Suzanne Danco

Suzanne Danco ( born January 22, 1911 in Brussels; † August 10, 2000 in Fiesole) was a Belgian opera singer ( soprano and mezzo-soprano).

Life

Suzanne Danco received her training at the Conservatory of Brussels in 1936 and won a singing competition in Vienna. Then she was informed on the recommendation of Erich Kleiber still by Fernando Carpi in Prague. In 1940 she gave her first concerts in Italy and worked at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, in a small role in the première of the opera Volo di notte by Dallapiccola with. In 1941, she appeared as a guest on at the Opera of Genoa as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, and in 1942 was again at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni to hear in 1943 as Dorabella in Così fan tutte. Then sang mainly of Italian opera houses, including La Scala in Milan, where she Jocasta (1948 ) embodied in the Italian premieres of Britten's Peter Grimes, Ellen Orford, the (1947 ) and Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex. In addition, she performed at the Opera of Rome and worked at La Scala and at concerts with, so 1947 in Brahms ' German Requiem and the Missa Solemnis by Beethoven.

In 1946 she undertook a tour of Switzerland and Australia in 1954. In 1949 she took over at the Festival of Aix -en- Provence, Donna Elvira, Fiordiligi in 1950 and 1956 again Donna Elvira, in 1949 at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, the Marie in Berg's Wozzeck. For the Glyndebourne Festival she performed 1948/49, to as Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira in 1951. Fritz Busch, conductor of Don Giovanni, performances, described with these words: " This woman, personally marble coolness and inaccessibility, on the stage of artistic passion and perfection, was a rare exception in the whole singing femininity. "

Also successful were their performances at the Covent Garden Opera, where she made ​​her debut as Mimi in La Bohème 1951/52. Their engagements have taken her to numerous other platforms French and American opera houses. In 1965 she sang at the Teatro Comunale Florence Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, 1966 in the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the Geneviève in Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande.

Among her major opera roles included the Mélisande in Pelléas et Mélisande, the title role in Nina Paisiello, the Serpetta in La serva padrona by Pergolesi, Rosina in The Barber of Seville, Norina in Don Pasquale, Adina in L' elisir d' amore which Traviata in the eponymous opera, Elsa in Lohengrin, Eva in Die Meistersinger, Sophie in Der Rosenkavalier, the Marguerite in Gounod's Faust, in Les pêcheurs de perles by Bizet, the title roles in Manon by Massenet and Louise Leila Charpentier, Marie in Smetana's the Bartered Bride, Concepcion in L' Heure espagnole the Ravel and Jocasta in Oedipus Rex by Stravinsky.

Danco was also in demand as a concert singer who was also extremely popular in their tours around the world. In 1950, she toured the U.S. as a lieder singer and devoted their programs mainly French songs by Debussy, Ravel and Fauré. In the 1960s, she ended her stage career and appeared only on concert stages on, the last time in 1970 as a soloist in Mahler's 4th Symphony. Later she was looking for a teacher at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena.

Discography (selection)

Appeared on recordings of complete recordings of the opera Pelléas et Mélisande, La damnation de Faust, Orpheus and Eurydice, Le Roi David by Honegger, The Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, L' Heure espagnole, The Tales of Hoffmann ( Antonia ) and a recording with the soprano solo in the f Mass in B minor by Bruckner. She also sings the soprano part in the complete recording of the B Minor Mass by Johann Sebastian Bach under George Enescu 1951.