Eileen Farrell |

Eileen Farrell

Ngakhale kuti ntchito yake pamwamba pa masewera a Olympus inali yaifupi, Eileen Farrell amamuona kuti ndi mmodzi mwa oimba nyimbo zochititsa chidwi kwambiri panthawi yake. Woimbayo anali ndi tsogolo losangalatsa muubwenzi wake ndi makampani ojambula nyimbo: adalemba ntchito zingapo payekha (kuphatikizapo nyimbo "zowala"), adachita nawo zojambula zamasewero onse, omwe anali opambana kwambiri.

Nthawi ina wotsutsa nyimbo wa New York Post (mu nyengo ya 1966) analankhula za mawu a Farrell mokondwera: “[mawu ake] ... millennium yatsopano.”

M'malo mwake, anali wachilendo opera diva m'njira zambiri. Osati kokha chifukwa anali womasuka mu zinthu zosiyana zoimbaimba monga opera, jazi ndi nyimbo zodziwika bwino, komanso m'lingaliro lakuti iye anatsogolera mwamtheradi wamba moyo wa munthu wosavuta, osati prima donna. Anakwatiwa ndi wapolisi wa ku New York, ndipo modekha anakana mapangano ngati amayenera kuchita kutali ndi banja lake - mwamuna wake, mwana wake wamwamuna ndi wamkazi.

Eileen Farrell anabadwira ku Willimantic, Connecticut, mu 1920. Makolo ake anali oimba a vaudeville. Luso la Eileen loimba loyambirira linam’pangitsa kukhala woimba wanthaŵi zonse pawailesi pamene ali ndi zaka 20. Mmodzi mwa anthu amene ankam’sirira anali mwamuna wake wam’tsogolo.

Wodziwika kale ndi anthu ambiri kudzera pawayilesi ndi makanema apawayilesi, Eileen Farrell adamupanga kuwonekera koyamba kugulu la opera la San Francisco mu 1956 (udindo mu Medea ya Cherubini).

Rudolf Bing, CEO wa Metropolitan Opera, sanakonde oimba omwe adawayitanira ku Met kuti apambane nawo koyamba kunja kwa makoma a zisudzo omwe amamuyang'anira, koma, pomaliza, adayitana Farrell (panthawiyo anali kale zaka 40). old) kuti apange "Alceste" ndi Handel mu 1960.

Mu 1962, woimbayo adatsegula nyengo ku Met monga Maddalena ku Giordano André Chenier. Mnzake anali Robert Merrill. Farrell adawonekera ku Met m'maudindo asanu ndi limodzi pazaka zisanu (zosewerera 45 zonse), ndipo adatsanzikana ndi zisudzo mu Marichi 1966, ngati Maddalena. Zaka zingapo pambuyo pake, woimbayo adavomereza kuti amangokhalira kukakamizidwa ndi Bing. Komabe, sanakhudzidwe ndi kuwonekera mochedwa koteroko pa siteji yotchuka: "Nthawi yonseyi ndinali wodzaza ndi ntchito kaya pawailesi kapena pawailesi yakanema, kuphatikiza ma concert ndi magawo osatha m'ma studio ojambulira."

Wojambulayo analinso wokonda tikiti ya New York Philharmonic season soloist, ndipo adasankha Maestro Leonard Bernstein monga wokonda kwambiri omwe ankagwira nawo ntchito. Chimodzi mwazochita zawo zodziwika bwino chinali konsati ya 1970 yochokera ku Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, momwe Farrell adayimba nyimbo ya tenor Jess Thomas (chojambula chamadzulo chimenecho chinatulutsidwa pa CD mu 2000.)

Kupambana kwake mu dziko la nyimbo za pop kudabwera mu 1959 panthawi yomwe adachita chikondwerero ku Spoleto (Italy). Anapanga konsati ya ma classical arias, kenaka adatenga nawo gawo pakuyimba kwa Verdi's Requiem, ndipo patatha masiku angapo, adalowa m'malo mwa Louis Armstrong yemwe anali kudwala, akuimba nyimbo za ballads ndi blues mu konsati ndi orchestra yake. Kutembenuka kochititsa chidwi kwa madigiri 180 kumeneku kunachititsa chidwi pagulu panthawiyo. Atangobwerera ku New York, m'modzi mwa opanga Columbia Records, yemwe adamva nyimbo za jazi zoyimba nyimbo za soprano, adasaina kuti awalembe. Nyimbo zake zotchuka zikuphatikiza "Ndili Ndi Ufulu Woyimba Blues" ndi "Here I Go Again."

Mosiyana ndi oimba ena a opera amene anayesa kuwoloka mzere wa nyimbo zachikale, Farrell akumveka ngati woyimba wabwino wa pop yemwe amamvetsetsa nkhani ya mawuwo.

“Iwe uyenera kubadwa nacho. Kaya zimatuluka kapena ayi, "adanenanso za kupambana kwake mu" kuwala "gawo. Farrell anayesa kupanga zolemba zamatanthauzidwe mu memoir yake Sitingasiye Kuyimba - mawu, ufulu wanyimbo komanso kusinthasintha, kuthekera kofotokoza nkhani yonse mu nyimbo imodzi.

Mu ntchito ya woimba panali kugwirizana episodic ndi Hollywood. Mawu ake adanenedwa ndi wochita masewero Eleanor Parker mu kanema wotengera mbiri ya moyo wa nyenyezi ya opera Marjorie Lawrence, Interrupted Melody (1955).

M'zaka zonse za m'ma 1970, Farrell adaphunzitsa mawu ku Indiana State University, akupitiriza kusewera mpaka bondo lovulala litatha ntchito yake yoyendera. Anasamuka ndi mwamuna wake ku 1980 kukakhala ku Main ndipo adamuika zaka zisanu ndi chimodzi pambuyo pake.

Ngakhale kuti Farrell ananena kuti sanafune kuimba mwamuna wake atamwalira, anakakamizika kupitiriza kujambula ma CD otchuka kwa zaka zambiri.

“Ndinaganiza kuti ndimasunga mbali ya mawu anga. Kulemba manotsi, motero, ingakhale ntchito yosavuta kwa ine. Izi zikuwonetsa momwe ndinaliri wopusa, chifukwa kwenikweni zidakhala zovuta! Eileen Farrell adaseka. - "Ndipo, komabe, ndili wokondwa kuti nditha kuyimbabe pazaka ngati zanga" ...

Elizabeth Kennedy. Associated Press Agency. Kumasulira kwachidule kuchokera ku Chingerezi ndi K. Gorodetsky.