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  Emmy Destinn @ Soundbug
Emmy Destinn, born February 26, 1878, in Prague, Austro-Hungarian empire - died January 28, 1930, in Ceske Budejovice, Czechoslovakia, a renowned opera singer.
At first Destinn devoted herself to studying the violin, and intended to shine as a virtuoso on that instrument.
Emmy Destinn passed away in 1930 and was interred in the Vysehrad cemetery in Prague.
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 KAPRALOVA SOCIETY
Emmy Destinn was one of the greatest dramatic sopranos of the twentieth century and one of the most sought-after singers before WWI thanks to a voice of exceptional richness, power, and control.
Emmy Destinn, née Emilie Paulina Venceslava Kittlova, was born on February 26, 1878 in an old Prague family as the oldest of five children.
Destinn debuted at the Metropolitan Opera on 16.11.1908 in Aida.
www.kapralova.org /EMMY.htm   (1487 words)

  
 Marston - Carmen
Destinn was in her prime and her voice leaps out of the grooves with youthful vitality.
Destinn briefly picked up her operatic career in London and New York, but now seemed to prefer the concert stage where she could satisfy her nationalistic feelings as to repertoire.
Destinn creates a remarkable characterization; while bursting with a sensuous feeling for life, her Carmen was not over-complicated.
www.marstonrecords.com /carmen2/carmen2_liner.htm   (2477 words)

  
 Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7910, Emmy Destinn (1878 - 1930) - Booklet Note
Emmy Destinn or Ema Pavlina Kittlová as she was christened, was born on 26 February 1878 in Prague the daughter of a wealthy family.
Originally Emmy had wanted to be a violinist, and indeed, gave her first solo concert at the age of eight.
Emmy Destinn suffered a massive stroke and died aged 52 on the evening of 28 January 1930.
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 Emmy Destinn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Emmy Destinn (also in Czech; February 26, 1878 – January 28, 1930) was a renowned Czech operatic soprano.
Destinn made her Covent Garden debut at the Royal Opera House on 2 May 1904 as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.
Destinn returned to her homeland after the start of the war, but her links with the patriotic Czech resistance caused her passport to be revoked about her return.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/E/Emmy-Destinn.htm   (532 words)

  
 Opera Shop: Emmy Destinn
That premiered at the Metropolitan Opera in New York in 1910, with the “divine Emmy” singing alongside Caruso, Gilly and Toscanini.
Destinn’s close links with the Royal Opera House in London began in May 1904, when she made her first appearance as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni.
Destinn also wrote plays, novels, short stories, librettos, and poetry; painted on canvas and porcelain; and translated and composed songs.
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 Opera - Reflections - The merry widow
Emmy Destinn was born Emilie Pauline Venceslava Kittlova on 26 February 1878 in Katerinska Street, Prague, the oldest of five children.
Since puberty, young Emmy showed a great interest for music and her parents, who were dedicated to the arts, encouraged her to pursue it.
Emmy Destinn's timbre was typical of a true dramatic soprano; the voice was rich and powerful.
www.opera-gems.com /reflections/emmy_destinn.htm   (1415 words)

  
 RO 81002 (2cd)
The Prague-born soprano Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) was renowned for her expressive acting and emotional interpretations.
Destinn was especially popular at Covent Garden, where she gave the London premiere of Madama Butterfly in 1905.
Chosen for the title roles of Salome (Strauss) and The Girl of the Golden West (Puccini) by the composers themselves, Destinn was perhaps the most eminent dramatic soprano of her time.
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 Emmy Destinn --  Encyclopædia Britannica
Destinn made her debut in Berlin in 1898 as Santuzza in Pietro Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana.
The Emmy Award statuette consists of a winged woman holding a globe aloft.
He won an Emmy Award for that script and was nominated for an Academy Award for...
www.britannica.com /eb/article-9030091   (653 words)

  
 EMMY DESTINN Arias from  Der Freischutz
Czech soprano Emmy Destinn was born in Prague, Feb. 26, 1878 and died in Budejovice Jan. 28, 1930.
Destinn...has a voice of great power, body and vibrant quality, dramatic in expression, flexible and wholly subservient to her intentions, which are those of a singer of keen musical feeling and intelligence.
During her rather short career, Emmy Destinn sang more than eighty roles in leading opera houses of the world including French, German, Italian, Russian and Bohemian operas.
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 Seattle Opera   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By 1910, when the great Czech soprano Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) created Minnie in La fanciulla del West, she was a celebrated diva.
The soprano Frances Alda, Destinn's colleague at the Met and the first wife of the Met's director, Giulio Gatti-Casazza, recalled in her autobiography (Men, Women and Tenors) the frantic exchange of cables across the Atlantic:  "‘What's the matter with the woman,' Gatti wailed.
As for Toscanini, or "The Mask of Yellow Death" as Destinn called him, after the premiere he gave the diva his baton,which became one of her most highly-prized possessions.
www.seattleopera.org /operas/2003-2004/goldenwest/destin_print.aspx   (1285 words)

  
 Symposium Records   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
By the time of the later, more usually encountered records the voice was tired and in decline.
Emmy Destìnn (soprano) (1878-1930) — Il Trovatore: In deines Kerkers tiefe Nacht — Verdi — xB 5292?
Emmy Destìnn (soprano) (1878-1930) — Salome: Dein Haar ist grässlich!
www.symposiumrecords.co.uk /cd1283.htm   (448 words)

  
 The Emmy Destinn Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
During her triumphant career, Destinn - universally known as the divine Emmy - sung in over eighty roles; her interpretations of Aida, Tosca and Salome, to quote a few of her best known roles, were considered unparalleled by those who heard her.
In the 1900s she was the highest paid female singer at the Metropolitan Opera.
Among her admirers was the great Enrico Caruso, whom she partnered on stage on 47 occasions, Arturo Toscanini, and the French baritone Dinh Gilly, who learnt Czech to be able to sing with her in Prague - although that eventually meant an internment by the Germans there during the First World War.
www.destinn.com /herlife.html   (325 words)

  
 Classics Today.com - Your Online Guide to Classical Music
Czech soprano Emmy Destinn (1878-1930) is perhaps best known today as the first Minnie in Puccini's La fanciulla del west, but she also was Bayreuth's first Senta, Berlin's first Salome, and Covent Garden's first Butterfly.
This tells us that her voice must have been ample, with a secure top capable of cutting through a large orchestra, and in fact these 90-year-old recordings prove that she had those qualities in abundance.
Destinn was an interesting singer with a unique timbre, and she's worth getting to know.
www.classicstoday.com /review.asp?ReviewNum=7385   (267 words)

  
 Emmy Destinn --  Britannica Student Encyclopedia
Bohemian operatic soprano Emmy Destinn gained international fame for the exceptional richness, power, and control of her voice.
At age 14 she began studying voice with Maria Loewe-Destinn, whose name she adopted.
More results on "Emmy Destinn" when you join.
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 Emmy Destinn Movie: Emmy Destinn DVD is available from Bestprices.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Emmy Destinn Movie: Emmy Destinn DVD is available from Bestprices.com
The "divine Emmy" is still today considered the undisputed grand-diva of Czech opera, recognized in her day throughout the world for her passionate soprano and a life lived in extreme proportions.
The list of her accomplishments was long and illustrious: a member of the imperial court opera in Berlin, and a soloist with the Covent Garden Opera, she became one of the highest-paid and most famous singers in New York's Metropolitan Opera.
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 The Emmy Destinn Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
The Finals of the 5th Emmy Destinn Award for Young Singers will take place on 26th February 2006 at Martinů Hall, HAMU, Prague, at 15:30.
The first Emmy Destinn International Award (the divine voice), created for the EDF by London based Czech sculptress Irena Sedlecká, was awarded in 1998 to the celebrated Australian diva Dame Joan Sutherland at our Opera Gala Benefit Concert at St John's Smith Square.
In September 2001 the award was presented to the great Czech soprano Gabriela Benacková at An Evening of Czech Opera, at the Linbury Studio Theatre, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.
www.destinn.com /awards.html   (186 words)

  
 DVD4Music.com: DVD: Emmy Destinn : The Greatest Czech Soprano - DVD Music - Emmy Destinn : The Greatest Czech Soprano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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A biography of the great soprano Emmy Destinn, includes musical performance as well as a documentary about Destinn's life.
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 Welcome to MVC.co.uk Classical Emmy Destinn - The Greatest Czech Soprano   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
Welcome to MVC.co.uk Classical Emmy Destinn - The Greatest Czech Soprano
This DVD, which contains a documentary film about Emmy Destinn, a selection of her recordings of world-famous arias, a biography with archival photographs and a photogallery of her life, will certainly interest admirers of this famous, unforgettable Czech singer.
The DVD was prepared for Supraphon by BVA International in Cooperation with the Municipal House in Prague.
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 Emmy Destinn Music CDs at Songsearch.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
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 Emmy Destinn DVD at Video Universe
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 Emmy Destinn   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
by: Georges Bizet, Richard Wagner, August Pilz, Bruno Seidler-Winkler, Berlin Grammophone Orchestra, Kunstler Theater Orchestra, Emmy Destinn, Felix Dahn, Grete Parvs, Hermann Bachmann
by: Friedrich Schorr, Hans Reinmar, Theodor Scheidl, Hans Hotter, Josef von Manowarda, Michael Bohnen, Paul Knupfer, Richard Wagner, Lydia Kinderman, Emmy Destinn
by: Dinh Gilly, Rosario Bourdon, Eduardo Alonso-Crespo, Anonymous, Emmy Destinn, Antonin Dvorak, Carlos Gomes, Charles Gounod, Jindrich, Karel Kovarovic
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 Reviews - Emmy Destinn - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
Reviews - Emmy Destinn - Classical Music Recordings - CD, DVD, SACD
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Emmy Destinn (soprano); Karl Jorn (tenor); Minnie Nast (soprano); Hermann Bachmann (baritone); others
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