A report on Marilyn Horne

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Beniamino Prior as Wilhelm Meister and Marilyn Horne as the titular Mignon, Edmonton Opera, 1978.
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American mezzo-soprano opera singer.

- Marilyn Horne

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Sutherland in 1975

Joan Sutherland

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Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Australian dramatic coloratura soprano known for her contribution to the renaissance of the bel canto repertoire from the late 1950s through to the 1980s.

Sutherland in 1975
Sutherland in 1962
Joan Sutherland in 1990

Her last public appearance, however, took place in a gala performance of Die Fledermaus on New Year's Eve, 1990, at Covent Garden, where she was accompanied by her colleagues Luciano Pavarotti and the mezzo-soprano Marilyn Horne.

Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center

Metropolitan Opera

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American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

American opera company based in New York City, resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, currently situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

Metropolitan Opera and Lincoln Center
Giulio Gatti-Casazza
Gatti-Casazza's last week at the Met (March 22–29, 1935)
Artur Bodanzky at the Metropolitan Opera in 1915
Otto Hermann Kahn in Berlin, 1931
Metropolitan Opera House in 1905
The new Met Opera House
Staircase

The tour played a significant role in popularizing opera in Japan, and boasted an impressive line-up of artists in productions of La traviata, Carmen, and La bohème; including Marilyn Horne as Carmen, Joan Sutherland as Violetta, and tenors Franco Corelli and Luciano Pavarotti alternating as Rodolfo.

Bernstein in 1977, taken by Jack Mitchell

Leonard Bernstein

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American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

American conductor, composer, pianist, music educator, author, and humanitarian.

Bernstein in 1977, taken by Jack Mitchell
Leonard Bernstein and Benny Goodman in rehearsal, ca. 1940–1949
Carnegie Hall playbill, November 14, 1943
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Photo of Bernstein by Carl Van Vechten (1944)
Bernstein conducting the New York City Symphony (1945)
Bernstein, c. 1950s
Bernstein with members of the New York Philharmonic rehearsing for a television broadcast
Bernstein at the piano, making annotations to a musical score
Leonard Bernstein during a visit to Finland, 1959
Bernstein in Amsterdam, 1968
Leonard Bernstein by Allan Warren
Bernstein with Maximilian Schell on PBS Beethoven TV series (1982)
Conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra, 1985
Bernstein's grave in Green-Wood Cemetery
Leonard Bernstein in rehearsal of his "Mass", 1971
Audio recording for CBS of the Symphony No. 3 by Danish composer Carl Nielsen in Copenhagen, 1965
Place Léonard-Bernstein, a square in the 12th arrondissement of Paris
Leonard Bernstein receiving the Edison Classical Music Award in 1968

In 1972, Bernstein recorded Bizet's Carmen, with Marilyn Horne in the title role and James McCracken as Don Jose, after leading several stage performances of the opera at the Metropolitan Opera.

Music Academy of the West

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Classical music training program in Montecito in Santa Barbara County, California.

Classical music training program in Montecito in Santa Barbara County, California.

Logo as of June 2022

Marilyn Horne, who had attended the academy in 1953 was named director of the voice program in 1997 and remained in this position till 2018.

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Kennedy Center Honors

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The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

The Kennedy Center Honors are annual honors given to those in the performing arts for their lifetime of contributions to American culture.

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The 2006 honorees at the Kennedy Center on December 6, 2006, with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush; from left, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Steven Spielberg, Dolly Parton, Zubin Mehta, Smokey Robinson, Vice President Dick Cheney and Second lady
 Lynne Cheney
2005 Kennedy Center Honorees Julie Harris, Robert Redford, Tina Turner, Suzanne Farrell and Tony Bennett with President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush, in the Blue Room at the White House, December 4, 2005.
The surviving members of Led Zeppelin were honored in 2012 and are pictured here with President Barack Obama.
President Joe Biden giving a speech to the 2021 honorees Justino Díaz, Berry Gordy, Lorne Michaels, Bette Midler, and Joni Mitchell.
Kennedy Center honorees 2009 Mel Brooks, Dave Brubeck, Grace Bumbry, Robert De Niro, and Bruce Springsteen, with President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama in the Blue Room, White House, December 6, 2009.
The 2019 honorees Earth, Wind & Fire, Sally Field, Linda Ronstadt and Sesame Street with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

1995 – Jacques d'Amboise, Marilyn Horne, B.B. King, Sidney Poitier, and Neil Simon

La Scala of Milan

Opera

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Form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

Form of theatre in which music is a fundamental component and dramatic roles are taken by singers.

La Scala of Milan
Palais Garnier of the Paris Opéra
Macbeth at the Savonlinna Opera Festival in St. Olaf's Castle, Savonlinna, Finland, in 2007
Claudio Monteverdi
Antonio Vivaldi, in 1723
Private baroque theatre in Český Krumlov
Teatro Argentina (Panini, 1747, Musée du Louvre)
Illustration for the score of the original Vienna version of Orfeo ed Euridice
Giuseppe Verdi, by Giovanni Boldini, 1886
The Queen of the Night in an 1815 production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte
Richard Wagner
Brünnhilde throws herself on Siegfried's funeral pyre in Wagner's Götterdämmerung
A performance of Lully's opera Armide in the Salle du Palais-Royal in 1761
Magdalena Kožená and Jonas Kaufmann in a scene from Carmen, Salzburg Festival 2012
Henry Purcell
Thomas Arne
The Mikado (Lithograph)
Feodor Chaliapin as Ivan Susanin in Glinka's A Life for the Tsar
Leoš Janáček in 1917
Score of Smetana's The Bartered Bride
Ferenc Erkel, the father of Hungarian opera
Scene from Uzeyir Hajibeyovs "Leyli and Majnun" opera. 1934. Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater
Arnold Schoenberg in 1917; portrait by Egon Schiele
Stravinsky in 1921
The castrato Senesino, c. 1720
German opera orchestra from the early 1950s
Swedish opera singers in a tribute to Kjerstin Dellert and the Ulriksdal Palace Theatre at the 40-year jubilee in 2016 of its funding, renovation and subsequent reopening
Sydney Opera House

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media (such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Amelita Galli-Curci, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Renata Tebaldi, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, Cecilia Bartoli, Renée Fleming, Marilyn Horne, Bryn Terfel, Dmitri Hvorostovsky and The Three Tenors (Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, José Carreras).

Bradford, Pennsylvania

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City in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, close to the border with New York State and approximately 78 mi south of Buffalo, New York.

City in McKean County, Pennsylvania, United States, close to the border with New York State and approximately 78 mi south of Buffalo, New York.

Zippo museum & manufacturing facility.

Famous Bradfordians include the opera singer Marilyn Horne, the Hall of Fame baseball player Rube Waddell and the five-time All-Star football player Stew Barber.

Exterior of the Civic Opera Building, which contains within it theaters and related space for the opera, as well as an office building

Lyric Opera of Chicago

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One of the leading opera companies in the United States.

One of the leading opera companies in the United States.

Exterior of the Civic Opera Building, which contains within it theaters and related space for the opera, as well as an office building
The Ardis Krainik Theatre

Throughout the many years at the Lyric, Carol Fox developed the confidence and authority to bring world-famous artists to the Lyric: Luciano Pavarotti (56 performances in 7 roles), Tito Gobbi, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Richard Tucker, Boris Christoff, Eileen Farrell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Robert Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Montserrat Caballé, Tatiana Troyanos, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Felicia Weathers, Vyacheslav Polozov and José Carreras.

Marilyn Horne and Henry Lewis in 1961, photo by Carl Van Vechten

Henry Lewis (musician)

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American double-bassist and orchestral conductor whose career extended over four decades.

American double-bassist and orchestral conductor whose career extended over four decades.

Marilyn Horne and Henry Lewis in 1961, photo by Carl Van Vechten

His appearance as a substitute for the ailing Igor Markevitch in 1961 featured arias by Giuseppe Verdi as sung by his wife Marilyn Horne.

Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass

Carmen Jones (film)

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1954 American musical film featuring an all-black cast starring Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

1954 American musical film featuring an all-black cast starring Dorothy Dandridge, Pearl Bailey and Harry Belafonte, produced and directed by Otto Preminger.

Theatrical release poster by Saul Bass
Theatrical poster for the film Carmen Jones

Dorothy Dandridge as Carmen Jones, who pursues Joe because he alone ignores her; her singing voice is dubbed by Marilyn Horne