Leyla Gencer Archive: 1958

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RECITAL – WASHINGTON

Turkish Embassy

14 November 1958

Press Conference and Recital

Leyla Gencer soprano

Marcel Frank piano

Mozart Non mi dir, bell'idol mio Don Giovanni
Verdi O cieli azzurri Aida
Verdi D'amor sull'ali rosee... Miserere Il Trovatore
Donizetti Il dolce suoni mi colpi dua voce ....... Ardon gli incensi Lucia di Lammermoor

Photos © RENI NEWSPHOTO SERVICE, Washington

HAYAT WEEKLY MAGAZINE

1958.12.05

PRESS-TELEGRAM

1958.12.07

CONCERT – SAN FRANCISCO

Civic Auditorium

08 October 1958

Fol de Roll and Opera Ball

Master of the ceremonies Giorgio Tozzi

San Francisco Opera Orchestra and Chorus

San Francisco Opera Ballet

Kurt Herbert Adler producer

Karl Kritz musical director

Eugene Loring choreographer

Gianni Lazzari chorus director

Duets by

Leyla Gencer soprano & Piero Miranda-Ferraro tenor

Gianni Raimondi tenor Frank Guerrera baritone

Sylvia Stahlman soprano & Richard Lewis tenor

Leontyn Price soprano & Lawrance Winters bass-baritone

Giuseppe Taddei baritone & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf soprano

Solo parts by

Claramae Turner mezzo-soprano

Lisa Della Casa soprano

Irene Dalis mezzo-soprano

Jussi Björling tenor

THE OAKLAND TRIBUNE

1958.09.04

THE SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

1958.09.05

OAKLAND TRIBUNE
1958.09.14

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER

1958.10.02

OAKLAND TRIBUNE
1958.10.05

SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER
1958.10.09

CONCERT – MILANO

Auditorium RAI [Broadcast]

10† February 1958

Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano della RAI

Alfredo Simonetto conductor

Leyla Gencer soprano
Luigi Infantino tenor

Donizetti Quanto è bella, quato è cara! L’Elisir d’amore
Mozart Tutte le torture Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Cilea È la storia del pastore L’Arlesiana

Verdi Pace, pace mio dio La forza del destino
Meyerbeer Mi batte .. O Paradiso dell’onde uscito L’Africaine
Puccini Senza mamma Suor Angelica
Wagner Da voi lontan, in sconosciuta terra Lohengrin
Donizetti Il dolce suonı mi colpi dua voce .. Ardon gli incensi Lucia di Lammermoor

† Recording date

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1958.02.09

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1961.08.20

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1967.08.27

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1967.09.03

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1967.12.10

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1969.01.12

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1984.03.04

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1995.11.19

Recording Excerpts

Mozart Tutte le torture Act II Die Entführung aus dem Serail

Puccini Senza mamma Suor Angelica

Verdi Pace, pace mio dio Act IV La forza del destino

Donizetti Il dolce suonı mi colpi dua voce .. Ardon gli incensi Act II Lucia di Lammermoor

MADAMA BUTTERFLY

Giacomo Puccini (1858 - 1924)

Opera in three acts in Italian
Libretto: Giacosa and Illica
Premièr at Teatro alla Scala, Milan – 17 February 1904

16 March 1958

Teatro San Carlo, Napoli

Conductor: n/a
Chorus master: n/a
Stage director: n/a
Scene and costumes: n/a

Cio-Cio-San, Madam Butterfly LEYLA GENCER soprano
Suzuki, her servant n/a mezzo-soprano
Kate Pinkerton, Pinkerton’s American Wife n/a mezzo-soprano
B.F. Pinkerton, Lieutenant in US Navy n/a tenor
Sharpless, US Consul at Nagasaki n/a baritone
Goro, a marriage broker n/a tenor
Prince Yamadori, a rich Japanese n/a baritone
The Bonze, Cio-Cio-San’s uncle n/a bass
The Imperial Commissioner n/a bass
The Official Registrar n/a baritone

Time: Early Twentieth Century
Place: Nagasaki

CONTRACT FOR THE PERFORMANCES

1958.03.04

CONCERT – MILANO

Palazzo Serbollini

14 February 1958

Omaggio a Puccini [Circolo della stampa]

Tribute to Puccini

Centenary of Puccini

An evening in commemoration of Puccini’s 100^th anniversary of birth

Leyla Gencer soprano
Cesy Brognini soprano
Elisabetta Fusco soprano
Fiorenza Cossotto mezzo-soprano
Antonino Votto piano

Un bel di vedremo Madama Butterfly
Senza mamma Suor Angelica

In quelle trine morbide Manon Lescaut

Leyla Gencer soprano / Antonino Votto piano

Si, mi chiamano Mimi La Boheme
Vissi d’arte Tosca
Cesy Brognini soprano / Antonino Votto piano

Di frequente, la sera Suor Angelica
Fiorenza Cossotto mezzo-soprano / Antonino Votto piano

Se come voi piccina io fossi Le Villi
Elisabetta Fusco soprano / Antonino Votto piano

Note: A Gold Medal for Puccini Merits Presented by Fosca Crespi, Puccini’s stepdaughter after the performance.

RADIOCORRIERE.TV

1958.02.13

CORRIERE DELLA SERA

1958.02.14

CORRIERE DELLA SERA
1958.02.14

RECITAL – BURSA

Ahmet Vefik Paşa Theater

29 January 1958

OPENING CONCERT OF AHMET VEKİF PAŞA THEATER

Leyla Gencer soprano

Unknown piano

Programme n/a

IL TROVATORE

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Opera in four acts in Italian

Libretto: Salvatore Cammarano from Spanish drama of the same tittle by Atonio Garcia Gutiérrez
Premièr at Teatro Apollo, Rome – 19 January 1853

June 1958 (2 Performances)

Opernhause, Zurich

Conductor: Eduard Hartogs

Chorus master: n/a
Stage director: n/a
Scene and costumes: n/a

Count di Luna ETTORE BASTIANINI baritone
Ferrando di Luna’s captain of the guard n/a bass
Manrico a chieftain under the Prince of Biscay and reputed son of Azucena PIERO MIRANDA FERRARO tenor
Duchess Leonora lady-in-waiting to the Princess of Aragon LEYLA GENCER soprano
Ruiz a soldier in Manrico’s service n/a tenor
An Old Gypsy n/a baritone
Inez confident of Leonora n/a soprano
Azucena a Biscayan gypsy woman LUCIA DANIELI mezzo-soprano

Time: Fifteenth Century
Place: Biscay and Aragon

OPERA MAGAZINE

1958 September

Zurich. The operatic programme of the Festival has included no new works this year, though there were two new productions' Oedipus Rex (Maria Davenport, Helmut Melchert) and Figaro (Hilde Koch, Vera Schlosser, Edith Mathis, Hilde Biichel, Heinz Rehfuss, Heinz Borst, Rold Bottcher, Charles Gillig). There were also seven gala performances: Fidelio (Heinz Imdahl, Symonette, Sebastian Feiersinger, Helga Pilarczyk and Birgit Nilsson; Hans Knappertsbusch); Magic Flute (Josef Greindl, Ernst Hafliger; Reinshagen); Il Trovatore (Leyla Gencer, Lucia Danieli, Piero Miranda Ferraro, Ettore Bastianini; Hartogs); Entführung (Hafliger, Eva Maria Rogner, Ingeborg Friedrich; Erismann); Traviata (Virginia Zeani, Ferrando Ferrari, Bastianini; Kampel); Tosca (Nilsson, Eugenio Fernandi, Imdahl; Hartogs).

LA TRAVIATA

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - 1901)

Opera in three acts in Italian
Libretto: Francesco Maria Piave after Alexander Duma’s play La Dame aux Camélias
Premièr at Teatro la Fenice, Venice – 6 March 1853

28 November 1958

Grand Opera, Philadelphia

Conductor: Giuseppe Bamboschek

Chorus master: n/a

Stage director: Antony Stivanello

Scene and costumes: Vn Horn, Inc. Louis Valentino
Properties: Zafero Studios
Ballet master and choreographer: William Sena

Alfredo Germont lover of Violetta EUGENE CONLEY tenor

Giorgio Germont his father CORNELL MACNEIL baritone
Gastone de Letorieres a young man about town ANDREA VELIS tenor
Dr. Grenvil EDWARD DOE bass
Baron Douphol a rival of Alfredo ROBERT GREGORI baritone
Marchese d’Obigny WALTER KNETLAR bass
Giuseppe servant to Violetta n/a tenor
Violetta Valery a courtesan LEYLA GENCER soprano
Flora Bervoix her friend VERONICA PETRUSKY mezzo-soprano
Annina Violetta’s confident and maid DORIS OKERAN soprano
Spanish dancers NANCY KING, BRUCE MARKS

Time: 1850

Place: Paris and vicinity