Suzanne Danco
With a curious melding of a bright vocal timbre and a somewhat-reserved temperament, Suzanne Danco became a leading artist among the lyric sopranos of the 1940s and 1950s. She was a frequent visitor to the recording studio and left an appreciable legacy on disc, each one reflecting her high purpose and musical exactitude. Her choice of operatic roles was wide-ranging, extending from Mozart to Alban Berg with several French heroines occupying a central place among them. Danco received her musical training at the Brussels Conservatory, where her studiousness won her numerous awards. Her first experiences on-stage were as a chorus member. While her family was largely unsupportive regarding her desire to become an opera singer, Danco persisted. After winning a prize in Vienna, she followed the advice of conductor Erich Kleiber and traveled to Prague to study with lyric tenor Fernando Carpi. Following a series of recitals in Italy in 1940, Danco's 1941 debut as Fiordiligi attracted notice in Genoa and the role remained a central one in her subsequent career. She presented herself in the same part for a 1947 production at La Scala. An American operatic career failed to materialize: Rudolf Bing's promise of an invitation from the Metropolitan Opera he was about to join remained unfulfilled and Danco did not appear there. Instead, she visited the United States on a recital tour with accompanist Paul Ulanowsky. Danco's stage appearances in Europe compensated for any American disappointments. For La Scala in 1947, she sang Ellen Orford in Milan's first performance of Britten's Peter Grimes. In 1948, she presented her Jocasta in Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex to La Scala audiences and in 1949, she ventured Marie in Berg's Wozzeck for the Teatro San Carlo, afterward declaring it a part holding no difficulties for her. Despite her enthusiasm for Italian lyric roles, they seldom came her way. A 1951 production of La bohème at Covent Garden was presented in English and Danco felt her one opportunity to sing Mimi was compromised by an inept translation. Despite her discomfort, she was well-regarded by the critics who found her a fragile, slightly distant heroine whose English was excellent. That outing, however, was both the beginning and the end of her career at the Royal Opera House. Other houses were less indifferent. At Rome, her Mélisande was acclaimed and she became a valued artist at the Edinburgh, Aix-en-Provence, and Glyndebourne festivals. In orchestral concerts, she was regarded as exemplary in Berlioz's Les nuits d'été and Ravel's Shéhérazade, both of which she commercially recorded. In her recital repertory, works by Berlioz, Gounod, Fauré, Chausson, Debussy, Ravel, and Poulenc alternated with ones by Schubert, Schumann, Berg, Schoenberg, Falla, and Britten. Several Mozart roles were recorded either on commercial disc or through reasonably faithful radio transmissions. After retirement, Danco taught at Aldeburgh and at the Accademia Chigiana at Siena.
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S. Danco / G. Souzay / L'Union Chorale de la Tour de Peilz / Robert Mermoud / Eric Schmid / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande play: Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48
Suzanne Danco, Gérard Souzay, Union Chorale de la Tour de Peilz, Eric Schmid, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Instrumentalmusik - Erschienen bei Classico Ivano am 02.01.2015
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Debussy: In Melody Music
Suzanne Danco, Walter Gieseking, Arthur Rubinstein, Pierre Monteux
Kammermusik - Erschienen bei Plaza Mayor Company, Ltd. am 18.06.2012
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Robert Schumann: Dichterliebe, Op. 48 - Liederkreis, Op. 39
Klassik - Erschienen bei ArnebAudio am 29.09.2023
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Gluck · orphée et eurydice
Léopold Simoneau, Suzanne Danco, Pierrette Alarie, Hans Rosbaud, Orchestre Lamoureux
Klassik - Erschienen bei G.O.P. am 28.02.2023
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Così Fan Tutte (Dramma Giocoso in Tre Atti)
Klassik - Erschienen bei The 45 Classic Music am 21.02.2024
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Songs of Debussy (Mono Version)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1952
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Pierné & Debussy: Works for Voice & Piano
Suzanne Danco, Hermann Reutter
Klassik - Erschienen bei SWR Mediaservices GmbH am 06.03.2020
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Suzanne Danco spielen: Maurice Ravel: Trois poèmes de Mallarmé
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Suzanne Danco
Klassik - Erschienen bei Classico Ivano am 21.11.2014
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Orchestre de la Suisse Romande / Suzanne Danco spielen: Maurice Ravel: L'Heure espagnole
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Suzanne Danco, Paul Derenne, Michel Hamel, Heinz Rehfuss, André Vessieres
Oper - Erschienen bei Classico Ivano am 21.11.2014
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Honegger: Le roi David - Stravinsky: Suite No. 2 de L'histoire du soldat (Mono Version)
Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Suzanne Danco, Ernest Ansermet
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1900
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Ravel: L'heure espagnole (Mono Version)
Suzanne Danco, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1954
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Berlioz: Les nuits d'été (Mono Version)
Suzanne Danco, Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, Thor Martin Johnson
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1952
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Lieder Recital (Mono Version)
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1952
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Mozart: Don Giovanni, extraits (Mono Version)
Cesare Siepi, Suzanne Danco, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Josef Krips
Verschiedenes - Erschienen bei BNF Collection am 01.01.1958
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Mozart: Davidde penitente, K. 469 (Live)
Klassik - Erschienen bei Archipel am 01.01.2006
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart : Davidde Penitente
Mario Rossi, Suzanne Danco, Waldemar Kmentt, Adriana Martino, Orchestra Sinfonica e Coro di Torino della RAI
Klassik - Erschienen bei OperaPrima-Carillon am 01.01.2006
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Falla, M.: Sombrero De 3 Picos (El) (The 3-Cornered Hat) / El Amor Brujo (Love, the Magician) (Excerpts) (Collins, Ansermet) (1950, 1952)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Suzanne Danco, Anthony Collins, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Ballett - Erschienen bei Naxos Classical Archives am 01.01.2000
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Suzanne Danco / Union chorale de la Tour-de-Peilz / Orchestre de la Suisse Romande play: Claude Debussy: Das Martyrium des Heiligen Sebastian (nach Gabriele d'Annunzio)
Suzanne Danco, Nancy Waugh, Marie-Lise de Montmollin, Union Chorale de la Tour de Peilz, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Oper - Erschienen bei Classico Ivano am 27.02.2015
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Debussy, C.: Martyre De St. Sebastien (Le) (Danco, Wough, De Montmollin, Ansermet) (1954)
Suzanne Danco, Nancy Wough, Marie Lise De Montmollin, Union Chorale La Tour-de-Peilz, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet
Klassik - Erschienen bei Naxos Classical Archives am 01.01.2000
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Vocal Recital: Danco, Suzanne - Brahms, J. / Wolf, H. / Debussy, C. (1950)
Vokalmusik (weltlich und geistlich) - Erschienen bei Naxos Classical Archives am 01.01.2000
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The Very Best of Fauré
Jean-Michel Damase, Suzanne Danco, Ernest Ansermet, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Klassik - Erschienen bei Discover Classical Music am 01.08.2010
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