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Category Archives: Opera
Giacomo Puccini – Life Imitating Art
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Day 206 of Colourisation Project – November 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. If there is any doubt as to whether life imitates art,…
Posted in Opera, Opus Loredana, Uncategorized
Tagged Giacomo Puccini, Loredana Crupi, Opus Loredana
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Ned of Wales & The Most Boring Day of the 20th Century
Day 339 of Colourisation Project – April 11 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, April 11, 1954, 61 years ago, nothing much happened. It is a date … Continue reading
Kathryn Grayson – Hollywood Soprano
Day 286 of Colourisation Project – February 17 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Born Zelma Kathryn Elisabeth Hedrick in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, she was better known as MGM musical star, … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Film, Hollywood, Music, Opera, Photography, USA, Women, Women in Film & TV, Women In Music
Tagged (1950), Anchors Aweigh, Anchors Aweigh (1945), Frank Sinatra, Gene Kelly, Hollywood Walk of Fame, Howard Keel, Kathryn Grayson, Kiss Me Kate (1953), La Boheme, La Traviata, Loredana Crupi, Madama Butterfly, Mario Lanza, Opus Loredana, Orpheus in the Underworld, Show Boat (1951), The Toast of New Orleans
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Lina Cavalieri – Venus on Earth
Day 232 of Colourisation Project – December 25 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Italian writer and poet, Gabriele D’Annunzio, called her “the personification of Venus on earth” and wrote that … Continue reading
Maria Callas – La Divina
Day 209 of Colourisation Project – December 2 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. New York City-born Greek soprano, Maria Callas, one of the most renowned and influential opera singers … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Music, Opera, Photography, Women, Women In Music
Tagged Dario Soria, La Divina, Loredana Crupi, Maria Callas, Metropolitan Opera Guild, Opus Loredana
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Giacomo Puccini – Life Imitating Art
Day 206 of Colourisation Project – November 29 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. If there is any doubt as to whether life imitates art, you need delve no further … Continue reading
Ida Cook – Sister of Mercy
Day 109 of Colourisation Project – August 24 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. Ida Cook born 24 August 1904 in Sunderland, England was a British campaigner for Jewish refugees and … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, History, Literature, Opera, Women, Women writers
Tagged British Hero of the Holocaust, Clemens Krauss, Ida Cook, Loredana Crupi, Mary Burchell, Mary Louise Cook, Mills & Boon, My Life - Tito Gobbi, Safe Passage, The Warrender Saga, Viorica Ursuleac, We Followed Our Stars
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Bertolt Brecht – Father of Epic Theatre
Day 99 of Colourisation Project – August 14 Challenge: to publish daily a colourised photo that has some significance around the day of publication. On this day, 14 August 1956, Bertolt Brecht, one of Germany’s most influential poets and playwrights of … Continue reading
Posted in Colorization, Colourisation, Literature, Opera, Photography
Tagged Bertolt Brecht, Brecht, Caucasian Chalk Circle, Fear and Misery of the Third Reich, Germany, Life of Galileo (1939), Loredana Crupi, Mother Courage and Her Children (1939), Poetry and Prose: Bertolt Brecht, The Good Man of Szechuan (1941), The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (1941), The Roundheads and the Peakheads, The Threepenny Opera, Waiting for Godot
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