A Toast to Melba
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Label: ABC Classics
Cat No: ABC4816297
Format: CD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Opera
Release Date: 24th August 2018
Contents
Works
Les Pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)Faust
Artists
Lorina Gore (soprano)Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Marko LetonjaWorks
Les Pecheurs de perles (The Pearl Fishers)Faust
Artists
Lorina Gore (soprano)Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra
Conductor
Marko LetonjaAbout
Soprano Lorina Gore and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra salute Dame Nellie Melba, Australia’s first singing sensation. Born in Richmond, Victoria, in 1861, Melba was the first Australian classical musician to receive major international recognition, following her operatic debut in Brussels in 1887. That first appearance (as Gilda in Rigoletto) was described by a famous German critic as “an instant triumph of the most emphatic kind”, and quickly led to debuts at Covent Garden, the Paris Opera and at New York’s Metropolitan Opera. One of the undoubted stars of the ‘Golden Age of Opera’ in the mid- to late-19th century, Melba is also familiar to Australians through the dishes named after her – most famously the Peach Melba, but also Melba toast – and she also features on the Australian $100 banknote.
Lorina Gore is a Helpmann and Green Room Award-winning soprano and has been a principal artist with Opera Australia since 2008. Her most recent credits include performing Musetta in La bohème at the Hanoi Opera in Vietnam, Roxana in Szymanowski’s King Roger for Opera Australia, and her critically acclaimed performance as Ophelia in Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the 2018 Adelaide Festival.
A Toast to Melba sees Lorina reunite with the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra and Marko Letonja, their Chief Conductor and Artistic Director, following the success of their collaboration on a disc of Johann Strauss: Waltzes and Arias, released on ABC Classics in 2016.
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