Felicia Montealegre
Felicia Cohn Montealegre (born February 6, 1922 in Santiago de Chile , Chile , † June 16, 1978 in East Hampton , New York ) was a Chilean stage and television actress . From 1951 until her death she was married to Leonard Bernstein .
Life
Her father Roy Cohn was director of ASARCO - copper smelter in Chile. Felicia Montealegre studied piano with Claudio Arrau in New York City and met Leonard Bernstein at a party that Arrau gave in 1946. They both got engaged, but the engagement was broken off and Felicia Montealegre was in a relationship with Broadway and Hollywood actor Richard Hart for several years . After his sudden death on January 2, 1951, she married Bernstein on September 9, 1951 and had three children with him: Jamie Anne Maria, Alexander Serge Leonard and Nina Maria Felicia. Montealegre died of lung cancer and is buried next to her husband's in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn .
Act
Montealegre had many different television appearances, for example in 1950 in a television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's Nora or A Doll's House , in which she played Nora. As a stage actress, she appeared in the Broadway production of Pavel Kohout's play Poor Murderer in 1976 and 1977 .
Felicia Montealegre can be heard as a narrator on two recordings made by her husband: in Bernstein's Kaddish Symphony and in Claude Debussy's Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien . She is one of the characters in Tom Wolfes' Radical Chic report .
Web links
- Felicia Montealegre in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Georg Predota: Leonard Bernstein and Felicia Montealegre - A Divided Life , on interlude.hk from June 28, 2015 (engl.)
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| SURNAME | Montealegre, Felicia |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Montealegre, Felicia Cohn (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean stage and television actress |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 6, 1922 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile , Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 16, 1978 |
| Place of death | East Hampton , New York , United States |