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	Book Review: Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography
		Rosa Ponselle was born on January 22, 1897 in Meriden, Conneticut to Italian immigrants.
		Ponselle spent the rest of her life teaching and promoting young American talent through the Baltimore Opera.
		Aspects of Ponselle's career already treated in Drake's earlier biography, such as her involvement with the Baltimore Opera, are not repeated.
	www.scena.org /lsm/sm3-4/sm3-4ponselle.htm (415 words)

	Rosa Ponselle - Biography - AOL Music
		Born Rosa Melba Ponzilla in Meriden, CT, Rosa Ponselle began her singing career at an early age singing in the cafes and cinemas in both Meriden and New Haven.
		Talented singer and actor Enrico Caruso was impressed by Rosa Ponselle's talents and encouraged her to perform at the Met.
		Rosa Ponselle became an instant success and stayed with the Metropolitan Opera for 18 years.
	music.aol.com /artist/rosa-ponselle/216140/biography (509 words)

	Rosa Ponselle
		The soprano known as Rosa Ponselle was born Rosa Ponzillo to first-generation Italian immigrant parents in the New England factory city of Meriden, Connecticut, on January 22, 1897.
		Ponselle's operatic career reached across the years of "the Peace between the Wars," from 1918 until 1937, when she left the Metropolitan.
		Rosa Ponselle was told by someone in her family that one of the Ponzillos, a prelate of the church, had a fine baritone voice.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/p/phillips-ponselle.html (4694 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7878, Rosa Ponselle, Volume 3 - Booklet Note
		Rosa Ponzillo, the youngest of three children, was born on 22 January 1897, in Meriden, Connecticut, to Italian immigrant parents from Caserta.
		Ponselle sang for nineteen years with the Metropolitan in New York, three seasons at Covent Garden, and inaugurated the premiere season of the Maggio Musicale in Florence with La Vestale, to honour a promise made to her dying mother that she would one day sing in Italy.
		Ponselle proved to us once again that the finest singing, given a good voice to begin with, comes from the constant play of a fine mind upon the inner meaning of the music; her Violetta is so exquisitely sung because it is so subtly imagined.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/7878c.html (2334 words)

	Rosa Ponselle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		(Rosa later denied that Thorner had ever given her voice lessons, but her statements on the subejct are contradictory.) Thorner invited the great tenor Enrico Caruso, star of the Metropolitan Opera, to his studio to hear Carmela and Rosa sing.
		Rosa Ponselle's recording career began with the acoustic horn, continued with electric recording, and ended on magnetic tape.
		Ponselle sang often on the radio in the early 30s, and she generally had her broadcasts recorded on 78 rpm acetate disks.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rosa_Ponselle (2394 words)

	Rosa Ponselle
		Soon Ponselle's very recognizable face and form would be seen on the balcony that bordered the foyer, and in a few moments she would reach the top of the steep staircase.
		Ponselle's memories of her career, like those of many other celebrities, tended to be purposely selective.
		But as her interviewers also discovered, Ponselle's memories of the emotions she experienced during critical points in her life--especially her memories of painful events--could be so clear and intense that while recounting them she seemed to experience them all over again.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/d/drake-ponselle.html (5309 words)

	Marston - Rosa Ponselle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Anytime is a good time to remember Rosa Ponselle, even if you never heard her in person or listened to one of her extraordinary recordings.
		Rosa, of course, was long a popular favorite on the air waves, and during her career she gave sixty-two radio concerts between 1927 and 1937.
		Rosa, incidentally, took the money she earned from “The Chesterfield Hour” and invested it in two elaborate diamond clips, which could be worn separately or as a single piece of jewelry.
	www.marstonrecords.com /ponselle/ponselle_liner.htm (2019 words)

	CWHF-Rosa Ponselle
		Rosa Melba Ponzillo, the third child of Italian immigrant parents, was born and raised in Meriden, where she sang in local churches by the age of 10 and played the piano and sang between reels at the local silent film theater by the age of 15.
		Because of the difficulty during the War of bringing singers to the U.S. from Europe, Caruso invited Rosa to audition for the female lead in Giuseppi Verdiís La Forza del Destino.
		Though she fainted during the tryout, she went on to achieve one of the most triumphant debuts in the history of opera.
	www.cwhf.org /hall/ponselle/ponselle.htm (310 words)

	Opera Shop: Rosa Ponselle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Born Rosa Ponzillo in Connecticut in 1897, Ponselle’s early career was in vaudeville with her sister, Carmella, singing as the Ponzillo Sisters on the Keith Circuit, even appearing at the Palace in New York.
		After her retirement, Ponselle took on several students and was the artistic director of the Baltimore Lyric Opera.
		Early in her career, Ponselle recorded on the Columbia label (this selection was recorded in 1922), using the acoustic method of recording.
	bassocantante.com /opera/ponselle.html (359 words)

	ROSA PONSELLE ON THE AIR
		ROSA PONSELLE ON THE AIR - Volume II Chesterfield Hour broadcasts of March 25 and April 1, 1936 (Arias from Carmen and La vestale; music of Sandoval, Grieg, Farley, Tosti, Griselle and Young, and Buzzi).
		Of particular interest is Ponselle's spoken tribute to Ernestine Schumann-Heink on the occasion of her 75th Birthday, recorded June 15, 1936.
		Ponselle is doubtless the only singer who could match the former's perfection and range.
	classicalcdreview.com /rosaradio.htm (609 words)

	Rosa Ponselle
		Legendary Operatic Diva, Rosa Ponselle, was discovered at age 21, while singing in vaudeville, by Enrico Caruso who brought her to the Met to appear opposite him as the "Leonora" in the 1918 Metropolitan Opera premiere performance of Verdi's La FORZA del DESTINO.
		For the 19 seasons that she sang with the Met, she was considered its reigning queen, and was dubbed by Huneker as "The Caruso in Petticoats".
		Then you may begin to discuss all the others." Leonard Bernstein, who credited Ponselle with changing the direction of his young life, wrote in a letter to her, "Yours is the first operatic voice I ever heard, at age eight, on an old Columbia 78, singing 'Suicido'.
	www.freewebs.com /universounds/ponselle.htm (356 words)

	Amazon.com: Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography (Opera Biography Series, No. 9): Books: James A. Drake (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Comments by associates paint Rosa Ponselle as a classic diva, capricious in business dealings (most notably when she abruptly retired in 1937), capable of responding with fury to perceived disloyalty, bitingly honest in her assessment of her own and others' work.
		James Drake's previous biography of Rosa Ponselle (styled an "autobiography," but in fact written entirely by Drake), was an excellent book and, until this new offering, served as the only biogrqaphy of an artist many consider the greatest opera singer America has produced, and one of the greatest, of any nationality, of all time.
		Ponselle always maintained that Thorner never gave her any voice lessons ("I wouldn't have let him touch my voice!"), contrary to his own claims, and she downplayed Thorner's role in her engagement by the Met.
	www.amazon.com /Rosa-Ponselle-Centenary-Biography-Opera/dp/1574670190 (2540 words)

	Rosa Ponselle Met La traviata (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Rosa Ponselle, soprano (Violetta); Lawrence Tibbett, baritone (Germont); Frederick Jagel, tenor (Alfredo); Elda Vettori, mezzo-soprano (Flora); Metropolitan Opera Chorus and Orch/Ettore Panizza, cond.
		Rosa Ponselle's Violetta in La traviata is legendary, although she sang less than two dozen performances of it.
		Ponselle told me once that she knew how she sounded and that the up-speed version was correct—surprising from one of the greatest sopranos of all time, who often carried a tuning fork with her.
	classicalcdreview.com /travi.html (587 words)

	Marston - Rosa Ponselle
		Rosa Ponselle was arguably this century's greatest soprano.
		Before Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981), there had been no leading American singer who had not first made his or her mark abroad.
		By Ponselle's own account, her broadcasts captured her true voice and she preferred these performances to her numerous commercial recordings.
	www.marstonrecords.com /ponselle/ponselle_tracks.htm (247 words)

	NIAF MileStones
		Rosa Ponzelle (Ponzillo) (1897-1981) was born in Meriden, Connecticut, where there was a small Italian enclave, one of two daughters of southern Italian immigrants who operated a grocery store.
		Rosa's opera career took off when William Thorner began to manage her in 1917.
		Rosa Ponzelle sang at the Metropolitan for nineteen years, retiring in 1937 because she was convinced she could no longer attain demanding standards she set for herself.
	www.niaf.org /milestones/year_1918.asp (329 words)

	32¢ Rosa Ponselle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		When she was 21, Ponselle came to the attention of renowned tenor Enrico Caruso, who helped launch her career as an opera singer.
		Ponselle's powerful, dramatic voice was characterized by dark, lower tones and spectacular versatility.
		Ponselle rarely performed outside the United States, spending most of her career at the Metropolitan.
	www.unicover.com /EA1CAKA6.htm (435 words)

	Ponselle, Rosa - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		She was an outstanding member of that company until her retirement in 1937.
		Ponselle was noted for her powerful, expressive voice and her handling of low tones.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Ponselle, Rosa" at HighBeam.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-ponselle.html (270 words)

	Nimbus Records, Prima Voce, NI 7805, Rosa Ponselle - Booklet Note
		Rosa Ponselle, whose real name was Ponzillo, was born to Italian immigrant parents in Connecticut on January 22nd 1897.
		She made her professional singing début in a local picture house at the age of fourteen and for the next six years, appeared in Vaudeville together with her elder sister Carmella.
		After the audition Caruso told Ponselle that she would be singing with him at the Met.
	www.wyastone.co.uk /nrl/pvoce/old/7805c.html (557 words)

	AllRefer.com - Rosa Ponselle (Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biography) - Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		Rosa Ponselle, Music: History, Composers, And Performers, Biographies
		Rosa Ponselle[ponzel´] Pronunciation Key, 1897–1981, American operatic soprano, b.
		Meriden, Conn. First appearing in vaudeville, she made her debut (1918) at the Metropolitan Opera in Verdi's La forza del destino, opposite Caruso.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/P/Ponselle.html (240 words)

	TIME.com: Ponselle in London -- Jun. 10, 1929 -- Page 1
		In the flowing white robes of a Druid priestess, Rosa Ponselle, soprano of the Metropolitan Opera, waited in a dressing room of London Covent Garden last week.
		Taking Ponselle's cold hands between her warm ones, the grand old prima donna delivered a warning: "Now, my dear Rosa, don't expect Covent Garden to be like your Metropolitan.
		Rosa joined forces with her and as the "Ponzillio Sisters" they were favorites on the Keith circuit for three years.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,751941,00.html (692 words)

	Young soprano appears in series of performances (06/10/01) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		The recital, at the historic Dumbarton Church in the capital's Georgetown district, was sponsored by the Rosa Ponselle Foundation and the Cultural Fund of The Washington Group, an association of Ukrainian American professionals, under the patronage of the Embassy of Ukraine.
		Her family emigrated to the United States in 1995 and settled in the Baltimore area, where she attended the Baltimore School for the Arts and now is a scholarship student at the University of Maryland School of Music at College Park.
		Introducing the young soloist to the audience, the president of the Rosa Ponselle Foundation, Elayne Duke, noted that Ms.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/230129.shtml (565 words)

	THE ARTS: Ukrainian-born soprano Stefania Dovhan to perform in Washington (04/22/01)
		Dovhan was awarded the Rosa Ponselle Gold Medallion in the year 2000 "Young Classical Singers" competition.
		Her vocal teacher is Martha Randall, who received the Rosa Ponselle Teacher of the Year Award in 2000.
		The recital is jointly sponsored under the patronage of the Rosa Ponselle Foundation and The Washington Group Cultural Fund, and with the cooperation of the Embassy of Ukraine.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2001/160123.shtml (520 words)

	Rosa Ponselle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-11)
		After a brilliant stage and recording career, Rosa Ponselle dedicated her later years to helping aspiring young singers reach their potential.
		Ponselle provided for the establishment of the Rosa Ponselle Charitable Foundation.
		Enter the site to learn more about Rosa Ponselle's life, listen to her music, view a preview of a documentary film and much more.
	www.rosaponselle.com /welcome.html (85 words)

	Rosa Ponselle - AOL Music
		Foundation established to celebrate the 20th Century's legendary operatic diva.
		"The Legendary Rosa Ponselle," narrated by Elayne Duke, is a 25-minute video documenting the life and art of Rosa Ponselle.
		Download, listen and watch Rosa Ponselle music, mp3's, song lyrics, music videos, Internet radio, live performances, concerts, and more on AOL Music.
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	Rosa Ponselle: The Verdi Recordings (1918-1928) by Rosa Ponselle at Audio Lunchbox
		Rosa Ponselle: The Verdi Recordings (1918-1928) by Rosa Ponselle at Audio Lunchbox
		1: Rosa Ponselle: The Verdi Recordings (1918-1928) - Ernani: "Ernani, Ernani, Involami"
		Audio Lunchbox / Classical / Rosa Ponselle / Rosa Ponselle: The Verdi Recordings (1918-1928)
	www.audiolunchbox.com /album?a=43874 (204 words)

	Ponselle, Rosa — Infoplease.com
		Rosa Ponselle - Ponselle, Rosa, 1897–1981, American operatic soprano, b.
		Ponselle Prima Voce (Ezio Pinza, Anton Stepanovich Arensky, Vincenzo …
		Rosa Ponselle (Ezio Pinza, Anonymous, Vincenzo Bellini, Ernest …
	www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0158389.html (124 words)

	exhibition: Paul Etienne Lincoln
		The installations, produced over a period as long as a decade, are often predicated upon a literary or historical figure, in the present instance, the opera soprano, Rosa Ponselle (1897-1981).
		Ignisfatuus is a complex structure incorporating acoustic, mechanical and chemical activity determined by lunar cycles; early phonographic recordings by Ponselle trigger the 'blooming' (an ultraviolet illumination) of an elaborate system of arterial organ casts.
		Most apparently operational during the climactic full moon, the performative aspect of Ignisfatuus exists primarily in the viewer's imagination - the knowledge of an event's occurrence may be more significant than the actual experience of that event.
	www.alexanderandbonin.com /exhibitions/lincoln/2000/lincoln.html (404 words)

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