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The Divine Claudia: The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio

The Divine Claudia: The Life and Career of Claudia Muzio

Marek, Dan H.

Hardcover

Opera

Publisher Price: $58.00

ISBN10: 1662915527
ISBN13: 9781662915529
Publisher: Price World Pub
Published: Nov 9 2021
Pages: 196
Weight: 1.65
Height: 0.50 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English

Muzio was a case apart: you cannot classify her, for in the end you have been so emotionally destroyed by her performance, you did not even know anymore what kind of instrument she had. So spoke Lucrezia Bori, the beloved soprano of the Metropolitan Opera. Bori was echoing the opinion of many of Claudia Muzio's contemporaries and successors such as Eva Turner, Rosa Ponselle, and Mafalda Favero who wrote: Actually, she [Favero] admitted with her total candor, it took me a long time to find my own interpretation [La traviata], for I was haunted by Claudia Muzio in this role. When she sang it at the Coloń in Buenos Aires in 1933, I went to each rehearsal, worshiping her, and it took a superhuman effort for me to finally obtain my personal approach. ... I recall a performance of Muzio's in Refice's Cecilia, an opera she created in Rome in 1934 which deals with the saint's martyrdom. She was so sublime in it that I went backstage to express my admiration at the end and impulsively dropped to my knees. 'Now, really, my child!' she said with those sad eyes which haunted me. 'What are you doing?' Her Norma was also an unforgettable creation. She had the quality I consider so essential in an artist: to make the public suffer along with her.

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