Rosa Raisa
Rosa Raisa , born Raitza Burchstein , also Rosa Raisa Rimini , (born May 30, 1893 in Białystok , Russian Empire , † September 28, 1963 in Los Angeles , United States ) was a Polish-American opera singer ( soprano ) and vocal teacher .
Life
When she was 14 years old, her family fled to Naples because of a Jewish pogrom and settled there. Her voice was discovered by the opera singer Eva Tetrazzini . She studied at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella di Napoli and then with Barbara Marchisio in Milan.
From 1912 to 1913 she sang as Rosa Burchstein in concerts in Rome and Naples. In 1913 she made her debut as an opera singer at the Verdi Centennial Celebrations at the Teatro Regio di Parma as "Leonora" in Oberto . She sang at the premiere of Giacomo Puccini's opera Turandot on April 25, 1926 at La Scala in Milan . The conductor was Arturo Toscanini .
When the Chicago Opera House reopened on November 4, 1929, she sang "Aida". From there she made guest appearances at the Royal Opera House in London (1914, 1933), at the Grand Opéra Paris , at the operas of Brussels ( Théâtre de la Monnaie ), Rio de Janeiro , Montevideo and São Paulo .
In Chicago, she and her husband Giacomo Rimini (married 1920, 1887–1952) set up an opera studio together, which she continued to operate after his death. There she taught among others Giorgio Tozzi .
Towards the end of her life she stayed mostly in California , but also a lot in her Villa San Floriano on Lake Garda .
Aftermath
The Lyric Opera of Chicago dedicated the opening performance of the 1963/64 season to her in memory with a performance of Verdi's Nabucco .
literature
- Charles Mintzer: Rosa Raisa: A Biography of a Diva with Selections from Her Memoirs. Northeastern University Press, Boston 2001, ISBN 1-555-53504-6 .
Web links
- Works by Rosa Raisa in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rosa Raisa in the database of Find a Grave (English)
- Rosa Raisa at Operissimo on the basis of the Great Singer Lexicon
- Rosa Raisa on cantabile-subito.de (English)
- Rosa Raisa at Allmusic (English)
- Rosa Raisa in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Rosa Raisa on forgottenoperasingers.blogspot.de (English)
- ↑ Bev Chubat: Rosa Raisa – Diva in the Golden Age of Opera on chicagojewishhistory.org (English, PDF; 1.1 MB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Raisa, pink |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Burchstein, Raitza (maiden name); Raisa Rimini, Rosa (married name); Burchstein, Rosa |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Polish-American opera singer (soprano) and vocal teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Białystok , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 28, 1963 |
| Place of death | Los Angeles , United States |