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Last week, for example, her stage was the San Francisco Opera, where to cheers and sustained applause Von Stade wound up a two-week stand as the young-but-savvy Rosina in Rossini's The Barber of Seville. Then she headed for Italy, where next week she will sing the same role at La Scala. When not in the opera house, she is in the recording studios. Two new albums, French Opera Arias (Columbia) and Frederica von Stade Sings Mozart-Rossini Opera Arias (Philips), display what the fuss is about -a lustrous amber mezzo-soprano voice with an unusually...
...spring of 1973, she scored a smashing success as Mozart's Cherubino in a new production of The Marriage of Figaro at the Paris Opera, with Sir Georg Solti conducting. Suddenly, she found herself an international star, and made a triumphant return to the Met-as Rosina in The Barber...
...Died. Rosina Lhevinne, 96, concert pianist and legendary teacher of such artists as Van Cliburn and Misha Dichter; of a stroke; in Glendale, Calif...
ROSE: MY LIFE IN SERVICE by ROSINA HARRISON 237 pages. Viking...
Rose: My Life in Service is a cut above such backstairs trivia. Rosina Harrison of Yorkshire was 30 years old when she became Lady Astor's personal maid in 1929. Her salary was about $300 a year, plus room, board and entertainment. There was plenty of the latter before Rose retired at Lady Astor's death in 1964. The lady had been born Nancy Langhorne of Danville, Va., the spirited daughter of a horse auctioneer. After divorcing her first husband, a Boston sporting man and alcoholic, Nancy took her young son to England. There, in 1906, she married...