Elvira de hidalgo biography

Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán (December 28, 1891 – January 21, 1980), known professionally as Elvira de Hidalgo, was a.
Post-WWII Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980) went down in operatic history as the singing teacher of La Callas, later in her life often to her chagrin, but in the.
Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán, known professionally as Elvira de Hidalgo, was a prominent Spanish coloratura soprano, who later became a teacher and vocal coach.

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Hidalgo, Elvira de (1892–1980)

Spanish soprano. Born on December 27, 1892, in Aragòn, Spain; died on January 21, 1980, in Milan, Italy; studied with Concetta Bordalba and Melchiorre Vidal.

Debuted in Naples (1908), Metropolitan Opera (1910), Covent Garden (1924); retired (1932); became a teacher who was best known for her famous pupil, Maria Callas.

Elvira de Hidalgo, the Spanish soprano, is best remembered as the teacher of Maria Callas , though she established a career of her own before becoming a teacher. Born in Spain in 1892, she debuted in Milan and then went on to great success at the Sarah Bernhardt Theater in Paris, the Khedive in Cairo, and finally the Metropolitan Opera. De Hildago's voice had an attractive timbre which reached to a top D. She made a number of recordings which are especially interesting because her style is also reflected in Callas' singing. When de Hidalgo retired in 1932, she went to the Athens Conservatory where she taught Callas, the young American-born singer of Greek parentage, beginning in 1937. The accuracy of embellishments and use

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ELVIRA DE HIDALGO, de prima donna a maestra de Maria Callas by Juan Villalba (in Spanish)

Forcola Ediciones 2021 574 pp, 31 Euro
ISBN 978-84-17425-90-6

Post-WWII Elvira de Hidalgo (1891-1980) went down in operatic history as the singing teacher of La Callas, later in her life often to her chagrin, but in the end if she’s still remembered today it is just because of that and the Callas connection saved her from total oblivion except for the dedicated and passionate record collectors.

De Hidalgo belonged to that series of Latin coloratura sopranos who made their mark starting at the beginning of last century with Maria Galvany, the Catalan Josefina Huguet, Graziella Pareto, and Maria Barrientos. Compared to those De Hidalgo at her best is no better nor is she any worse. Give her recording from Chapi’s “Las hijas de Zebedeo” a try and be won over (click here). The great and still vastly underrated Lina Pagliughi for instance called De Hidalgo’s Rosina without equal.

Moreover, De Hidalgo’s career was not a minor one, as se app

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Elvira de Hidalgo

Spanish operatic soprano and pedagogue

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Rodríguez and the second or maternal family name is Roglán.

Elvira de Hidalgo
Elvira de Hidalgo, 1920s.
Born	Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán (1891-12-28)28 December 1891 Valderrobres (Teruel), Spain
Died	21 January 1980(1980-01-21) (aged 88) Milan, Italy
Occupations	Opera singer (soprano) pedagogue

Elvira Juana Rodríguez Roglán^[1] (December 28, 1891 – January 21, 1980), known professionally as Elvira de Hidalgo, was a prominent Spanishcoloratura soprano, who later became a teacher and vocal coach. Her most famous pupil was Maria Callas.

Biography

She was born in Valderrobres, Aragon, in the northeast of Spain to Pedro Rodríguez Hidalgo and Miguela Roglán Bel.

She was a pupil of Concepció Bordalba in Barcelona and later studied in Milan under Melchiorre Vidal, who also taught Maria Barrientos, Graziella Pareto, Julián Gayarre, Fernando Valero, Francesc Viñas, and Rosina Storchio.