Perlea
Americannoun
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Among the most highly regarded are two for RCA: a “Lucrezia,” with Shirley Verrett and Alfredo Kraus, conducted by Jonel Perlea, and a “Salome,” with Sherrill Milnes and Regina Resnik, under the baton of Erich Leinsdorf.
From New York Times
I perceived this as a boy before I even had words for it, while listening to one of the first opera recordings I owned: the 1955 “Aida” with a febrile Jonel Perlea conducting the forces of the Rome Opera and a sublime cast.
From New York Times
The same day, Conductor Jonel Perlea, 69, died in New York, ending a career whose flickering brilliance had been dimmed by war and a succession of illnesses.
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To the Met audience, the season's first Tristan, which Perlea directed, sounded different from any performance they had ever heard before.
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Jonel Perlea, the goateed Rumanian conductor whom the Met hired this season, had no specialty, and the Met decided he needed none.
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