygqpTP3pGksd2bXVK0ZDLEr4FbJNEgvHnhYESzCy9E1Z9nrQNIGhujXrigvr98fGZEwLrZI8140QOrHhk3rPDXgfJqdsom-Cf-b43ujT1ssUPI7Vfzij-vlmFHvoFgGbCqu/s1600/Cocteau+-+Napoli+89.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="713" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmLKPIWV1QNygqpTP3pGksd2bXVK0ZDLEr4FbJNEgvHnhYESzCy9E1Z9nrQNIGhujXrigvr98fGZEwLrZI8140QOrHhk3rPDXgfJqdsom-Cf-b43ujT1ssUPI7Vfzij-vlmFHvoFgGbCqu/w462-h215/Cocteau+-+Napoli+89.jpg" width="462" /></a></span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span> </span></span></b></span></div><div style="margin: 0cm;"><span><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></span></b></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; vertical-align: baseline;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">LA STAMPA</span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">1989.11.05 </span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-q_WgRRBkOdwiCoud1w958GRytP2zD-FiwBZXYZ0DaasPCOCu25YOBp_hbmfu1tzbQ0U7_PboeRhpPuh3gOElJPyTHjecDX1eXnqr4GVmvzlVDD4oLbuactXifu1foahqI0HerIXBT4z/s874/Untitled.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="650" data-original-width="874" height="435" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjj-q_WgRRBkOdwiCoud1w958GRytP2zD-FiwBZXYZ0DaasPCOCu25YOBp_hbmfu1tzbQ0U7_PboeRhpPuh3gOElJPyTHjecDX1eXnqr4GVmvzlVDD4oLbuactXifu1foahqI0HerIXBT4z/w584-h435/Untitled.png" width="584" /></a></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; text-align: justify;"><span style="color: white; font-size: medium;">LA
REPUBBLICA</span></b></div><div style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; text-align: justify;"><span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">
</span><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span>1989.11.07 </span></b><span><b> </b></span><span style="background-color: transparent;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="background: rgb(191, 191, 191); margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-background-themecolor: background1; mso-background-themeshade: 191;"><span style="font-size: medium; line-height: 107%;">ALBERTO TESTA</span></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-size: medium;">Riccardando Cocteau</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span lang="IT" style="font-size: medium;">Cent' anni fa nasceva Jean Cocteau (che moriva di
questi giorni ventisei anni fa). Beppe Menegatti se ne è ricordato e non si è
lasciato sfuggire l' occasione per dedicargli uno spettacolo. Ho trovato
ascolto e ospitalità presso il San Carlo, trasferitosi, per lavori, sino al
mese di aprile, al Teatro Mercadante. Menegatti ha affidato a Mario Pasi la
consulenza drammaturgica e letteraria ed ha avuto, al suo stesso dire, la
preziosissima collaborazione di Virgilio Gazzolo. Costui è anche presente in
scena dal principio alla fine nel ruolo del Poeta e ci induce con semplice,
spesso dolorosa immedesimazione, e una parsimonia encomiabile di gesti, lungo i
sentieri della vita di quel grande artista che fu Cocteau. Era stato da giovane
vicino a Diaghilev, e aveva assaporato tutto il fascino di quel periodo dei
Balletti Russi in cui sembrava che tutte le arti si fossero messe d' accordo
per un appuntamento, come ad un convegno per decidere dei destini della cultura
europea più avanzata nella letteratura, nella pittura, nella musica, nella
danza. Tous les arts se tiennent par la main disse il grande riformatore
Noverre, e Cocteau riconobbe la verità dell' assioma, divenne per la danza il
poeta-librettista, lo scrittore, il regista, lo scenografo, il cartellonista,
animatore di una fra le più felici stagioni del balletto. Se ne doveva
ricordare anche nel secondo dopoguerra accanto a Petit e a Jan Babilée. Quel
tanto di didascalico che si potrebbe avvertire a tutta prima nello spettacolo è
presto scongiurato perché a prendere il sopravvento è l' emozione di fronte
agli eventi di una vita d' artista fra le più tempestose. Sfilano sulla scena,
sovrapponendosi e mescolandosi, i fatti della vita e quelli della sua opera;
realtà e finzione si confondono per sparire e lasciarci al meraviglioso di uno
spettacolo condotto con grande perizia tecnica (scene di Luisa Spinatelli,
costumi di Annamaria Morelli) che punta decisamente, costantemente al surreale,
prima aspirazione in teatro di Cocteau. Menegatti intitola lo spettacolo
Cocteau-Opium ed aggiunge ritratti di donne-ricordo di uomini. Al centro, nel
personaggio della Morte (Cocteau nutriva per essa un velenoso amore) sta Carla
Fracci di cui non si sa se apprezzare di più l' attrice o la ballerina perché
le due cose si fondono in lei. Nei ricordi sono gli amici, gli amanti o le
aspirazioni amorose di Cocteau ad emergere (Dargelos, Radiguet, guanto del
cielo, Desborbes, Garos, Khill, Al Brown); nei ritratti le donne che lo hanno
amato o solo ammirato conferiscono agli episodi quella nota inquieta che è la
caratteristica dell' intera rappresentazione. Ci sono le arie da salotto (una
ben tornata, veramente prima donna, Leyla Gencer) e c' è una pagina detta con
grande limpidezza da Franca Valeri (la descrizione di un fatto, di un
turbamento, di un' inquietudine vissuta a tre) e poi tutte le piccole storie di
una società che si guarda allo speccio ed è annunciata dallo stesso. I
coreografi sono quattro: Derek Deane, Wayne Eagling Loris Gai, Gillian
Whittingam e segnaleremo le coreografie intimiste, di sapore proustiano, le più
felici, di Gai e di Deane. Lo spettacolo è severo, e, fugate alcune immagini
fin troppo memori di croci uncinate e di sinistri figuri nazisti (il periodo
dell' occupazione di Parigi e dei fantasmi nella vita di Cocteau) si tocca anche
l' ironia scherzosa come nei quadri di Coco Chanel e della sua amica Misia Sert
o nell' altro di Chaplin (una Fracci sorprendente per humour) sull' onda del
ricordo nell' inavvertito incontro sui Mari della Cina. Ma il punto più alto è
quello del finale con La voce umana, geniale trasposizione di voci registrate
(Signoret, Magnani, Piaf, Morelli) adattate da Gianni di Capua con una Fracci
struggente e la voce del Poeta con l' intercalare Ti amo, là dove il filo del
telefono è la speranza cui si attacca ogni innamorato abbandonato. Fra i
danzatori tutti adeguati alle loro parti sono da ricordare: Margherita
Veneruso, Patrizia Manieri, Agostino D' Aloja, Pietro Corvino, Giuseppe Picone,
Bruno Stoduto, James Urbain (nel ruolo perfetto dell' eroe) Fulvio D' Alberto,
Edward Cook, Ugo Ranieri nella scena del complesso di Edipo che tormentò
Cocteau e l' attrice Relda Ridoni (la madre). Un grande successo, con numerose
chiamate.</span><span style="font-size: large;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: x-large;">Hagia Eirene Museum</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">18<span style="color: #cc0000;">†</span>
July 1989 </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b></div>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(59, 56, 56); border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-background-themecolor: background2; mso-background-themeshade: 64; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
<div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm; text-align: left;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium; mso-themecolor: background1;">17. ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL </span></div>
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "times new roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Archi della Scala</span></span></p></div></div><div class="MsoNormal">
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<span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Arienzo Pisani <i>violin</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br /></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i> <b>*</b></span></span></span></div>
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<span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Ernesto Merlini <i>harpsichord </i></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN" style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Corelli Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6 No.1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Vivaldi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vedro con mio diletto</i> (RV717) Il Guistino <b>*</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Vivaldi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">O qui coeli</i> (RV631) Motet for soprano,
strings and harpsichord <b>*</b></span></span></span><br /><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Locatelli Introduttione in G major Op.4 No.4</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN">
<span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Locatelli Introduttione in D major Op.4 No.1</span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span><br /><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Vivaldi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sposa son disprezzata</i> Bajazet</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39085794;"></span><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> <b>*</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Vivaldi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Canta in prato</i> (RV636) Motet for
soprano, strings and harpsichord <b>*</b></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><strong><span style="color: #cc0000;">†</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></strong><span lang="EN" style="color: black;"><span lang="EN"><span style="color: black;">Recording date</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"></span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Photos © YURDAER ACAR, Istanbul</span><span><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjIB149VRRBJ0C6YxfEJYDYVI45zLio9NGjn5u540j4V8xL8eI657RlraqmaITArlzYstV9d8c5oiWoJa-m15Vg7xHLa66II_7MGRk47d7kjbyXRPGrbxFPcd88x-U0TuDG_zE9mKS_AGmtZnU4KO9snqtBVpvfDxYtc63OY9QIZIfRTcmHIhJvY69_-Q" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; 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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-78857123882549310612015-10-08T19:33:00.028+03:002024-02-03T18:34:42.530+03:00<div class="MsoNormal"><span style="color: #741b47;"><span lang="EN"><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; mso-margin-top-alt: auto;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CONCERT - MILANO </span></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>Piccolo Teatro, Milano</b></span></span></div><div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); color: black; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span>05, 09 October 1987 </span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></span></b></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="background: rgb(255, 229, 153); border: 1pt solid windowtext; mso-border-alt: solid windowtext .5pt; mso-element: para-border-div; padding: 1pt 4pt;">
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<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="EN"><span lang="EN-GB" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Werner Hollweg <i>tenor</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><br />
</span><span lang="EN" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Roberto Negri <i>piano</i></span><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN"><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Beethoven </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Wie herrlich leuchtet mir dir </span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">(Text: Goethe),
op.52<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Beethoven
Ich komme schon durch manches (Text: Goethe)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Beethoven
<i>Es war einmal ein König</i> (Text: Goethe from Faust), op.75 no.3<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="EN"><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Liszt<i> /
Beethoven Mignon</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">6 Gesänge</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.75 <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Liszt<i> /
Beethoven Mit einem gemalten Bande</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">3 Gesänge</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.83 <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Liszt<i> /
Beethoven Freudvoll und leidvoll</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">Egmont</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.84 <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Beethoven Es war einmal ein König</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">6 Gesänge</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.75
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Beethoven Wonne der Wehmuth</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">3 Gesänge</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.83 <o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Liszt<i> /
Beethoven Die Trommel gerührt</i> from </span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif; text-decoration: none;">Egmont</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">, Op.84</span><span lang="DE" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br /></span><span lang="EN"><span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Tchaikovsky </span><i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Net, tol'ko
tot, kto znal</span></i><span lang="EN" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"> (</span><i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">None but the lonely heart</span></i><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">) op.6 no.6 (Text: Goethe)</span></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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<div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;">1987.09.22</span></div></div></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: medium;"><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjLOU5GKIIUoiDOm_FOVBULdSp_3wG7-niQqslXvyH9aOHalkQDX4Yy_gd7xebKm2S_H2X3JjLszNJbrGP-ZXLYzCz6nJCjppK3QMHybbDWuVtojnG6E68I8u1uHBRxKfn507okzoHqS2/s977/1.png" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span><img border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="977" height="469" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivjLOU5GKIIUoiDOm_FOVBULdSp_3wG7-niQqslXvyH9aOHalkQDX4Yy_gd7xebKm2S_H2X3JjLszNJbrGP-ZXLYzCz6nJCjppK3QMHybbDWuVtojnG6E68I8u1uHBRxKfn507okzoHqS2/w583-h469/1.png" width="583" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br /></div></span></b></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="MsoNormal"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); color: #741b47; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">LA STAMPA </span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">1987.09.22</span></div></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxfRKIBmuO-rpaGCugaSkda0xw4G6RyosUZ-NuE7csJHi3Y12OUk3r3YevfsEj-pEDYtrOaOEQBFD64Lifx2Ucyii3eXWkeWyUt1pvXf5K3hA2q-KatdyZxK3H_QWBB7ayL7qgWExBOUB/s1167/Faust+-+Streler+-+Piccolo+Teaotro+87.jpg" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img border="0" data-original-height="881" data-original-width="1167" height="443" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgXxfRKIBmuO-rpaGCugaSkda0xw4G6RyosUZ-NuE7csJHi3Y12OUk3r3YevfsEj-pEDYtrOaOEQBFD64Lifx2Ucyii3eXWkeWyUt1pvXf5K3hA2q-KatdyZxK3H_QWBB7ayL7qgWExBOUB/w585-h443/Faust+-+Streler+-+Piccolo+Teaotro+87.jpg" width="585" /></span></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div></div><div class="MsoNormal"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><div style="background: rgb(187, 1, 81); color: #741b47; font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;">CORRIERE DELLA SERA </span></span></b></div><div style="background: rgb(174, 170, 170); font-weight: 700; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif; font-size: medium;">1987.10.07</span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><span style="clear: left; display: inline; font-size: medium; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkhyphenhyphenmefFnkJWW4I8BV5o1G7LX_QKJ8Fb_YjfPTn2ZZkXVNRSdEm42N8F5YadC4Gw418aqMUqHhlUF-g0jA6as0dGx8adTAlnQikA_Y2wRXwErXroLTzoEtCE9Li_PBtOaYLuR9_s2PGkV/s1666/01+goethe.png" style="clear: left; display: inline; font-weight: bold; margin-bottom: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="620" data-original-width="1666" height="218" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiJkhyphenhyphenmefFnkJWW4I8BV5o1G7LX_QKJ8Fb_YjfPTn2ZZkXVNRSdEm42N8F5YadC4Gw418aqMUqHhlUF-g0jA6as0dGx8adTAlnQikA_Y2wRXwErXroLTzoEtCE9Li_PBtOaYLuR9_s2PGkV/w589-h218/01+goethe.png" width="589" /></a></span></div></div>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2103981894749474679.post-89656407378482852362015-10-08T19:32:00.045+03:002024-02-09T23:26:51.280+03:00<div class="MsoNormal"><span><span><p class="MsoNormal" style="background: rgb(148, 54, 52); color: #741b47; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">RECITAL – ISTANBUL </span></b><span style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<div style="background: rgb(244, 176, 131); color: #741b47; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: x-large; mso-ansi-language: IT; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Hagia Eirene Museum</span></b></div>
<div style="background: rgb(247, 202, 172); line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; text-align: left;"><b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: medium;">23<span style="color: #cc0000;">†</span>
July 1987 </span></b></div></span></span></div><div class="MsoNormal">
<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><div class="MsoNormal" style="font-family: "Times New Roman", Times, FreeSerif, serif;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><div style="background: rgb(59, 56, 56); border: 1pt solid windowtext; padding: 1pt 4pt;"><div style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: none; line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm; padding: 0cm;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;">15. ISTANBUL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL </span></div></div></div></div></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif; font-size: medium;">Leyla Gencer <i>soprano</i><o:p></o:p></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Roberto Negri <i>piano</i><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<br />
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;">
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Monteverdi <i>La mia Turca
che d’Amor non ha fè </i>(for solo voice)</span><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39082373;"><span style="color: black; font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: medium;"><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Vivaldi <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vedro con
mio diletto</i> (RV717) Il Guistino <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Cimarosa <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La moglie
infelice</i> I Traci amanti <o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Salieri <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Quest’è bellissima, quest’è novissima</i>
Axur, Re d’Ormus<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Gretry <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">La fauvette</i> Zemire et Azor<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span style="mso-bookmark: _Hlk39085132;"><span lang="FR" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Gretry <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rose chérie</i> Zemire et Azor<o:p></o:p></span></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Gluck <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Al pianto
vostro</i> Alceste<o:p></o:p></span><br /><span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Donizetti <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Torna all'ospite tetto...Vieni o tu, che
ognor io chiamo</i> Caterina Cornaro<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;">Donizetti <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Egli è
spento</i> Belisario</span><br />
<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="IT" style="font-family: "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "calibri";"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><strong><span lang="IT" style="color: #cc0000;">†</span><span lang="IT" style="color: red;"> </span></strong><strong><span lang="IT" style="font-weight: normal; mso-ansi-language: IT;">Recording Date</span></strong></span></span></span><br />
</span><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium;"><span>Photos © YURDAER ACAR, Istanbul</span><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0cm;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium;"><span></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9Xxvc6SYm_GYbkMv-tMUPgeDi-RqO9jlDZZcQEjqedtKr7nXcLoyOZ8yWHWVECzEVtUghRnS7NTbLhhezAEjXKMfgo6lM7lmZsDYYWZ8MoOtLaDwlg-SVZof6vpJVSU4MN9nHfnbeTkBqHvNAjYiAvSuetwZJ2PHQKmjNN5Tb5QMxsSVN1yAbxuOWyQ" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1207" data-original-width="803" height="629" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj9Xxvc6SYm_GYbkMv-tMUPgeDi-RqO9jlDZZcQEjqedtKr7nXcLoyOZ8yWHWVECzEVtUghRnS7NTbLhhezAEjXKMfgo6lM7lmZsDYYWZ8MoOtLaDwlg-SVZof6vpJVSU4MN9nHfnbeTkBqHvNAjYiAvSuetwZJ2PHQKmjNN5Tb5QMxsSVN1yAbxuOWyQ=w419-h629" width="419" /></span></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: left;"><i><span style="color: red; font-size: x-small;">Festival Poster Design by Olcay Okay</span></i></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: medium;"><span><br /><br /></span></span><p></p><span style="font-size: medium;"></span><div style="text-align: left;"><img border="0" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgHkF4axbvUGrhAhe8KxlQVSrq24li68XJc9IOHc8kIbrzMgKclXFYWBcZB_P9Z1orcL_tOD3IDoQTuHB7TW96NaobG2cIPXrM7qOQCxhqMSi7BSmKzod6Ly26LhCYgFrS36XOM1y3QHR1d/w289-h638/Ads%25C4%25B1z01.png" width="289" /><img border="0" height="638" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj4NFpdRJ4IvoYyEfA0ffkzYB752ZZWROV_pxqqVOeQpVdDxWqsA6QpV_qeLmyMj5LYZX26-BzGQLP943ckXZfaAkuZbLG3W0pb7ioMvKdz4paTNhOL8HKnDkTKzBNRtsTBQk4bR6Tvmbyq/w284-h638/1987.07.23+Istanbul+Festival+02.png" width="284" /></div></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;"><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhY8fU51yh5HtTXbykxNYZa6gb2qZKMI0ZCrZvkubGWzz73lW5_lbH91ANEdfPCJniWSo3_ReQVerPgw3zvYGXhHjb5ZpFPrex2g25o2qw4FjGVXcUjF7_lq_pFFACJqU6OnOqy4fIiFuJ8/s880/Ads%25C4%25B1z03.png" style="clear: left; 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