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Lately Horne was irked to read in the New York Times a review of the Met's new Così fan tutte, which dwelled, all too typically, on the oddities of the new production to the exclusion of any detailed assessment of musical values. Carnegie Hall alone has done amazing work. "So much money has gone into it, and so much effort. "So many people have worked so hard to bring music to young audiences," she says. In such advocacy, she is by no means alone. And there are so many incredible young singers out there." In 1994, to improve their chances, she inaugurated the Marilyn Horne Foundation, focusing on the endangered song repertoire, offering advanced training and performance opportunities to dozens if not hundreds of rising talents. "Not all the big institutions will die out, but some will.Remember when there was live opera in prime time on network television? Well, we can forget about that.I don't know what we'll do. "Classical music is in crisis in this country," Horne says matter-of-factly. Making beautiful music: alongside Joan Sutherland, Horne helps rehabilitate the serious Rossini of Semiramide. Who in our omnivorous but distracted age has the time, the reverence, the knowledge, and the sense of history to take charge of such an archive? "What shall I do with them?," she wonders aloud. Youtunes marilyn horn full#Horne has yet to broach a whole closet full of single-copy, unpublished audio cassettes. Of all things, she singles out vaudeville trios with the iconic American comic Carol Burnett and the clarion-toned Yankee soprano Eileen Farrell, beloved of Leonard Bernstein, in particular the original operatic farce in miniature "Three Little Pigs." Opera fans are likelier to cherish Horne's Dalila, her Carmen, and the Handel ( Rinaldo) and serio as well as buffo Rossini ( Semiramide, Tancredi) that helped reshape contemporary notions of the canon. Youtunes marilyn horn tv#I saw it on YouTube: a favorite TV clip of Horne's, from "Three Little Pigs," also starring the redoubtable Eileen Farrell (left). Sometimes people send me clips on YouTube, and then I watch them on my computer. A friend of mine had it done for me as a gift. "All my video tapes have been transferred to DVD, over 200 of them, in real time. Youtunes marilyn horn archive#"I don't watch myself." Yet in anticipation of the move to the West Coast, she has been forced to contemplate her archive of private recordings. Her mind is sharp, likewise her memory, and her speaking voice retains its unmistakable metal. Horne carries her 84 years the way others carry 60. But first of all, you have to be born with a great voice. ![]() The details you have to be on top of are just endless. "After all this time, I still go for a great voice, my dear, for anyone who can really sing. "To be a great singer of classical music is the hardest thing in the world," she says. Echoing the young Verdi, Horne calls the time in the ensemble her "galley years." Three seasons with the opera in Gelsenkirchen followed. The young singer had scarcely begun to sing professionally when she caught the ear of Igor Stravinsky, who took her along to the Venice Biennale. ![]() Among countless luminaries in flight from Hitler's Europe who had taken refuge there was Lotte Lehmann, that unsurpassed exponent of the lied, who took Horne under her wing when she was 17. Youtunes marilyn horn movie#But the movie business was hardly the only game in town. In 1954, just 20 years old, she dubbed the songs for the title character of Carmen Jones, which transposes Bizet's opera to a African-American setting in the recent war years while leaving the music practically intact. ![]() Though born in Bradford, Pennsylvania, where a street now bears her name, Horne has called California home since her family moved cross-country to Long Beach, within Greater Los Angeles. Today Horne is packing up her home of 40 years, steps from Lincoln Center, to relocate to Santa Barbara, California. "You," he is reported by those who were there to have said, "are a $10,000 artist." Nearing the finish of a legendary career, the company's Viennese-born general director Sir Rudolf Bing ripped up her contract the next morning and handed her a new one, granting her the company's top fee. Youtunes marilyn horn series#Marilyn Horne in 2007, inaugural honoree of the tribute series "Met Legends."Ĭan it be 22 years since Marilyn Horne gave her farewell performance as Dame Quickly at the Metropolitan Opera, after just over a quarter century as one of the Met's winners' circle of genuinely indispensable divas? Her debut on March 31, 1970, as Adalgisa opposite the Norma of Joan Sutherland lives in history as a sensation. ![]()
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