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Laurel Hurley
Laurel Hurley was an American soprano performer during the mid-20th century. She performed a diverse repertoire from musical theatre, operetta and opera, encompassing roles in the lyric soprano and coloratura soprano repertoire. While most often heard in works from the standard opera canon by Mozart, Puccini, Verdi, and other composers, she was not afraid to tackle unusual works, performing in the United States premieres of Thomas Arne's Comus, Christoph Willibald Gluck's Paride ed Elena, and Darius Milhaud's Médée. Her performances and recordings in operas such as Vincenzo Bellini's La sonnambula and I Capuleti e i Montecchi, and Gioachino Rossini's La Cenerentola and The Barber of Seville contributed to the Bel canto revival movement of the 1950s. Hurley was a principal artist at the Metropolitan Opera from 1955 through 1967, and performed with other American opera companies like the New York City Opera, Opera Company of Boston, New Orleans Opera, and Santa Fe Opera. Her voice is preserved on complete opera recordings made with the Met, including the roles of the Queen of the Night in Mozart's The Magic Flute and Mussetta in Puccini's La bohème. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurel_Hurley) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode)
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A Night in Venice: XII. Ni-nana Duet
"A Night in Venice" 1952 US Cast Orchestra, Thomas Martin, Laurel Hurley, Thomas Tibbet Hayward, "A Night in Venice" 1952 US Cast Chorus, and Johann Strauss II
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Die Zauberflote (The Magic Flute), K. 620 (Sung in English): Act I: O help me, protect me
Lucine Amara, Brian Sullivan, Roberta Peters, Jerome Hines, Theodore Uppman, Laurel Hurley, Paul Franke, George London, Heidi Krall, Madelaine Chambers, Sandra Warfield, Emilia Cundari, Rosalind Elias, Margaret Roggero, James McCracken, Osie Hawkins, Albert Da Costa, Louis Sgarro, Henry Arthur, John Frydel, Hal Roberts, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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Wagner: Siegfried
2018