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Trying to get your 16 year old acid rockerbefore Bjoerling, having been born in 1873.
son to go to an Opera is like trying to getAt the time he was considered the greatest
President Bill Clinton to admit that he hadtenor of all time. After the arrival of
sex with that Lewinsky gal. You've got oneBjoerling, the debate began. Most opera
big fight ahead of you. The truth is, if welovers are torn between the two as to who is
didn't have the opera, we wouldn't have somethe greatest. Caruso actually had technical
of the other great music of our time asproblems early in his career that he did not
ultimately every form of music, especiallyovercome until the turn of the century when
Broadway musicals, comes from the classics.he was finally able to move away from
And there is no more classic than grandresorting to falsetto or transposition.
opera.There's a reason that most operas areCaruso gave many memorable performances
sung in Italian. Most of the great writersduring his all too brief career which
of opera were Italian. The few Englishincluded probably his most popular role in "I
language operas we have, like "The Barber OfPagliacci" where he sings what has become his
Seville" don't compare to the old grandmost famous aria, "Vesti La Giubba".The opera
Italian operas. And it is those operas thatworld did not just belong to the men. There
have given us some of the greatest singers inhave been many great women who have come to
the history of music.Great singers go backthe opera stage over the years. One of the
many years. Keeping this discussion to themost famous of these is Leontyne Price who
20th century, one needs to go no farther thanwas born in 1927 and still lives today,
the incomparable Jussi Bjoerling, as he wasthough she has long stopped her operatic
called. Bjoerling lived from 1911 to 1960.career. Price had many victories in her
He actually wasn't even Italian but Swedishcareer. Her biggest was probably on January
born. But he was one of the greatest of our27, 1961, when she made her debut at the
time. He was the leading tenor at the NewMetropolitan Opera House while playing
York Metropolitan Opera for more than 20Leonora in the Verdi classic "Il Trovatore".
years. Some of this most memorableHer performance was so incredible that it
performances however were not done at the Metresulted in her getting a 42 minute standing
but at the Rome Opera House under theovation. This was one of the longest in the
direction of Jonel Perlea where he appearedhistory of the Met. The critics reviews of
in some of the greatest operas ever written,her performance labeled it as
including "Cavalleria Rusticana" and "Tosca""flawless".These few greats only scratch the
and "Carmen", just to name a few.In the operasurface of what opera has given us. If
world, many people were constantly comparingyou've never been to the grand opera, by all
Bjoerling to another great tenor by the namemeans go. Even if you have to leave your 16
of Enrico Caruso. Caruso actually came longyear old acid rocker home.



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