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	Walter Berry (opera singer) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Berry (April 8, 1929 – October 27, 2000) was an Austrian bass-baritone.
		He studied voice at the Vienna Music Academy and made his debut at the Vienna State Opera in 1947.
		He became a regular member of the company in 1950 and remained with that ensemble for his entire career, with regular guest appearances elsewhere in Europe.
	wikipedia.cas.ilstu.edu /index.php/Walter_Berry_(opera_singer) (154 words)

	Walter Berry (Bass-Baritone) - Short Biography
		That was fulfilled when he gained a contract at the Vienna State Opera in 1950, remaining with that ensemble for the rest of his professional life, while commuting in the summer to the Salzburg festival, where he sang regularly from 1952 onwards, creating several roles in operatic premieres.
		Another of Berry's specialities was the title role in Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle; his recording of that part, with his then-wife, mezzo Christa Ludwig, and conducted by Istvan Kertész, is still considered one of the best renderings of the opera on disc.
		Berry and Christa Ludwig married in 1956 and divorced in 1971.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Berry-Walter.htm (679 words)

	Walter Berry - Obituary from The Guardian (UK)
		The voice of a singer by then well into his 50s seemed hardly affected by the passing years, and, quite recently, he was heard on disc in the tiny, but important, part of the Major Domo to Ren e Fleming's Countess Madeleine, in the final scene of Strauss's Cappriccio.
		Another of Berry's specialities was the title role in Bartok's Duke Bluebeard's Castle; his recording of that part, with his then-wife, mezzo Christa Ludwig, and conducted by Istvan Kert sz, is still considered one of the best renderings of the opera on disc.
		Berry and Ludwig married in 1956 and divorced in 1971.
	www.powell-pressburger.org /Obits/Walter_Berry/Guardian.html (778 words)

	A tribute to Walter Berry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Berry was born in Vienna on April 8, 1929.
		Walter Berry also achieved a brilliant reputation as a lieder singer, and he often appeared in recitals with his former wife Christa Ludwig between 1957 and 1971.
		Berry also took part in Herbert von Karajan's monumental Beethoven cycle with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra as bass soloist in the last movement of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.
	www.unitel.de /uhilites/151100.htm (615 words)

	re:opera - mozart concert arias
		So, the singer referred to next to the title of the song is always the one who performed it in the Philips series, where the conductor generally is Leopold Hager, unless otherwise indicated.
		In the other hand, it is a fact that Mozart never liked the first Fiordiligi, Adrianna Ferrarese dal Bene, whom he considered to be a bad actess and extremely proud of her top and low notes (that is why he never resisted to make her use them exhaustively).
		Berry meets each one of the individual tasks beautifully, but - in the whole - it could be more ingratiating.
	www.geocities.com /rmlibonati/concertar.html (5279 words)

	Wagner Operas -- Wagnerians -- Sopranos and Altos
		Eaglen sang Brünnhilde in her first complete cycle of Wagner's Ring at Lyric Opera of Chicago in 1996, repeating the role in the summer of 1999 with San Francisco Opera and in the spring of 2000 with the Metropolitan Opera.
		She sang her first Isolde with Seattle Opera in 1998, and repeated the role with Chicago Lyric Opera in 1999 and at the Metropolitan Opera in 2000.
		She was one of the group of great singers whom Wieland Wagner selected to re-open the Bayreuth Festival in 1951.
	www.wagneroperas.com /indexwagnerianssopranos.html (2033 words)

	Classical Net Review - Humperdinck - Hansel and Gretel
		This magic fairytale 'children's opera' has had many successful recordings over the years and Sir Georg Solti's version is surely amongst the front runners.
		Lucia Popp is also at the top of her range, this much lamented singer is given a lastingly glorious tribute here.
		Berry and Hamari are also on top form as the Mother and Father whilst Schlemm's Witch is suitably grotesque and sinister.
	www.classical.net /music/recs/reviews/l/lon70567a.html (241 words)

	TIME.com: The Happy Scrappers -- Feb. 10, 1967 -- Page 1
		Berry and Ludwig have been scrapping at the Met for the past four months, beginning with Die Frau ohne Schatten, in which she was a shrewish wife trying to browbeat her husband into submission.
		Berry, 36, an alumnus of the famed Vienna Boys Choir, studied engineering after World War II, moonlighted as a jazz pianist and singer in a Vienna cabaret with a combo called the Melodie Boys.
		Her mezzo-soprano mother advised her "not to fall in love in a small opera house because then you may have to leave him behind when you go to a big house." Dutifully, Ludwig poured her heart into her art for nine years, finally graduated to the Vienna State Opera in 1955.
	www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,840842,00.html (754 words)

	Christa Ludwig - Music Downloads - Online
		Bio: Christa Ludwig was one of the most admired mezzos of her generation, with a wide repertoire of both lieder and opera.
		Her parents were both singers (tenor Anton Ludwig, who later became a stage director and mezzo Eugenie Ludwig Besalla), and her first vocal studies were with her mother, who also taught her piano, flute, and cello.
		She made her opera debut as Prince Orlofsky in Strauss' Die Fledermaus in 1946, at the Frankfurt State Opera, where she was a member of the company until 1952, when her mother encouraged her to move to Darmstadt to study acting with the director Gustav Sellner.
	musicstore.connect.com /artist/293/Christa-Ludwig/1008472.html (477 words)

	Grandi Tenori.com » Opera of the Month (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The opera Norma, written by Bellini on a libretto by Felice Romani, cradles in the homonym tragedy of Louis Soumet "Norma, ou l'infanticide" and is considered to be the paradigm of "belcanto." The first representation occurred on 26 December 1831 at La Scala and was a total triumph!
		In London opera, her association with such singers as Lablache, Rubini, Tamburini and Mario was long remembered as the palm days of Italian opera.
		Although the singers who approached this role always had the qualification of "prima donna assoluta", owing to the difficulty and the effort that supposedly go with singing it, it was not until the arrival of Maria Callas that Norma found the true vehicle to express herself.
	www.grandi-tenori.com /features/om/om.2004.01.php (3486 words)

	Amazon.com: The Metropolitan Opera Guide to Recorded Opera: Books: Paul Gruber (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Opera enthusiasts who wish to own recorded versions of their favorite operas, must thus expect to have credit cards that can call up large funds.
		Perhaps it is in the nature of opera, an art form with so many inter-relating components, that few single versions of a particular opera are found to excel on all counts.
		First of all, every opera critic is likely to have his or her own biases when it comes to singers, conductors, sound quality, etc. That being said, this book is an extremely fair, balanced, guide to the recordings of many operatic staples, as well as lesser-known works.
	www.amazon.com /Metropolitan-Opera-Guide-Recorded/dp/0393034445 (2395 words)

	classical music - andante - the first tragedy of the common man -wozzeck, the play and the opera
		Modernist operas that have found a permanent place in the international repertory.
		The conductor of the Czech National Opera was in the audience and, having written that "It is a beautiful and powerful work, the most notable foreign opera since Strauss's Elektra", put it on two years later in Prague.
		you have however to be wary of the level of hallucination in the opera because you can't illustrate that hallucination which is in the music and you certainly can't exceed it.
	www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=25169 (3592 words)

	Opera CD Reviews of Wagner, Weber, Weill and Richard Strauss
		Better are the three excerpts from Act 3 that conclude the disc from a different performance with Ludwig Suthaus demonstrating that he knows the meaning of the words to the Prize Song, Jaro Prohaska defending the Meistersinger, and Maria Müller displaying her femininity with a lovely trill.
		This is Weill treating opera as a means of social commentary, and the music has sufficient tang to appeal to the composer's fans.
		And a pleasing tribute to the late Walter Berry who sings the few lines of the Majordomo and Faninal.
	www.culturekiosque.com /opera/reviews/rhecd27.htm (1331 words)

	Opera Today: January 2005 Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As the editor discusses in the preface, this book concerns French opera from the 1820s and 1830s, and also its influence on works later in the century, as grand opera was adapted in other countries and inspired other composers to respond to the genre with their own works.
		While parlance often renders grand opera as a term that could be applied to opera in general, an opera company, building, or institution, it is important to understand the origins of the musical style that had such a profound effect on the musical world.
		These two world-class singers command plenty of glamour and charisma onstage but are keenly aware that they do not have the supertrim bodies of the carb-phobic album-cover babes that recording execs have been desperately pitching the opera world for the last 15 years.
	www.operatoday.com /content/2005/01 (14757 words)

	classical music - andante - dietrich fischer-dieskau
		He was referring to his work as an opera singer, and unfortunately his statement remained true until the end of his performing career and beyond.
		As a result, many people outside continental Europe think of Fischer-Dieskau and opera only in terms of recordings, and of those who are aware that he had a busy opera career in Germany, few had the opportunity to experience him live in that medium.
		Fischer-Dieskau's efforts as an opera singer and a concert singer cannot be separated and compartmentalized.
	www.andante.com /profiles/DFD/opera_singer.cfm (1202 words)

	Christa Ludwig (Mezzo-soprano) - Short Biography
		Her mother was engaged at the Aachen Opera House during Herbert von Karajan’s period as conductor where she sang roles from Senta to Rezia to Azucena, from Ulrica to Elektra and Fidelio.
		In addition to her appearances as an opera singer, Christa Ludwig pursued a remarkable career as a soloist with orchestras and as a Lieder artist.
		In 1980 she received the Golden Ring of the Vienna State Opera, and in 1981 she was made its honorary member.
	www.bach-cantatas.com /Bio/Ludwig-Christa.htm (582 words)

	Helene Joseph-Weil
		She also studied voice and opera at the Hochschule Mozarteum in Salzburg and in New York City at the Metropolitan Opera.
		A winner of the Metropolitan Opera Great Lakes Regional competition, Joseph- Weil was also the 31st recipient of the Kate Neal Kinley Memorial Fellowship given through the University of Illinois.
		She was awarded additional scholarships for private studies in voice and opera in New York from the Metropolitan Opera and the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund.
	www.csufresno.edu /music/Bios/Weil.html (748 words)

	Amazon.ca: Strauss: Die Frau ohne Schatten: Music: Richard Strauss,Karl Bohm,Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,Lorenzo ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Walter Berry is in sensational voice as Barak and his partnership with then-wife Christa Ludwig is unbeatable.
		They knew that this was Karajan's last opera with them and they gave nothing but their best - their quality of musicianship puts all and sundry to shame.
		The opera has a great deal of the fantastic about it - in terms of exotic and unusual action - and Strauss responded to Hugo von Hofmannstal's wonderful libretto with the fullest, most richly colored, sumptuous opera score of his career.
	www.amazon.ca /Strauss-Die-Frau-ohne-Schatten/dp/B00004SU91 (1334 words)

	Mimi Coertse
		. Having repeated the Basel success in Naples, she made her debut in the same role at the Vienna State Opera (17 March 1956). ; This resulted in a three-year contract, which was renewed, and led to a permanent appointment.
		[Mimi Coertse was also an outstanding singer of art songs. She made a vast contribution to the recorded legacy of the Afrikaanse Lied, and made many recordings of these songs throughout her celebrated career.
		Among the famous singers who have partnered her were Walter Berry, Rudolf Christ, Boris Christoff, Anton Dermota, Otto Edelmann, Hilde Gueden, Johannes Heesters, Sena Jurinac, Waldemar Kmentt, Erich Kunz, Christa Ludwig, Julius Patzak, Helge Roswaenge, Rudolf Schock, Teresa Stich-Randall, Otto Wiener, Fritz Wunderlich and Guiseppe Zampieri.
	saoperasingers.homestead.com /Mimi_Coertse_Bio.html (722 words)

	Blind opera singer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Puccini operas and interviews, in memoriam walter berry, april september in carmen, boris, violetta, manon.
		Much can be displayed with informative liner notes; and compelling websites at blind opera singer their volume cranked.
		Opera companies of the great composers themselves or blind opera singer their concept because they are.
	opera-singers.brianandmichaeltowing.com /blind-opera-singer.html (588 words)

	Classical Net Review - Mozart - Le nozze di Figaro
		Everything he does is perfectly judged and singer-friendly, and the opera's human (and humane) comedy is very much at the forefront.
		These singers all were superb exponents of Mozartean style, and all pretty much were at the peak of their careers.
		Among the men, Walter Berry excels with his richly-sung and clever Figaro.
	www.classical.net /~music/recs/reviews/t/tdk00005dvda.html (499 words)

	Amazon.com: Aida (The Black Dog Opera Library): Books: Giuseppe Verdi (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Birgit Nilsson was a grand lady of the opera- with a voice that cut through great orchestras, with dramatic integrity in her stage performances (she was as much as an actress as she was a singer and in this way she was like Maria Callas).
		He sang with Birgit Nilsson in the greatest operas of their careers- Puccini's Turandot and Tosca which are also available at Amazon.com and I strongly urge you seek them out.
		The Black Dog Opera Library series offers the best in opera to a beginner who takes interest in the world of opera or to fans who are already converted.
	www.amazon.com /Aida-Black-Dog-Opera-Library/dp/1884822800 (2102 words)

	American Institute of Musical Studies - Faculty
		As first place winner in the Opera Columbus Competition, she received a scholarship to attend AIMS in the summer of 1992 which was instrumental in launching her career in Germany.
		Winner of the Walter Naumburg Award for Concert artists, the American Opera Auditions (debut in Milano in L'Amico Fritz), and two Rockefeller grants, she has performed throughout the United States and Canada and with opera companies including San Francisco, Washington D.C., Houston, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia.
		Among her voice students are professional singers, teachers, and prize winners across the nation and in Europe.
	www.aimsgraz.com /faculty_bios.html (7585 words)

	Welcome to the Penn State School of Music
		Further advanced study was accomplished at the Franz Schubert Institute in Austria where he coached repertoire with Ernst Haefliger, Walter Berry, and Hans Hotter, and at the Jeunesses Musicales du Canada where he coached with Gérard Souzay and Dalton Baldwin.
		Patton is a member of the National Opera Association (having formerly served as Regional Governor of the NOA Northeast Division) and the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS).
		She is frequently invited to present her workshop/seminar "Bel Canto/Can Belto: Training Musical Theatre Singers For The New Millennium" for convocations of singers and teachers of singing in the U.S. and Europe.
	www.music.psu.edu /prospective/faculty/voicefac.html (1998 words)

	Angelika Kirchschlager - Biography
		She is the only singer so far who has performed this challenging and highly dramatic role.
		Nicholas Maw's opera was world premiered under the baton of Sir Simon Rattle at the Royal Opera Covent Garden in 2002.
		The opera will also be performed in a concert version at the home of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin.
	www.sonyclassical.com /artists/kirchschlager/bio.html (999 words)

	Never Yet Melted » Classical Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The Klemperer Magic Flute is a version of serious merit, and I think it deserves a high rank among versions of that opera, but it is the historic late 1930s Beecham recording, the first, which remains the best.
		Walter Berry is a fine singer, but Hüsch is a demigod.
		Cowen correctly identifies the best Giovanni as the Fürtwangler 1953 Salzburg Festspiele recording, with Cesare Siepi, Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, Walter Berry, Otto Edelmann, Elizabeth Grümmer, and Raffaele Arie, but he is somewhat agnostic about the best choice among Fürtwangler Salzburg recordings of different years.
	neveryetmelted.com /?cat=78 (729 words)

	The Big Takeover: Steve Holtje’s Top Ten — August 6 :
		Marrying EMI producer Walter Legge ensured that she would be sympathetically cast for studio productions, and her recorded legacy is brilliant.
		Among her specialties were the songs and operas of Richard Strauss, and this disc of 1953-54 sessions is a classic.
		Mozart’s greatest opera (perhaps the greatest opera of all) offered Schwarzkopf the great role of Donna Elvira, and she made it her own.
	www.bigtakeover.com /top-ten/Steve-Holtje-060806 (789 words)

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