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The old French Opera House.. Opera has long been part of the musical culture of New Orleans, Louisiana.Operas have regularly been performed in the city since the 1790s, and since the early 19th century, New Orleans has had a resident company regularly performing opera in addition to theaters hosting traveling performers and companies.
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As a baritone, Cosenza made his debut in New Orleans, in 1954, in a small role in Madama Butterfly, with Victoria de los Ángeles, conducted by Walter Herbert.He went on to sing twenty-five secondary roles with the Association, most notably as Schaunard in La bohème, in 1959, opposite Licia Albanese (his favorite soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano, Audrey Schuh, Giuseppe Valdengo, and Norman ...
Before Hurricane Katrina, it was the home of the New Orleans Opera Association and the New Orleans Ballet Association and held occasional performances by the New Orleans Jazz Orchestra and other groups. It was also the home of the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra for about ten years, before the orchestra moved to the Orpheum Theater.
The opera does not purport to depict actual events as they occurred or statements, beliefs, or opinions of the persons depicted. As the opera begins, Charlie Parker's spirit finds itself at Birdland, the jazz club named after him. He has just died; his body is still at the segregated hotel suite of Nica de Koenigswarter.
Audrey Clare Schuh was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on June 11, 1931. She studied at Loyola University of the South.. Her first leading role with the New Orleans Opera Association (at the age of eighteen) was the page-boy Oscar in Un ballo in maschera, opposite Jussi Björling, in 1950.
In 1954, Cellini was appointed General Director and Conductor of the New Orleans Opera Association, where he debuted with Puccini's La bohème (staged by Armando Agnini). While there, he founded the Experimental Opera Theatre of America (1954–60) in association with the New Orleans Opera.
Knud D. Andersson (1910 – 1 December 1996 in New Orleans) was a German-born American conductor. He enjoyed a long association with the New Orleans Opera where he served as first assistant conductor and choral director from 1953 to 1965 and then music director and resident conductor from 1965 until his retirement in 1983. The city of New ...