Stella Roman
Stella Roman ( born August 23, 1904 at the former Cluj, † February 12, 1992 in New York City ) was a Romanian opera singer (soprano), who was known in the thirties and forties in Italy and the USA.
Life
Stella Roman was born in 1904 as Florica Viorica Alma Stela Blasu in what was then Kolozsvár and grew up in a musical family. After eight years of singing lessons and she made her concert debut in her hometown of Cluj and Bucharest. A scholarship they could continue their education at the then known verismo 'singer Giuseppina Baldassare - Tedeschi and Tosca premiere singer Hariclea Darclée. 1934 followed her operatic debut in Bologna in the role of Maddalena in Andrea Chénier. At the Teatro di San Carlo in Naples, which has a longstanding partnership with the tenor Giacomo Lauri - Volpi was founded. In 1937 she was awarded by Tullio Serafin a three -year contract at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma and made his debut there as Aida. In 1940 it transferred Richard Strauss, the role of the Empress in his opera Die Frau ohne Schatten for the Italian premiere at La Scala in Milan.
In 1941 she moved to the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. There followed until 1951 further obligations, particularly in the Italian repertoire, so with the Verdi opera Il Trovatore, Otello and Un ballo in maschera, and the opera Cavalleria rusticana, La Gioconda and Puccini's Tosca. Overall, they appeared there in 126 performances and took over 13 roles. Often these roles Zinka Milanov told. Concert tours have taken her to Florence, Berlin, Salzburg, Cairo, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and other American opera houses, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico and Puerto Rico.
In 1948 she visited Richard Strauss in Pontresina to work with him on his Four Last Songs. With the role as the Marschallin in Strauss 's opera Der Rosenkavalier at the Teatro San Carlo finally retired in 1953 from the 19th years of active life as an opera singer back.
Your vote has been admired for her warm lyrical quality and the ability to deliver high pianissimo and vibrant highlights. Your technique was, however, are said to " unorthodox and sometimes hectic " is.
After her retirement, she worked as a painter and took their pictures also participate in exhibitions. She died in New York at the age of 87 years.
The conductor and pianist Myron Romanul is her grandson.
Recordings
- Verdi: Un ballo in maschera, as Amelia, conductor Ettore Panizza, New York, February 1942
- Verdi: La forza del destino, Leonora, conductor Bruno Walter, New York, January 1943
- Verdi: Otello, Desdemona, Torsten Ralf, conductor George Szell, New York 1946
- Opera arias with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Artur Rodzinski, eclipse 1997
- Romanian folk songs of George Enescu, publication uncertain