* 1897 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano ( d. 1981 )

Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

* May 25 – Rosa Ponselle, American soprano ( b. 1897 )

** Rosa Ponselle, soprano ( died 1981 )

In the early 1920s, Rosa Raisa, Claudia Muzio, and Rosa Ponselle were each admired in the role.

There were in fact several others, Lily Pons and Rosa Ponselle among them ; and it is well documented that Gatti-Casazza gave himself a large pay increase in 1931, so that after the pay cut in 1932 his salary remained the same as it had been originally.

Again, many of the greatest singers in the world appeared at the Met under Gatti-Casazza's leadership, including Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Maria Jeritza, Frances Alda, Frida Leider, Amelita Galli-Curci, Lily Pons, Jacques Urlus, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Giacomo Lauri-Volpi, Lauritz Melchior, Titta Ruffo, Giuseppe De Luca, Pasquale Amato, Lawrence Tibbett, Friedrich Schorr, Feodor Chaliapin, Jose Mardones, Tancredi Pasero and Ezio Pinza — among many others.

Callas recorded the arias " Tu che invoco " and " O Nume tutelar " from La vestale in 1955 ( as did Rosa Ponselle in 1926 ).

Such great early-20th century international operatic stars as Enrico Caruso, Rosa Ponselle and Titta Ruffo developed vocal techniques which harmoniously managed to combine fundamental bel canto precepts with a more ' modern ', straightforward mode of ripe-toned singing when delivering Verismo music, and their example has influenced operatic performers down to this day ( see Scott ).

Two of its arias ( translated to Italian and recorded by Maria Callas and Rosa Ponselle ), " Tu che invoco " and " O Nume tutelar ", are better known than the work as a whole.

After graduating, he spent a summer as an apprentice at the Santa Fe Opera and thereafter dedicated himself to becoming an opera singer, studying briefly with the famed soprano Rosa Ponselle.

Pinza's Metropolitan Opera debut occurred in November 1926 in Spontini's La vestale, with famed American soprano Rosa Ponselle in the title role.

They included, among others, such international stars as Amelita Galli-Curci, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Giovanni Martinelli, Beniamino Gigli, Lawrence Tibbett, Giuseppe De Luca, and

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( Her chief contemporary rival at the New York Metropolitan Opera was the Italian-American soprano Rosa Ponselle, who possessed a bigger and darker-hued voice.

** Rosa Ponselle as Norma.

** Rosa Ponselle

Opera stars Rose Bampton, Lucrezia Bori, Feodor Chaliapin, Jon Crain, Richard Crooks, Miguel Fleta, Emilio de Gogorza, Amelita Galli-Curci, Mary Garden, Beniamino Gigli, Helen Jepson, Maria Jeritza, Giovanni Martinelli, Nino Martini, John McCormack, James Melton, Grace Moore, Jan Peerce, Lily Pons, Rosa Ponselle, Elisabeth Rethberg, Gladys Rice, Tito Schipa, Gladys Swarthout, John Charles Thomas, and Lawrence Tibbett were all conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret.

* Rosa Ponselle, singer

However, he could not remember her name and was unable to track her down until a chance meeting with Sheldon Soffer tipped him off that she was working with the Baltimore Opera Company under Rosa Ponselle.

During the performance Francis Robinson, then assistant general manager at the Met, had the house phones hooked up so Rosa Ponselle could hear Chookasian's entrance over the telephone at her home.

His father was Joaquín Balaguer Lespier, a Puerto Rican of Catalan ancestry, and his mother was Carmen Celia Ricardo, daughter of Manuel de Jesus Ricardo and Rosa Amelia Heureaux.

In 1894, he married Florette Seligman ( 1870 – 1937 ), daughter of James Seligman, a senior partner in the firm J & W Seligman, and Rosa Seligman née Content.

She was born Elisabeth Ettel in Drohobycz, Austro-Hungarian Empire ( now Drogobych, Ukraine ), the daughter of Anna Rosa ( née Wagner ) and Emil Ettel, a merchant.

The story of Thomas Sutpen's legacy ends with Quentin taking Rosa back to the seemingly abandoned Sutpen ’ s Hundred plantation, where they find Henry Sutpen and Clytie, herself the daughter of Thomas Sutpen by a slave woman.

There he meets the prison guard's beautiful daughter Rosa, who will be his comfort and help, and at last his rescuer.

Rosa, his daughter, in love with Cornelius van Baerle.

In 1873, Grossmith married Emmeline Rosa Noyce ( 1849 – 1905 ), the daughter of a neighbourhood physician, whom he had met years earlier at a children's party.

He married Rosa Wilbraham, who was also from Adelaide, in 1925, and they had one daughter.

Later he married Matilde Garcia Rosa and had a daughter, Lila, in 1933.

Yglesias and Rosa were divorced due to family pressure, and he married Manuela Petronila de la Trinidad Rodríguez Alvarado, daughter of president José Joaquín Rodríguez Zeledón ( 1890-1894 ).

The Rascabuches has a young daughter named Rosa.

His mother, Maria Ramona Carrillo de Pacheco, was a sister-in-law of General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo, and a daughter of Maria Ygnacia Lopez de Carrillo, the grantee of Rancho Cabeza de Santa Rosa.

Tess's 11 year-old daughter Rosa tries to cope with the unexpected and violent death by claiming she can still see Lennie and communicate with her.

He had two natural daughters by Belmira das Neves ( Portimão, August 5, 1886-January 26, 1967 ), daughter of fisherman João de Deus and wife Quitéria das Dores, named Ana Rosa, who was born in Portimão and married José Calapez, also born in Portimão, and Maria Manuela, who was born on September 7, 1910 and married José Pearce de Azevedo ( b. and d. Portimão ).

It is possible to conclude this on the basis of a preserved cassette, recorded by his stepdaughter Malú Montes de Oca ( Rosa Luján's daughter ), on which he sings two songs in Low German, a dialect of the German language, with some language features which are typical of this region.

Ayala chooses Maria Luna de Márez as the name of Antonio's mother which parallels his own mother's surname, and her cultural and geographical origins: Rafaelita Mares, the daughter of farmers from a small village near Santa Rosa called Puerto de Luna valley.

Born Gayle Peck in Santa Rosa, California, she was the daughter of Jack and Josephine Peck, who were a vaudeville song-and-dance team.

Payá's daughter Rosa María stated that her father died after the rental car in which he was traveling was rammed several times by another car.

In 1908 he married Countess Friederike Maria Karoline Henriette Rosa Sabina Franziska Fugger von Babenhausen ( 1887 Klagenfurt – 1949 Vienna ), eldest daughter of Karl Ludwig, 1st Fuerst or Prince Fugger von Babenhausen and Princess Eleonora Fugger von Babenhausen of Klagenfurt, Austria.

He married twice and had a daughter, " Coqui ", with his first wife, Rosa.

His mother was Salud V. Quizon ( née Vera ), the daughter of Maximo Vera and Ninay Vera ( née de la Rosa ).

Rosa had two daughters and Collazo had one daughter, both from a previous marriages.

Sally's pain for most of The Shadow in the North and The Tiger in the Well revolves around the fact that had Fred survived the fire, the couple would have married and brought up their daughter, Harriet Rosa Lockhart, together.

Joaquin Torres García was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, from the union of Joaquim Torres Garcia ( son of Joan Torres and Rosa Fradera, rope makers from Mataró, Spain ) and María García Pérez ( daughter of José María García, master carpenter from the Canary Islands, and Misia Rufina Pérez, a native-born Uruguayan aristocrat ).