Marguerite Piazza Sings Musetta's Waltz
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- Opera Lovers - 50 years ago television provided production numbers like this with the beautiful Metropolitan opera star, Marguerite Piazza. This is from a black & white kinescope recording.
Fabulous!!! What a STAR! Gives me chills and tears all at once.
This performance is so charming, simple, and captivating. If only opera directors could return to this style. It lets the music and drama speak for itself, which is always a GOOD THING! Ms. Piazza is completely charming and sings beautifully. Thanks for posting this.
just marvelous. such a beauty, too. great costumes.. thanks.
Rest in peace cousin....Loved to watch you perform as a child. Will always remember taking you fishing in the Rigolets.
Lucky you!
She was so lovely.
This performance is from the Heaven!
NBC's comedy variety program "Your Show of Shows" inspired the format of Saturday Night Live." Over the years SNL had guest hosts with the same show biz stature as Melvyn Douglas, but I can't quite remember SNL doing opera, especially opera this good. And on live network TV yet. In Puncini's La Boheme, Musetta sings her waltz on Christmas Eve. Let's see someone top this at our Christmas Eve parties.
Just lovely, Marguerite! She was introduced by always dashingly handsome movie star Brian Aherne, once married to Joan Fontaine. Ah, early TV. So different and much more cultured than the too much pap we now get. No more Voice of Firestone, Leonard Bernstein Concerts, Omnibus, etc. TV has gone downhill ever since it started with few exceptions like PBS, BBC America, and other individual programs here and there..
Brava!
*******WONDERFUL***********
I had the honor of meeting Ms.Piazza recently, and her voice is no less impressive now as it was back then. To answer your question she does not and did not smoke, yet ironically was a advertisement model for Camel Tobacco. (Back when smoking was considered a good choice, mind you)
I was enthralled by her rendition of All the things you are" on Your Show of Shows. I was 15 or 16 years old so it was some time ago.I am trying to find a vinyl 33 that I think she recorded.If anyone knows of a copy...would you please share
RIP, Prima Donna Assoluta of our beloved Memphis.
I will NEVER change my mind. I know what it sounds like...
I recently perused a copy of Life Mag from 12/4/1950. She was hawking Camels because they were (miraculously) easier on her throat! But almost every star was plugging cigs. Darn good money they paid.
Stan Freberg did not, and would not, sell his name to be used for either alcohol or tobacco. (I must say, I love pipes and cigars!)
You'll never see the major networks broadcast classy scenes like this anymore. Instead they show such junk as Amer. Idol, Dancing with (so called)Stars, etc., ad nauseam .
Is there some way these comments, that have absolutely nothing to do with the video selection, be removed?
I enjoyed Mdme Piazza's performance, by the way, thanks for posting!
Just looking at the title of her book, this woman seems lively!
She was
@@arthur623 thank you for the comment kind stranger. ❤
its sounds cool, wish i could understand a single word
I have NEVER listed my location as Canada. And I have NEVER changed my age. You are really proving yourself to be not too bright...
What is she singing about?
No you didn't. You meant to say exactly what you said. What are you gonna do, name every style of music until you guess what I'm into, by process of elimination? The music I am into has nothing to do with the fact that Opera sucks, AND you have just shown me that people who are into Opera are not very intelligent...
How sad, in a way, to again be reminded of how American tastes have shifted from the sublime towards the ridiculous-and fetid.
Where the hell do you get the idea that I'm into Country music? I HATE Country music. So what exactly does that "explain"??...
Opera sucks. It's among the most nerve-wracking forms of cacophony I can think of...