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Beverly Sills

Seals na ɗaya daga cikin manyan mawaƙa na karni na XNUMX, "Uwargidan shugaban opera ta Amurka". Wani mawallafin mujallar The New Yorker ya rubuta da farin ciki mai ban mamaki: “Idan na ba da shawarar abubuwan gani na New York ga ’yan yawon bude ido, da farko zan sa Beverly Seals a cikin liyafa ta Manon da farko, sama da Mutum-mutumi na ’Yanci da Daular Empire. Gina." Muryar Seals ta bambanta da haske mai ban mamaki, kuma a lokaci guda fara'a, gwanintar mataki da kuma kyan gani wanda ya burge masu sauraro.

Da take kwatanta kamanninta, mai sukar ta sami kalmomi masu zuwa: “Tana da idanu masu launin ruwan kasa, fuskar Slavic, murɗaɗɗen hanci, cikakkun leɓuna, kyakkyawar launin fata da murmushi mai daɗi. Amma babban abu a cikin bayyanarta shine ƙananan kugu, wanda shine babban amfani ga opera actress. Duk wannan, tare da gashin ja mai zafi, yana sa Seals kyakkyawa. A taƙaice, ita kyakkyawa ce ta ma'aunin opera."

Babu wani abin mamaki a cikin "Slavic oval": mahaifiyar mawaƙa na gaba ita ce Rasha.

Beverly Seals (sunan gaske Bella Silverman) an haife shi ranar 25 ga Mayu, 1929 a New York, a cikin dangin ƙaura. Mahaifin ya zo Amurka daga Romania, kuma mahaifiyar ta fito daga Rasha. Ƙarƙashin rinjayar uwa, an samar da dandano na kiɗa na Beverly. “Mahaifiyata,” in ji Seals, “tana da tarin bayanan Amelita Galli-Curci, sanannen soprano na 1920s. Ariyas ashirin da biyu. A kowace safiya mahaifiyata za ta fara gramophone, ta sanya rikodin, sannan ta tafi shirya karin kumallo. Kuma da shekara bakwai, na san dukan 22 aria a zuciya, na girma a kan wadannan arias kamar yadda yara a yanzu girma a kan tallan talabijin.

Ba'a iyakance ga yin kiɗan gida ba, Bella a kai a kai tana shiga cikin shirye-shiryen rediyo na yara.

A 1936, mahaifiyar ta kawo yarinyar zuwa ɗakin studio na Estelle Liebling, mai rakiya na Galli-Curci. Tun daga nan, tsawon shekaru talatin da biyar, Liebling da Seals ba su rabu ba.

Da farko, Liebling, ƙwararren malami, ba ya so musamman ya horar da soprano coloratura tun yana ƙarami. Duk da haka, lokacin da ta ji yadda yarinyar ta rera ... wani talla game da foda sabulu, ta yarda ta fara karatu. Al'amura sun motsa da sauri. A lokacin yana ɗan shekara goma sha uku, ɗalibin ya shirya sassan opera 50! "Estell Liebling kawai ya cika ni da su," mai zanen ya tuna. Mutum zai iya mamakin yadda ta riƙe muryarta. Gabaɗaya ta kasance a shirye don yin waƙa a ko'ina kuma gwargwadon yadda take so. Beverly da aka yi a cikin shirin rediyo na Talent Search, a cikin kulab ɗin mata a otal ɗin na zamani na Waldorf Astoria, a wani gidan rawa a New York, a cikin kade-kade da operetta na ƙungiyoyi daban-daban.

Bayan barin makaranta, an ba Seals damar shiga gidan wasan kwaikwayo na balaguro. Da farko ta rera waƙa a cikin operettas, kuma a cikin 1947 ta fara fitowa a Philadelphia a cikin wasan opera tare da ɓangaren Frasquita a cikin Bizet's Carmen.

Tare da ƴan ƴan yawon buɗe ido, sai ta ƙaura daga birni zuwa birni, tana yin ɓangarori ɗaya bayan ɗaya, ta sami damar sake maimaita ta da wani abin al'ajabi. Daga baya za ta ce: "Ina so in rera dukan sassan da aka rubuta don soprano." Al'adarta shine kusan wasanni 60 a shekara - abin mamaki kawai!

Bayan shekaru goma na yawon shakatawa a birane daban-daban na Amurka, a cikin 1955, mawakiyar ta yanke shawarar gwada hannunta a Opera na birnin New York. Amma a nan ma, ba ta daɗe da zama babban matsayi ba. Na dogon lokaci an san ta ne kawai daga opera "The Ballad of Baby Doe" na mawakin Amurka Douglas More.

A ƙarshe, a cikin 1963, an ba ta amanar Donna Anna a cikin Don Giovanni na Mozart - kuma ba su yi kuskure ba. Amma nasara ta ƙarshe ta jira wasu shekaru uku, kafin rawar Cleopatra a cikin Julius Kaisar Handel. Sa'an nan ya bayyana ga kowa da kowa abin da wani babban sikelin gwaninta ya zo a fagen wasan kwaikwayo na kida. "Beverly Seals," in ji mai sukar, "ta yi hadaddun alherai na Handel tare da irin wannan fasaha, tare da irin wannan fasaha mara kyau, tare da irin wannan zafi, wanda ba a samuwa a cikin mawaƙa irin ta. Bugu da kari, wakar ta na da sassauya da bayyana ra'ayi wanda nan take masu sauraro suka kama wani sauyi a yanayin jarumar. Wasan ya yi babban nasara… Babban abin da ya dace na Sils ne: ta fashe cikin dare, ta yaudari mulkin kama-karya na Romawa kuma ta sanya gaba dayan dakin taron cikin shakka."

A wannan shekarar, ta sami babban nasara a wasan opera Manon na J. Massenet. Jama'a da masu suka sun ji daɗi, suna kiranta mafi kyawun Manon tun Geraldine Farrar.

A cikin 1969, Seals ya fara halarta a ƙasashen waje. Shahararren gidan wasan kwaikwayo na Milanese "La Scala" ya dawo da samar da wasan opera na Rossini "The Siege of Corinth" musamman ga mawaƙin Amurka. A cikin wannan wasan kwaikwayon, Beverly ta rera ɓangaren Pamir. Bugu da ari, Sils ya yi a kan matakan wasan kwaikwayo a Naples, London, Berlin ta Yamma, Buenos Aires.

Nasarar da aka samu a cikin mafi kyawun wasan kwaikwayo na duniya ba su dakatar da aikin mawaƙa ba, wanda manufarsa ita ce "duk sassan soprano". Akwai ainihin adadi mai yawa daga cikinsu - sama da tamanin. Seals, musamman, ya yi nasarar rera waƙa Lucia a cikin Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, Elvira a cikin Bellini's The Puritani, Rosina a cikin Rossini's Barber na Seville, Sarauniya Shemakhan a Rimsky-Korsakov's The Golden Cockerel, Violetta a cikin Verdi's La Traviata. , Daphne a cikin wasan opera na R. Strauss.

Mai zane mai ban mamaki mai ban mamaki, a lokaci guda mai nazari mai tunani. "Da farko, ina nazarin libertto, ina aiki da shi daga kowane bangare," in ji mawaƙin. – Idan, alal misali, na ci karo da wata kalma ta Italiyanci da ma’ana ta ɗan bambanta fiye da a cikin ƙamus, na fara tono ma’anarta ta gaskiya, kuma a cikin libretto sau da yawa kuna cin karo da irin waɗannan abubuwa… Ba kawai ina so in faɗi ba. fasahar murya ta. Da farko, Ina sha'awar hoton kanta ... Ina yin kayan ado ne kawai bayan na sami cikakken hoto na rawar. Ba na amfani da kayan ado waɗanda ba su dace da halin ba. Duk kayan ado na a Lucia, alal misali, suna ba da gudummawa ga wasan kwaikwayo na hoton.

Kuma tare da wannan duka, Seals ta ɗauki kanta a matsayin mai motsin rai, ba mawaƙa mai hankali ba: “Na yi ƙoƙari in sha'awar jama'a ya jagorance ni. Na yi iya kokarina don faranta mata rai. Kowane wasan kwaikwayon ya kasance a gare ni wani nau'in bincike mai mahimmanci. Idan na sami kaina a cikin fasaha, saboda kawai na koyi yadda za a sarrafa yadda nake ji ne.

A cikin 1979, shekarar tunawa da ita, Seals ta yanke shawarar barin matakin opera. A shekara ta gaba, ta jagoranci Opera na New York City.