Lily Pons ( April 12, 1898 – February 13, 1976 ) was a French-American operatic soprano and actress who had an active career from the late 1920s through the early 1970s.

* December 31 – Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer ( d. 1813 )

* November 12 – Jean de Crévecoeur, French-American writer ( b. 1735 )

Louis de Branges de Bourcia ( born August 21, 1932 ) is a French-American mathematician.

* Jean de Crèvecoeur ( 1735 – 1813 ), French-American writer

Alternatively, it may have been named for the famous French-American philosopher Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur, who hypothesized on what is the true American.

Michel Guillaume Jean de Crèvecœur ( December 31, 1735 – November 12, 1813 ), naturalized in New York as John Hector St. John, was a French-American writer.

* December 31-Jean de Crèvecoeur, French-American writer ( died 1813 )

Julien de Lallande Poydras ( April 3, 1746 – June 14, 1824 ) was a French-American politician who served as Delegate from the Territory of Orleans to the United States House of Representatives.

The earliest known use was by French-American writer John Hector St. John de Crevecoeur in rural New York in 1778: " Then a severe frost succeeds which prepares it to receive the voluminous coat of snow which is soon to follow ; though it is often preceded by a short interval of smoke and mildness, called the Indian Summer.

The festival is produced is partnership with the France Education Northwest, the French-American School of Puget Sound, and the Alliance Française de Seattle.

Le Lycée Français de Los Angeles is one of the few U. S. schools prepared for the 2011 version of the French-American Baccalaureate exam.

* Ted Morgan ( writer ) ( born 1932 as Comte St. Charles Armand Gabriel de Gramont ), French-American writer

In 1960, Gary wrote a novelized autobiographical account of his mother's struggles and triumphs, La promesse de l ' aube ( Promise at Dawn ), which became the basis for an English-language play and a French-American film.

* Ève Curie ( 1904 – 2007 ), French-American writer and journalist, Marie and Pierre's second daughter

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

* 1923 – Victoria de los Angeles, Spanish soprano ( d. 2005 )

** Victoria de los Angeles, Catalan soprano ( d. 2005 )

He wrote one concerto each for flute, oboe ( later rearranged for flute and known as Flute Concerto No. 2 ), clarinet, and bassoon, four for horn, a Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra, a Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra, and Exsultate, jubilate, a de facto concerto for soprano voice.

Richard Strauss married soprano Pauline de Ahna on 10 September 1894.

Castrati were already prominent by this date in Italian church choirs, replacing both falsettists and trebles ; the last soprano falsettist singing in Rome, Juan de Santos ( a Spaniard ), died in 1652.

* Chanson de Barberine, for soprano and orchestra ( 1884 )

Christina Nilsson, Countess de Casa Miranda, ( 20 August 1843-20 November 1921 ) was a Swedish operatic soprano.

Her last major work was the Concerto de la fidelité for coloratura soprano and orchestra, which was premièred at the Paris Opera the year before her death.

Although the score of his only opera bouffe, Les mamelles de Tirésias (" Tiresias ' Breasts ", after Guillaume Apollinaire's surrealist drama ) was completed in 1945, it was not performed until 1947, after Poulenc met soprano Denise Duval.

* 1964 Hector Berlioz: Les nuits d ' été & Manuel de Falla El amor brujo – Leontyne Price, soprano ; Fritz Reiner, conductor ( RCA )

loin de rire, pleurons ( soprano, alto, tenor, bass ) ( pub.

* RCT 21. 2 – Lucas, pour se gausser de nous ( soprano, bass, continuo ) ( pub.

* May 6 – May 28 – In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos supervises the recording of his Bachiana Brasileira No. 6 by Fernand Dufrene ( flute ) and René Plessier ( bassoon ) and his Bachiana Brasileira No. 2 with the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, the four suites of his Descobrimento do Brasil, his Chôros No. 10 and his Invocação em defesa da patria, with Maria Kareska ( soprano ), the Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, and the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Françaisefor EMI.

* June 7 – June 13 – In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his Bachiana Brasileira No. 5 with Victoria de los Ángeles ( soprano ) and a cello ensemble from the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI.

* Heitor Villa-Lobos: La Découverte du Brésil, Invocation pour la Défense de la Patrie, Chôros nᵒ 10 – Chœrs et Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française ; Maria Kareska, soprano ; Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France ; direction Heitor Villa-Lobos.

** Léontine de Maësen, operatic soprano ( born 1835 )

* February 4-Pauline de Ahna, operatic soprano ( died 1950 )

* Grains de cendre, for soprano and chamber orchestra ( 1946 )

These unique acoustic documents, known as the Mapleson Cylinders, preserve a unique audio picture of the early Met, and are the only known extant recordings of some renowned performers including the tenor Jean de Reszke and the dramatic soprano Milka Ternina.

A boy soprano named Dixon Boyd sang a Durante solo motet and a few other passages enchantingly.

There she sang, alongside Adelina Patti, the leading soprano of the time, a stanza of Dies irae, " Liber scriptum ", adjusted to the music of the duet " Quis est Homo " from Rossini ’ s own Stabat Mater.

In addition to dance, August was a voracious reader, learned French at home, played the violin, sang in a boy soprano voice, and studied declamation with the actors Michael Rosing, Lindgreen, and Frydensdahl.

He gave the first of his many concerts in the United States in 1948 with Bernac, and met soprano Leontyne Price who sang his chansons, and composer Samuel Barber whose Mélodies passagères were created in Paris by their dedicatees, Bernac and Poulenc, in February 1952.

Having trained from the age of twelve as an opera singer, Grayson sang as a coloratura soprano, in the style of operatic arias.

The physician, Giovanni Camillo Maffei, in his book Discorso della voce e del modo d ' apparare di cantar di garganta in 1562, explained that when a bass singer sang in the soprano range, the voice was called " falsetto ".

The falsetto register is used by male countertenors to sing in the alto and occasionally the soprano range, and was the standard before women sang in choirs.

As a child, Brakhage was featured on radio as a boy soprano and sang in church choirs and as a soloist at other events.

While signed to local Lupine Records, Diana Ross and Mary Wilson sang lead on the group's only 45 on that label, " Tears of Sorrow "/" Pretty Baby " though Ballard added a soprano whoop at the beginning of the latter track.

" On 21 and 28 July she sang a duo recital with her sister-in-law, the soprano Cecilia Arne ( née Young ).

Patti sang professionally from childhood, and developed into a coloratura soprano with perfectly equalized vocal registers and a surprisingly warm, satiny tone.

It was led by Joan Cross, who managed the company and when necessary sang leading soprano roles in its productions.

The Australian soprano Joan Sutherland sang the role in a production by Franco Zeffirelli in which she made her debut at La Fenice in February 1960 and at the Dallas Opera in November of that year.

In 1993 Childs and Sutton repeated their roles, while Gregory Dolbashian and Jasper McGruder replaced Mann and the late Mr. Johnson's roles respectively, and Jeremy Montemarano voiced the role of " The Boy ;" Schuman sang the soprano role.

In the 1951-52 season, wagnerian soprano Kirsten Flagstad sang Alceste in five performances, including her farewell performance with the company on April 1, 1952.

Although he sang Tonio in Pagliacci, Escamillo in Carmen, and Scarpia in Tosca, he was particularly acclaimed as one of the finest interpreters of the great Verdi baritone roles, above all the title role of Rigoletto, which was captured in 1950 in an RCA recording with soprano Erna Berger and tenor Jan Peerce, conducted by Renato Cellini.

On 20 May 1905, he married Annie Mortimer " Nan " Noble, daughter of the box-office manager of the Alhambra Theatre, who sang professionally in the soprano range under the name Annette George.

Gobbi famously sang the part of Scarpia in the legendary 1964 Franco Zeffirelli production of Puccini's Tosca at Covent Garden, with soprano Maria Callas in the title role.

Australian soprano Dame Nellie Melba famously sang to crowds gathered below in the Square, from her hotel room above in Dooly's Hotel.

* Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones sang as a boy soprano for Queen Elizabeth II in Westminster Abbey.

This is the only time the train is moved into San Francisco, proper ; the ceremony is attended by Pacific Opera Company soprano Evelyn Corvello ( who sang the Star Spangled Banner to open the ceremony ), San Francisco Mayor Elmer Robinson, Western Pacific President Harry A. Mitchell, California Lieutenant Governor Goodwin Knight and Warner Brothers actress Eleanor Parker ( who officially christened the train with a bottle of champagne ).

In 1996, Fleming sang the title role in Rossini's Armida at the Pesaro Festival, the role of Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte at the Met, and the soprano solos in the Verdi Requiem with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Ca

For example, the soprano Mado Robin, who was known for her exceptionally high voice, sang a number of compositions created especially to exploit her highest notes, reaching C7.

Maria Malibran ( a famous mezzo-soprano who often sang soprano parts ) starred in the premiere, but she ignored the censoring revisions ( vil bastarda – " vile bastard " became donna vile ) and the city banned further performances.

The opera helped launch the career of the soprano Mary Garden, who sang Louise in Act 3 at the eighth performance.