Summary: American conductor Thomas Schippers made his Met Opera debut at the age of 25 and conducted 27 operas in 342 performances during his two Met decades.
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| Gifted American conductor Thomas Schippers composed music, virtuously played piano and organ, painted and enjoyed playing bridge: FORNASETTI, via Facebook Oct. 11, 2018 |
American conductor Thomas Schippers made his Met Opera debut at the age of 25 and, during his two decades at the opera house, filled his Met Opera portfolio with 27 operas and 342 performances.
Thomas Schippers (March 9, 1930-Dec. 16, 1977) was born in Kalamazoo, the county seat of southwestern Michigan's Kalamazoo County and a major city in the Kalamazoo-Portage Metropolitan Statistical Area. His parents were Peter Schippers (March 4, 1902-May 30, 1986) and Agnes Nanninga Schippers (July 14, 1903-December 1986). His father distributed kitchen appliances manufactured by Westinghouse Electric Corpoation, according to "Music: Oh! to Be 30 at Last," published in the Monday, Feb. 15, 1960, issue of Time magazine.
Although Thomas came from a non-musical family, he noted the fashion of having "at least one piano in the house" during his childhood. His family's home, however, possessed three pianos, which were kept locked. At the age of two or three, he managed to unlock one and thereby began precociously playing the piano, according to his Wednesday, Jan. 17, 1962, interview with public radio writer Patricia "Pat" Marx (born April 26, 1938; married since Aug. 8, 1970, to "Pentagon Papers" activist Daniel Ellsberg [April 7, 1931-June 16, 2023]). Patricia Marx Interviews was featured as a series on WNYC and other public radio stations from 1961 to 1969.
Thomas's precocious commitment to music inspired his switching churches at age eight. He left his family's Bethany (Dutch) Reformed Church of Kalamazoo for the "good boys' choir" at St. Luke's Episcopal Church ("Music" Oh! to Be 30 at Last").
Teen-aged Thomas relocated to Philadelphia to study piano at the Curtis Institute of Music from 1944 to 1945. He finessed his piano artistry via private lessons with American classical pianist and piano pedagogue Olga Samaroff (born Lucy Mary Olga Agnes Hickenlooper; Aug. 8, 1880-May 17, 1948) in 1946 and 1947. Thomas attended Yale University, where he studied composition with German and American composer, conductor and musical theorist Paul Hindemith (Nov. 16, 1895-Dec. 28, 1963), according to Jewish Russian-born American musicologist, composer, conductor and pianist Nicolas Slonimsky (Russian: Никола́й Леони́дович Сло́нимский, Nikolai Leonidovich Slonimskiy; April 27 [O.S. April 15] 1894-Dec. 25, 1995) in The Concise Baker’s Biographical Dictionary of Musicians (1988: page 1104).
Teen-aged Thomas cultivated his musical career by moving to New York in 1948 to accept a position as organist at Greenwich Village Presbyterian Church. On Wednesday, March 15, 1950, 20-year-old Thomas conducted the New York premiere of The Consul by Italian-American composer and librettist Gian Carlo Menotti (July 7, 1911-Feb. 1, 2007) at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre in Midtown Manhattan's Theater District. On Christmas Eve, Monday, Dec. 24, 1951, at 9:30 p.m., Hallmark Hall of Fame debuted on NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) with Menotti's Amahl and the Night Visitors as the series' premiere special production. Twenty-one-year-old Thomas conducted the first opera especially commissioned for television.
Four years later, the 25-year-old musician made his Met Opera conducting debut during the 1955-1956 season in double bill performances of the opera company's premiere of a ballet and debut of a new production of a Donizetti opera. On Friday, Dec. 23, 1955, the Metropolitan Opera premiered Soirée, a ballet choreographed by Philadelphia-born American choreographer and dancer Zachary Solov (Feb. 15, 1923-Nov. 6, 2004) to music by 20th-century composer, conductor and pianist Edward Benjamin Britten, Baron Britten (Nov. 22,1913-Dec. 4, 1976), and 19th-century Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868). In tandem with the premiered ballet, Met Opera debuted a new production of Don Pasquale by 19th-century Italian bel canto opera composer Gaetano Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848) in the opera company's 42nd performance of the Rome-set opera buffa ("comic opera").
After his Met Opera debut in the 1955-1956 season, Maestro Schippers continued to conduct with the opera company for almost two decades. He unknowingly gave his last performance Monday, Nov. 5, 1975, according to the Metropolitan Opera Archives database's May 2014 report, "A list of every performer (singer, dancer, or conductor) with one hundred performances or more." Illness, initially diagnosed as viral pneumonia, necessitated his cancellation of conductorships at the Metropolitan Opera.
Thomas Schippers Met Opera portfolio comprised conductorship of at least 27 operas and of 342 performances between winter 1955-1956 and autumn 1975-1976.
Nineteenth-century Italian opera composer Giuseppe Verdi (Oct. 10, 1813-Jan. 27, 1901) qualified as the most represented composer in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted nine Verdian operas at the Metropolitan Opera: Aida, Un Ballo in Maschera, Don Carlo, Ernani, La Forza del Destino, Luisa Miller, Nabucco, Otello and Il Trovatore.
Nineteenth-century German Romantic era composer and librettist Richard Wagner (May 22, 1813-Feb. 13, 1883) placed as the second most represented composer in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted three Wagnerian operas: Der Fliegende Holländer, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
Italian composer Gioachino Antonio Rossini (Feb. 29, 1792-Nov. 13, 1868), late Romantic and early modern German composer Richard Georg Strauss (June 11, 1864-Sep. 8, 1949) and Russian late Romantic era composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (May 7, 1840-Nov. 6, 1893) tied for placement as the third most represented composers in Thomas's Met Opera repertoire. Thomas conducted Rossini's Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Le siège de Corinthe (The Siege of Corinth); Strauss's Elektra and Der Rosenkavalier and Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and The Queen of Spades.
Maestro Schippers conducted the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by his friend, American baritone, composer, conductor and pianist Samuel Barber (born Samuel Osmond Barber II; March 9, 1910-Jan. 23, 1981), on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966. The three-act opera about history's famous ill-fated lovers, Ancient Egypt's last queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Cleopatra VII Philopator (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopatra Philopator; 69-Aug. 10 or 12, 30 BCE), and Roman militarian and politician Marcus Antonius "Mark Antony" (Jan. 14, 83-Aug. 1, 30 BCE), was based on the same-named tragedy by Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare (bapt. April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera specifically as the inaugural performance for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, located at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper West Side.
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| Thomas Schippers conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966, at the Metropolitan Opera; Met Opera specifically commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera as the inaugural opera for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Upper West Side Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: WCPE TheClassicalStation, via Facebook March 9, 2019 |
Maestro Schippers conducted the world premiere of Antony and Cleopatra by his friend, American baritone, composer, conductor and pianist Samuel Barber (born Samuel Osmond Barber II; March 9, 1910-Jan. 23, 1981), on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966. The three-act opera about history's famous ill-fated lovers, Ancient Egypt's last queen of the Ptolemaic Kingdom, Cleopatra VII Philopator (Ancient Greek: Κλεοπάτρα Φιλοπάτωρ, Kleopatra Philopator; 69-Aug. 10 or 12, 30 BCE), and Roman militarian and politician Marcus Antonius "Mark Antony" (Jan. 14, 83-Aug. 1, 30 BCE), was based on the same-named tragedy by Elizabethan playwright William Shakespeare (bapt. April 26, 1564-April 23, 1616. The Metropolitan Opera had commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera specifically as the inaugural performance for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, located at 10 Lincoln Center Plaza in the Lincoln Square neighborhood in Manhattan's Upper West Side.
The Kalamazooian maestro added Gian Carlo Menotti to his Met Opera repertoire on Thursday, Jan. 23, 1964, with his conductorship of the United States premiere of The Last Savage, the English version of his friend's satiric, three-act Italian opera, L'ultimo selvaggio. Almost six years earlier, in 1958, Thomas Schippers and Gian Carlo Menotti had partnered to found Il Festival dei Due Mondi (Festival of the Two Worlds), also known as the Spoleto Festival, the estival festival held annually in Central Italy's Spoleto (Latin: Spoletum), the ancient city on a foothill of the Apennines (Latin: Appenninus or Apenninus Mons; Italian: Appennini) in Umbria region's northern province, Perugia (Italian: Provincia di Perugia).
Met Opera's debut of the original Russian-language libretto of Boris Godunov by Russian Romantic Era composer Modest Mussorgsky (March 21, 1839-March 28, 1881) in the 1974-1975 season added another first to Maestro Schippers' conductorial career at the opera company. Prior to the 1974-1975 season, Met Opera had used Italian, Russian-Italian and English librettos. Russian operatic bass Fyodor Chaliapin (Feb. 13, 1873-April 12, 1938) had sung the lead role in Russian, while the cast and chorus sang in Italian, in all 38 of his Boris performances at Met Opera. Ukrainian, later naturalized (1931) American, operatic bass Alexander Kipnis (Feb. 13 [Old Style: Feb. 1], 1891-May 14, 1978) had followed Chaliapin's example by injecting a Russian-singing Boris into the Italian libretto for his four appearances in the 1942-1943 season.
Five classic operas by 19th- and early 20th century composers completed the maestro's Met Opera repertoire. He conducted Carmen by French Romantic Era composer Georges Bizet (Oct. 25, 1838-June 3, 1875); L'Elisir d'Amore by Italian composer Domenico Gaetano Maria Donizetti (Nov. 29, 1797-April 8, 1848); Manon by French Romantic Era composer Jules Massenet (May 12, 1842-Aug. 13, 1912); Les Contes d’Hoffmann by German-born French composer Jacques Offenbach (June 20, 1819-Oct. 5, 1880); and La Bohème by Italian opera composer Giacomo Puccini (Dec. 22, 1858-Nov. 29, 1924).
The cigarette-smoking Kalamazooian maestro was under the care of Dr. William George Cahan (Aug. 2, 1914-Oct. 7, 2001), pulmonary carcinoma specialist at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), from March 1977 until his death at 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, 1977. He passed away at home, 550 Park Avenue, in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District, according to American pianist and writer Nancy Pasawicz Spada, wife of Italian musicologist and pianist Pietro Spada (July 29, 1935-Dec. 31, 2022), in "Thomas Schippers in Cincinnati: A Forgotten Episode in the Life of a Conductor Renowned for Opera of a Conductor Renowned for Opera" (page 21), published in the February 2023 issue of Music & Musical Performance.
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| Gifted American musician Thomas Schippers, whose accomplishments included conducting 27 operas at the Metropolitan Opera, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 1977, at 7:55 p.m., at his home at 550 Park Avenue and East 62nd Street, Lenox Hill, Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District; Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 09:18, image of Manhattan's 550 Park Avenue at East 62nd Street: Deans Charbal (Deansfa), CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons |
The cigarette-smoking Kalamazooian maestro was under the care of Dr. William George Cahan (Aug. 2, 1914-Oct. 7, 2001), pulmonary carcinoma specialist at Manhattan's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC), from March 1977 until his death at 7:55 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 16, 1977. He passed away at home, 550 Park Avenue, in the Lenox Hill neighborhood of Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District, according to American pianist and writer Nancy Pasawicz Spada, wife of Italian musicologist and pianist Pietro Spada (July 29, 1935-Dec. 31, 2022), in "Thomas Schippers in Cincinnati: A Forgotten Episode in the Life of a Conductor Renowned for Opera of a Conductor Renowned for Opera" (page 21), published in the February 2023 issue of Music & Musical Performance.
Thomas Schippers' last will and testament specified no funeral, cremation at the Garden State Crematory in North Bergen, northern Hudson County, Gateway Region, northeastern New Jersey, and scattering of his ashes in the Bosco Sacro di Monteluco (Sacred Wood of Monteluco), a frazione (borough) of Spoleto, as explained by Margot S. Melniker (March 17, 1921-Oct. 22, 2019), Executive Administrator for Maestro Schippers and co-executor of his will, to Nancy Spada. The maestro's first two stipulations were honored.
Thomas Schippers' third stipulation was observed partially. Upon arrival in Spoleto, Melniker was informed by Spoleto's mayor that the city of Spoleto wished to honor the Maestro by setting his ashes in a crypt carved into the wall of the Piazza del Duomo, the square where the Maestro had conducted annual performances for the Festival of the Two Worlds. Consequently, part of the Maestro's ashes were strewn at Monteluco by Schippers' acquaintance, Dutch-born U.S. citizen, art collector and financier Jacques Sarlie (Aug. 19, 1915-Dec. 15, 1988), in the company of Margot Melniker, Gian Carlo Menotti and Countess Wally Toscanini Castelbarco (Jan. 16, 1900-May 8, 1991), second of four children born to esteemed Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini (March 25, 1867-Jan. 16, 1957) and his wife, Carla di Martini (Aug. 7, 1877-June 23, 1951).
On Friday afternoon, May 18, 1979, Mayor Mario Laureti (mayorship July 29, 1975- Aug. 11, 1980) held the ceremony for the unveiling of the crypt sheltering the urn with the rest of Thomas Schippers' ashes. The unveiling ceremony was followed by a memorial concert by RAI National Symphony Orchestra (Italian: Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI) at Spoleto's Teatro Nuovo. The concert was conducted by Italian composer, conductor and pianist Gabriele Ferro (born Nov. 15, 1935) and featured Italian lyric soprano Margherita Rinaldi (Jan. 12, 1935-Sep. 7, 2023), Peruvian tenor Ernesto Palacio (born Oct. 19, 1946) and Italian tenor Antonio Savastano (Feb. 9, 1948-Dec. 17, 1991), as reported by Comune di Spoleto journalist Davide Fabrizi in "Long Ago in Spoleto: 18 May 1979, the city tributes Thomas Schippers," published June 17, 2021, on the Comune di Spoleto website. The memorial program included Canto sulla morte di Haydn by Italian Classical and Romantic composer Luigi Cherubini (Sep. 14, 1760-March 15, 1842), according to Nancy Spada ("Thomas Schippers in Cincinnati: A Forgotten Episode in the Life of a Conductor Renowned for Opera," page 22).
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| Plaque, with dedication, Qui Sono Custodite Le Ceneri di Thomas Schippes 1930 1977 (Here Are Kept the Ashes of Thomas Schippers 1930 1977), for crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes in wall of Piazza del Duomo, Spoleto, Perugia province, Umbria region, central Italy; Sunday, July 15, 2018, 19:41, image of crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes: Antonella Nigro, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons |
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Gifted American conductor Thomas Schippers composed music, virtuously played piano and organ, painted and enjoyed playing bridge: FORNASETTI, via Facebook Oct. 11, 2018, @ https://www.facebook.com/FornasettiOfficial/posts/1792789950832277/
Thomas Schippers conducted the world premiere of Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra, on Friday, Sep. 16, 1966, at the Metropolitan Opera; Met Opera specifically commissioned Barber's Shakespearean opera as the inaugural opera for the opera company's new Metropolitan Opera House in Upper West Side Manhattan's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: WCPE TheClassicalStation, via Facebook March 9, 2019, @ https://www.facebook.com/TheClassicalStation/posts/10156011544676190/
Gifted American musician Thomas Schippers, whose accomplishments included conducting 27 operas at the Metropolitan Opera, passed away Friday, Dec. 16, 1977, at 7:55 p.m., at his home at 550 Park Avenue and East 62nd Street, Lenox Hill, Manhattan's Upper East Side Historic District; Wednesday, July 5, 2023, 09:18, image of Manhattan's 550 Park Avenue at East 62nd Street: Deans Charbal (Deansfa), CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:550_Park_Avenue_@_E_62nd_Street,_Lenox_Hill,_Upper_East_Side,_Manhattan.jpg
Plaque, with dedication, Qui Sono Custodite Le Ceneri di Thomas Schippes 1930 1977 (Here Are Kept the Ashes of Thomas Schippers 1930 1977), for crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes in wall of Piazza del Duomo, Spoleto, Perugia province, Umbria region, central Italy; Sunday, July 15, 2018, 19:41, image of crypt with Thomas Schippers' ashes: Antonella Nigro, CC BY-SA 4.0 International, via Wikimedia Commons @ https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lapide_ceneri_Thomas_Schippers.jpg
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Marcantonio Spada. "Nancy Spada (who happens to be my mother) has authored a biography of Thomas Schippers, one of the great classical conductors of the 20th century - a man who should never be forgotten. And he will not be, thanks to this beautifully crafted biography. Well done Nancy!"
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Marriner, Derdriu. "The Met Has Staged Boris in Italian, Russian-Italian, English, Russian." Earth and Space News. Monday, Feb. 21, 2022.
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Marriner, Derdriu. "Metropolitan Opera Premiered Verdi's Nabucco Monday, Oct. 24, 1960." Earth and Space News. Monday, Sep. 25, 2023.
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Available via WNYC @ https://www.wnyc.org/story/thomas-schippers/
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WCPE TheClassicalStation. "On March 9 we observe the birthdays of two American musicians: composer Samuel Barber (1910-1981) and conductor Thomas Schippers (1930-1977). A native of West Chester, Pennsylvania, Samuel Barber attended the Curtis Institute in Philadelphia. Read more about this great musician at https://bit.ly/2HjbSal A native of Kalamazoo, Michigan, Maestro Schippers attended the Curtis Institute and the Julliard School. He made his debut as a conductor with the New York City Opera at the age of 21. He was only 47 years old when he died. Read more about him at https://bit.ly/2SPIduQ
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WNYC. "Thomas Schippers." WNYC. Jan. 17, 1962.
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