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epigramophone wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:56 am Galli-Curci is my favourite soprano on record. Unlike some of the more strident sopranos of the verismo school, Galli-Curci's technique harks back to an earlier age. Her voice seems to float on the air, and to be effortlessly produced. I will be hearing her today.

Thanks for remembering her. I have to completely second your sentiments: she's definitely my favourite soprano of her times, and possibly of all times.

Possibly the news of her death were not highlighted also because she was unactive since many years, after having had surgery to the superior laryngeal nerve (also commonly referred to as Galli-Curci's nerve) that, despite the care taken by surgeons, seemed to have compromised her vocal agility.

Please enjoy my favourite picture of her: serious, elegant, but still nice and smiling.

Galli-Curci has always been a special favourite. She started me, at age 12, on my love of historical recordings and music in general.

Steven

Galli-Curci has always been a favorite of mine since, at around age ten or so, I found the Victor acoustic recording of her rendition of "La Capinera." Even at such a young age, I was captivated by the fluidity and utter beauty of her voice. Her duet with the flute amazed me. I'm now 70, and my love of her has not changed one bit!

epigramophone wrote: Sun Nov 26, 2023 4:56 am On 26th November 1963 the great coloratura soprano Amelita Galli-Curci passed away.
Her death received little publicity, overshadowed as it was by the assassination of President John F Kennedy.

Granted this has nothing to do with music or records, but also significantly overshadowed by JFK's assassination were the deaths of British authors Aldous Huxley (Brave New World) and C. S. Lewis (Chronicles of Narnia). Both passed away on Nov. 22, 1963. Quite a week...

CharliePhono wrote: Wed Nov 29, 2023 3:45 pm Galli-Curci has always been a favorite of mine since, at around age ten or so, I found the Victor acoustic recording of her rendition of "La Capinera." Even at such a young age, I was captivated by the fluidity and utter beauty of her voice. Her duet with the flute amazed me. I'm now 70, and my love of her has not changed one bit!

Neither has it changed for me. My first Galli-Curci records were two ten-inch double sided issues I was given at age 12–Crepuscule/Les Filles de Cadiz, and A Kiss in the Dark/Kiss Me Again. I have been grateful to her ever since. And it did not interfere in any way with my interest in the current rock recordings of the time lol. I loved them all. My friends in high school were very understanding and open-minded.

Even my parents, who were not classically-inclined, always acknowledged the beauty of her voice, and the fact that I appreciated it.

Steven