M. CEBOTARI AND R. STRAUSS: CHRONICLE OF PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL CONTACTS (1942–1949)

The article presents information organized in chronological order on the professional and personal contacts of M. Cebotari with R. Strauss in the last seven years of their lives (1942–1949). The development of military events during the war, as well as the advanced age of the maestro partially stopped relations between the two musicians. This period shows the fact that M. Cebotari not only maintained her interest in Straus`s vocal music, but also began to perform in new roles, adding to her repertoire the dramatic soprano parts. The article is well supported with quotes of the contemporaries, and with reviews from the newspapers of that time