Boris Goldovsky

...soloists, orchestra, chorus, library, and rehearsal rooms were all provided by the conservatory. After that company's demise, Boris Goldovsky's Opera Theater gave local audiences their first fully staged performances in more than a...

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...have included Opera News on the Air, the Singers' Roundtable, and annual interviews with the Metropolitan Opera's general managers. Boris Goldovsky, an opera producer and lecturer known for making opera more accessible to audiences, hosted a...

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...College where she earned a bachelors degree in international relations. She pursued graduate studies in vocal performance under Boris Goldovsky at the New England Conservatory. In 1946 she made her professional opera debut with...

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...to become a classical actor and studied drama with Alvina Krause at Northwestern University. While there, however, he was discovered by Boris Goldovsky, and went on to study opera at both Tanglewood and the New England Conservatory. In...

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...in the New England region. Diaz moved to New York upon finishing his studies at the conservatory. Goldovsky recommended that he be represented by Hans J. Hoffman, a talent agent. Soon, Diaz was singing alongside other artists at the...

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...great Boston buildings) on Boston's celebrated Culture Way was gradually lost to Boston's opera lovers over the years. By the time Goldovsky and Koussevitsky were reinvigorating Boston high culture in the forties, this edifice had fallen...

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...the USA. Sarah Caldwell became Goldovsky's assistant at Tanglewood and in Boston, and worked with him for several years. In January 1945, Goldovsky began the New England Opera Theater (later known as the "Goldovsky Opera Theater") under...

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...prospered. A 1949 appearance in a small role in the Kurt Weill Broadway musical, Lost in the Stars, led to acquaintance with Boris Goldovsky. Goldovsky presented the baritone in the title role of Rigoletto at the Tanglewood Music Festival in...

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...music. That's what motivated his staging. And I used the stage savvy that I learned from Boris [when singing] at the Met." Throughout his opera career, Goldovsky worked tirelessly to help singers move beyond the era of stolid "park-and-bark"...

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...enrolling at the New England Conservatory of Music, from which she graduated in 1946. Her mentor at the conservatory was opera conductor Boris Goldovsky, with whom she worked for 11 years. By the time she was in her early twenties, Ms....

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