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Luis Herrera De La Fuente Y La Ópera HOMENAJE Luis Herrera de la Fuente y la ópera por José Octavio Sosa as primeras incursiones de Luis Herrera de la Fuente en la ópera sucedieron en 1963 bajo los auspicios del Patronato de la Orquesta L Luis Herrera de la Sinfónica Nacional, orquesta de la que era titular. En esa breve temporada de ópera- Fuente, director concierto se estrenó bajo su batuta Iphigénie in sinfónico, Tauride de Gluck, se conoció Nabucco de Verdi cantante y (que no se interpretaba en México desde 1856), compositor, y L’italiana in Algeri de Rossini, que en 1861 también habían cantado en el Teatro Nacional Elena incursionó en D’Angri y Enrico Testa, entre otros cantantes la ópera como italianos de la Compañía Maretzek. concertador de No sólo se trataba de tres títulos prácticamente más de 15 títulos desconocidos en nuestro país, sino que además operísticos en se contó con la presencia de importantes Bellas Artes cantantes, entre los que destacaban Marilyn Horne para la ópera de Gluck, además de Nicola Monti, John Boyden y Boris Carmeli; del barítono español Manuel Ausensi, que Un año después dirigió, nuevamente para la Ópera Internacional, el estreno en interpretó Nabucco junto con la soprano México, cantada en inglés, de El castillo de Barza Azul de Bartók en las voces Lucille Udovick, el tenor Enrico di Giuseppe de Richard Cross y Rosa Rimoch, que se cantó en programa con la reposición de y el bajo Ferruccio Mazzoli; y para la obra Salome de Strauss que interpretaron la soprano Hertha Fisher, el tenor Herbert rossiniana con Oralia Domínguez, el bajo Doussiant, la mezzosoprano Nell Rankin y el barítono Theodor Uppman, Fernando Corena, Paolo Pedani, así como un acompañados por un extenso reparto de cantantes mexicanos como Salvador Novoa, destacado grupo de cantantes mexicanos: Alicia Guadalupe Solórzano, David Portilla, Salvador Palafox y Lucila Columba. Torres Garza, Guadalupe Solórzano y Roberto Bañuelas. Los días 17 y 20 de octubre del mismo año de 1964 concertó Don Carlo de Verdi, con un reparto inmejorable: Carlo Cossutta (Don Carlo), Rosa Rimoch (Elisabetta), Para la temporada de Ópera Internacional en Manuel Ausensi (Rodrigo), Nicolai Ghiaurov (Filippo II), Nell Rankin (Eboli), combinación con la Asociación Musical Daniel William Wilderman (El gran inquisidor) y Guadalupe Pérez Arias (Tebaldo y Voz del mismo año de 1963, dirigió Il barbiere di celestial). Siviglia de Rossini, con puesta en escena de Carlos Díaz Du-Pond, escenografía y vestuario En 1965, para la Ópera Nacional dirigió dos funciones de Die Zauberflöte que de Antonio López Mancera y dirección se interpretó en italiano en las voces de Irma González, Jorge Lagunes y Paulino de coros de Mario Tagnini, con un elenco Saharrea (que alternaban funciones), Roberto Bañuelas, María Luisa Salinas y el encabezado por el barítono Chester Ludgin, bajo Donald Gramm. Ernestina Garfias, el tenor John Alexander y los bajos Lawrence Davidson y Arnold Voketaitis, En 1967 se repitió Nabucco en una polémica puesta en escena de Renzo Frusca, que además del estreno en Bellas Artes, en forma bajo la batuta de Herrera de la Fuente cantaron Peter Glossop, Elena Suliotis, el tenor escenificada, de Nabucco, que meses antes venezolano Rubén Domínguez, el bajo Joshua Hecht, además de Aurora Woodrow, había concertado, y en la que intervinieron Guadalupe Pérez Arias, Rogelio Vargas y Alberto Hamin. Manuel Ausensi, Margherita Roberti, Salvador Novoa, Paolo Washington, Aurora Woodrow, En la Ópera Nacional de 1969, dirigió La bohème, en donde la soprano española Guadalupe Pérez Arias, Rogelio Vargas y Ángeles Chamorro interpretó a Mimì, el tenor catalán Carlo del Monte a Rodolfo, Eduardo del Campo. Roberto Bañuelas a Marcello y Guillermina Higareda a Musetta, además de otras 46 pro ópera Algunos cantantes que dirigió entre 1963 y 1984: Manuel Ausensi Fernando Corena Belén Amparán Nicolai Ghiaurov Gilda Cruz-Romo Irma González Oralia Domínguez funciones de Nabucco, que era sin duda una de sus obras operísticas preferidas, con Aldo cantaron Franco Iglesias, Guillermina Protti, Ángeles Gulín, David Portilla, Joshua Hecht y Bianca Berini, y el estreno en Bellas Higareda, Rosa Rimoch, David Roanson, Artes de Eugene Onegin de Chaikovski que se cantó, en ruso y en italiano, con este reparto: Rafael Sevilla, Cristina Ortega, Arturo Vladimir Anisimov (Eugen Onegin), Radmila Bakocevic (Tatiana), Lubomir Bodurov Nieto y Ricardo Gálvez; además de (Lenski), Louise Pearl (Olga), Boris Shtokolov (Príncipe Gremin), Aurora Woodrow Il trovatore con David Portilla, Irma (Larina), Osbelia Hernández (Filipjevna), Alberto Hamin (Triquet), Rogelio Vargas González, Aurora Woodrow, Marco (Zarecki) y José Luis Magaña (Un capitán). Antonio Saldaña y Salvador Palafox. Para 1970 dirigió el estreno en México de Elektra de Strauss, que cantaron exitosamente Cinco años después, en 1977, concertó el Eldelmira Calomfirescu, Martha Mödl, Enriqueta Tarrés, Roberto Bañuelas, David Portilla estreno en Bellas Artes de Ernani de Verdi y Guillermina Higareda. en las voces del malísimo tenor italiano Eugenio Fernandi, la soprano Gilda Cruz- Uno de los grandes logros de la temporada 1971 de Bellas Artes fue la inclusión de tres Romo en plenitud de facultades vocales, títulos wagnerianos que concertó el maestro Herrera de la Fuente: Lohengrin con Jess Marco Antonio Saldaña, Rogelio Vargas, Thomas, Klara Barlow, Hans Gunther-Nocker, Danica Mastilovic y Raimond Michalski; Rosa María Hinojosa, Jorge Valencia y Tannhäuser que interpretaron el tenor Thomas, las sopranos Mastilovic y Barlow, además Antonio Villagra. de Heinz Imdahl, Hans Gunther-Nocker y el bajo Michalski; y Der fliegende Holländeren las voces de Gunther-Nocker, Mastilovic, Michalski, los tenores Richard Martell como Erik En 1984 se registra su última actuación y Alberto Arzaba como el Timonel, además de Belén Amparán en el breve papel de Mary. operística dirigiendo La traviata en Bellas Artes, que cantaron Rosario Andrade, Para la inauguración de la temporada 1972 de Ópera Nacional concertó Don Giovanni que Miguel Cortés y Roberto Bañuelas. o pro ópera 47.
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