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Special aura
Opera singer’s life is like a melody
by Faith Powell
Somewhere among the list of
unusual occupations has to be
'spinto-dramatte soprano.' Opera
singers have always earned with
them a special aura, a mystique. So
it is with Geraldine Reicher It
sounds exotic, she admits, to say 'l
am an opera singer ’ Sometimes
she just says she is a musician But
she is much more—outspoken,
independent and an adventurer
According to Reicher, our
cultural future is in jeopardy She
wonders: Are we being
intellectually assaulted by
television and film? And she
worries about the future of fine an
Does the modern family life
somehow discourage artistic
expression'’
As a child. Reicher showed a
natural talent for voice A
counselor at summer camp urged
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her to study music At 14, she
began piano lessons and soon
afterward, began to study voice,
eventually graduating from the
Juiliard School of Music.
"There was no doubt that I
w ould be a singer It was the thing I
did best," she said Because she was
the youngest of six children,
Reicher believes tliat she was a
little cut-off from the rest of her
family Music “added a richness”
to her life
Her parents never really
encouraged her artistically.
Instead, Reicher says she owes
much to her sister, Ruth, now Mrs
Abe Alhadeff of Atlanta.
“Ruth was working at the time
She was the one that paid for my
lessons. I would have to say that I
got my real impetus from my
sister—there is a great bond
between us."
Reicher thinks that Jewish
family life has become “devoid of
expression There is food, there is
love and material things ” She is
surprised at the present
generation. “You would think,"
she said, “that the young people
would be more introspective, more
artistic, but you don’t find it "
Much of this she blames on the
media. “Television," she insisted.
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“glorifies enme, sickness, death
Hasn't it taken over? Where is the
celebration of life and joy now?
Why can’t we have more of that'’”
Reicher has some answers for
her own questions The
enrichment of our cultural lives
needs to come from us as
individuals "We need to
participate spiritually with each
other, to become more involved
“Being Jewish has so much to do
with our history Jews have alway s
been a little set-off from the rest of
the world " This,she thinks, should
foster creative expression. “Jewish
young people should try to mesh
their creativity with as much verve
as they do getting into the monied
world." But she is afraid that is not
what is happening Still, she wants
to be optimistic.
Her singing is more than just a
job, it is her life. A precarious one,
she says, but a fulfilling life for her
Most of the year she lives in
Sausahto, C’alif., singing with the
San Francisco Opera She also
tours cities in America and Europe
giving concerts.
Among her credits are roles in
“Madame Butterfly," “Tosca" and
“Cavalleria Rusticana " And in
other operas by Verdi, Strauss and
Mozart
She has appeared in Stockholm,
Sweden in the Royal Opera
Mozart Festival, the World Opera
and the Drottingholm Mozart
Theater on the King's Island in
Stockholm
After a short stay in Atlanta,
Reicher will sing again in
Stockholm and perform in the
Verdi Festival in Palermo, Italy,
this summer.
Small in stature, (just over five
feet) but “big in spirit" as she likes
to say, Reicher is determined to
live life to its fullest. When she
speaks her entire face comes alive
It is important, she admonishes,
for the whole face to be in motion
in order to project and to enunciate
properly
She is an avid reader, and spends
as much time as she can in
museums and galleries She feels at
home on the stage or on the trail —
she has been jogging for eight
years And because so much of her
music is in other languages, she has
come to speak Italian, French and
Swedish and some German
Geraldine Reicher has come a
long way since summer camp
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