Betty Van Allen
Oyuncu · 1927 – 2009 · Campbell, OH
Betty Van Allen (March 17, 1927 – June 22, 2009) was an American operatic mezzo-soprano who had an active international singing career during the 1950s through the 1970s. In the latter part of her career her voice acquired a contralto-like darkening, which can be heard on her recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky with conductor Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. She was known for her collaborations with American composers, such as Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, David Diamond, Ned Rorem, and Virgil Thomson among others. Allen was part of the first generation of black opera singers to achieve wide success and is viewed as part of an instrumental group of performers who helped break down the barriers of racial prejudice in the opera world. She was greatly admired by Bernstein and the conductor notably chose her to be the featured soloist for his final performances as music director of the New York Philharmonic in 1973. After her singing career ended, she became a lauded voice teacher and arts administrator.
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Film8.1KomediRomantikArtık sessiz filmlerin dönemi kapanmaktadır ve konuşmaların yeraldığı sesli filmlere geçilirken, ünlü bir sahne yıldızı, en iyi arkadaşı, olası kız arkadaşı ve kurnaz oyuncu arkadaşı bu zorlu geçiş dönemine yakalanmışlardır.
Film7.1KorkuParis Operası’nın başrol oyuncusu Carlotta bir hayaletin onu işi Christine adlı koro elemanına bırakması için tehdit ettiğini iddia ederek işi bırakır. Operadakiler buna inanmazken, Christine yüzünü maske ardına saklayan bu gizemli kişiyle tanışmıştır bile.Operanın yönetmeni Raoul ile birlikte olan Christine, hayaletin isteği üzerine ondan ayrılır. Hayalet ile sık sık yeraltında buluşan Christine, bu küçük sırrı tüm operadan saklarken, onu keşfetmeye başlamıştır.Sessiz olarak çekilen film, Gaston Leroux’un romanından uyarlanmış ve o yıllarda oldukça ses getirmişti.
Film6.7DramMüzikDiscovery by Flo Ziegfeld changes a girl's life but not necessarily for the better, as three beautiful women find out when they join the spectacle on Broadway: Susan, the singer who must leave behind her ageing vaudevillian father; vulnerable Sheila, the working girl pursued both by a millionaire and by her loyal boyfriend from Flatbush; and the mysterious European beauty Sandra, whose concert violinist husband cannot endure the thought of their escaping from poverty by promenading her glamor in skimpy costumes.
Ziegfeld Girl
1941 · 41 votes
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The Beloved Bachelor
1931 · 1 votes