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Joan Sutherland
Gianni Truvianni's "New York's Opera Society" Chapter 29
The day came as did the evening of "the opera party" like it had come to be referred to among the members of New York's opera society. My mother had spent the previous three days wearing not only herself out but the servants and our family in getting ready for this gathering which my father truthfully speaking would rather have had it take place in our country residence. My father felt that it, given its larger size was more suited to play host to this party. My mother, however year after year stuck by her reason for wanting to hold this party in our Manhattan apartment which was that she knew that for some people, specially some of the students who attended New York School of Music it might be problematic to make such a long journey all the way to the far corner of Long Island and back.
The preparations my mother and the rest of us had to go through included making out the list of guests and mailing each and every guest on this list a hand written R.S.V.P. invitation. This was due to the fact that my mother felt that physiologically speaking people took invitations they received in the mail more seriously than those that were hand delivered or those they might get through the net.
This year's list of guest included at least 200 people, some of whom would be coming from places as diverse and as far away as Japan (my mother once said that when it came to music the Japanese were close to, if not perfect as far as sheer technique was concerned), Italy, Australia (Joan Sutherland, a singer who had offended my mother once by stating that Jewish people should not listen to Wagner but that was in the past) and of course my Gosia, from well it goes with saying.
Some of the guests who would be pouring into our apartment were even going so far out of their way as to hop a plane from places as far away as Los Angeles, as was the case with my idol; Placido Domingo. Pavarotti had confirmed his presence but I do not know where he was coming from. Of course there was the voice of Catalonia; Jose Carreras who now had something in common with me apart from singing. This being that we both had Polish lady friends.
Unfortunately for my mother, the German perfectionist and the rest of her family and servants; the sending out of the invitations was just a drop in the bucket in all the work that had to be done to get things in order and like my German granddad said "order mus sein". This meant that everything had to be just like my mother thought it should be without exception. The food had to be original, so we asked Pani Beata to come up with a few gourmet dishes from Poland, which she did but that was not enough; not because Polish was not good enough but simply because my mother liked having as many dishes from as many countries as possible. This prompting her to order food from at least 6 different restaurants that served what she called "non-American food". If the food had been all that was required that would have been enough to call this a mayor event in almost any household but that was merely the beginning.
There was also the pending matter of entertainment. How much of it should be from the stereo and how much live and who would be asked to perform. This was a sort of amateur night, as "The 3 Tenors" though present were not going to be singing, however my friends as well as Gosia and myself; plus some students from my school were going to be performing some pieces for our guests. Gosia at my mother's request was going to play Chopin, while Amanda, Barbara and I were going be singing some arias like "Lacira de la Mano" (By Mozart from the opera "Don Giovanni") and many others. Arturo was naturally going to be conducting and there were going to other people playing and singing not only toentertain but to showcase their talents to the right people.
My mother was always faced with a dilemma about weather or not the celebrity musicians should play. On the one hand, why not have them play if they were willing to and who in the group wouldn't want to hear Yo-Yo Ma but on the other hand which perhaps in my mother's mind out weighed the first one. She did not want these people to feel that they had been invited merely for the purpose of being what my mother called "free celebrity entertainment". There just to keep the other guests happy. So what my mother did was leave it up to them but she did prefer none of her other guests to ask any of the celebrity musicians to play or sing.
Getting the place clean and decorated was another task that took a lot of doing and time. My mother felt that every room had to be clean, even those that probably would not be entered nor seen by any of the guests. There was no denying it, this evening was going to be special. As that is the way our guests were going to be treated, because if there was one thing our mother taught us was that no guest was more special as that would mean that some guests were less special and she felt that if one can not receive someone in one's house as well as the rest of one's guest than simply do not invite that person.
About the Author
My name is Gianni Truvianni, author of many an article to be found on the internet along with the book "New York's Opera Society". My works also include the books "What Should Not Matter", "Love Your Sister" and several others which still remain unpublished though I am presently looking to change this.
Favorite classical singer of each fach?
just curious to see what everyone thinks. mine are:
coloratura soprano: Joan Sutherland
lyric soprano: Kiri Te Kanawa
spinto soprano: Leontyne Price
dramatic soprano: Kirsten Flagstad
sfogato soprano: Maria Callas
lyric mezzo: joyce didonato
dramatic mezzo: viorica cortez
contralto: kathleen ferrier
lyric tenor: Luciano Pavarotti
spinto tenor: Franco Corelli
dramatic tenor: Giuseppe Giacomini
heldentenor: Ramon Vinay
lyric baritone: Robert Merril
dramatic baritone: Titto Gobbi
verdi baritone: Leonard Warren
basso cantante: Samuel Ramey (hands down, we dominates everything from basso profundo to coloratura Rossini bass to dramatic baritone)
basso profundo: Paul Robeson (his political views sucked, but his voice was amazing)
Sorry, I can't name such a crowd...
Cecilia Bartoli - mezzo-soprano
Dmitri Hvorostovsky - dramatic baritone
That's it...
Joan Sutherland "Casta diva" from "Norma"