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About Blanche Thebom
Blanche Thebom was an American operatic mezzo-soprano, voice teacher, and opera director. She was part of the first wave of American opera singers that had highly successful international careers. In her own country she had a long association with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City which lasted 22 years. Opera News stated, "An ambitious beauty with a velvety, even-grained dramatic mezzo, Thebom was a natural for opera: she commanded the stage with the elegantly disciplined hauteur of an old-school diva, relishing the opportunity to play femmes du monde such as Marina in Boris Godunov, Herodias and Dalila."
While Thebom sang a broad repertoire which encompassed everything from Handel and Mozart to Verdi and Debussy, she was best known for her performances in the operas of Richard Wagner. Two Wagner roles with which she was particularly associated were Fricka in Die Walküre and Brangaene in Tristan und Isolde.[4] She notably sang the latter role in a famous 1952 recording made in London with Kirsten Flagstad, Ludwig Suthaus, and conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler. In addition to several other recordings, she also appeared in two feature films during her career: Irish Eyes Are Smiling (1944) and, with Mario Lanza, The Great Caruso (1951).
After retiring from the stage in 1967, Thebom worked as an opera director in Atlanta for 6 years. She then taught singing both privately and on the music faculties of the University of Arkansas and San Francisco State University. She also co-founded the Opera Arts Training Program of the San Francisco Girls Chorus and served on the board of the Metropolitan Opera for nearly four decades.
At the age of 94, Blanche Thebom died of heart failure at her home in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. She has her star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Thebom
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/50339039/blanche-thebom
- http://www.bruceduffie.com/thebom.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_Thebom
https://sv.findagrave.com/memorial/50339039/blanche-thebom
https://web.archive.org/web/20110609071024/http://www.cantonrep.com...
http://www.bruceduffie.com/thebom.html
https://www.arbetarbladet.se/artikel/josses-jussi-blanche-ar-ocksa-...
https://www.gd.se/artikel/blanche-thebom-en-operadiva-av-stal
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Blanche Thebom's Timeline
1915 |
September 19, 1915
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Monessen, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, United States
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2010 |
March 23, 2010
Age 94
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At her home, San Francisco, California, United States
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Ashes scattered in San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California, United States
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