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In Reply to: RE: In my humblest of opinions, you really want Brunhilde singing on a porch in Tennessee?? nt posted by jdaniel@jps.net on August 25, 2014 at 08:00:35
OK, maybe Steber MIGHT have done a Lohengrin or some such, but certainly not a Ring Cycle and certainly NOT Brunhilde.
Mozart and Strause?
Yep.
Listening to Steber in 'Knoxville' right now, and she certainly does NOT sound like Brunhilde on a porch in TN. ;-)
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That's a great Knoxville: Summer of 1915, one of the greatest (imo) 20th century American pieces, and a work that she commissioned and premiered. Steber had a luscious voice, but apparently alcoholism and personal problems took a toll, and her vocal prime did not last long. Otherwise, I suspect she would have been very successful with Wagner. You are right about her Lohengrin at Bayreuth, which I don't own.
memories of home life through the eyes of a less than sophisticated young girl, replete with Malapropisms, or mis-used words.
I'm aware, however, that Barber loved Steber's voice.
"Knoxville: Summer of 1915, Op. 24, is a 1947 work for voice and orchestra by Samuel Barber, with text from a 1938 short prose piece by James Agee. The work was commissioned by soprano Eleanor Steber, who premiered it in 1948 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky."
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The CD above is one where Operatic Voices just don't seem to fit.
Love all of the singers on this CD but CAN NOT LISTEN TO IT!
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