MARJORIE LAWRENCE SINGS CLEOPATRA'S ARIA 1938

MARJORIE LAWRENCE SINGS AN ARIA FROM HANDELS OPERA...JULIUS CAESAR. THIS BROADCAST WAS 2 YEARS BEFORE SHE CONTRACTED POLIO, WHEN SHE LOST THE ABILITY TO STAND FOR HERSELF. HER LIFE WAS PORTRAYED IN THE FILM..."INTERRUPTED MELODY", WITH ELENOR PARKER PLSYING MARJORIE LAWRENCE, A YOUNG ROGER MOORE WAS THE LOVE INTEREST ALSO...
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Music

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• MARJORIE
• LAWRENCE
• SINGS
• CLEOPATRRAS
• ARIA
• 1938

[Tenortalker]

Great to hear her in this aria, but how strange to have performed it in French- why not 'Piangero?' The voice was more agile than one would have imagined in coloratura. She studied in Paris and maybe that was where she prepared this piece- hence the French. She was certainly a fine singer.

[TAUBERFANLEHAR2]

@Tenortalker I RELIGIUSLY COLLECT ANYTHING BY HER. HER RECORDINGS ARE QUITE SCARCE AS INDEED BROADCAST WITH HER ARE FEW SADLY....

DAN

[jphilipps89]

@TAUBERFANLEHAR2 I would be so totally grateful to you tauberfanlehar2 if you posted her "hojotoho" or any other excerpts of hers you have that aren't on youtube yet. I am also a huge fan of her art.

[Tenortalker]

Yes indeed Majorie Lawrence was a pupil of Madame Dinh Gilly in Paris- wife of the famous Paris Opera Baritone of the same name. Many of her Wagner recordings are in French too.

[nedsuedj]

@Tenortalker Miss Lawence may have first performed this Concert Aria in Paris when a student of Madame Gigle' (not certain about the spelling) or when performing at the Paris opera.

[tenorote]

@karlakor I never saw or heard any bitterness out of Mme. L about anything. She was always upbeat with a word of encouragement for all of us. She sang the Wagnerian roles and was still proud of her performances and reviews. She did regret not performing Turandot and the Marschalin roles that she was preparing at the time of the onslaught of Polio.

[karlakor]

@tenorote Marjorie Lawrence taught at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale when I was a student there. As her close friend, would you say that she was ever bitter about the hand that was dealt her? She was stricken with polio just at the time that Flagstad left the United States during the war. That would have been her big chance to take over all the Wagnerian roles, including Isolde, and to know that she couldn't take advantage of the opportunity must have been crushing.

[allegrazie]

Fabulous! Thank you: You've done it again.

[796824]

The MAGNIFICENT singing of MARJORIE LAWRENCE is SUPERIOR TO ANY OF THE SINGERS who perform on the PROFESSIONAL OPERATIC STAGE TODAY.