Teresa Stich-Randall
While American-born sopranos have been making waves since the days of Lillian Nordica in the early 1900s, West Hartford, CN, native Teresa Stich-Randall may have been the first American soprano whose popularity abroad outstripped her reputation at home. Stich-Randall studied voice at the Hartt School of Music, Columbia University, and finally New York University, where she made her debut in 1947 creating the role of Gertrude Stein in the premiere of Virgil Thomson's opera The Mother of Us All. In 1948 Stich-Randall also created the title role in Otto Luening's opera Evangeline. Stich-Randall's talents attracted the attention of maestro Arturo Toscanini, who cast her in a number of parts in the 1949-1950 season, fortunately so in the minor part of Nanetta in Toscanini's last performance of Verdi's opera Falstaff, leading to Stich-Randall's presence on one of the most celebrated recorded opera sets ever made.
In 1951 Stich-Randall made her European debut in Florence, Italy, and that same year took first prize in an international singing competition held in Lausanne. This established Stich-Randall's reputation in Europe, and although she would perform with the Chicago Lyric Opera, at the Metropolitan in New York, and on American concert tours as a soloist in the coming years, it was in Europe that most of her subsequent activity was centered. Stich-Randall was named an Austrian Kammersängerin in 1962 and was the first American accorded this particular honor; afterwards, she was contracted to the Vienna State Opera and sang there primarily until her retirement around 1980. Outside of much-heralded visits home to West Hartford in 1982 and 1983, Stich-Randall had been little heard from after that.
Although Teresa Stich-Randall is hardly a household name, she had many fans among those who collect vintage vocal recordings. In her concert career she frequently sang works by Handel and J.S. Bach. Stich-Randall's approach to Baroque music was signified by her light tone with no more than a subtle vibrato, clear enunciation, and an infallible sense of pitch. Stich-Randall was definitely ahead of the game in regard to latter-day period performance practice, and her best recordings generously bear this out, in particular her 1966 Vanguard recording of Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with alto Elisabeth Höngen.
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Discography
14 album(s) • Sorted by Bestseller
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Gluck: Orfeo ed Euridice - 1762 Edition with 1774 Paris Revisions
Teresa Stich-Randall, Maureen Forrester, Charles Mackerras
Opera - Released by Vanguard Classics on Dec 31, 2021
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The Art of Teresa Stich-Randall
Classical - Released by Universal Music Division Decca Records France on May 7, 2021
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Récital au Festival d'Aix en Provence 1956
Classical - Released by INA Mémoire vive on Sep 1, 1998
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Klemperer Live: Vienna, Vol. 1 – Concert 21 June 1955 (Historical Recording)
Audience, June 21st, 1955 - Wiener Musikverein, Wiener Symphoniker, Teresa Stich-Randall, Otto Klemperer
Classical - Released by Archiphon on Oct 20, 2017
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Mozart: Requiem in D Minor, K. 626
Classical - Released by Archipel on Nov 25, 2008
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Famous voices of the Past - Teresa Stich-Randall Mozart Arias
Classical - Released by Preiser Records on Oct 7, 2009
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Teresa Stich-Randall: Recordings 1953-1959 (Orfeo d'Or)
Teresa Stich-Randall, Radio Symphonieorchester Wien, ORF Chorus, Max Schönherr, Anton Heiller, Kurt Richter
Opera - Released by Orfeo on Oct 22, 2007
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77
Teresa Stich-Randall, Elisabeth Höngen, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Mario Rossi
Classical - Released by Archipel on Aug 1, 2007
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Récital de Lieder 31.7.1956
Classical - Released by Preiser Records on Jun 18, 2009
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Pergolesi: Stabat Mater, P. 77
Teresa Stich-Randall, Wiener Akademie Kammerchor, Elisabeth Höngen, Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra, Mario Rossi
Classical - Released by Urania Records on Jul 3, 2020
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Mozart: Requiem
Wiener Symphoniker, Vienna State Opera Chorus, Karl Böhm, Ira Malaniuk, Teresa Stich-Randall
Classical - Released by Past Classics on Jun 21, 2012
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis in D Major, Op. 123 (Live)
Classical - Released by Archipel on Mar 25, 2008
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Karajan in Italy, Vol. 2
Classical - Released by Dynamic on Nov 22, 2011
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Grandes Épocas De La Música Clásica, Beethoven - Missa Solemnis Op. 123
Teresa Stich-Randall, Nedda Casei, Murray Dickie, Frederick Guthrie, Heinz Wallberg, Orquesta Sinfonica Y Coro Del Teatro Del Estado De Viena
Classical - Released by SendClassic on Mar 17, 1993
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