The Teatro Solis : 150 years of opera, concert, and ballet in Montevideo /
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| Author / Creator: | Salgado, Susana. |
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| Imprint: | Middletown, Conn. : Wesleyan University Press, c2003. |
| Description: | xxiii, 493 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4904181 |
Table of Contents:
- 1516-1829: The Solis Tradition
- 1830-1856: The Italian Opera in the Americas and the Antecedents of the Teatro Solis
- 1839-1856: The Construction of the Teatro Solis
- August 25, 1856: The Opening of the Teatro Solis
- 1857-1858: A Triumphant Enrico Tamberlick Opens the Second Solis Season
- Anna Bishop: A Soprano To Remember
- Artur Napoleao and Oscar Pfeiffer: Two First Piano Virtuosi
- 1859-1866: Anna de la Grange and Raffaele Mirate: Two Stars and Three Companies in the Same Season
- 1867-1869 Louis Moreau Gottschalk, First American Pianist and Composer
- 1870-1876: Carlotta Patti
- Pablo de Sarasate
- Two Rossini Premieres
- A Great Basso Buffo: Alessandro Bottero-Luisa Gallo-Il Guarany
- 1878-1887
- The First Uroguayan Opera: Tomas Giribaldi's Parisima
- Fracesco Tamagno's First Season at the Teatro Solis
- More Debuts: Gemma Bellincioni and Roberto Stagno, Medea Mei and Nikolay Figner, Eva Tetrazzini
- 1888-1889
- Adelina Patti, Nineteenth-Century Superstar
- Otello's Uroguayan Premiere: Romilda Pantaleoni and Roberto Sagno-Mattia Battistini, "The King of Baritones"
- 1890-1894
- Jose Oxilia: The Uruguayan Otello
- Young Antonio Scotti's Falstaff
- Edoardo Mascheroni: The First Notable Conductor
- Seven Opera Premieres and a Famous Zarzuela
- 1865-1897
- La Boheme Premiere with Hariclea Darclee and Emilio De Marchi
- Francesco Tamagno Singing Otello
- An Ideal Werther: Fernando De Lucia
- Edoardo Mascheroni Conducts Seven New Operas
- Florencio Consantino's Debut* 1898-1899
- Montevideo and Its New Theaters
- Luisa Tetrazzini
- Two Bohemes and a Young Conductor: Giorgio Polacco
- Regina Pacini
- Luis Sambucetti's Suite d'orchestre
- 1900
- The Turn of the Century: From "La Belle Epoque" to Challenging Times
- Opera as a Fashionable Social Event
- Impresarios and Opera Business
- Teatro Solis Carnival Masked Balls
- Opera Programs and a Vanishing Collection
- 1901-1902
- Two New Stars at the Solis: Maria Barrientos and Giuseppe Anselmi
- A Tosca to Remember with Hariclea Darclee and Edoardo Garbin
- The Death of Maestro Luigi Preti, The Solis' First Conductor
- 1903
- The Rise of a Golden Age: The Arrival of Arturo Toscanini and Enrico Caruso
- 1904-1906
- Rosina Storchio and Madama Butterfly
- The Opening of the Teatro Urquiza
- Puccini Visits Montevideo
- Toscanini Conducts the Teatro Solis Golden Jubilee
- Salomea Kruszelnicka
- 1861-1918
- Glitter and Gaiety at Solis Operetta Seasons
- The First American Musical: The Black Crook
- An outstanding English Operetta Season
- Lehar Works Close Half a Century of Frivlous and Nonchalant Operettas
- 1907-1914
- Leopoldo Mugnone Conducts Massenet and Wagner Uruguayan Premieres
- An Overnight Star: Amelita Galli-Curci-Mascagni's Arrival
- Isabeau-Celestina Boninsegna
- Guglielmo Ratcliff- Parsifal
- The Ballets Russes: Vaslav Nijinsky and Tamara Karsavina
- 1914-1916
- Titta Ruffo: "Not a Voice but a Miracle"
- Tito Schipa
- Elivira de Hidalgo
- Rosa Raisa
- Giovanni Martinelli
- A Pagliacci to Remember
- Riccardo Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini
- Uruguayan Opera World Premiere: Cesar Cortinas' La ultima gavota
- Camille Saint-Saens' Arrival and Performance
- The French Season: Andre Massager and Xavier Leroux Conduct Their Operas
- Ninon Vallin
- 1917
- A Unique Performance: Artur Rubenstein and Vaslav Nijinsky
- Ernest Ansermet and a New Season of the Ballets Russes
- New Voices: Fanny Anitua and Marcelo Urizar
- Uruguayan World Premiere: Cesar Cortinas' La sulamita-Gino Marinuzzi Conducts Puccini's La rondine Premiere
- 1918-1922
- Beniamino Gigli and Claudia Muzio
- Lucien Muratore
- Four Uruguayan Premieres: Madame Sans-Gene, Monna Vanna, Fedra, and Le roi de Lahore
- Anna Pavlova- Recitals: Yolanda Mero, Frances Nash, Edouard Risler, Artur Rubenstein, and Ricardo Vines
- Feliz Weingartner and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
- 1923-1928- Richard Strauss Conducts Elektra and the Vienna Philharmonic
- Debut of Nine Celebrated Singers
- "A Gentleman of the Stage": The Baritone Vicor Damiani
- Two Premieres: Boris Godunov and La cena delle beffe
- Beethoven Centennial Concerts
- 1929-1930
- A Russian Opera Season-Bidu Sayao and Jan Kiepura
- Rosette Anday's Carmen-Ottorin Respighi Conducts and Plays His Works
- Guiomar Novaes
- Wanda Landowska
- Elizabeth Schumann
- Jaques Thibaud
- Feodor Chaliapin
- The Creation of the SORDRE
- 1931-1955
- Solis Versus SODRE: The Struggle for Survival
- Lily Pons-The "Soler Miracle"- the Centro Cultural de Musica
- An Impressive Porgy and Bess
- 1956-1984
- The Teatro Solis Centennial
- Political Turmoil and the Fall of the Cultural life
- The Burning of the SODRE
- From a Military Dictatorship to Democracy
- Epilogue: Opera, Conert, and Ballet on the Teatro Solis Stage- The Begnning of a New Era
- Facing the Future
- Chronology
- Artists who Performed at the Teatro Solis
- Musical Worlds Performed at the Teatro Solis
- Instrumental Ensembles that Performed at the Teatro Solis
- Vocal Ensembles that Performed at the Teatro Solis
- Ballet Companies that Performed at the Teatre Solis
- Notes
