Blanche Thebom

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Blanche Thebom, Blanche Thebom (September 19, 1915 вЂ“ March 23, 2010) was an American mezzo-soprano who sang with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City for almost twenty years. She was born in Monessen, Pennsylvania and raised in Canton, Ohio.In 1957 she came to London to sing Dido in the major production at Covent Garden of Berlioz’s Les Troyens. In this she made effective use of he spectacularly long hair, allowing it to fall down her back as she ascended the funeral pyre at the end. Upon her retirement from the Metropolitan ca. 1960, she taught and directed opera performance in Atlanta and Little Rock until around 1980. She appeared in summer theatre revivals of Broadway musicals such as The Sound of Music (as the Mother Abbess) in Atlanta.She may have been best-known for her performance of the role of BrangГ¤ne in Tristan und Isolde in a recording with Kirsten Flagstad and Ludwig Suthaus, conducted by Wilhelm FurtwГ¤ngler in 1952 in London.Blanche Thebom died of heart failure at her home in San Francisco on Tuesday, March 23, 2010. She was 94.[edit] RecordingsBlanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano: Arias from Don Carlos, La Gioconda, Tristan und Isolde, Das Rheingold, Die WalkГјre, GГ¶tterdГ¤mmerung and Samson et Dalila; songs of Hugo Wolf, and Gustav Mahlers Songs of a Wayfarer. Preiser 89559 CD[edit] References^ Serinus, Jason Victor (March 24, 2010). In Memoriam: Blanche Thebom. San Francisco Classical Voice. http://www.sfcv.org/article/in-memoriam-blanche-thebombr1915-2010. Retrieved 2010-03-25. ^ Obituary New York Times, March 28, 2010; page A26.^ Obituary London Times, April 3, 2010.^ a b Famed Canton opera singer Blanche Thebom dies. CantonRep.com. March 26, 2010. http://www.cantonrep.com/stark/canton/x1176894073/Famed-Canton-opera-singer-Blanche-Thebom-dies. Retrieved 2010-03-26. ^ Obituary Los Angeles Times, April 2, 2010; page AA6.^ Classical CD review of Preiser 89559, accessed 2010-03-21[edit] External linksBlanche Thebom at the Internet Movie DatabaseThe Monday After: Opera singer Blanche Thebom was the bomb by Gary Brown (Nov 29, 2009), accessed 21 January 2010Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blanche_ThebomCategories: 1915 births | 2010 deaths | American opera singers | Deaths from heart failure | Operatic mezzo-sopranos | People from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania | People from Canton, OhioPersonal toolsLog in / create accountNamespacesArticleDiscussionVariantsViewsReadEditView historyActionsSearchNavigationMain pageContentsFeatured contentCurrent eventsRandom articleDonate to WikipediaInteractionHelpAbout WikipediaCommunity portalRecent changesContact WikipediaToolboxWhat links hereRelated changesUpload fileSpecial pagesPermanent linkCite this pagePrint/exportCreate a bookDownload as PDFPrintable versionLanguagesEspaГ±olNederlands This page was last modified on 8 October 2010 at 20:37.Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License;additional terms may apply.See Terms of Use for details.Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.Contact usPrivacy policyAbout WikipediaDisclaimersif ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.config.set({wgCanonicalNamespace: , wgCanonicalSpecialPageName: false, wgNamespaceNumber: 0, wgPageName: Blanche_Thebom, wgTitle: Blanche Thebom, wgAction: view, wgArticleId: 10838149, wgIsArticle: true, wgUserName: null, wgUserGroups: [*], wgCurRevisionId: 389583677, wgCategories: [1915 births, 2010 deaths, American opera singers, Deaths from heart failure, Operatic mezzo-sopranos, People from Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, People from Canton, Ohio], wgBreakFrames: false, wgRestrictionEdit: [], wgRestrictionMove: [], wgSearchNamespaces: [0], wgFlaggedRevsParams: {tags: {status: {levels: 1, quality: 2, pristine: 3}}}, wgStableRevisionId: null, wgRevContents: {error: Unable to get content., waiting: Waiting for content}, wgWikimediaMobileUrl: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki, wgCollapsibleNavBucketTest: false, wgCollapsibleNavForceNewVersion: false, wgArticleAssessmentJUIPath: http://bits.wikimedia.org/w/extensions-1.17/UsabilityInitiative/js/js2stopgap/jui.combined.min.js, Geo: {city: , country: }, wgNoticeProject: wikipedia});}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.loader.load([mediawiki.legacy.wikibits, mediawiki.util, mediawiki.legacy.ajax, mediawiki.legacy.mwsuggest, ext.vector.collapsibleNav, ext.vector.collapsibleTabs, ext.vector.editWarning, ext.vector.simpleSearch]);mediaWiki.loader.go();}if ( window.mediaWiki ) {mediaWiki.user.options.set({ccmeonemails:0,cols:80,contextchars:50,contextlines:5,date:default,diffonly:0,disablemail:0,disablesuggest:0,editfont:default,editondblclick:0,editsection:1,editsectiononrightclick:0,enotifminoredits:0,enotifrevealaddr:0,enotifusertalkpages:1,enotifwatchlistpages:0,extendwatchlist:0,externaldiff:0,externaleditor:0,fancysig:0,forceeditsummary:0,gender:unknown,hideminor:0,hidepatrolled:0,highlightbroken:1,imagesize:2,justify:0,math:1,minordefault:0,newpageshidepatrolled:0,nocache:0,noconvertlink:0,norollbackdiff:0,numberheadings:0,previewonfirst:0,previewontop:1,quickbar:1,rcdays:7,rclimit:50,rememberpassword:0,rows:25,searchlimit:20,showhiddencats:0,showjumplinks:1,shownumberswatching:1,showtoc:1,showtoolbar:1,skin:vector,stubthreshold:0,thumbsize:4,underline:2,uselivepreview:0,usenewrc:0,watchcreations:1,watchdefault:0,watchdeletion:0,watchlistdays:3,watchlisthideanons:0,watchlisthidebots:0,watchlisthideliu:0,watchlisthideminor:0,watchlisthideown:0,watchlisthidepatrolled:0,watchmoves:0,wllimit:250,flaggedrevssimpleui:1,flaggedrevsstable:false,flaggedrevseditdiffs:true,flaggedrevsviewdiffs:false,vector-simplesearch:1,useeditwarning:1,vector-collapsiblenav:1,usebetatoolbar:1,usebetatoolbar-cgd:1,variant:en,language:en,searchNs0:true,searchNs1:false,searchNs2:false,searchNs3:false,searchNs4:false,searchNs5:false,searchNs6:false,searchNs7:false,searchNs8:false,searchNs9:false,searchNs10:false,searchNs11:false,searchNs12:false,searchNs13:false,searchNs14:false,searchNs15:false,searchNs100:false,searchNs101:false,searchNs108:false,searchNs109:false});mediaWiki.loader.state({user.options:ready});/* cache key: enwiki:resourceloader:filter:minify-js:3:ae2156c08a06314b12473d37e57711e2 */} if ( window.isMSIE55 ) fixalpha();