{"id":1745,"date":"2012-02-21T06:41:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2012-02-21T06:41:03","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T11:41:03","slug":"video-soprano-elizabeth-connells-farewell-song","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/2012\/02\/21\/video-soprano-elizabeth-connells-farewell-song\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Soprano Elizabeth Connell&#8217;s Farewell Song"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South African-born Wagnerian soprano Elizabeth Connell, who had a great career in England, died on Saturday, aged 65. There&#8217;s a nice obituary in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/obituaries\/9094437\/Elizabeth-Connell.html\" target=\"_blank\">the Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Reader Michael Johnson wrote to say that Connell sand the Kostelnica in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s 1982 production of Leos Jan\u00e1cek&#8217;s <em>Jenufa<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>What better way to go than with a diva-mocking Farewell Song, which Connell commissioned from English composer Betty Roe two years ago:<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XjM5_vrrUSM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South African-born Wagnerian soprano Elizabeth Connell, who had a great career in England, died on Saturday, aged 65. There&#8217;s a nice obituary in the Telegraph. UPDATE: Reader Michael Johnson wrote to say that Connell sand the Kostelnica in the Canadian Opera Company&#8217;s 1982 production of Leos Jan\u00e1cek&#8217;s Jenufa. What better way to go than with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[36,39,43,56,70],"tags":[513,1052,1125,1232,6465,3071],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9bakr-s9","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/toronto\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}