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  • Ya retirada de la ópera apareció en 1944 en la película Till we meet again. Vivió sus últimos años en Londres y la muerte la sorprendió mientras pasaba unas vacaciones en Lassio, Italia el 18 de octubre de 1953, tenía 69 años

  • Fue la voz de Margarita de Álvarez de las más cotizadas en su tiempo, por la belleza y poder de su instrumento vocal, a lo que se sumaba su refinamiento infinito y la sensualidad de su expresión. Felizmente existen algunos registros que corroboran estas afirmaciones

  • Por otro lado, es especialmente gratificante que a pesar de salir muy niña del Perú y nunca haber regresado, estuvo siempre vinculada a su país, sobre todo por la influencia de su abuela paterna, mujer cusqueña que según Margarita de Álvarez descendía directamente de la nobleza Incaica, fue su abuela quien por medio de fascinantes historias de pueblos escondidos y misteriosos tesoros alimento el alma de la niña

  • Fue Margarita de Álvarez ciertamente una gran mezzosoprano que desarrolló una vibrante carrera como cantante de ópera en los más prestigiosos teatros del mundo, pero además fue una persona que sedujo al público con su belleza y poderosa personalidad, como cuando ella describe la influencia que tuvo el amor en su vida

  • Margarita de Álvarez estudió en el Conservatorio de Bruselas, cantó por muchos años en los más importantes teatros de ópera del mundo como el Covent Garden de Londres o la Ópera de París, su debut en los EEUU fue en el Manhattan Opera House en 1909 como Fidès de Le Prophète de Meyerbeer, luego cantaría en la Ópera de Chicago y en la Ópera de Boston tres de las óperas más importantes en su carrera, Carmen de Bizet, Sanson y Dalila de Saint-Saëns y Aida de Verdi

  • Die beste Dalila die ich je gehört habe ,eine götlicher stimme !!!!!!!!

  • Far more beautiful than any of the mezzos who perform today

  • Doug

    She does her seduction very carefully not an all attack. Beautiful performances despite some intonations issues.

    John

  • She's in the big two-volume German K & R, under the D, which doesn't have any information you don't post, other than giving her birth year as 1886, which is surely wrong.

    My 1930 Victor catalogue specifically states that she was born in Cuzco "sacred city of the Incas", but apparently she was born in Liverpool. I don't think she recorded anything in Spanish. Her Brussels training shows in her excellent French, but she was really a very minor figure.

  • Great voice. So dark...just how it should be, but also with chiaro. And listen to that chest voice on the bottom!!!

  • Interestingly, d'Alvarez is not listed in Kutsch & Riemens, at least not the 1969 English edition. She is neither mentioned in Scott's The Record of Singing nor Opera on Record edited by Alan Blyth. In Steane's The Grand Tradition a single quote from her autobiography is used, an unflattering description of Martinelli ("he must have had vocal chords of steel... he swung on the high notes like a dog worrying a bone").

  • Though she apparently made few recordings, her acoustic Habanera and Seguidille on Vocalion seem to turn up not infrequently.

  • My Darling Douglasio,

    This Delilah is Divine!

    Merci.

  • Glorious performances. TY Doug.

  • Question for all you collectors. As is traditional, in an excerpt recording, M. D'Alvarez sings Samson's line, "Dalila, Dalila, je t'aime" to end the aria, substituting "Samson " for "Dalila". Was this always so? Is there/are there early recordings in which the Dalila did not do this? I wonder who started it.

  • Thanks for posting, Doug. Just as I remembered, both the voice and the musicianship were first class. She'd be a superstar, today.

  • Excellent performance. What a wonderful voice she had!

  • A masterful Printemps. Alluring and sympathetic. A Mon Coeur worthy of standing next to the very best. She is a Dalila who understands the subtle arts of seduction. She has a voice and vocal technique to match. A wonderful singer.

  • I never heard this sung so subdued, yet more convincing than most!

  • Now, THAT is classy singing. Controlled, dignified, verging on understatement, but with a sense of passion and power held in reserve for a moment when it matters to have it ready at hand. Yes, excellent.

  • I've never heard this lady sing before, very beautiful, thank you.

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