Tatiana Troyanos

Tatiana Troyanos ( born September 12, 1938 in New York City; † August 21, 1993 same place ) was an American mezzo-soprano. She was considered a specialist in male roles and sang at the Met in 1976, its headquarters, 22 leading roles in more than 270 performances.

Life and work

Troyanos comes from a family with German and Greek roots, grew up in Forest Hill in Queens, where he attended the High School. Her parents, who already divorced early on, both had " beautiful voices ". My father came from Cephalonia and was tenor, her mother came from Stuttgart and was the voice of a coloratura soprano. Troyanos grew up in Brooklyn Home for Children, where she got piano lessons. With a scholarship, she came to the Brooklyn Music School, sang in school choirs and in the All City Chorus. In one of the choirs, a teacher discovered her voice and gave it to the Juilliard Preparatory School, where she was originally trained in the vocal category alto, which she did not find appropriate. Your livelihood they finally earned as a secretary at Random House, she spent her evenings at the standing place of Met at the Juilliard School, she finally found her teacher Hans Heinz, whom she saw as essential for their career.

At the Vienna State Opera, the Troyanos 1967-1971 was five times as a composer, in 1980 four times as Adalgisa and 1987 twice as Octavian to see and hear. At the Salzburg Festival in 1969, the artist Octavian, from 1976 to 1979, sang under Karl Böhm conducted by James Levine and the Sesto 1982 concert which Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex.

Although her breast cancer was diagnosed in the mid- 1980s, and she suffered from increasing fright, the singer went to a few weeks before her death. On 1 May 1993, she had her last appearance at the Met, as Walt diamond in the twilight of the gods on the side of Gwyneth Jones. In April and May, they sang - in New York and Boston - the alto solo in Mahler's Third. Then she sang - June 12-July 1 1993 - the Clairon in Strauss's Capriccio at the San Francisco Opera. Even at her death, she sang at the Lenox Hill Hospital for other patients.

Tatiana Troyanos died on 21 August 1993 at the age of 54 in her hometown. She was buried in Pinelawn Memorial Park on Long Iceland. In her honor, the Metropolitan Opera gave a memorial concert.

Repertoire

Opera

Other roles:

  • Diana in Cavalli's La Calisto
  • Dido in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas
  • Cimarosa Il matrimonio segreto in Elisetta
  • Cherubino in Le Nozze di Figaro, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, Sesto in La Clemenza di Tito
  • Giovanna Seymour in Donizetti's Anna Bolena and Maffio Orsini in Lucrezia Borgia
  • Romeo in Bellini's I Capuleti e Montecchi i
  • Amneris in Verdi's Aida and Eboli in Don Carlos
  • Santuzza in Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana
  • Venus in Wagner's Tannhauser, Brangäne in Tristan and Isolde, Fricka in Das Rheingold, Walt diamond in Götterdämmerung, Kundry in Parsifal
  • Hansel in Humperdinck 's Hansel and Gretel
  • Bizet 's Carmen
  • Giulietta in Offenbach's Les Contes d' Hoffmann
  • Dalila in Camille Saint- Saëns ' Samson et Dalila
  • Charlotte in Massenet's Werther
  • Countess GESCHWITZ in Berg's Lulu

As well as two world premieres:

  • Jeanne, Prioress of the Ursuline convent, Krzysztof Penderecki in The Devils of Loudun, Hamburg State Opera in 1969
  • Queen Isabella in Glass' The Voyage, Metropolitan Opera 1992

Concerts

Also in the concert hall Troyanos sang primarily operas - concert, so Deidamia Handel, Mozart Mitridate, Donizetti's Roberto Devereux and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle. Bartok's opera, she sang in the original language under Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti and Rafael Kubelik. In 1984 she took over the lead role in Monna Vanna, an opera by Sergei Rachmaninoff fragment as a world premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra.

But Troyanos also sang concert arias and old solos in orchestral works and oratorios by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Verdi, Ravel, Prokofiev, Schoenberg and Berg, in Berlioz's Les nuits d' été, Mahler's Rückert-Lieder and Song of the Earth. Exist as a concert singer with major American orchestras numerous radio recordings, notably with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, with whom she appeared from 1980 to 1990 at the Ravinia Festival.

The singer also denied several recitals, made ​​his debut in 1978 at Carnegie Hall, and found in her later career, an intensive co-operation with the soprano Benita Valente.

Discography

Troyanos ' versatility is preserved for posterity. She was Sir Georg Solti Carmen and Karl Böhm Cherubino, singing the Anita Bernstein's West Side Story and a number of other leading roles. The St. James Opera Encyclopedia regrets that was published by Troyanos lifetime not a single solo album, but also emphasizes that it had presented " no single bad record". Rather be their recordings and studio productions all "unique and memorable ."

  • Bartók, Bluebeard 's Castle - Judith ( Boulez, 1976, Columbia / Sony)
  • Beethoven, Symphony no. 9 ( Böhm, 1970, DG)
  • Bellini, I Capuleti ei Montecchi - Romeo ( Caldwell / Scott, live in 1975, VAI )
  • Bellini, Norma - Adalgisa ( Cillario live 1975 Gala )
  • Bellini, Norma - Adalgisa ( Levine, 1979, Columbia / Sony)
  • Bernstein, West Side Story - Anita ( Bernstein, 1985, DG)
  • Bizet, Carmen ( Solti, 1975, Decca / London)
  • Cavalieri, Rappresentatione di Anima e di Corpo - Anima ( Mackerras, 1970, DG Archiv )
  • Donizetti, Lucrezia Borgia - Orsini ( Rescigno, live 1973 melodrama )
  • Trade, Giulio Cesare in Egitto - Cleopatra (Richter, 1969, DG)
  • Mahler, Symphony no. 2, " Resurrection" ( Boulez, live 1973 Documents)
  • Mascagni, Cavalleria Rusticana - Santuzza ( Schermerhorn, live 1976 Gala )
  • Massenet, Werther - Charlotte ( Plasson, 1979, EMI / Angel)
  • Mozart, Così fan tutte - Dorabella ( Leinsdorf, 1967, RCA / BMG)
  • Mozart, Così fan tutte - Dorabella ( Maag, live 1968, Mondo Musica )
  • Mozart, The finta (La Finta Giardiniera ) - Ramiro ( Schmidt- Isserstedt, 1972, Philips)
  • Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro - Cherubino ( Böhm, 1968, DG)
  • Mozart, Le Nozze di Figaro - Marcellina ( Levine, 1990, DG)
  • Penderecki, The Devils of Loudun - Jeanne ( Janowski, 1969, DG)
  • Purcell, Dido and Aeneas - Dido ( Mackerras, 1967, DG Archiv )
  • Purcell, Dido and Aeneas - Dido ( Leppard, 1977 Erato / Apex )
  • Scarlatti, A., Endimione e Cintia - Cintia (Lange, 1969, DG Archiv )
  • Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos - Composer ( Böhm, live 1967 melodrama )
  • Strauss, Ariadne auf Naxos - Composer ( Böhm, 1969, DG)
  • Strauss, Capriccio - Clairon ( Böhm, 1971, DG)
  • Strauss, Der Rosenkavalier - Octavian ( Böhm, live 1969, DG)
  • Wagner, Twilight of the Gods - Second Norn ( Levine, 1989, DG)
  • Troyanos and Valente - Handel and Mozart Arias & Duets ( Rudel, 1991, Music Masters / Musical Heritage )
  • Tatiana Troyanos in recital - Schumann, " woman love and life "; Rachmaninoff, Ravel, Rossini, Bizet, Mahler ( Levine, piano, live, 1985, VAI, released 1999)

There are ten complete opera recordings:

  • Jeanne - The Devils of Loudun, Penderecki ( Janowski, 1969)
  • Santuzza - Cavalleria Rusticana, Mascagni ( Levine, 1978)
  • Eboli - Don Carlo, Verdi ( Levine, 1980)
  • Sesto - La Clemenza di Tito, Mozart ( Levine, 1980)
  • Adalgisa - Norma, Bellini ( Bonynge, 1981)
  • Venus - Tannhäuser, Wagner ( Levine, 1982)
  • Didon - Les Troyens, Berlioz ( Levine, 1983)

In addition to DVD:

  • In Concert At The Met with Plácido Domingo ( Levine, 1982)
  • The Making Of West Side Story (Bernstein, 1985)
  • George London: A Tribute: Mozart, " Deh, per questo istante " ( Hollreiser, 1984)

Obituaries

  • " Had the Troyanos a paradoxical voice - " larger than life "and yet very human, brilliant yet warm, lyrical, yet dramatic, a voice that you recognize after a few tones and never forget ," said Cori Ellison for in his obituary Opera News.
  • " Tatiana Troyanos was exceptionally intense, beautiful - and elegant in such diverse roles as Eboli, Santuzza GESCHWITZ, Venus, Kundry, Jocasta, Carmen, and Giulietta, in addition to their great illustrations in trouser roles, " says the conductor James Levine, who more than had worked two decades on the artist.
  • " One of the most prominent singers of her generation ," said goodbye to the Boston Globe by Tatiana Troyanos.

Publications about Tatiana Troyanos

  • Ames, Katrine. " Mezzo Power. " Newsweek, March 22, 1976.
  • Ardoin, John. " The Private Side of a prima donna. " The Dallas Morning News, Nov. 12, 1988.
  • Colvin, Kath Line. " Tatiana Troyanos -A Voice Which Dreams Are Made On. " Music Journal, March and April 1979.
  • Djerassi, Carl. "What's Doing in Tatiana Troyanos Spartacus 's Tent? " The Futurist and Other Stories. Macdonald, 1989.
  • Hiemenz, Jack. " The Tale of the Impatient diva. " The New York Times, March 7, 1976.
  • Holland, Bernard. " Tatiana Troyanos Sings the Praises of trade. " The New York Times, January 27, 1985.
  • Jacobson, Robert. " Tatiana Troyanos. Mastering the Mezzo Forte 's " After Dark, Nov. 1975.
  • Jacobson, Robert. " Getting It Together. " Opera News, vol. 47, no 3 September 1982.
  • Keene, Ann T. " Troyanos, Tatiana ". American National Biography Online. Accessed August 1, 2012.
  • Matheopoulos, Helena. Diva: Great Sopranos and Mezzo Discuss Their Art Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1991.
  • Mayer, Martin. " Tatiana! " Opera News, vol. 40, no 18, March 20, 1976.
  • Mayer, Martin. " Tatiana Troyanos. " Opera, vol. 36, no 3, March 1985.
  • Mayer, Martin, and Alan Blyth. " Tatiana Troyanos, 1938-1993. " Opera, vol. 44, no 10, October 1993.
  • Moritz, Charles, ed " Troyanos, Tatiana. " Current Biography Yearbook 1979, New York:. H. W. Wilson Co., 1979.
  • O'Connor, Patrick. Obituary, August 25, 1993. Accessed August 10, 2012.
  • Oliver, Michael. " Tatiana Troyanos. " Gramophone, October 1974.
  • Soria, Dorle J. " Musician of the Month: Tatiana Troyanos. " High Fidelity & Musical America, vol. 27, no 6, June 1977, p. MA- sixth
  • Steiner, Christian, photographs; text by Robert M. Jacobson. Opera People. New York: Vendome Press, 1982.
  • From Buchau, Stephanie. " Tatiana Troyanos. " Stereo Review, vol. 38, no 3, March 1977.
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