Sigrid Onegin and Mario Chamlee - Mal reggendo ('Il Trovatore' - Verdi) (1924) скачать в хорошем качестве

Sigrid Onegin and Mario Chamlee - Mal reggendo ('Il Trovatore' - Verdi) (1924)

Sigrid Onegin and Mario Chamlee sing 'Mal reggendo' with a 22 piece orchestra presumably conducted by Walter B. Rogers, recorded in New York on 5 March 1924. The disc is in far from pristine condition, but it is a very worthwhile recording. From Wikipedia: Sigrid Onégin (June 1, 1889 – June 16, 1943)...was born in Stockholm, Sweden,...to a German father and a French mother. This renowned contralto first sang professionally under her maiden name, Lilly Hoffmann. She made her first public appearance in Wiesbaden, Sept. 16, 1911, in a recital. She was accompanied on that occasion by a Russian pianist and composer, Baron Eugene Borisovitch Lvov Onégin...a Russian émigré, pianist and composer. He had adopted the surname of Alexander Pushkin's celebrated hero, Eugene Onegin; his real name was 'Lvov'...Hoffmann and Onégin married in London on May 25, 1912, after which she sang briefly as Lilly Hoffmann-Onégin before settling on Sigrid Onégin, the name by which she became famous. She studied in Frankfurt, Munich, and Milan, and also took lessons from famous singers of an earlier generation in Lilli Lehmann and Margarethe Siems. Her operatic debut occurred at Stuttgart in October 1912, where she appeared as Carmen. She joined the Stuttgart Opera in 1912 and the Munich Opera in 1919. After her first husband’s early death in 1919, she married a second time in 1920 to Dr Fritz Penzoldt, who would later write her biography. In the 1920s, she spent two seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and one at Covent Garden, singing Amneris (Aida) as well as a variety of Wagnerian roles. In the 1930s, she sang at Salzburg and Bayreuth Festival, but she was most widely sought after for her concert performances. Her last concert appearance came in the United States in 1938. She died at Magliaso, in neutral Switzerland in 1943, while the Second World War was raging at its height. Mario Chamlee (May 29, 1892 – November 13, 1966) was one of the lyric tenors who inherited several roles associated with Enrico Caruso at the Metropolitan Opera. His birth name was Archer Ragland Chamlee...Born in Los Angeles, California, he was the son of a physician...Chamlee graduated of the University of Southern California where he studied science; he also played violin. He first studied voice with Achille Alberti in Los Angeles, and later with Sibella and Dellera in New York City. He made his debut in Los Angeles in 1916 as Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with the Lombardi Opera Company. A year later, Chamlee went on tour with the Aborn Opera Company as 'Mario Rodolfi,' where he sang with soprano Ruth Miller. In 1919, Miss Miller became his wife. During two and a half years of mandatory military service, during World War I, Chamlee served as a member of the Argonne Players, a group of army soldiers who sang and entertained troops on the front line. The tenor was personally selected by General Pershing to perform with an ensemble for delegates at the 1919 Paris Peace Conference. Upon his return to the United States in 1919, however, Chamlee devoted himself to developing his operatic talent. Beginning by singing at movie houses, he was discovered by baritone Antonio Scotti and joined the Scotti Opera Company. On November 20, 1920, Chamlee debuted at the Metropolitan Opera singing Cavaradossi. Engagements followed with various opera companies later in his career in the United States and Europe...He also appeared in recitals with his wife (a noted soprano of the era). Chamlee's first records were made in 1917 under his 'Mario Rodolfi' pseudonym for the Lyraphone Company of America's vertical-cut 'Lyric' discs, but he later recorded exclusively on conventional 78s for Brunswick Records and was a successful recording artist in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. One of Chamlee's earliest supporters, Gustave Haenschen, who directed the popular-music records of the Brunswick company, stated in several interviews that Brunswick's classical-music director, Walter B. Rogers, worked with Chamlee to imitate Caruso's phrasing and dynamics as heard on his (Caruso's) Victor Red Seal recordings. During his prior association with the Victor company, Rogers had overseen many of Caruso's recording sessions. With a powerful yet beautiful sound, Chamlee's lyric tenor voice emerged as one of the world's finest tenors in the era which followed Caruso's death in 1921. Chamlee's abilities were underestimated, however, and although he was always well received by opera fans and critics alike across America and around the world, and his records sold well, he never achieved the same level of recognition of his talents and abilities that his Italian contemporaries did, and Chamlee has been largely overlooked and forgotten in time. Chamlee retired from the opera stage at the age of 47. He subsequently devoted himself to teaching operatic voice to private students...Chamlee died in his native Los Angeles in 1966. I transferred this side from Brunswick 15093.