Enrico Caruso, Luisa Tetrazzini, Giuseppe Di Stefano, and lecturer Henry Fogel
WFMT Immersion Day: "Great Opera Singers of the 20th Century" with Henry Fogel
Something new at WFMT and you have a full year to experience it. Join WFMT for an all-day seminar on Saturday February 11, 2012 from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm CST -- streamed live with audio and video -- featuring audio recordings by the greatest singers in history, photographs, DVDs, and more.
Live from the WFMT Studios, before a studio audience, the day will feature a lecture, discussion, and great music. The seminar will be conducted by Henry Fogel, one of the world’s savviest vocal recordings collectors as WFMT listeners have come to know well over the years. Henry is the former president of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and of the League of American Orchestras and currently serves as dean of the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University.
Henry will lead a journey of great recordings of opera singers from the last century, including Luisa Tetrazzini, Rosa Ponselle, Mario Del Monaco, and Feodor Chaliapin, and what made these singers great. He'll discuss their personal experiences with Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, and Verdi and examine how opera singing has changed over the past 120 years.
The cost for the all day stream is just $20 for the general public and $15 for WFMT's Fine Arts Circle members (and you all should be members!). And all subscribers to this seminar will have on-demand access to it for one year. Information and registration here.
NOTE: There will be some DVDs used in the presentation. In cases where streaming rights are not available, online subscribers will hear different audio in place of these DVD recordings.
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