No need to eat it, it just looks so pretty, I left it to other people, but how very thoughtful….. 25 years……
Beauty of a theater with a thorough and excellent staff, thanks to them. Almost midnight, “mezzanotte”…… tired and very happy…….”Habe dank!!!”
What a genuine pleasure to do this….. So many fabulous people and music, hard to take it all in.
This charming chat with City Arts journalist Eli Jacobson was very enjoyable and he is quite knowledgeable.
Still completely nothing from the Times.
Do they not care about an organization of 40 years doing a great and courageous thing to “tread water” in bad financial oceans?
Little over two weeks and counting. So very thrilled to make music with so wonderful a group that has come to celebrate with me.
What might have been if there were never the fight about Sabine Meier? Mrs. Salzburger gave me this type written paper, and I was to report to do a test disc of three or four arias for DG. How I wish that had come to fruition.
How proud I was to return home telling everyone how Von Karajan had accepted my talent and wanted to work with me. They had heard about it and I basked in the afterglow for a little while. I will never forget him or that whole tour of Germany and Austria. Thanks to Elisabeth Schwarzkopf…. He would remember me when Jessye Norman became ill for a Ballo at the end of his life. Mrs. Pavarotti called me saying Rudi Balmer had called her looking for me. He had not forgotten. What music we could have made.
Refining the program, something I love to do. God how I love music.
A dear friend of mine is facing mortality. In the wee small hours of some morning, at God’s calling, they will cross over and stand before God.
Another new friend, a talented man of art and emotion in colors, died suddenly of a heart attack. His portrait of me is a marvel of captured being. I was so honored and proud.
During this week, I have labored keeping emotions in check and preparing for the recital for Eve Queler. I am struck by how much music is my salvation.
Nothing tops it in my life. It is a gift from God. How grateful I am to have it in my life.
In deep gratitude and remembrance, I keep a somber vigil…..
I miss you so much, and the greatness you give to the world. The gold in that throat ….. Bravo, dear Luciano!!!
We are all sending white light and healing energy to you……. we love you.
“Old-school diva Aprile Millo celebrates her 25-year partnership with Opera Orchestra of New York on Nov. 17 with a solo recital at Frederic P. Rose Hall. The soprano, perhaps the world”s foremost stylist of Italian romantic vocal music, always draws an audience of hard-core cognoscenti, who are practically an opera in themselves.” Mr. James Jorden, for the New York Post’s “Fall Arts Preview”.
The world of music lost a great lady yesterday in the crossing of Hildegard Behrens, a voice and person of honest and beautiful intensity. To her millions of fans all over the world, and to her dear friends and family, my prayers, my solace, solidarity and heart are with you.
