voc, 1908-2000 US
Singer of Classical
Irra Petina (April 18, 1908 - January 19, 2000) was an actress and singer, as well as a leading contralto with the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. She was called the "floperetta queen" by critic Ken Mandelbaum.Petina also appeared on Broadway in such productions as Song of Norway (1947), Magdelena (1948), Hit the Trail (1954), Leonard Bernstein's Candide (1957), for which she received a Tony Award nomination as Best Featured Actress in a Musical, and Anya (1965).Petina appeared as herself in Andrew L. Stone's film There's Magic in Music (1941).
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Title | Artist | Year | Type |
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Il Barbiere Di Siviglia (Highlights) | Lily Pons, Irra Petina, Bruno Landi, John Charles Thomas, Ezio Pinza, Pompilio Malatesta, Gennaro Papi | 1962 | Album |
Song Of Norway: Excerpts From The Operetta Based On The Life And Music Of Edvard Grieg | Irra Petina, Robert Weede And Orchestra Conducted By Sylvan Shulman | 1945 | Album |
Il Barbiere Di Siviglia: 10 April 1943 | Gioacchino Rossini - John Brownlee, Bidú Sayão, Ezio Pinza, Salvatore Baccaloni, Nino Martini, Irra Petina, Frank St. Leger | Album | |
Boris Godounoff | Modest Mussorgsky, Ezio Pinza, Irra Petina, Marita Farell, Anna Kaskas, Alessio De Paolis, George Cehanovsky, Nicola Moscona, Charles Kullman, Kerstin Thorborg, Leonard Warren, Norman Cordon, Giordano Paltrinieri, Doris Doe, Nicholas Massue, John Gurney, Wilfred Engelman, Arnold Gabor, Chorus Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York And Orchestra Of The Metropolitan Opera Association Of New York directed by Ettore Panizza | Album | |
Lakme (Gesamtaufnahme) | Léo Delibes, Lily Pons, Irra Petina, Annamary Dickey, Lucielle Browning, Helen Olheim, Armand Tokatyan, Ezio Pinza, George Cehanovsky, Nicholas Massue, Ludovico Oliviero, Lamberto Belleri, Wilfred Engelman, Wilfrid Pelletier | Album |