Added: May 15, 2008
From: jurek46pink
Duration: 4:19
"The first appearance was a sensation, the greatest during the present concert season ! Ada Sari at Milan's Scala ! If we imagined all the praises that we have ever heard such as the sweetness of a beautiful soprano voice and the wonderful elegance and charm portrayed by the greatest coloraturas', from the young Prevosti, to Tetrazini and Gemma Bellinconi, and combined all the most notable qualities of each of them..., if we were to imagine the young Selma Kurz illuminated by all the shades of a blue sky; only then could the image of Ada Sari be clearly seen". Those words, written by a reviewer for the Münchener Zeitung after the artists first performance in Munich in 1924 best characterise the phenomenal uniqueness of Ada Sari. For thirty years, in virtually all the opera and concert halls throughout three continents her performances have evoked the public's enthusiasm. The critics called her "The Queen of coloratura" and "new Patti". Which in those times, was the greatest compliment that could have been paid to her. She was born in 1886 in Wadowice near Cracow. Her real name wa Jadwiga Szayer. After completing vocal studies in Vienna and Milan with prof. Antonio Rupnick, she made her debut, as Margarete in "Faustus" in Rome's Teatro Nazionale (1909). After this she was invited to perform at Naples, Milan, Trieste, Venice, Florence, Madrid. Lisbone, Petersburg, Moscow, Kiev and Warsaw. Her repertoire consisted of thirty lyrical and coloratura parts of which the most successful were Rosine, Lucia, Gilda, Mimi, Lakmé... Invariably, she was accompanied by the most famous singers of those times: Gigli, Battistini, Ruffo, Szaliapin, Schipa, Pertile... She sang under great conductors: Kusewicki, Serafin and Toscanini, who invited her to take a part in the gala premiere of "Magic Flute in La Scala in Milan in 1923. During her many tours Ada Sari performed in nearly all of Europe's opera and concert halls and successfully sang in South America and also in North America. She often appeared at concerts together with such well-known performers as Kreisler, Backhaus, Casals. She began to teach in 1936 and was very talented in this field, too. Many well-known singers, without whom it would be difficult to imagine post-war opera in Poland, graduated from her class. Ada Sari died in 1968. (B.Kaczyński) Johann Strauss: Odgłosy Wiosny (Frühlingsstimmen-Walzer) Charles Cerné, piano. Late 1920's recording.
Channel: Music
Tags: 78rpm ada coloratura j.strauss polish sari soprano
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