![]() ![]() Miami University provides a liberal arts education it offers more than 120 undergraduate degree programs and over 60 graduate degree programs within its 8 schools and colleges in architecture, business, engineering, humanities and the sciences. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Miami also maintains an international boarding campus, the Dolibois European Center in Differdange, Luxembourg. The school's system comprises the main campus in Oxford, as well as regional campuses in nearby Hamilton, Middletown, and West Chester. The university was founded in 1809, making it the second-oldest university in Ohio (behind Ohio University, founded in 1804) and the 10th oldest public university (32nd overall) in the United States. TheCubanHistory.Miami University (informally Miami of Ohio or simply Miami) is a public research university in Oxford, Ohio. She was 85.Īgencies/Various/Wiki/InternetPhotos/YouTube/Īrnoldo Varona, Editor. Mezzo-soprano Marta Pérez, outstanding Cuban mezzo-soprano died on Tuesday, August 21 in her Miami-Dade home. In 1967, she co-founded the “Pro Arte Grateli Society”, a Hispanic theater group. In the 1960s she went into exile in Miami. Like many others, she died without ever being able to go back to her country. Like the majority of the prominent Cuban lyric singers of the time, she chose to exile herself at the beggining of Castro’s dictatorship. Maybe some day we’ll sing in her honor in a free Cuba.” “I remember when I auditioned for Grateli, she was there. “She was an inspiration for us Cuban singers,” said Elizabeth Caballero, a soprano who has performed with the Florida Grand Opera. We were all very proud when she became the first Cuban to ever sing at la Scala.”īesides her operatic recordings, Pérez did albums with traditional Cuban songs and classic boleros, such as La bella cubana and Marta Pérez and Enrique Chía. ![]() “We met when we were both starting our careers in the Philharmonic’s choir,” Le Matt said. She devoted her entire life to music, never married and had no children,” Varela said.Ĭuban baritone José Le Matt considered her “one of the great figures of Cuban lyric singing of the 1950s.” “In Cuba, we performed Madame Butterfly’s Flowers Duet in a television concert with Maestro Roig,” Varela said. Besides being an extraordinary singer, she was a great human being, very religious and a great friend.”Ĭuban soprano Blanca Varela remembered the “good artistic friendship” she had with Pérez since their early performances together on Cuban television. `Marta loved to help young singers,” de la Rosa said. ![]() In 1961, she performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. She sang at the renowned opera house La Scala in Milan, Italy in 1955, in the role of Preciosilla in Verdi’s opera La Forza del Destino, sharing the stage with Renata Tebaldi and Giuseppe di Stefano. Perez was the first to record Gonzalo Roig’s zarzuela, “Cecilia Valdes”. In the 1940s she began a series of tours with Ernesto Lecuona. In the mid-’60s, Pérez left Cuba and came to live as an exile in Miami, where in 1967, with Pili de la Rosa, Miguel de Grandy and set designer Demetrio, she founded Pro Arte Grateli Society, a Hispanic theater group, which she co-chaired until a few years ago. ![]() In the 1950s, she toured various cities in Europe and the United States, and in 1961 she performed on The Ed Sullivan Show. In an unforgettable performance in Havana, Pérez was the first to record Gonzalo Roig’s famous zarzuela, Cecilia Valdés. She later performed in Mexico and, in 1955, reached a high in her career when she sang at the renowned opera house La Scala, in Milan, Italy, in the role of Preciosilla in Verdi’s opera La Forza del Destino, sharing the stage with Renata Tebaldi and Giuseppe di Stefano. In 1946, she began a series of tours in the United States with the famous Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s orchestra. Miss Perez was known as Cuba’s Diva throughout her long and successful career, during which her remarkable voice took her to the world’s most prestigious stages. By the age of 13, she was performing as a soloist with the Philharmonic Orchestra of Havana. Miss Pérez’ artistic talents were recognized early in life and as a little girl she studied singing with Marila Granowska. Marta Perez (2 August 1924 in Havana, Cuba – 18 August 2009 in Miami, Florida) was a Cuban mezzo-soprano and the first Cuban to sing in Milan’s famed La Scala opera house. ![]()
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