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Article: Rose Bampton was a star of opera, her voice 'a miracle'.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2007
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Byline: Peter Dobrin
Aug. 23--Rose Bampton, 99, the tall, green-eyed dramatic soprano who sang 18 seasons at the Metropolitan Opera and whose portrayal of the Wood Dove in Schoenberg's Gurrelieder was the first in the United States, died Tuesday in Bryn Mawr.
Bampton premiered songs of Samuel Barber, and was the first American to sing Parsifal's Kundry at the Met. Schoenberg called her voice "a miracle."
Others thought so, too. Her part in the Gurrelieder in 1932 with the Philadelphia Orchestra led by Leopold Stokowski was only one song in the enormous work. But the performance caught the ear of critics, and in turn the attention of the ...
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