Blanche Thebom
Born: 19th September 1915, Monessen, Pennsylvania, USA
Died: 23rd March 2010, San Francisco, California, USA
Nationality: American
Blanche Thebom was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. Opera News stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play femmes du monde such as Marina in Boris Godunov, Herodias and Dalila."
While Thebom sang a wide repertoire which encompassed everything from Handel and Mozart to Verdi and Debussy, she was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. Two Wagner roles with which she was particularly associated were Fricka in Die Walküre and Brangaene in Tristan und Isolde.
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Strauss, J, II: Die Fledermaus
Regina Resnik (Rosalinde), Charles Kullman (Eisenstein), Patrice Munsel (Adele), John Brownlee (Falke), Blanche Thebom (Orlofsky), Clifford Harvuot (Frank), Brian Sullivan (Alfred) Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy & Josef Blatt
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Mozart: Così fan tutte, K588
Eleanor Steber, Blanche Thebom, Lorenzo Alvary & Cesare Valletti Metropolitan Opera, Fritz Stiedry
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Berlioz: Les Troyens | Sung in English
Blanche Thebom (Didon), Jon Vickers (Enée), Amy Shuard (Cassandre), Jess Walters (Chorèbe), Lauris Elms (Anna), David Kelly (Narbal), Michael Langdon (Panthée), Joan Carlyle (Ascagne), Richard Verreau (Iopas), Forbes Robinson (Priam), Noreen Berry (Hécube), Dermot Troy (Hylas), Joseph Rouleau (L'Ombre d'Hector), Robert Allman (Un chef grec), Alan Beale (Mercure), Ronald Lewis & Rhydderch Davies (Soldiers) Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Covent Garden Orchestra, Rafael Kubelík
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Gramophone Awards, 2009, Winner - Historic Archive
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Verdi: Don Carlo | Four-act version in Italian
Mario Filippeschi (Don Carlo), Boris Christoff (Filippo II), Tito Gobbi (Rodrigo), Antonietta Stella (Elisabetta di Valois), Elena Nicolai (Eboli), Giulio Neri (Il Grande Inquisitore), Loretta Di Lelio (Tebaldo) Orchestra and Chorus of the Opera House, Rome, Gabriele Santini
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