Part II Your Favorites MARIA CEBOTARI

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THIS PART IS FOR YOUR FAVORITES! • Is Maria Cebotari a favorite of yours? Please let us know! • • Maria Cebotari, Soprano (1910-1949) • • Giacomo Puccini - Madama Butterfly • Un bel di vedremo - sung in german - • Conductor: Gerhard Steeger • (Recorded 1941) • • My personal opinion: If you have the opportunity to watch her in a film (the best is probably Premiere der Butterfly ), you will get an idea of her art, her charming appearance, her beauty, and you will understand why she was so popular. - Words about Moldavian-Austrian soprano Maria Cebotari you can read in one of countless publications dealing with the metaphor of an immortal voice . Once heard, never forgotten! , said Lisa della Casa about Cebotari, who died 1949 only age thirtynine, diagnosed with inoperable liver cancer. The end of a young life, the beginning of an acritical legend. • • Maria Cebotari decided to become a singer in 1929, and after a short study with Oscar Daniel in Berlin, Fritz Busch engaged her to Dresden. She first sang Mimi, quick became a darling of the Dresden audience and remained until 1943. She created Aminta and Julia in the first performances of Schweigsame Frau (Strauss) and Romeo und Julia (Sutermeister). Furthermore she contracted with Berlin (1941) and several guest-performances in Vienna, Munich, Zurich and Bucharest enlarged her fame. London saw her in 1936 (Susanna, Zerlina and Sophie) and 1947 - this time she sang the Countess, Donna Anna and Salome, a connection Maria Cebotari was most associated with: Mozart and Strauss. With her beauty it was quite clear, rising film-industry asked for her - and she became an involutary figurehead of the Third Reich . During the war years she married (after divorce) actor Gustav Diessl and gave life to two children. At the Salzburg Festival, Cebotari again earned great success with Mozart. After war, she confirmed her fame in Vienna. In his memoirs, Anton Dermota wrote about Cebotari: I only can remind her with deep affection. She was one of those bright shining Mozart-Phenomenon´s, that vanished much too soon. Whom Gods love... And than I stood, only three years later, beside her deathbed. When I saw the terminally ill person, I was deeply shocked. • In the Encyclopedia of Great Singers , authors Kutsch and Riemes wrote about Cebotari: Bright shining, expressive Soprano-voice, established in wide stage- and concert-repertory. I was a little bit more reserved: Yes, she was a singer with personality and charisma, but in almost every recording I discovered a strange nervousness, a restless vibrant intension, unsuitable for Mozart. In Berlin, alongside Helge Rosvaenge, Maria Cebotari had great success with Butterfly, I believe it was one of her most haunting roles. The selected presentation of Maria Cebotari was transfered from a very old 78rpm, and it was sung in german. • Maria Cebotari received five nominations just as Sherrill Milnes, both share place-position 36. • • THE COMPLETE OVERVIEW: GO TO ALL SINGERS IN THIS LIST • Video

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