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Risë Stevens (/ ˈ r iː s ə /; June 11, 1913 – March 20, 2013) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano and actress. Beginning in 1938, she sang for the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for more than two decades during the 1940s and 1950s.
In the early 1950s the Met tried a short-lived experiment with live closed-circuit television transmissions to movie theaters. The first of these was a performance of Carmen with Risë Stevens which was sent to 31 theaters in 27 US cities on December 11, 1952. Beyond these experiments, however, and an occasional gala or special, the Met did not ...
Jan Peerce was born Jacob Pincus Perelmuth [3] (though his Hebrew gravestone gives his first name as יהושע, or Joshua, not Jacob), to a Jewish family. [4] His parents, Levi (anglicized to Louis) and Henya Perelmuth, came from the village of Horodetz, formerly in Poland, now Belarus. [5]
RCA Victor issued boxed sets of four to six 45s, each set providing about the same amount of music as one LP (an extreme example of these 45 rpm boxed sets was the complete 1951 recording of the opera Carmen, featuring Risë Stevens and Jan Peerce, conducted by Fritz Reiner, which consisted of sixteen 45 rpm discs). In the case of operas ...
This album is a 1950 recording of selections from George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess, sung by the noted opera stars Robert Merrill and Risë Stevens.The album featured no black singers at all, even though the opera was written for a mostly African-American cast (the whites in the opera speak, but do not sing).
Robert Merrill (June 4, 1917 – October 23, 2004) was an American operatic baritone and actor, who was also active in the musical theatre circuit. He received the National Medal of Arts in 1993. Early life
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Carmen had its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on 11 September 2022. [7] It had a limited theatrical release in the United States on 21 April 2023 by Sony Pictures Classics, [12] and was released theatrically in France on 14 June 2023 by Pathé Distribution [13] [14] and in Australia on 13 July by Madman Films.