An Anecdote about Mozartkugeln from the online opera guide
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In the year 1909, the sopran Lucia Bori is a rising star in the opera sky.
Her great moment comes when a colleague for the leading role of Manon Lescaut at the Metropolitan Opera New York cancels.
An audition in front of Toscanini, Gatti-Casazza and Giacomo Puccini shows that she has great potential.
She gets the Role seizes it.
She becomes a star and sings with Enrico Caruso and in all great opera houses. She has a voice full of freshness, brilliance and flawless beauty.
In 1916 she has vocal problems. The medical diagnosis is nodules on the vocal cords.
A first operation is not successful.
Caruso recommends his doctor to her and the second operation is successful.
To spare her voice she lives for a year in a remote place in a Spanish mountain range.
And she doesn’t speak a single word for an entire year.
Her voice “survives” this intervention and she is going sing 16 more seasons with an intact voice at the Met.
Peter Lutz, opera-inside, the online opera guide
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