1926 ANNA ROSELLE FIRST DRESDEN TURANDOT In questa Reggia / Del Primo pianto 78

$

25

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1926 - Pucchini's posthumus Turandot is Premiered at La Scala under Toscanini, and then performed all over Europe. Hear here a rare record of DRESDENS first 1926 TURANDOT on a POLYDOR recording: Anna Roselle w Dresden State Opera Orchestra (possibly under Fritz Busch)

Del Primo Pianto/ In Quest Reggia

12" 78 rpm 

Condition:

EXCELLENT MINUS, reggia is VG++ and has two lightest scratches, plays very quiet w rare spots of distortion, this seems to be a DG Light Ray recording

Hungarian soprano, 1894 - ?

from cantabile-subito

Biographical notes:

She was born Anna Gyenge in Budapest and moved to the United States as a child with her family where she received her first vocal tuition. According to Kutsch-Riemens she made her debut in Budapest in 1915 (?). She subsequently appeared at the Stand Theatre in New York and from 1918 to 1920 with Antonio ScottiÆs opera company. It was he who recommended her to Gatti-Casazza, the director of the Metropolitan. There she made her debut as Musetta in 1920. Subsequently she was assigned to sing small roles and realized that young singers had no chance at the star-orientated opera house. Fortunately, Scotti reinvited her to sing in his opera company which toured the United States. Scotti entrusted her with central roles such as Butterfly and Tosca! After two years the company disbanded and Anne Roselle decided to continue her career in Europe. In 1926 Fritz Busch contracted her at the Dresden Opera. Singing Turandot in the first German performance she became a star overnight. This role remained her suprime calling card and she enjoyed  triumphant acclaim whenever she appeared in this role (the high tessitura ideally suited to her voice). She was also an admired Mim?, Butterfly, Leonora, Marguerite, Santuzza, Donna Anna and Aida. She frequently appeared as a guest in Vienna, London, Paris, Berlin and at the Arena di Verona. She sang in a highly successful broadcast performance of Un Ballo in Maschera opposite the star tenor Joseph Schwarz as well as Maria Olszewska and Theodor Scheidl. Her associaction with Vienna was unfortunately not a long one. In 1930 she returned to the United States. Leopold Stokowski had chosen her to perform Marie in BergÆs Wozzeck on the occasion of the first US performance in Philadelphia. She even appeared as Elektra (again under Stokowski), Salome and Konstanze (!). After her retirement she lived in Philadelphia where she passed on her experience to her many students.

Comment:

ôAnne RoselleÆs initial claim to fame was primarily the glorious timbre of her top range wich seemed to radiate a wholly individual fluidium of spirituality. The listener felt intoxicated, as if he had caugt the waft of an exotic flower. With only slight exaggeration one might even compare her voice to the effect of an opiate. A special radiance imbued this voice with a peculiar attractivity, which increased the higher tessitura. Supreme cultivation, a faultless technique with considerable vocal agility and an ideal tonal emission which gave the voice superb projection despite its only moderately large volume, formed the basis of this superb instrument, which only in the lower middle range occasionally evinced a, sometimes intentionally, occluded sound.ö I share Dr. Anton OdelgaÆs view on this wonderful but neglected soprano.

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