Reszke
Americannoun
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Édouard de 1853–1917, Polish operatic bass.
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Jean de 1850–1925, Polish tenor.
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Last week, Seltsam issued to the public his first de Reszke discs: a part of the Forge Song from Wagner's Siegfried, a snatch of the aria O Paradiso from Meyerbeer's L'Africaine.
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Not long afterward, Soprano Talley's bubble had burst, and Manhattan operagoers began to think that Melchior was the best all-round Heldentenor they had heard since Jean de Reszke.
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Indeed, as contemporaries of many of the operas--De Reszke was born in 1850, the year of Lohengrin's premiere--the old singers project a freshness and an unforced vitality that are often lacking today.
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In the late 1890s, when Tenor de Reszke was at his peak, the phonograph was a scratchy-voiced toy.
From Time Magazine Archive
My meeting with Jean de Reszke is stamped vividly in my memory, since he was the first personage from that beautiful dream world of opera that it was my privilege to meet.
From Geraldine Farrar The Story of an American Singer by Geraldine Farrar
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