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SYLVIA SASS - THE DECCA RECITALS CD

SYLVIA SASS - THE DECCA RECITALS CD

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THE DECCA RECITALS

Title:

SYLVIA SASS

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CLASSICAL

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4802093

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Sylvia Sass was born near Budapest, Hungary, on 12 July 1951 to a very musical family. Her mother was a coloratura soprano and her father was a high school music teacher. She made her stage debut at age fourteen in Adam's operetta Die N rnberger Puppe and then commenced study at the celebrated Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, completing a five-year program in two. Her professional debut was as Frasquita in Carmen in 1971. Several awards followed - first prize at the Kod ly Voice Competition in Budapest, 1972; winner of the Grand Prix as Violetta in La traviata at the International Opera Competition for Young Singers, 1973, the Silver Medal at the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, 1974. She was also made an Honoured Artist of Hungary in 1977. While still in Budapest, she performed such dramatic roles as Freia in Das Rheingold, Violetta in La traviata and Mimi in La boh me. International stardom came with a composer with whom she is most associated and in a role represented on her Decca recitals - Giselda in Verdi's I Lombardi at Covent Garden in London, 1976. The next year she made both, her Italian debut in Turin as Lady Macbeth, and her Metropolitan Opera debut as Tosca alongside Jos Carreras. La Scala followed the year after, in 1978, where she sang Puccini's tragic heroine Manon Lescaut alongside Pl cido Domingo. Soon, Sass was being heralded as 'the new Callas', and she did meet Callas in person, thanks to a meeting set up by Leonard Bernstein. True, the voice had a similar dramatic colour, but Sass quickly rebuffed the comparison, saying, 'Callas was so great and so unique. I just don't think it's fair to compare somebody with such a great artist'. Her three recital records for Decca include two discs of operatic arias, including all her most celebrated roles, both conducted by Lamberto Gardelli, and a disc of songs by Liszt and Bart k with her compatriot, pianist Andr s Schiff. All of these are issued collectively as a 2CD set for the first time. In recent years, Sass has settled in France, where she keeps busy painting and giving masterclasses.
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