Dora Carral

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Dora Carral (* 1935 ) is a Cuban opera singer ( soprano ).

Life

Dora Carral began her stage career in her Cuban homeland in the early 1950s. In 1953 she was the partner of Ann Ayers and Eugene Conley as Siebel in Faust . In 1954 she sang in a performance of Bastien and Bastienne .

However, her career then developed mainly in Italy in the 1960s . She was a member of the "Opera da Camera di Milano", with which she played Proserpina in the Monteverdi opera L'Orfeo , a. a. next to Anna Reynolds as Messaggera, appeared in Versailles and made guest appearances at the Festival in Aix-en-Provence and at the International World Exhibition in Osaka .

1962–1963 she appeared at the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino as Clorinda in La Cenerentola and as Sister Genovieffa in Suor Angelica from Puccini's Iltretico . She has made guest appearances on various Italian stages and performed in the concert hall with arias by Mozart , Galuppi and Scarlatti , but also with Schubert songs. She participated in numerous RAI operas . She continued her career into the 1970s.

Carral's voice is documented in numerous complete opera recordings, which were mainly made between 1962 and 1967. Under the direction of Lamberto Gardelli , she sang Fenena in a Nabucco recording that was recorded in Vienna in 1965 and was released by Decca . She also recorded many smaller parts for the record, such as the servant Annina in La Traviata (Decca 1962, at the side of Joan Sutherland and Carlo Bergonzi ). There are also live recordings by RAI of the operas Temistocle by Johann Christian Bach (May 1976) and Crispino e la comare by Luigi and Federico Ricci (July 1977).

For Cuban television, she sang the title role in Madama Butterfly in an opera adaptation in 1960 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Piet Hein Honig, Hanns-Georg Rodek : 100001. The show business encyclopedia of the 20th century. Showbiz-Data-Verlag, Villingen-Schwenningen 1992, ISBN 3-929009-01-5 , p. 166
  2. ^ Paul S. Ulrich: Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music / Biographical Index for Theater, Dance and Music . Berlin publishing house. Arno Spitz GmbH. 1997. p. 291. ISBN 978-3-87061-479-9 . However, "* around 1935" is stated there.
  3. ↑ a b Pro-Arte (18) . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  4. ↑ Charles A. hooey: Eugene Conley - A voice lined with silver . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  5. ↑ La Cenerentola, Rossini . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  6. ↑ La Cenerentola - Discography . Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  7. Jump up ↑ Roger Flury: Iltrittico: Suor Angelica . Cast and performance details. Page 664. In: Giacomo Puccini: A Discography . 915 pp, The Scarecrow Press 2012. ISBN 978-0-8108-8154-9 .
  8. ↑ Giuseppe Verdi: "Nabucco" . ORF.at. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  9. ^ Karsten Steiger: Temistocle . In: Opera discography: directory of all audio and video recordings . Page 31. KG Saur Verlag Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-598-11784-8 .
  10. ↑ ARCHIVIO DELL'IMPICCIONE VIAGGIATORE: Crispino e la comare . Cast and program. Retrieved May 28, 2019.
  11. ↑ DORA CARRAL "Madama Butterfly" (1960) . Un bel dì vedremo, 2nd act. Sound document.
  12. ↑ DORA CARRAL "Madama Butterfly" (1960) . Final scene 3rd act. Sound document.
personal data
SURNAME Carral, Dora
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban opera singer (soprano)
DATE OF BIRTH 1935