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Re: Blanche Thebom

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by: gggg gggg - Mon, 27 Jun 2022 03:40 UTC

On Tuesday, March 23, 2010 at 7:54:49 PM UTC-7, Dorme Riposa wrote:
> On the "other group," I read that Miss Thebom has died.
> She was the first Carmen I saw on stage, in 1951, with Ramon Vinay as
> Don Jose. I vividly remember her voice and her presence on that
> occasion. She wore a white satin gown in Act 4 that stood out as the
> only white costume on stage, not that she needed the costume to stand
> out. The stillness of her duet with Escamillo was a high point of the
> opera for me, as it has been ever since.
> There was a spread in Life magazine about her -- mainly about her
> never-cut, floor-length dark hair -- that my family and I loved to
> look at repeatedly. I was not a fan of movie magazines, so this was
> the closest I got to that sort of fanzine thing.
> Soon, the Tristan recording came out with her as Brangaene, but I
> didn't get to know those discs well until much later.
> I have a half-hour VHS tape of her reminiscing in her home in San
> Francisco. Until a few years ago I didn't know she lived here. It was
> like coming full circle.
> dav

Her Lebendige V. recording is on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idOCdkK0hro&list=OLAK5uy_lmTRMBIzX_wdAS9iaugMhq2QIQmp1H-UA&index=10

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