LILLIAN NORDICA, ORIGINAL NAME LILIAN NORTON, (BORN MAY 12, 1857, FARMINGTON, MAINE, U.S.—DIED MAY 10, 1914, BATAVIA, JAVA, DUTCH EAST INDIES [NOW JAKARTA, INDON.])
Nordica established herself as one of the foremost dramatic sopranos of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She had a powerful yet flexible voice and the ability to perform an unusually wide range of roles in the German, French and Italian operatic repertoires. Nordica grew up from the age of six in Boston, studied at the New England Conservatory of Music, and then gave recitals in the United States and London before resuming study in Milan. In 1879 she made her debut in Milan as Donna Elvira in W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni and in Brescia, Italy, as Violetta in Giuseppe Verdi’s La traviata. After singing in many Italian, German, and Russian cities, she made her Paris Opéra debut in 1882 as Marguerite in Charles Gounod’s Faust. In 1887 Nordica first appeared in London at Covent Garden and until 1893 performed there and at Drury Lane in such parts as Lucia, Donna Elvira, and Aida. In 1894 she was engaged at Bayreuth, Germany—the first American to be so honoured—as Elsa in Richard Wagner’s Lohengrin, and her tumultuous reception was such that she thereafter concentrated on Wagnerian parts. In 1895 she sang Isolde at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, where she remained until 1909, excelling especially as Brünnhilde and Kundry. After retiring from the Metropolitan, she launched a world farewell tour that ended in 1913 when her ship grounded in the Gulf of Papua in December. She contracted pneumonia and died of complications of the disease. Nordica’s Hints to Singers, which included many of her letters, was published in 1923.
TRACKLIST
Götterdämmerung 28 February 1903 Immolation – Nordica
Götterdämmerung 28 February 1903 Immolation – Nordica
Götterdämmerung 23 January 1903 Immolation – Nordica
5. Huguenots 11 March 1901 Act IV duet – Nordica, J. de Reszke IRCC
7. Huguenots 11 March 1901 Act IV duet – Nordica, J. de Reszke IRCC
9. Huguenots 11 March 1901 Act IV duet – Nordica, J. de Reszke IRCC
11. 12. Siegfried 19 January 1903 Act III Duet – Nordica, Anthes IRCC IRCC
14. 15. Tristan 9 February 1903 Love Duet – Nordica, Anthes IRCC IRCC
17. Tristan 9 February 1903 Love Duet – Nordica, Schumann-Heink, Anthes IRCC
Tristan 9 February 1903 Love Duet – Nordica, Anthes
20. 21. Tristan 7 January 1903 Isolde’s Transfiguration – Nordica IRCC IRCC
23. 24. Tristan 9 February 1903 Isolde’s Transfiguration – Nordica IRCC IRCC
26. Walküre 21 February 1903 Hojotoho! – Nordica IRCC
Walküre 16 January 1903 Hojotoho! – Nordica, Schumann-Heink, van Rooy
29. Walküre 21 February 1903 Sieglinde’s Farewell – Nordica, Gadski, Bispham IRCC
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