Opera Singers & Vocalists Posters, Prints & Photographs, “C...-”
for the music, art, and social studies classrooms, home schoolers, theme decor for office or home.

Maria Callas
Kitty Carlisle
Jose Carraras

Enrico Caruso
Angelica Catalani
Lina Cavalieri

Maria Callas
b. 12-27-1923; NYC
d. 9-16-1977; Paris

Soprano Maria Callas was one of the most renowned opera singers of the 20th century. She was a favorite of the press as they exploited her temperamental behavior, rivalry with other singers, and affair with Aristotle Onassis.

Maria Callas quotes ~
• “If you take the trouble to really listen with your soul and with you ears — and I say soul and ears because the mind must work, but not too much also — you will find every gesture there.”

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• women in music posters

Kitty Carlisle
née Catherine Conn
b. 9-3-1910; New Orleans, LA
d. 4-17-2007; NYC

Opera singer and actress Kitty Carlisle is best remembered as a panelist on the To Tell the Truth television show and as a spokesperson for the arts. She was married to playwright and director Moss Hart.

Jose Carreras
b. 12-5-1946; Barcelona, Spain

Jose Carreras is a tenor particularly known for his performances of Verdi and Puccini operas as well as being part of The Three Tenors with Placido Domingo and Luciano Pavarotti.

Enrico Caruso
b. 2-25-1873; Naples, Italy
d. 8-2-1921; Naples

Tenor Enrico Caruso had a 25-year career, stretching from 1895 to 1920, that included 863 appearances at the New York Metropolitan Opera before he died from an infection at the age of 48.

Caruso was the first artist to sell a million copies of a recording (“Vesti La Giubba” from ‘I, Pagliacci’, recorded in 1904) and was heard live from the stage of the Met when he participated in the first public radio broadcast to be transmitted in the United States (1910).

FYI ~ The Met was on tour in April of 1906 - Caruso and Olive Fremstad performed Carmen at the San Francisco Grand Opera House on the evening of the 17th. They were all jolted out of bed on the morning of the 18th ... the San Francisco earthquake. All of the Met's artists survived, but all sets and costumes were lost. Caruso swore he never would return to SF, and he never did.

Angelica Catalani
b. 1780; Italy
d. 6-12-1849; Paris (cholera)

Angelica Catalani, the daughter of a tradesman, was a soprano of nearly three octaves in range. Her voice had power and flexibility that made her “one of the greatest bravura singers of all times”.

Catalani was also a teacher - after she retired from the stage she opened a free singing school for girls in Florence.

Lina Cavalieri
b. 12-25-1874; Viterbo, Italy
d. 2-7-1944, in Allied bombing raid, outside Florence, Italy

Soprano Lina Cavalieri, renown for her grace, beauty, and acting ability, was one of the most photographed women in the world at the height of her career.

She sang opposite Enrico Caruso, performed with the New York Metropolitan Opera for several years, and wrote an advise column and book about her beauty secrets.

FYI ~ Giovanni Boldini's portrait of Cavalieri is the basis of the work of Piero Fornasetti.

Fyodor Ivanovich Chaliapin
b. 2-13-1873; Kazan, Russia
d. 4-12-1938, Paris

Bass Feodor Ivanovich Chaliapin enjoyed an international career at major opera houses and is often credited with establishing the tradition of naturalistic acting in his chosen art form.

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• Chaliapin as “Boris Godunov”

Gioacchino Conti
b. 2-28-1714; Arpino, Italy (Arpinum)
d. 10-25-1761; Rome

Gioacchino Conti, also known a Gizziello, was a soprano castrato opera singer.

Phyllis Curtin
née Smith
b. 12-3-1921; Clarksburg, WV

Soprano Phyllis Curtin had an active career in operas and concerts from the early 1950s through the 1980s.