tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post1448590022596467648..comments2024-03-05T10:14:38.181+00:00Comments on CLASSICAL ICONOCLAST: Elisabeth Söderström passes awayDoundou Tchilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07469682216179706743noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-416983732847060845.post-65339258293360663942009-12-09T06:05:28.984+00:002009-12-09T06:05:28.984+00:00Anne, I've been meaning to leave a comment on ...Anne, I've been meaning to leave a comment on Elisabeth Söderström, a singer who was particularly dear to my heart. The morning after she died, before I opened my email, I had put on her 1960 Susanna from the Met. In my inbox was the message that she was gone.<br /><br />She was a treasured favorite. The first record I ever checked out from the library was the Boulez recording of Pelléas, in which she was the perfect Mélisande. Not every nine-year-old can claim Pelléas as their favorite opera, but the opera fascinated me, and her in particular.<br /><br />I heard her in recital twice and was lucky enough to see her Marschallin in Minneapolis on one of the last Met tours. When I worked at San Francisco Opera in 2000, she was co-directing Rosenkavalier (with Lotfi Mansouri, I believe) and I was able to tell her how much her singing meant to me. I shall never forget her.Counterlebenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11761487774113366638noreply@blogger.com