McCracken made a number of complete opera recordings, including " Le prophète " ( with Marilyn Horne and Renata Scotto, ( Col / CBS ), c1976 ), " Carmen " ( conducted by Leonard Bernstein, ( DG ), 1972 ), " Fidelio " ( with Birgit Nilsson, ( Decca / London ), 1964 ), " Otello " ( with Dame Gwyneth Jones, ( EMI / Angel ), 1968 ) and " Pagliacci ", on which side 4 of the original LP version was a recital of opera arias, ( Decca / London ), ( 1967 ), as well as Schoenberg's Gurre-Lieder ( with Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and David Arnold, ( Phi ), 1979 ), and a program of Irish and Scottish songs with piano ( EMI / Angel ), 1977.

Tatiana Troyanos ( September 12, 1938 – August 21, 1993 ) was an American mezzo-soprano of Greek and German descent.

After a long run in the chorus in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, Troyanos was engaged by the New York City Opera and made her professional operatic debut in April 1963 as Hippolyta in the New York premiere production of Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream.

" The star of the show was Miss Troyanos ... the most aristocratic Octavian at the Met in years ," wrote Speight Jenkins in a review of the Rosenkavalier in the New York Post.

" Tatiana Troyanos: Flair and Flamboyance ", < i > The Gramophone </ i >, December 2003, accessed August 24, 2012 .</ ref > from 1976 to her death in 1993, she was internationally revered for her uniquely sensual, burnished sound, her versatility and beauty, as well as the thrilling intensity of all her performances.

" Troyanos ' voice was the kind you recognize after one bar, and never forget ," wrote Cori Ellison in Opera News.

Troyanos was also active as a song recitalist, both solo ( she made her Carnegie Hall recital debut in 1978 ) and, later in her career, in partnership with the soprano Benita Valente.

Tatiana Troyanos died on August 21, 1993, at the age of 54 in New York City from breast cancer which was first diagnosed in the mid-1980s and, about five weeks before her death, was found to have metastasized to her liver.

Troyanos, who died twenty-two days before her 55th birthday, was one of three female opera stars of international stature who succumbed to cancer in 1993 in or near their 54th year ; the others were sopranos Lucia Popp and Arleen Auger.

Generally known as the " operatic version " of West Side Story, it stars Kiri Te Kanawa as Maria, José Carreras as Tony, Tatiana Troyanos as Anita, Kurt Ollmann as Riff, and Marilyn Horne as the offstage voice who sings " Somewhere ".

Generally known as the " operatic version ", it starred Te Kanawa as Maria, José Carreras as Tony, Tatiana Troyanos as Anita, Kurt Ollman as Riff, and Marilyn Horne as the offstage voice who sings " Somewhere ".

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Ezio Flagello, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, George Shirley, Tatiana Troyanos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Mozart: Cosi Fan Tutte

** Richard Mohr ( producer ), Erich Leinsdorf ( conductor ), Ezio Flagello, Sherrill Milnes, Leontyne Price, Judith Raskin, George Shirley, Tatiana Troyanos & the New Philharmonia Orchestra for Mozart: Così fan tutte

From 1981 to 1983, Troyanos appeared in all three season opening nights at the Met —" typically enough ," James Levine, the conductor for all three, noted, " in three different styles and languages "— as Adalgisa in Bellini's Norma in 1981 ( opposite Renata Scotto ), Octavian in Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier in 1982 ( opposite Kiri Te Kanawa ), and Didon in Berlioz's Les Troyens in 1983 ( with Jessye Norman and Plácido Domingo ).

Troyanos continued her musical studies at Juilliard and privately with voice teacher Hans Heinz, whom she called " the major influence in my life.

After debuts in Chicago, Dallas, Boston, and in San Francisco — where the Chronicles Robert Commanday wrote of her appearance in Monteverdi's L ' incoronazione di Poppea, " The means by which Poppea seduces Nero ... could liquefy even stone the way the sensational new mezzo soprano Tatiana Troyanos sang "— she returned to New York to make her Metropolitan Opera debut as Octavian, closely followed by the Composer, in the spring of 1976.

Other roles Troyanos sang on opera stages in the course of her career included

Troyanos had successfully concealed her illness from the vast majority of her colleagues, having sung her last Met performance — the last of three performances as Waltraute ( a role debut ) to Gwyneth Jones ' Brünnhilde in Wagner's Götterdämmerung — on May 1, 1993.

" Troyanos is still a profoundly immediate and expressive artist ," wrote Richard Dyer in the Boston Globe, citing her " pliant and meaningful delivery and coloration of the text " and her " beautiful, sophisticated and natural shaping of the musical line.

The role of the Composer has been sung there most often by a mezzo-soprano ( at least 64 times ), including, besides Kerstin Meyer, who sang the role 6 times, Tatiana Troyanos ( 19 appearances from 1976 to 1988 ), Susanne Mentzer ( 20 appearances from 1993 to 2003 ), Susan Graham ( 5 appearances in the fall of 2005 ) and Sarah Connolly ( 5 appearances in the winter of 2010 ).

Troyanos sang in concert performances of operas ranging from Handel's Deidamia and Mozart's Mitridate to Donizetti's Roberto Devereux and Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle ( performing the latter, in the original Hungarian, under Pierre Boulez, Georg Solti, and Rafael Kubelik ), in addition to concert works by Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Berlioz, Verdi, Ravel, Mahler, Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Berg and others.

" Troyanos ' last opera performances were in Richard Strauss ' Capriccio at San Francisco Opera from June 12 to July 1, 1993.

Throughout the many years at the Lyric, Carol Fox developed the confidence and authority to bring the following world-famous artists to the Lyric: Luciano Pavarotti ( 56 performances in 7 roles ), Tito Gobbi, Eleanor Steber, Jussi Björling, Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Giuseppe di Stefano, Giulietta Simionato, Richard Tucker, Boris Christoff, Eileen Farrell, Dorothy Kirsten, Leonie Rysanek, Leontyne Price, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Geraint Evans, Mirella Freni, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Alfredo Kraus, Renata Scotto, Robert Merrill, Joan Sutherland, Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers, Marilyn Horne, Grace Bumbry, Monserrat Caballe, Tatiana Troyanos, Sherill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Felicia Weathers and Jose Carreras.

* Bernstein: West Side Story ( Te Kanawa, Troyanos, Carreras ; Bernstein, 1984 ) Deutsche Grammophon

* Verdi: Don Carlos ( Scotto, Troyanos, Moldoveanu, Plishka, Hines ; Levine, cond., Dexter, dir.

In 1994, the Metropolitan Opera performed a concert in memory of Troyanos ; in his printed eulogy, Music Director James Levine wrote, " The idea that we are gathered here ... to pay memorial tribute to Tatiana Troyanos is incomprehensible.

" Tatiana Troyanos Is Dead at 54 ; Mezzo Star of Diverse Repertory ", The New York Times, August 23, 1993.

* 1938 – Tatiana Troyanos, American soprano ( d. 1993 )

Other important commercial recordings include Rigoletto with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Carlo Bergonzi under Rafael Kubelík, Turandot with Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli under Francesco Molinari-Pradelli, I Pagliacci with José Carreras, Cavalleria rusticana with Plácido Domingo, Norma with Tatiana Troyanos, Otello ( Verdi's ), Adriana Lecouvreur and Andrea Chénier.

Performers include Johnny Otis and Tatiana Troyanos.

* Mozart: Così fan tutte ( with L. Price, Troyanos, Raskin, Shirley, Flagello – Leinsdorf, cond.

During its nearly 70 year history, the NYCO has helped launch the careers of many great opera singers including Beverly Sills, Sherrill Milnes, Plácido Domingo, Carol Vaness, José Carreras, Shirley Verrett, Tatiana Troyanos, Jerry Hadley, Catherine Malfitano, Bejun Mehta, Samuel Ramey, and Gianna Rolandi.

Orpheus has collaborated with many of the great artists of our time including Isaac Stern, Gidon Kremer, Itzhak Perlman, Gil Shaham, Yo-Yo Ma, Mischa Maisky, Emanuel Ax, Richard Goode, Alicia de Larrocha, Radu Lupu, Martha Argerich, Alfred Brendel, Horacio Gutierrez, Murray Perahia, Peter Serkin, Mitsuko Uchida, Tatiana Troyanos, Maureen Forrester, Frederica von Stade, Peter Schreier, Anne Sofie von Otter, Dawn Upshaw, and Renée Fleming.

Among notable singers who were never engaged by Sir Rudolf were Patricia Brooks, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Maureen Forrester, Leyla Gencer, Chester Ludgin, Patricia Neway, Magda Olivero, Mirto Picchi, Miriam Pirazzini, Arlene Saunders, Nancy Shade, Rita Shane, Sills, Norman Treigle, Tatiana Troyanos, and Beverly Wolff.

Born in New York City, Troyanos grew up in Forest Hills, Queens, where she attended Forest Hills High School.

" Troyanos has a sumptuous voice, a very sharp intelligence, enormous ambition, and do-or-die determination to be a great artist ," observed British record producer Walter Legge.

Troyanos enjoyed an equally versatile career as a recording artist, appearing in the title role of Sir Georg Solti's acclaimed recording of Bizet's Carmen, as Cherubino in Karl Böhm's 1968 recording of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, and as Anita in Leonard Bernstein's high-profile operatic recording of West Side Story, among others.

" Tatiana Troyanos — A Voice Which Dreams Are Made On.

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This was accordingly done, and the plight of the grateful Mrs. Morris was much relieved as a result of the generous loan, the amount of which is not known.

In spite of the armistice negotiated by Amadee two years earlier, the war between Bishop Guillaume of Lausanne and Louis of Savoy was still going on, and although little is known about it, that little proves that it was yet another phase of the struggle against French expansion and was closely interwoven with the larger conflict.

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In light of the scholarly reappraisals engendered by the higher criticism this is a most remarkable statement, particularly coming from one who was well known for his antifundamentalist views.