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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There, Collector Seltsam found not only peeping vocal relics of such golden-agers as Emma Eames, Johanna Gadski, Marcella Sembrich, but 16 records of the otherwise unrecorded* Jean de Reszke.
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And here, in his only extant recording, is the Polish tenor De Reszke; the legendary voice is frustratingly obscured, but his Wagner and Meyerbeer heroes glow with virile grace.
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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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Thrilled Phonographer Seltsam started raising money to re-record Mapleson's de Reszke samples on modern discs.
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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