Word: muzio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full of needy stars. In Milan, in Vienna and in Paris, they signed up; they all wanted to make their fame & fortune in the U.S. For singing with the official-sounding "United States Opera Company," Ottavio Scotto, a Chicago opera impresario who once managed Enrico Caruso and Claudia Muzio, offered salaries up to $1,000 a performance and first-class passage on the Queen Elizabeth...
...more exacting role of Violetta in Traviata, it began to sprout melodious expletives. The coloratura of her Sempre libera was passionate, accurate, brilliant. She was undoubtedly a rarity: a lyric soprano with dramatic oomph and coloratura glitter, the best Violetta heard in Manhattan since the late, great Claudia Muzio...
...Claudia Muzio: Operatic Recital (with orchestra conducted by Lorenzo Molajoli; Columbia; 8 sides). One of the ironies of music is that as modern high-fidelity recording reached near perfection, the number of operatic voices really worth recording dwindled to a handful. One great voice that lasted long enough to be well recorded was Soprano Claudia Muzio's. Probably no living soprano (she died in 1936) approaches the vocal assurance and dramatic power recorded here in arias from Norma, Traviata, Forza del Destino, etc. Recording: good...
...also mentioned the fact that four of my main roles in opera-Mimi, Tosca, Manon and Louise-have certainly been sung better by other people. Do you mean Melba as Mimi, Muzio as Tosca, Sibyl Sanderson as Manon, and Mary Garden as Louise? Some of those people never sang at the Metropolitan, but they did create the golden memories of the past...